Ideas To Thrive

Ideas To Thrive
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Here I break down proven frameworks, mental models, and systems thinking into simple, practical advice for everyday life. Tune in to get actionable steps you can use today, making it easier for you to thrive in your daily life. Each episode uses stick-figure stories and science-backed strategies to help you think clearly, act smartly, and make choices that align with your values. The episodes contain realistic AI-generated voices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 3h ago

    Why You're Still Procrastinating (And How to Actually Start)

    Prefer to watch instead? Watch here https://youtu.be/bZppkE_YYLw Want one system for your whole year? AOS, the Annual Operating System, gives you one place to plan the year, break it into quarters and weeks, and review it as you go: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=stop-procrastinating Free printable: The Stall Finder. The six-question check from this video, with space for your fix, your re-check dates and backup fixes for each stall: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/stall-finder Procrastination is not one problem. It comes down to six different stalls, and each one needs its own fix. This video shows you how to find yours in about two minutes, then gives you the fix built for it: the next physical action, naming the feeling, the tired version, lowering the audience, borrowing a deadline and the parking pad. It ends with how to re-check when your stall moves. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 - Why you keep putting things off 0:26 - Find your stall (the Stall Finder) 2:58 - Stall 1: I don't know where to start (the next physical action) 5:02 - Stall 2: It feels bad (name the feeling) 7:17 - Stall 3: I'm too drained (the tired version) 9:09 - Stall 4: What if it's not good enough? (lower the audience) 11:12 - Stall 5: No deadline, so never (borrow a deadline) 12:43 - Stall 6: I start, then drift (the parking pad) 14:20 - When the stall moves ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER? Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72ze Affiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.com/subscribe Which stall is yours? Tell me the number below. Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Procrastination #Productivity #SelfImprovement Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  2. 3d ago

    40 Hard Truths You Need To Realize Before It's Too Late

    Want one system for your whole year? AOS, the Annual Operating System, gives you one place to plan the year, break it into quarters and weeks, and review it as you go: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=hard-truths-too-late Prefer to watch instead? https://youtu.be/Eyp4LQQyYPU ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:22 - 1. You Have Fewer Weekends Left Than You Feel 1:11 - 2. Most Time With Your Parents Is Behind You 1:49 - 3. You Will Never Feel Ready 2:39 - 4. Nobody Is Coming to Save You 3:15 - 5. Nobody Is Thinking About You That Much 3:53 - 6. People Like You More Than You Think 4:39 - 7. Most of What You Worry About Never Happens 5:24 - 8. Your Feelings Are Information 6:09 - 9. You'll Change More Than You Expect 6:51 - 10. Getting What You Want Won't Last 7:31 - 11. Your Inside vs Everyone Else's Outside 8:20 - 12. Motivation Shows Up After You Start 8:52 - 13. Done Beats Perfect 9:41 - 14. Busy Is Not the Same as Important 10:32 - 15. Your Body Keeps the Receipts 11:15 - 16. You Can't Catch Up on Sleep 12:06 - 17. Walking Is the Most Underrated Workout 12:50 - 18. Adult Friendships Don't Happen by Accident 13:46 - 19. You'll Outgrow Some People 14:32 - 20. Relationships Decide How Well You Age 15:12 - 21. You Become Like the People Around You 15:54 - 22. People Are More Honest Than You Assume 16:39 - 23. You Can't Change Other People 17:10 - 24. Most Arguments Never Get Solved 17:54 - 25. Your Phone Is Talking to the Person Across the Table 18:20 - 26. Small Kindnesses Land Bigger Than You Think 19:00 - 27. The Part of an Apology Most People Skip 19:42 - 28. Forgiving Is Mostly for You 20:19 - 29. Every Yes Is a No to Something Else 20:56 - 30. Your Job Will Not Love You Back 21:41 - 31. Money Buys Happiness, Up to a Point 22:24 - 32. Savings Buy More Freedom Than a Raise 23:03 - 33. Buy Back Your Time First 23:40 - 34. Compounding Works on Bad Habits Too 24:22 - 35. Luck Matters More Than People Admit 25:01 - 36. A Good Decision Can Still Turn Out Badly 25:46 - 37. You'll Regret What You Didn't Do 26:30 - 38. Grief Doesn't Get Smaller 27:20 - 39. Starting Late Is Still Starting 27:57 - 40. The Regrets That Stay ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 BOOKS TO EXPLORE The links below are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. The Good Life by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz Go deeper into Truths 18 to 21: the Harvard study of adult life and why relationships shape how well you age. https://www.amazon.com/dp/198216669X?tag=ideastothrive-20 The Power of Regret by Daniel H. Pink Go deeper into Truths 37 and 40: which regrets fade, which ones stay, and how to use them. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735210659?tag=ideastothrive-20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER? Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72ze Affiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SOURCES - Truth 7: LaFreniere and Newman, Behavior Therapy (2019): about 9 in 10 logged worries never came true. - Truth 16: Depner et al., Current Biology (2019): weekend recovery sleep did not undo a short-sleep week. - Truth 17: Paluch et al., Lancet Public Health (2022): step benefits level off around 6,000 to 8,000 a day for over-60s. - Truth 18: Hall, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (2019): roughly 50, 90 and 200+ hours to build friendships. - Truth 22: Cohn et al., Science (2019): lost wallets in 40 countries; wallets with cash were returned more often. - Truth 31: Killingsworth, Kahneman and Mellers, PNAS (2023): happiness keeps rising with income for most people. - Truth 40: Davidai and Gilovich, Emotion (2018): about three in four named an ideal-self regret as their biggest. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  3. Oct 16

