How to Bulk Speed Up Audiobook and Podcast MP3s
If you have an iPod Nano, it says that it can speed up its audiobooks to 2x speed, but it is lying to you. The iPod’s supposed 2x speed for audiobooks and podcasts is actually only 1.5x at most. I don’t know why they’ve done this. When I started actually using my...
How to Use Journaling to Give Yourself Productivity Superpowers
If you do it right, journaling is a tool for mind control — on yourself. This post shows you how to do it.
On Habit Craft and Free Will
Steve Scott has an update on his book, Habit Stacking. The premise of the book is very simple: You stack a series of small but impactful habits one on top of the other, and then do them all, one after the other, at a specific time every day, so that each habit in the...
Moderation is Good… But It's Also Difficult
I’ve seen plenty of nerds on Internet forums say things like this: “What! You ordered a Diet Coke instead of a meal when you went out to a restaurant! Ugh! Your diet has taken over your life. What are you… some kinda moron? Don’t you understand moderation is good?” Oh...
How to Strategically Build the Ultimate Personal Meal Plan
In this post I want to talk about the psychology behind what a meal plan should do, and how it can help you AVOID certain dieting and mindset danger zones — but that's only *if* you do it right.
Get More Motivation (…by making “motivation” obsolete)
Premise: The best way to “get more motivation” is to use motivation to render motivation obsolete. If you haven't read the post about The Habit Spectrum, read that first, as I'll be using a lot of the same terms. You can pretty much consider this post part 2. Also,...
The Habit Spectrum
The habit spectrum is designed to get you thinking about the forces at work in habit change, motivation, and achieving specific goals. I've thought way too much about it.
My Before and Afters (aka “Just Show Us the Pics!”)
In this post I put up my before and after pictures. I show day 1, a photo from a year and a half later, and a photo from 11 years later. I also try to be real about the kind of changes I've had to make to sustain the weight loss.
Three Key Principles About Hunger and Dieting; or, How to Avoid Cheating on Your Diet
So, you wanna diet, eh? Well then, if you want to avoid cheating on your diet or giving in and binging two weeks into your diet, you'll consider hunger, cravings, and your brain. Here are three principles about hunger you should understand, in order to create a meal...
Create a Personal, Ready-to-Use Non-Fiction Scrivener Template (One That FORCES You to Write Better Books)
I’m one of those people who raves about Scrivener. (Affiliate Link: Mac | Windows) I have used it for writing my dissertation (my drafts, notes and research are all organised into one huge file -- that file is just getting totally nuts, by the way). I have also used...
