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Accountability Partner, Life Coach or Therapist: Which One Do You Actually Need?
Three very different services get lumped together. Picking the wrong one costs money and months. Here is the honest sorting rule.
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Your Future Self Is a Real Person. Stop Handing Him the Bill.
Every shortcut I ever took, someone paid for. It was always me, later, and I treated that man like a stranger whose problems weren’t mine. He was me. He had opinions about it.
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If You Can’t Write It Down, You Haven’t Thought It Through
I used to believe I’d thought about a problem because I’d worried about it. Then I tried to write the problem down in one paragraph and discovered I didn’t actually know what it was.
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Advice From Successful People Is Missing Half the Data
Every famous founder who dropped out and won had a thousand twins who dropped out and didn’t. You never hear from them, and that silence is distorting every decision you make.
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You Do Not Need More Time. You Need a Decision.
Most people who say they are short on time are actually short on a decision. The hours are there; they are being spent on not choosing.
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The Five-Year Test for Any Decision
One question has saved me from more bad choices than any amount of pros-and-cons lists. It takes ten seconds, and it works because it moves you out of the room you’re standing in.
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Successful People Quit More Than You Think
Grit gets all the press. The quiet skill behind most success is quitting the right things fast and without ceremony.
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The Anti-Goal: What You Refuse to Become
Knowing what you want is useful. Knowing what you refuse to become is more so, because it filters every decision before ambition can distort it.
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Make Fewer Decisions and Better Ones
Every decision spends something. Most of the ones you make each day do not deserve the price. Cut them, and the ones that matter get the attention they need.
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The Quitting Rule: Decide When to Stop Before You Start
Persistence is a virtue until it is a trap. The way to tell the difference is to decide the exit conditions before you are emotionally invested.