    Don't Wait for January: How to Actually Start Your 2027 Now

    If you want next year to be the best year of your life, you don't have to wait for 1 January to start it - https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=start-2027-now GET AOS, THE ANNUAL OPERATING SYSTEM Prefer watching this episode? Check it on Youtube : https://youtu.be/ybonxXQW3QE AOS is the app, guide and workbook I built to run this plan for you. Pick your start date and it counts your 52 weeks, labels your four blocks, logs each habit as Green, Yellow or Red with one tap, and walks you through the review every 13 weeks and the year close. No account needed, and it works offline: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This video gives you a six-part plan for a whole year that starts on the day you choose. You'll find the first crack in last year's plan, pick your own day one and cut the year into four 13-week blocks. Then you plan it backward from week 52, give every habit a full size and a small size, decide ahead of time what a bad week looks like, and repair the plan every 13 weeks so it still works when motivation dies. All you need is a pen and a page. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 - Your Year Starts When You Choose 0:20 - 1. Find What Broke 4:13 - 2. Pick Your Own Day One 7:19 - The App That Keeps Track for You 8:17 - 3. Plan It Backward 11:48 - 4. Give Every Habit Two Sizes 15:40 - 5. Plan for the Weeks That Fall Apart 18:54 - 6. Repair the Plan Every 13 Weeks 22:11 - Start Your Real Year Today ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER? Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72ze Affiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SOURCES Chapter 1 - Strava's analysis of its users' logged activities (2019, about 800 million activities): the day the most people drop their New Year plans falls in mid-January. Chapter 2 - Peetz and Wilson, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2013): a personally meaningful date such as a birthday works as a fresh start and raised people's motivation to exercise. Chapter 3 - Park, Lu and Hedgcock, Psychological Science (2017): planning backward from the deadline raised motivation, reduced time pressure and improved performance, most of all for complex goals. Chapter 4 - Dalton and Spiller, Journal of Consumer Research (2012): a detailed plan helped people with one goal and backfired for people with six. - Lally and colleagues, European Journal of Social Psychology (2010): missing a single day did not materially affect habit formation. Chapter 6 - Harkin and colleagues, Psychological Bulletin (2016): across 138 studies and about 20,000 people, tracking progress helped people reach their goals, most of all when progress was written down or made public. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 BOOKS TO EXPLORE The links below are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. How to Change by Katy Milkman Go deeper into Chapter 2: why a fresh start on a date that means something to you gives your motivation a real lift. https://www.amazon.com/dp/059308375X?tag=ideastothrive-20 The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington Go deeper into the four 13-week blocks: treating each quarter as its own year, with its own plan and review. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118509234?tag=ideastothrive-20 Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg Go deeper into Chapter 4: making a habit small enough that you can still do it on your worst day. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0358362776?tag=ideastothrive-20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.com What's your day one going to be? Tell me the date below. Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #GoalSetting #YearPlanning #SelfImprovement Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  4. Oct 13

