Building Good Habits

With up to 40% of our daily behaviors driven by habits, they can either work for us. Or against us. Read out best articles on how to understand what habits are, how to build healthy and good habits, and get rid of our worst ones.

14 productivity quotes to inspire action when your motivation fails

Building Good Habits, Time Management

Motivation is one of the most overrated productivity tools there is. It feels powerful in the moment, but it’s wildly unreliable over time. Strong motivation depends almost entirely on your mood, energy, confidence, sleep, stress levels, and circumstances you can’t fully control. That makes it a terrible foundation for building your workload. The most productive […]

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How many working hours are in a year? And how to make yours count

Building Good Habits, Meaningful Work, Setting Goals

​ We tend to wear ‘busy’ like a badge of honor. When you tell someone you’ve been busy at work, the implication is clear—you’ve got a lot of big, important projects going on. But in all honesty, that’s not often the case. Staying busy, with an unending to-do list and full calendar, doesn’t necessarily mean

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Detox from your phone: A research-backed guide to reclaiming focus

Building Good Habits, Self Tracking

What would you do with an extra three hours every day? Read more? Sleep better? Finally start the home project you’ve been putting off? ​ For a lot of us, those hours already exist. They’re just hidden in phone pick-ups, social media feeds, and endless notifications. ​ Fall is a great season to rebalance and

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The Fall Focus Challenge: one month to reclaim your workday

Building Good Habits, Data Hacking, Self Tracking

Fall feels like productivity’s new year. The summer haze fades, the air sharpens, and suddenly you remember what sharpened pencils smell like and spend far too much time shopping for the perfect bullet journal. But here’s the problem: motivation lasts about as long as the caffeine buzz from a venti pumpkin spice latte. You might

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Stuck in the end-of-summer slump? Here’s how to rebuild your momentum.

Building Good Habits, Meaningful Work, Setting Goals, Work/Life Balance, Workplace Productivity

The end-of-summer slump is real. You’re saying goodbye to all of the joy that summer had to offer, but you haven’t yet shifted into high gear for a productive fall. The result is this weird middle place where you know it’s time to jump into action, and your mind is ready to do so, but

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Post-summer reset: How to rebuild routines without overwhelming yourself

Building Good Habits, Burnout, Uncategorized

If you’re feeling disoriented as summer ends, you’re not alone. Summer is a memory-making season, and a lot of that is because we let things slide. My kids’ bedtime became fluid when we were busy catching lightning bugs or watching The Parent Trap (for the 18th time). My work schedule wasn’t necessarily specific days and

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Freelance freedom: Creating a career with productivity, flexibility, and balance

Building Good Habits, Health, Work/Life Balance

Estimates suggest that within the next two years, freelancers will make up more than half of the total US workforce. There are several reasons people pursue independent work, but most of them boil down to a single word: flexibility. Freelancers have unprecedented flexibility in choosing what kind of work they do, who they work with,

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Join the freelance revolution: Mastering time management as an independent worker

Building Good Habits, Self Tracking, Time Management, Work/Life Balance

Freelancers are taking over the workforce—and we are here for it. In 2023, 38% of the US workforce completed freelance work. By 2028, over half of the US workforce is projected to take on freelance work. These days, freelancing isn’t a fringe career path but a mainstream professional choice. What initially sounds like a recipe

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