How Do I Set My Goals for the Next Year?
Five principles that help me set and reach my goals: keep them realistic, keep them big, balance the areas of life, review weekly, and pick one main direction.
Personal Growth
How Does Achieving Goals Make Us Happy?
Goals come in two kinds: ours and imposed. An imposed one runs on willpower; a real one gives you energy at the mere thought of it — and that's what brings happiness.
Changing Your Handwriting Is the Hard Part
Setting new goals is easy. Changing your lifestyle and habits is not. Here are the three things that have to shift, and the four questions I ask of every goal.
How to Set and Achieve Goals?
When missiles fly and air raid sirens go off three times a day, planning feels naive. But if we don't plan our own lives, someone else will plan them for us.
December 2023 Results Across 7 Areas
Monthly roundup: best book, a series, the most useful video, the skill I worked on, a hypothesis, a habit, and the key insight. December 2023.
If You Replace Expectations With Gratitude
Expect nothing and get a lollipop — you're happy. Expect a chocolate factory and get a lollipop — you're crushed. Same lollipop, different expectations.
2023 in Review
Instead of an inspiring year-end post — three real mistakes of 2023: losing focus, delaying decisions, and never doing my homework on my own problems.
What Didn't Work for Me in 2023
Two areas where I fell badly short this year: health and my family's safety. Plus the three states in which we meet any problem that comes our way.
Mastermind and the Power of Your Circle
In 2023 I finally made my long-standing mastermind idea happen. How the format works, who belongs at the table, and why your circle is 50% of the result.