    9 Habits of Organized People That You Probably Don't Do

    Prefer to watch instead. Check it here - https://youtu.be/aN6okleJ2vQ When you were a kid, someone told you to put things back where you found them. You've probably been hearing it ever since, and the scissors still go missing. There's more to being organized than a tidy house. This video gives you nine habits that organized people use so they never have to rely on memory. Three let you see when something is missing. Three stop you guessing where a thing went or how old it is. Three warn you about a problem weeks before it happens. They come from places where losing track of something is dangerous or expensive, like an operating theatre, a library and a restaurant kitchen. Each habit comes with its steps and an example from everyday life, like a hotel checkout with children, a mortgage application, a boiler that stops in winter or a passport that expires before a holiday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WANT THE SAME KIND OF SYSTEM FOR YOUR GOALS? AOS, the Annual Operating System, is a guide, a workbook and an app for planning your year and keeping it on track. The 2027 edition is out now, and you can have your first day logged in about twenty minutes: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=organized-people-habits ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 - Why Tidy Isn't the Same as Organized 0:36 - 1. Draw the Outline 2:46 - 2. Count In, Count Out 4:32 - 3. Line It Up 6:02 - 4. The Returns Cart 7:54 - 5. Search, Don't Sort 9:39 - 6. Date It 11:34 - 7. Restock to Par 13:50 - 8. Seal the Kit 15:35 - 9. File by Date 17:06 - Where to Start ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER? Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72ze Affiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BOOKS TO EXPLORE (Amazon affiliate links) As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande Further reading connected to Habits 2 and 8: using simple checks and written lists to catch omissions before they become problems. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0312430000?tag=ideastothrive-20 Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen Go deeper into Habit 9: using a tickler file and trusted reminders so you don't have to remember every coming deadline. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143126563?tag=ideastothrive-20 Organizing from the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern Further reading on creating practical homes for your belongings and an organising system that fits how you actually live. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805075895?tag=ideastothrive-20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.com Which of the nine would have saved you the most trouble last month? Tell me below. Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Organization #SelfImprovement #Productivity Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  5. Oct 8

    9 Systems of People Who Get More Done With Less Effort

    Want to watch this instead? Check it here on Youtube - https://youtu.be/0S3gqpbbq-Q Part of you wants to build something big. And part of you would really prefer to do as little as possible. Most advice tells you to get rid of the second part. Some of the most effective people in history kept it and put it to work. This video gives you nine systems for getting more done with less effort. Three shorten the work you can't avoid. Two get set up once and then run without you thinking about them. Three help you turn work down, including a rule for when to stop searching and choose. The last one takes your habit of putting things off and uses it to get the rest done. Each system comes with its steps and an example from everyday life, like getting out for a run, learning the guitar, clearing the loft or buying a house. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 GET THE FREE ONE-PAGE LAZY AUDIT All nine systems on one page, each with its steps and one question to answer about your own week. It takes about twenty minutes. It comes with a filled-in example, so you can see a finished page before you start. Editable PDF and HTML, free. https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/one-page-lazy-audit?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=show-notes&utm_campaign=less-effort-systems ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 - Put Your Lazy Side to Work 0:24 - 1. Count the Motions 2:40 - 2. Pave the Path You Already Walk 4:33 - 3. One at a Time Beats Batches 7:44 - 4. Make the Mistake Impossible 9:43 - 5. The Brown M&M Test 11:35 - 6. Be Irresponsible on Purpose 14:39 - 7. Miss More Planes 16:43 - 8. The 37 Percent Rule 18:55 - 9. Structured Procrastination 20:36 - Your One-Page Lazy Audit ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER? Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72ze Affiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WANT ONE SYSTEM FOR THE WHOLE YEAR? AOS, the Annual Operating System, gives you one place to plan the year, break it into quarters and weeks, and review it as you go: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=show-notes&utm_campaign=less-effort-systems ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 BOOKS TO EXPLORE The links below are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. The Art of Procrastination by John Perry Go deeper into System 9: using structured procrastination to turn avoidance into useful work. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761171673?tag=ideastothrive-20 Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths Go deeper into System 8: optimal stopping, the 37 percent rule, and knowing when to stop searching and choose. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250118360?tag=ideastothrive-20 Effortless by Greg McKeown Further reading on the video's central idea: making important work easier by removing unnecessary effort and setting up systems that keep paying off. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593135644?tag=ideastothrive-20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.com Which of the nine would save you the most work this week? Tell me below. Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Productivity #SelfImprovement #Procrastination Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  6. Oct 5

