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. 5h ago

    6 Questions That Will Make 2027 Your Best Year

    Want your home and life admin to stop piling up? Life OS, the Life Operating System, is a 31-page working manual with 20 frameworks for running your home, each with a worked example, plus 30 AI prompts that help you build them: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/lifeos-workbook?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=feel-behind If you feel behind in life and can't quite say behind what, some of that feeling may be true, and some of it was never yours. This video gives you a seven-step plan to sort the two: write the feeling down, test which lines you really want, find the real gaps, and get two of them moving again before the year ends. You'll measure your pace instead of the distance, count the progress you've already made, and set a 31 December marker that someone else could check. 🔗FREE: The One-Page Year printable sheet, with a filled-in example: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/one-page-year?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=feel-behind ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 - Why you feel behind 0:16 - Step 1: Write the behind sentence 3:00 - Step 2: The nobody-knows test 5:51 - Step 3: Write the cost line 8:20 - Step 4: Pick two 10:01 - Step 5: Measure pace, not position 12:47 - Step 6: Count your stamps 15:23 - Step 7: Your 31 December marker 17:31 - Your page, start to finish ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 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. Late Bloomers by Rich Karlgaard Go deeper into Steps 1 and 2: why the age deadlines you picked up are not the only timeline. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1524759759?tag=ideastothrive-20 Range by David Epstein Why people who start late or switch paths often do well, so the comparison in Step 2 rarely holds. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735214484?tag=ideastothrive-20 Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman Why you can never catch up on everything, and why choosing, as in Step 4, is the way out. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374159122?tag=ideastothrive-20 Essentialism by Greg McKeown Go deeper into Step 4: doing fewer things so the ones you pick actually move. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0804137382?tag=ideastothrive-20 The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer The research behind Steps 5 and 6: why small, visible progress keeps you going. https://www.amazon.com/dp/142219857X?tag=ideastothrive-20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FORGETTING MOST OF WHAT YOU READ? Readwise collects your highlights from books, Kindle and articles, and resurfaces them daily so the ideas stick. Try Readwise here: https://readwise.io/anshchat/ Affiliate link: I may earn a commission if you subscribe, at no extra cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WANT A PLACE FOR YOUR WEEKLY BOXES? Todoist helps you capture tasks, set a weekly repeat for your two gaps, and see what's 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 REFERENCES Step 1: Age deadlines we pick up without choosing them. Neugarten, B. L., Moore, J. W. & Lowe, J. C. (1965). American Journal of Sociology, 70(6). Step 2: Standards we set for ourselves versus the ones we think others expect of us. Higgins, E. T. (1987). Psychological Review, 94(3). Step 5: The feeling from a goal tracks your rate of progress against the rate you expected. Carver, C. S. & Scheier, M. F. (1990). Psychological Review, 97(1). Step 6: The car wash loyalty cards (19% vs 34% completed). Nunes, J. C. & Drèze, X. (2006). Journal of Consumer Research, 32(4). The Nobody-Knows Test, the Cost Line, Pick Two and the 31 December Marker are Ideas to Thrive's own tools, not research findings. Applying the car wash result to personal goals is my own extrapolation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  2. 3d ago

    Why you feel behind in life (and how to fix it)

