Have you ever set a goal and had a really difficult time sticking to it? Maybe you decide you want to save more money, or go to the gym more often. This week on the show, psychologist Hal Hershfield explains why it can be difficult to set our “future selves” up for success. Plus, he shares tools to help us make commitments that will benefit us in the years to come.

Life is often filled with hardships and tragedies. For thousands of years, philosophers have come up with strategies to help us cope with such hardship. This week, we revisit a 2020 conversation with philosopher William Irvine about ancient ideas — backed by modern psychology — that can help us manage disappointment and misfortune.

David Allen offers this reminder that you can be smarter than your mind by capturing, clarifying, and organizing your thoughts.

Make sure your lists are complete, that every actionable item has the very next action identified, and only put items that cannot be done any other day on your calendar.

David Allen talks about capturing into your physical in-tray.

Get your message across with instantly shareable videos for work. Capture your screen, record your front-facing camera, and narrate it all at once, then instantly share with a simple link.

Get your message across with instantly shareable videos for work. Capture your screen, record your front-facing camera, and narrate it all at once, then instantly share with a simple link.

Get your message across with instantly shareable videos for work. Capture your screen, record your front-facing camera, and narrate it all at once, then instantly share with a simple link.

David Allen talks about the three Cs of effective systems — Consistent, Current, and Context-driven. …………………………………………………. https://gettingthingsdone.com https://gtdconnect.com…

The internet is filled with puppy quandaries. You can get a puppy at a pet mill/pet shop in about an hour (please don’t). But over the course of your lifetime with that dog, you’ll need…

As a part of our “Mind the Gap” series, Kelly and LinkedIn’s Meg Garlinghouse discuss the meaning of work and what defines a job, a career or a calling. Kelly and writer Nir Eyal delve into the distractions faced by different generations and how being indistractable might just be the new superpower. Please subscribe, rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts! We read and appreciate every review. You can follow the conversation with Kelly on Instagram @kellycorrigan and read the essays from this episode on Medium.

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I've been thinking a lot lately about my work. One of the advantages of journaling is that it gives you a way to check in with yourself and find out what's on your mind. Sometimes that feedback isn't all positive. A few months ago, I went back and read several journal entries. What surprised me most

The last piece of the Summer Challenge is about making all the habits work via the review process.

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OKRs or Objectives are perhaps the most effective way to set the right goals. There are plenty of goal setting frameworks out there, but an OKR gives you the...

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You don't need to be where you want to be.You just need be in the process of growing in that direction.— T.K. Coleman (@TK_Coleman) April 7, 2021

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Getting Things Done, or GTD, is one of the most popular productivity systems on the planet, and for a good reason — it helps you be on top of your tasks and obligations by getting them out of your overloaded brain and into your trusted system, so you can focus on execution, not juggling. In […]