    7 Things I Did To Finally Stop Wasting My Evenings After Work

    Prefer to watch instead? Check it here - https://youtu.be/fXeekYUNun0 Your evenings are the only part of a working day that's really yours. So most of us try to protect them with a strict routine. Then, a few days in, dinner runs late or we're too tired, and we're back to scrolling until bed. This video is a one-page evening plan that expects life to get in the way. You'll count the evening you really have, decide tonight's one thing hours before you get home, build a short crossing between work and home, work out which kind of tired you are, find the refill your evenings are missing, and give each weeknight one job. The plan is firm at the start and loose after that, so it survives a bad week. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌙 GET THE FREE ONE-PAGE EVENING PLAN The blank template from the video, with a space for every line we write. Page 2 tracks two weeks of evenings with one line a night. It comes with a filled-in example, so you can see a finished plan before you start. Editable PDF and HTML, free. https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/one-page-evening-plan?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=stop-wasting-evenings ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 - Why Strict Evening Routines Break 0:27 - 1. Stop Calling It Wasted 3:12 - 2. Decide Tonight Before You Get Home 5:31 - 3. Plan It Loosely 7:47 - 4. Build a Crossing 10:34 - 5. Which Kind of Tired Are You? 12:48 - 6. Pick the Refill That's Missing 15:44 - 7. Give Each Evening Its Own Job 17:37 - Your One-Page Plan 18:03 - When a Week Goes Wrong ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER? Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72ze Affiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WANT ONE SYSTEM FOR THE WHOLE YEAR? AOS, the Annual Operating System, gives you one place to plan the year, break it into quarters and weeks, and review it as you go: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=stop-wasting-evenings ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SOURCES Chapter 1 - Sharif, Mogilner & Hershfield (2021), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: free time and well-being in more than 35,000 people. - Tonietto, Malkoc, Reczek & Norton (2021), Journal of Experimental Social Psychology: seeing leisure as wasteful makes it less enjoyable. Chapter 2 - Read & van Leeuwen (1998), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes: snacks chosen in advance versus on the day. Chapter 3 - Tonietto & Malkoc (2016), Journal of Marketing Research: scheduled leisure feels more like work. - Uitdewilligen et al. (2023), Occupational Health Science: detailed evening plans did not help people switch off. Chapter 4 - McAlpine & Piszczek (2022), Organizational Psychology Review: the commute as a space between roles. - Kreiner (2006), Journal of Organizational Behavior: keeping work and home apart versus mixing them. - Adam Fraser, The Third Space (2012): reflect, rest, reset. Chapter 5 - Marcora, Staiano & Manning (2009), Journal of Applied Physiology: mental fatigue makes effort feel harder. Chapter 6 - Sonnentag & Fritz (2007), Journal of Occupational Health Psychology: the four recovery experiences. - Kubey & Csikszentmihalyi (2002), Scientific American: how people feel during and after TV. - Guy Winch, "How to turn off work thoughts during your free time" (TED talk). Chapter 7 - Etkin & Mogilner (2016), Journal of Consumer Research: variety across a week versus inside an hour. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.com Which refill do your evenings miss most: switching off, calming down, getting better at something, or choosing? Tell me below. Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #EveningRoutine #AfterWork #SelfImprovement Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  7. Oct 1

