Set SMART goals

Use the SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely) framework to achieve your goals.   Let’s look at each one more closely: Specific: Visit Spain and Portugal vs. Travel more Measurable: Run a 50k vs. Run farther Attainable: Dive the Great...

Uncertainty vs Unhappiness

Have you ever watched Shark Tank?  (Or Dragon’s Den?) There’s usually a moment where an entrepreneur says: “I made the first 1,000 units myself.” Which makes you wonder how do these people: sit down, in their pajamas, and cut, paste, package, and mail 1,000 orders?...

Make fewer decisions

Beware “decision fatigue”: Every time you make a decision, you drain your willpower. How do you reduce your decisions? Use routines. For example, your morning routine could be: brush teeth, meditate, write, walk, eat. Routines don’t require willpower because you do...

Admit when you don’t know

Nobody likes a know-it-all.Socrates claimed that, by acknowledging that he didn’t know anything, he was the wisest person in the land.The smartest people I know are the first to say “I don’t know.” That’s not a coincidence.By saying “I...