Any new goal you set that will take more than 2 weeks to accomplish will also impact the rest of your daily and weekly schedule. You will need to put regular time on task over a period of weeks, even though there will be surprises that are outside of your control. Moreover, unless you are finishing up a big project, you will need to figure out where the time will come from.[…]

You are the person who knows the most about your situation, your relationships, and your goals. You are the person who can find the most creative solutions to your problems, the strength of commitment for pursuing your goals, and the deepest meaning for improving your relationships. You do this by thinking — and thinking is not a spectator sport. So how does coaching help with these eminently personal issues? […]

​In my Launch program, most participants indeed achieve a major goal in 8 weeks. How do they do that? In this free Zoom call, I will explain the unique goal-setting and planning process that makes this possible.[…]

Whether you achieve a goal depends very much on how you formulate it in the first place. The standard advice for those setting goals is to make them “SMART”: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely. This advice turns out to be necessary but not sufficient for ensuring you are motivated to follow through. […]

When you feel the impulse to procrastinate, micromanage, or any other dubious action, it can be hard to switch gears and get your head motivated in a more constructive direction. In this class, you will learn: What to do when you “need” motivation, How to untangle contradictory[…]

When you feel the impulse to procrastinate, micromanage, or any other dubious action, it can be hard to switch gears and get your head motivated in a more constructive direction. In this class, you will learn: What to do when you “need” motivation, How to untangle contradictory[…]

When you feel the impulse to procrastinate, micromanage, or any other dubious action, it can be hard to switch gears and get your head motivated in a more constructive direction.[…]

This is an open Q&A. Ask me about anything–managing emotions, managing intellectual work, precision and accuracy in thinking, productivity, goal-setting, happiness, defining and pursuing a central purpose, developing skills, managing health, social objectivity, improving relationships[…]

The Thinking Lab is a membership program for ambitious people who believe their own mental skill is critical to help them rise to new challenges. They seek skills for developing: clarity, creativity, decisiveness, emotional resilience, and self-motivation.[…]