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This Week at a Glance: - Monday: The Obstacle or the Goal
- Wednesday: The Trap of Success (& How to Escape It)
- Friday: How to Stop Procrastinating
Wisdom Worth Sharing: You don't need to be the smartest person in the room. You need to be the one who shows up. Who is true to their word. Who can figure it out. Who does the boring things well. Who takes pride in their work. Who is reliable. Old fashioned things never go out of style. (share to x/twitter!)
Monday: The Obstacle or the Goal I recently came across a quote that hit me hard: "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." — Henry Ford Every meaningful path in life is lined with obstacles. Roadblocks, bumps, thorns. They are the norm. But here's a question worth asking yourself: Are you blocked by the obstacle—or your focus on it? (read the full piece here)
Wednesday: The Trap of Success (& How to Escape It) This is the most significant lie you've been told: Success leads to freedom. From a young age, you're indoctrinated into a belief that achieving success in a domain will result in freedom, fulfillment, and happiness. But here's a harsh truth: If you're not careful, success can create its own unique form of servitude. The success you thought would free you begins to own you. I call it the Trap of Success. (read the full piece here)
Friday: How to Stop Procrastinating In 1789, philosopher Jeremy Bentham mused on the two forces that control our lives: "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure." This general idea is the basis for the most useful productivity framework you've probably never heard of: It's called Skinner's Law. To get yourself to do something, you need to either: - Make the pain of not doing it greater than the pain of doing it, or
- Make the pleasure of doing it greater than the pleasure of not doing it
Skinner's Law is a core tool in your fight against someday. Make someday today. Do the thing. (read the full piece here)
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