    7 Things I Did To Finally Stop Wasting My Evenings After Work

    Prefer to watch instead? Check it here - https://youtu.be/fXeekYUNun0 Your evenings are the only part of a working day that's really yours. So most of us try to protect them with a strict routine. Then, a few days in, dinner runs late or we're too tired, and we're back to scrolling until bed. This video is a one-page evening plan that expects life to get in the way. You'll count the evening you really have, decide tonight's one thing hours before you get home, build a short crossing between work and home, work out which kind of tired you are, find the refill your evenings are missing, and give each weeknight one job. The plan is firm at the start and loose after that, so it survives a bad week. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌙 GET THE FREE ONE-PAGE EVENING PLAN The blank template from the video, with a space for every line we write. Page 2 tracks two weeks of evenings with one line a night. It comes with a filled-in example, so you can see a finished plan before you start. Editable PDF and HTML, free. https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/one-page-evening-plan?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=stop-wasting-evenings ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 - Why Strict Evening Routines Break 0:27 - 1. Stop Calling It Wasted 3:12 - 2. Decide Tonight Before You Get Home 5:31 - 3. Plan It Loosely 7:47 - 4. Build a Crossing 10:34 - 5. Which Kind of Tired Are You? 12:48 - 6. Pick the Refill That's Missing 15:44 - 7. Give Each Evening Its Own Job 17:37 - Your One-Page Plan 18:03 - When a Week Goes Wrong ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER? Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72ze Affiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WANT ONE SYSTEM FOR THE WHOLE YEAR? AOS, the Annual Operating System, gives you one place to plan the year, break it into quarters and weeks, and review it as you go: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=stop-wasting-evenings ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SOURCES Chapter 1 - Sharif, Mogilner & Hershfield (2021), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: free time and well-being in more than 35,000 people. - Tonietto, Malkoc, Reczek & Norton (2021), Journal of Experimental Social Psychology: seeing leisure as wasteful makes it less enjoyable. Chapter 2 - Read & van Leeuwen (1998), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes: snacks chosen in advance versus on the day. Chapter 3 - Tonietto & Malkoc (2016), Journal of Marketing Research: scheduled leisure feels more like work. - Uitdewilligen et al. (2023), Occupational Health Science: detailed evening plans did not help people switch off. Chapter 4 - McAlpine & Piszczek (2022), Organizational Psychology Review: the commute as a space between roles. - Kreiner (2006), Journal of Organizational Behavior: keeping work and home apart versus mixing them. - Adam Fraser, The Third Space (2012): reflect, rest, reset. Chapter 5 - Marcora, Staiano & Manning (2009), Journal of Applied Physiology: mental fatigue makes effort feel harder. Chapter 6 - Sonnentag & Fritz (2007), Journal of Occupational Health Psychology: the four recovery experiences. - Kubey & Csikszentmihalyi (2002), Scientific American: how people feel during and after TV. - Guy Winch, "How to turn off work thoughts during your free time" (TED talk). Chapter 7 - Etkin & Mogilner (2016), Journal of Consumer Research: variety across a week versus inside an hour. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.com Which refill do your evenings miss most: switching off, calming down, getting better at something, or choosing? Tell me below. Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #EveningRoutine #AfterWork #SelfImprovement Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  8. Sep 28

    Do This Before 2026 Ends and 2027 Will Be Different

    Prefer to watch it instead? Check it out on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3hJ8_7wH2A What you do in the last three months of this year can shape the whole of next year. And there's less time than it looks. Once you take out the holidays, the trips and the busy weeks you already know are coming, most of us have about nine real weeks left. This video is a plan for using those weeks to finish 2026 well and start 2027 early, so that on the first of January you're already nine weeks into next year's goal. You'll count the time you really have, pick the three things that deserve it, start your biggest goal on a Monday this month, keep it going with a weekly score, use this year's calendar to book next year's good things now, and plan how the year ends. By the end, the whole plan fits on one page. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗓️ GET THE FREE REST-OF-YEAR MAP The one-page plan from the video, ready to fill in this weekend. Page 2 is a weekly score that runs straight through New Year, and page 3 is the calendar review. It comes with a filled-in example, so you can see the whole thing done before you start. Editable PDF and HTML, free. https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/rest-of-year-map?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=show-notes&utm_campaign=last-3-months ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 - You Have About Nine Real Weeks Left 0:42 - 1. Count the Time You Really Have 2:44 - 2. Make Room: Pick Your Three 5:22 - 3. Start Next Year's Goal Now 7:49 - 4. Keep It Going With a Weekly Score 10:36 - 5. Choose What Next Year Holds 12:55 - 6. End the Year Well 16:44 - Your One-Page Plan 17:37 - Free Rest-of-Year Map ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER? Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72ze Affiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WANT ONE SYSTEM FOR THE WHOLE OF NEXT YEAR? AOS, the Annual Operating System, gives you one place to plan the year, break it into quarters and weeks, and review it as you go: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=show-notes&utm_campaign=last-3-months ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BOOKS TO EXPLORE (Amazon affiliate links) As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington Behind Chapter 4: turning the next twelve weeks into a focused plan, scoring weekly actions and using the 85% execution benchmark. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118509234?tag=ideastothrive-20 Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman Behind Chapter 2: accepting limited time, keeping only three projects active and putting everything else on a waiting list. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374159122?tag=ideastothrive-20 How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner Behind Chapter 1: making realistic plans by looking at what actually happened before, rather than assuming everything will go perfectly. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593239512?tag=ideastothrive-20 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Here I break down proven frameworks, mental models, and systems thinking into simple, practical advice for everyday life. Tune in to get actionable steps you can use today, making it easier for you to thrive in your daily life. Each episode uses stick-figure stories and science-backed strategies to help you think clearly, act smartly, and make choices that align with your values. The episodes contain realistic AI-generated voices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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