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The Most Dangerous Thing You Can Do While “Multitasking”
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Can You Guess What It Is? (Now Quit Doing It!)

We’ve established the fact that our brains don’t have parallel processors like a computer. As much as we’d like to think that we can multitask, we can’t. What we really do is called “task-switching” where our very finite attentional resources quickly go from one thi...

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Two Easies
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Easy to Do. Easy Not to Do.

Jim Rohn tells us that our success in life is all about the two easies. It’s all about consistently doing the tiny (!) fundamentals that are simultaneously super easy to do and super easy not to do. For example, it’s super easy for me to turn off the wi-fi and my phone whe...

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Perfectionist vs. Optimalist
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Which Are You?

Speaking of perfectionism, let’s look at the essence of Tal Ben-Shahar’s great book The Pursuit of Perfect. Tal is one of the world’s leading positive psychologists. He taught the largest class in Harvard’s history: Positive Psychology 101. He tells us that there are two...

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Floors and Ceilings
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How to Be an Imperfectionist

Stephen Guise wrote a great little book called How to Be an Imperfectionist. As a still-recovering perfectionist, I found it very useful. One of my favorite Ideas in there inspired this +1. Most of us with high standards set very aggressive goals. Now, this is a VERY good thing ...

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How to Avoid Habit Suicide
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OK to Suck. Not OK to Skip.

Let’s say you’re building a new habit a la the Quick How to on Habits +1. We talked about the importance of picking something that fires you up, going Keystone on it, making it Micro and doing it every day. Let’s focus on the every day part in this +1. For whatever reason,...

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Quick How to on Habits
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100% on ONE Keystone Daily Micro Habit

So, we’re ready to go ALL IN and make that 100% commitment with super bright lines. Fantastic. But here’s the deal. First: We need to make sure we make that jumbo-ALL-IN commitment on ONE thing. Not one HUNDRED things. ONE thing. You can pick whatever you want. Research...

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Commitments: 100% Is a Breeze
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99%? Not So Much.

So, as per our last +1, bright lines are super helpful in making deals with ourselves. Here’s another way to look at the same basic idea. When you make a commitment to yourself, know that making a 100% commitment is, somewhat surprisingly, WAY easier than a 90% commitment or even a 99....

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Bright Lines
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How to Make Good Contracts with Yourself

I dropped out of law school before a semester was over but I do remember one Big Idea from Contracts class. Lawyers like to say that a contract is a good one when there are “bright lines”—when it’s super obvious what everyone is agreeing to. Fuzzy lines? Not so good. We want su...

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Clock Time vs. Horticultural Time
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How to Grow Yourself

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Compound Magic
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The Power of Embracing the Mundane, Unsexy Pennies in Our Lives

You’ve probably heard the whole “magic of compounding interest as told through the doubling penny” story. Fantastic. It’s worth hearing again and really absorbing its wisdom as we have fun +1-ing our lives. So… Here it goes… I hereby offer you two choices: ...

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