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How to Form Habits in Real Life

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Published: October 16, 2024 04:14

Making any new habit is not usually one habit, but many. Not a cue-response relationship, but a collection of flexible strategies that deal with most scenarios reality throws at you. When you’ve done that, you’re acquired a kind of expertise—not of a…

5 Tips for Staying Focused (When You’re Stressed)

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Published: October 8, 2024 15:34

Focus is essential to productivity. But it’s tough to stay focused when you’re anxious. This is a dilemma I’ve faced quite a bit in my own work. As I’ve written before, I’m a somewhat anxious person by nature—and that can wreak havoc when I’m worried about…

Fitness: Day One

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Published: October 1, 2024 15:58

Fitness is the first foundation in my year-long project. Here's how I'm getting back into shape. The post Fitness: Day One appeared first on Scott H Young.

Foundations Is Now Open For Registration

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Published: September 23, 2024 15:00

Foundations, my new 12-month course designed to help you improve twelve essential elements for the good life, is now open. You can sign up here: ​https://join.ingeniumcourses.com/foundations/​ Registration is open until Friday, September 27th, 2024 at…

What Could You Change in a Year?

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Published: September 21, 2024 16:20

In the space of just a few years, I changed my diet, started exercising, began using a productivity system, read several books per month, joined Toastmasters, wrote a journal regularly, began waking up early, tried mediation and much more. The post What…

How To Be Well Rounded

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Published: September 19, 2024 16:09

My motto for dealing with the overrepresentation of outlier success is simple: Learn from the best, but fit it in with the rest. The post How To Be Well Rounded appeared first on Scott H Young.

Where’s Your Blind Spot?

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Published: September 17, 2024 16:33

Prevention is far less costly than a cure. Fixing a problem before it becomes a crisis is one of the best investments you can make. The post Where’s Your Blind Spot? appeared first on Scott H Young.

12 Obvious (and 12 Not-So-Obvious) Tips for Living Better

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Published: September 15, 2024 15:29

Next week, I’m going to be opening registration for Foundations, my new year-long program designed to help you build stronger foundations for your life. Given the twelve foundations we’re going to work on for the following year, I wanted to distill some of…

The Foundations for Success and Happiness are the Same

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Published: September 3, 2024 15:08

The practices we need to thrive as human beings appear to be largely harmonious across many different goals and pursuits. The post The Foundations for Success and Happiness are the Same appeared first on Scott H Young.

A Solid Foundation is More Than Just Good Habits

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Published: August 27, 2024 15:09

We need a lot more than just automatic behaviors to sustain a change. We need knowledge to guide the right actions, self-efficacy to know we are capable of taking them, rules and systems for managing decisions, courage to overcome our fears and a shift of…