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The Accountability Illusion: Why Telling People Your Goals Backfires
Announcing a goal feels like commitment and often works like completion. Here is what the research shows, and what to do instead of telling everyone.
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Why You Sabotage Yourself Right Before It Works
The relapse comes at week eleven. The blow-up comes just before the promotion. Self-sabotage is not random; it has a timing, and the timing tells you what it is.
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Standards vs. Goals: Why Standards Win Every Time
A goal is something you reach and then stop. A standard is something you never drop. The second builds the life the first only promises.
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The Focus Block: Ninety Minutes That Outwork Your Whole Day
One protected ninety-minute block, done right, produces more than the other seven hours combined. Here is how to build it and defend it.
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Doing the Boring Work Brilliantly
Most of any career is unglamorous. The people who go furthest are not the ones who escape the boring work; they are the ones who do it better than anyone else.
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The Reset Ritual: Recovering a Bad Day Before It Becomes a Bad Week
A bad day is inevitable. A bad week is a choice made at around 6 p.m. on the bad day. Here is the ten-minute ritual that stops the spread.
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Talent Is the Entry Fee. Reps Are the Career.
Talent gets you noticed at twenty. What you are at forty is almost entirely reps. Here is why the gifted so often stall and the persistent so often pass them.
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The 1 Percent Lie and the 10 Percent Truth
‘Get 1 percent better every day’ is a lovely slogan and a misleading model. Real improvement is lumpier, slower and more honest than that.
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The Slow Yes: Why Successful People Commit Late and Fully
The fast yes feels generous and ends in resentment. The slow yes feels awkward and ends in work that gets done well. Learn to pause.
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Default Settings: How Your Environment Makes Decisions for You
Most of what you do today will not be decided. It will be defaulted. Change the defaults and you change the outcome without spending a drop of willpower.
The WisdomDeck Blog
Essays on living in agreement with how things actually work — discipline, focus, habits, money, time and the laws behind The Reality Code.