    Want your home and life admin to stop piling up? Life OS, the Life Operating System, is a 31-page working manual with 20 frameworks for running your home, each with a worked example, plus 30 AI prompts that help you build them: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/lifeos-workbook?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=feel-behind Prefer to watch instead? Check here - https://youtu.be/YQtmfU1pCyk If you feel behind in life and can't quite say behind what, some of that feeling may be true, and some of it was never yours. This video gives you a seven-step plan to sort the two: write the feeling down, test which lines you really want, find the real gaps, and get two of them moving again before the year ends. You'll measure your pace instead of the distance, count the progress you've already made, and set a 31 December marker that someone else could check. 🔗 FREE: The Catch-Up Page, all seven steps on one printable sheet, with a filled-in example: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/catch-up-page?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=feel-behind ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 - Why you feel behind 0:16 - Step 1: Write the behind sentence 3:00 - Step 2: The nobody-knows test 5:51 - Step 3: Write the cost line 8:20 - Step 4: Pick two 10:01 - Step 5: Measure pace, not position 12:47 - Step 6: Count your stamps 15:23 - Step 7: Your 31 December marker 17:31 - Your page, start to finish ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 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. Late Bloomers by Rich Karlgaard Go deeper into Steps 1 and 2: why the age deadlines you picked up are not the only timeline. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1524759759?tag=ideastothrive-20 Range by David Epstein Why people who start late or switch paths often do well, so the comparison in Step 2 rarely holds. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735214484?tag=ideastothrive-20 Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman Why you can never catch up on everything, and why choosing, as in Step 4, is the way out. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374159122?tag=ideastothrive-20 Essentialism by Greg McKeown Go deeper into Step 4: doing fewer things so the ones you pick actually move. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0804137382?tag=ideastothrive-20 The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer The research behind Steps 5 and 6: why small, visible progress keeps you going. https://www.amazon.com/dp/142219857X?tag=ideastothrive-20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FORGETTING MOST OF WHAT YOU READ? Readwise collects your highlights from books, Kindle and articles, and resurfaces them daily so the ideas stick. Try Readwise here: https://readwise.io/anshchat/ Affiliate link: I may earn a commission if you subscribe, at no extra cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WANT A PLACE FOR YOUR WEEKLY BOXES? Todoist helps you capture tasks, set a weekly repeat for your two gaps, and see what's 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 REFERENCES Step 1: Age deadlines we pick up without choosing them. Neugarten, B. L., Moore, J. W. & Lowe, J. C. (1965). American Journal of Sociology, 70(6). Step 2: Standards we set for ourselves versus the ones we think others expect of us. Higgins, E. T. (1987). Psychological Review, 94(3). Step 5: The feeling from a goal tracks your rate of progress against the rate you expected. Carver, C. S. & Scheier, M. F. (1990). Psychological Review, 97(1). Step 6: The car wash loyalty cards (19% vs 34% completed). Nunes, J. C. & Drèze, X. (2006). Journal of Consumer Research, 32(4). The Nobody-Knows Test, the Cost Line, Pick Two and the 31 December Marker are Ideas to Thrive's own tools, not research findings. Applying the car wash result to personal goals is my own extrapolation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  3. Nov 6

    11 Habits of People Who Get Twice as Much Done

    Want one system for 2027? 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=twice-as-much-done Prefer to watch instead? Youtube - https://youtu.be/ERaLb__BmAI Most lost hours don't go to laziness. They go missing in four places: getting started, staying on it, switching between tasks, and redoing work you've done before. This video gives you eleven habits, grouped by those four places, from a song that starts your hardest task to a list that means you only build things once. None of them need you to start earlier or stay later. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 - Where your hours go missing 0:16 - Getting started. Habit 1: One song, one job 1:43 - Habit 2: Rehearse the snag 3:19 - Habit 3: Talk to yourself by name 4:45 - Staying on it. Habit 4: One window 6:12 - Habit 5: Draft first, judge later 7:38 - Habit 6: Surprise yourself 8:53 - Switching cleanly. Habit 7: Answer with a proposal 10:45 - Habit 8: The ready-to-resume note 12:01 - Never doing the same work twice. Habit 9: Build it once 14:19 - Habit 10: Say it back 15:56 - Habit 11: Learn the ten you use daily 17:06 - Where to start: the four boxes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 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. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott The source for Habit 5 and the "child's draft": write it all down first, shape it later. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385480016?tag=ideastothrive-20 Chatter by Ethan Kross Go deeper into Habit 3: why talking to yourself by name calms the voice in your head. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525575235?tag=ideastothrive-20 Attention Span by Gloria Mark The research behind Habit 4, including how quickly we now switch screens. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1335449418?tag=ideastothrive-20 Rethinking Positive Thinking by Gabriele Oettingen Why picturing the obstacle, as in Habit 2, works better than picturing success alone. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1617230235?tag=ideastothrive-20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FORGETTING MOST OF WHAT YOU READ? Readwise collects your highlights from books, Kindle and articles, and resurfaces them daily so the ideas stick. Try Readwise here: https://readwise.io/anshchat/ Affiliate link: I may earn a commission if you subscribe, at no extra cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 REFERENCES Habit 2: Phelps's goggles filled with water in the 2008 200m butterfly final. Duhigg, C. (2012). The Power of Habit. Habit 3: Using your name or "you" in self-talk improved how observers rated people's speeches. Kross, E. et al. (2014). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106(2). Habit 4: Time on one screen fell from about 2.5 minutes in 2004 to about 47 seconds. Mark, G. (2023). Attention Span. Habit 5: The rough "child's draft". Lamott, A. (1994). Bird by Bird. Habit 6: An uncertain $1 or $2 got more people to finish than a sure $2. Shen, L., Fishbach, A. & Hsee, C. K. (2015). Journal of Consumer Research, 41(5). Habit 8: A short plan for resuming reduced attention residue after an interruption. Leroy, S. & Glomb, T. M. (2018). Organization Science, 29(3). Habit 9: Boeing's Model 299 crashed at Wright Field in October 1935 with the gust locks left on; the pilot checklist followed. Habit 10: The 1977 Tenerife runway collision and the read-back practice that followed. Spanish civil aviation accident report (1978). Habit 11: Cut, copy and paste came from Larry Tesler and Tim Mott's Gypsy editor at Xerox PARC in the mid-1970s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  4. Nov 3

