As you work to change your habits you’ll find that it’s incredibly easy to backslide into old patterns of behavior you wish you could move away from. We talked earlier about how wishful thinking makes habit change hard (and how another root problem is that …
The "Other Riffs" Chronicles
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We all make some of the same mistakes over and over again. Some of them are costly. And the costlier the mistake, the more likely we are to want to get angry at ourselves for making it … and then avoid thinking about it ever again (until we repeat it, …
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Society wants you to be a goal addict, because it’s good for the economy.
It’s a cycle. Spend money on those motivational tapes and seminars now. Spend money on antacid later when you’re not getting the results you want. Blame yourself for sucking. Spend even more money on booze, drugs, and …
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Sometimes, when it rains, it pours. Too much comes at you at once, and you wonder how the hell you’re going to handle it all and keep everything in balance.
(This is the part where the typical productivity blog would tell you not to worry, for there’s seven easy steps to …
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Missed the previous 3 parts? Get ‘em here and here and here and here.
Meanwhile, part 5 is live and on the scene, and we’re going to talk about how you avoid taking action when you don’t value your time enough to get mad when you’re wasting …
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In the last post we were talking about the the survivor mindset and how survivors deal with their stuff by helping others. For those just joining us, the “survivor mindset” is simply a term …
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If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I donate a percentage of all my blog-related income to Heifer International, an anti-poverty foundation that helps end hunger around the world by helping people create sustainable sources of food and income. It’s not a …
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Yeah. You’ve probably read this before. My webhost rolled back my server and wiped my last week’s worth of stuff, so I must repost. Hooray internet …
When I look back at any successful habit change I’ve worked through in my life, I can see a pattern in them – more …
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As we’re heading towards a new year, a lot of us are going to be thinking about New Years Resolutions, those feel-good (but ultimately hollow) promises we make to ourselves. For all but the smallest percentage of people, New Years Resolutions will never, ever work.
The reason for this is simple …
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It’s been about two weeks since Blog Action Day and The Poverty Snowball post, and I want to thank everyone who took me up on the discount offer of the …
