January is the best time of the year to start fresh, and a lot of that comes down to company. For a few weeks, almost everyone around you is doing the same thing. Your colleagues come back from the holidays with plans, your friends are talking about what they’d like
There’s a specific kind of Monday morning that makes you want to start over. The alarm goes off, and before your feet even hit the floor, you already know how the week is going to feel. You’re not tired. You’re just tired of this. The version of your life that
Most people fail to make habits stick because they rely on willpower instead of structure. We assume inconsistency is a character flaw, but in reality, it is a structural failure. When a habit is built on motivation alone, it collapses the moment life becomes demanding. To make new habits stick,
You know exactly what you need to do. You want the thing on the other side of it. And yet somehow you find a way to get in your own way, again, right at the moment it matters most. If that feels painfully familiar, you’re not broken and you’re not
Wanting to have a lazy day is normal when you have a hectic schedule. Lazy Sundays are great for resting, taking care of ourselves, and resetting before a new super productive week. Nevertheless, you might have a motivation problem if you feel like you are having more lazy days than
In 2012, a team of psychologists gave 205 adults in Germany a smartphone that buzzed seven times a day for a week. Each time it did, they had to report what they wanted in that moment, whether it clashed with their goals and whether they were trying to resist it.
To create a life you will love, you must take small steps every day to get closer to your definition of the ideal life. This implies that you need to find how to achieve your daily goals despite life getting in the way. Setting smart goals is easy. The hardest
You know that feeling when something in your life is a little off, but you can’t quite put your finger on what it is? You’ve got this sense that you could be doing more, or living a bit more on purpose, if you only knew where to start. That’s exactly
You’ve felt it before. That quiet Sunday-night conviction that this is the week everything changes, followed by a burst of ambition, a list of thirty things to do differently, and by Thursday, the familiar slide back into exactly who you were. It’s not a willpower problem, and it’s not you.
Almost everyone fears failure at some point. For some of us it shows up now and then, when a goal feels too big. For others it’s a near-constant voice in the background, quietly deciding which goals we let ourselves want in the first place. That second version is the one
