Everyday Systems Podcast

How to use index cards for todo lists at the three scales of the chain of command: daily, monthly, yearly.

10 Jan 200711min

Organize your self improvement efforts on three temporal scales: year=general, month=officer, day=footsoldier.

3 Jan 200710min

Make your goals fun, important, and attainable with Personal Olympics.

14 Dec 20067min

A month is a much better granularity than the more typical yearly resolution we make on new years, because you can estimate better on that smaller scale, and recover and reset faster. And it's long en...

7 Dec 20065min

Limit your celebratory eating to the holidays themselves. Adjust your expectations so that your goal is mere maintenance. If you screw up, don't wait till new years to get back on the wagon.

30 Nov 20067min

One thing that every self help guru can agree on is that you have to have an arbitrary number in your system. It is a little weird that the most rational concepts we have available to us -- numbers --...

22 Nov 20066min

Strictness builds habit faster. Dumb down what to be strict about with "fence around the law." Avoid punishment and reparations.

16 Nov 20067min

Use the full habit traffic light for 21 days to build your habit, then switch to more efficient negative tracking.

9 Nov 20066min