    You Have More Time Than You Think

    Prefer to watch it instead? See here https://youtu.be/fqzLPyCJzPo You probably have a few hours of free time every day. So why does it never feel like you have an hour for the things you care about? This video gives you a six-part plan for getting back the free time you already have, in pieces big enough to use. You'll count the pieces in one ordinary day, find the one thing that keeps cutting them up, and move the fixed jobs that shrink your free time before it starts. Then you'll write a menu for the small pieces you can't join up, use one question to stop saying yes to a future that isn't empty, and give yourself one block each week that other people plan around. All you need is a pen and a page. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 GET THE FREE ONE-PAGE FREE TIME PLAN The whole plan on one page, with a filled-in example so you can see a finished page before you start. It takes about five minutes tonight to count your pieces. Editable PDF, free. https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/one-page-free-time-plan ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 - You Have More Time Than You Think 0:23 - 1. Count the Pieces 4:08 - 2. Name the Cutter 6:26 - 3. Move the Edge 8:47 - 4. The Piece-Size Menu 11:02 - 5. The This-Week Test 13:15 - 6. The Predictable Block 15:21 - Put the Whole Plan on One Page ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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=more-time-than-you-think ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 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. Time Smart by Ashley Whillans Go deeper into Chapter 1: why free time arrives in scraps and what to do about "time confetti". https://www.amazon.com/dp/1633698351?tag=ideastothrive-20 Overwhelmed by Brigid Schulte Go deeper into Chapter 1: the book that gave us the phrase "time confetti" and shows why leisure gets chopped into bits. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374228442?tag=ideastothrive-20 Attention Span by Gloria Mark Go deeper into Chapter 2: what interruptions cost, and how long it takes to get back to what you were doing. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1335449418?tag=ideastothrive-20 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  5. Oct 30

