We all want to make changes to the way we live, and setting goals, whether career or personal, is an integral part of that change. Unfortunately, most of the time we’re pretty bad at sticking with them. Here are our best articles on setting, tracking, and hitting your biggest goals.
Setting Goals for December: Reflect, Plan, and Achieve December is here—the month of twinkling lights, ambitious to-do lists, and the quiet reminder that another year is wrapping up. It’s easy to get swept up in the hustle, but pausing to reflect and plan is one of the best gifts you can give yourself this season. If […]
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Here’s a little not-so-secret secret: we all miss the mark sometimes. Sure, we’re all trying our best. We all have things we want to accomplish with our lives. We have a goal we’re chasing, and we’re determined to achieve it. We think about how great it would be if we could just get it done.
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For some reason this is one of the hardest concepts for us to nail as human beings: big, important, and impressive achievements take time. They don’t happen overnight. It wouldn’t make sense if they did. They wouldn’t even be big and impressive and important if they did. Things like that take more than just time.
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Happy New Year, friends! It’s a pretty tired routine at this point. A new article on a productivity blog, published on January 1st, 2nd, or 3rd—you could easily guess what it might be about: the fabled New Year’s Resolution. Either it’s an unironic and wholesome piece of inspirational writing about the power of belief and
Making your New Year’s resolutions stick, one last time Read More »
We all get overwhelmed. It’s an unavoidable facet of modern life—our priorities get out of balance. Recently, it’s felt like I’m doomed to stay overwhelmed all the time, when it used to be the occasional exception to longer periods of calm. Being this overwhelmed doesn’t feel like a healthy or happy way to live. I
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I went on a bit of a health kick recently. I went the whole nine yards: a diet high in protein, with a calorie deficit, working out with a weight training routine, discipline, hydration, going for a run in the mornings sometimes, everything. I had dragged myself into the gym and floundered through different workouts
Chase that good feeling. Read More »
This is the 30th article I’ve written for the RescueTime blog. An arbitrary milestone, to be sure, but it’s a nice round number, and sometimes it can be nice to mark the passage of time with nice round numbers and semi-anniversaries. Over the course of those 30 posts, I’ve taken many different approaches to attacking
This one may feel like a bit of a higher concept, but just go with me here. This is a mindset change that helped me reframe my perspective with my own work, and hopefully it will do the same for you. Luckily, it’s actually pretty simple. If you’re like me, and have the freedom to
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It’s the fourth week of the year. If you are one of the brave masses who chose to commit to a New Year’s Resolution this year, you’re nearing your first true checkpoint. And it’s a legitimate achievement. Doing a month of anything, especially something that’s likely not very fun, is a deeply impressive feat, and
Start over on your New Year’s Resolutions Read More »
It was a tough year. Was 2021 a tougher year than 2020? Somehow, depending on your situations, it feels as though the odds are pretty good that it was. And whether it was tough for you or not, 2021 also felt like a particularly eventful year, where your life might have changed in one or
Go easier on yourself this year Read More »
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