How to Use Journaling to Give Yourself Productivity Superpowers
“In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.” —Susan Sontag Journaling is not just for creatives. It’s not “woo woo.” It’s a tool for anyone who wants to think strategically. Here’s the idea: If you do it right,...
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...
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. The habit spectrum, and the way I've visualized it, designed to help you think about what is working for you, and what is...
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...