    Use the Last 60 Days of the Year Like This

    Want every page for this plan laid out for you? The Year in Review & Reset workbook has a page for each of the five steps, a filled-in example, and a plan for your first thirteen weeks of next year: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/year-in-review?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=last-60-days Prefer to watch instead. See here - https://youtu.be/xtvIP4U0dc8 Most of us can name what we finished this year. What we left half-done is vaguer, and it all follows us into January. This video gives you a five-step plan for the last sixty days: list what you're still carrying, give the stalled things a deadline, seal what you drop, finish one last thing, and settle what you owe people. It works even if this year went nothing like you planned. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 - Five steps to close your year 0:18 - Step 1: List what you're carrying 2:55 - Step 2: Give stalled things a deadline 5:36 - Step 3: Seal what you drop 8:08 - Step 4: Finish one last thing 10:17 - Step 5: Settle what you owe 11:51 - Close the year ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 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. Quit by Annie Duke The source for Step 2: deciding in advance when to walk away, including the Everest turnaround time. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593422996?tag=ideastothrive-20 Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer The full account of the 1996 Everest season behind the turnaround story in Step 2. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385494785?tag=ideastothrive-20 Transitions by William Bridges Why every new start begins with an ending, and how to close one well. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738285404?tag=ideastothrive-20 The Power of Regret by Daniel H. Pink Go deeper into Step 5: why the regrets that stay with us are mostly the things we didn't do. 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 REFERENCES Step 1: Investors sell winning shares more readily than losing ones, except in December. Odean, T. (1998). Are investors reluctant to realize their losses? Journal of Finance, 53(5). See also Shefrin, H. & Statman, M. (1985), Journal of Finance, 40(3). Step 2: Setting a turnaround time before the climb. Duke, A. (2022). Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away. Step 3: Sealing a written regret in an envelope reduced how bad people felt about it. Li, X., Wei, L. & Soman, D. (2010). Sealing the emotions genie. Psychological Science, 21(8). Step 3: Small rituals ease grief after a loss, even for people who don't believe in them. Norton, M. I. & Gino, F. (2014). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(1). Step 4: A chocolate labelled "your last one" was enjoyed more and picked as the favourite far more often. O'Brien, E. & Ellsworth, P. C. (2012). Saving the last for best. Psychological Science, 23(2). Step 5: Over time, regrets of inaction outlast regrets of action. Gilovich, T. & Medvec, V. H. (1995). The experience of regret. Psychological Review, 102(2). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.com/subscribe How many of yours are marked "not sure"? Tell me below. Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #YearInReview #NewYear #selfimprovementbooks ideas to thrive, use the last 60 days of the year like this, close 2026 before you start 2027, last 60 days of the year, end of year review, year in review, how to end the year strong, year end reset, new year reset, how to prepare for the new year, finish the year strong, when to quit a goal, unfinished goals, productivity, self improvement, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  6. Oct 27

    How the World's Most Successful People Structure Their Day

    Prefer to watch instead? Check here https://youtu.be/-ysVZhOpp_U 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=successful-people-day From the outside, most famous routines look impossible: early alarms, long hours, whole days with nobody else in them. Take those parts away and the same nine patterns keep showing up in the days of Jane Austen, Toni Morrison, Benjamin Franklin, Jeff Bezos, Mark Twain and others. This video walks through each one and shows you how to use it in an ordinary day, even with a job or kids. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 - Why famous routines look impossible 0:30 - Pattern 1: Work in small pieces (Jane Austen) 2:26 - Pattern 2: Split the day in two (Simone de Beauvoir) 4:07 - Pattern 3: Keep your own work apart (Le Corbusier) 5:40 - Pattern 4: Think early, decide fresh (Jeff Bezos) 7:06 - Pattern 5: Decide the one thing first (Ben Franklin) 9:13 - Pattern 6: Protect one block (Toni Morrison) 12:12 - Pattern 7: Give your evenings a limit (Franz Kafka) 13:39 - Pattern 8: End the day on purpose (Mark Twain) 15:22 - Pattern 9: Say tomorrow out loud (Kurt Vonnegut) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 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. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey The source for many of the routines in this video, with the working days of more than 150 writers, artists and thinkers. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307273601?tag=ideastothrive-20 Daily Rituals: Women at Work by Mason Currey The companion volume, on how women writers and artists found time to work around everything else. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1524732958?tag=ideastothrive-20 On Writing by Stephen King The book from Pattern 3, where King says the one thing a work space needs is a door you're willing to shut. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439156816?tag=ideastothrive-20 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Pattern 5 in his own words, including the hour-by-hour schedule and his morning question. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486290735?tag=ideastothrive-20 Kurt Vonnegut: Letters Pattern 9's source: the 1965 letter where Vonnegut describes his day to his wife. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385343760?tag=ideastothrive-20 Deep Work by Cal Newport Go deeper into Pattern 6: how to protect one block of focused time in a busy day. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1455586692?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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.com/subscribe Which pattern is your day missing? Tell me the number below. Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #DailyRoutine #Productivity #SelfImprovement Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  7. Oct 23

    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.

  8. Oct 20

    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.

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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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