In this video, I reveal the 7 most effective strategies I’ve discovered in over 20 years of studying motivation and performance to help you stop procrastinat...

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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.

“Productivity is a trap. Nobody in the history of humanity has ever achieved work-life balance. The real problem isn’t our limited time. The real problem—or so I hope to convince you—is that we’ve unwittingly inherited, and feel pressured to live by, a troublesome set of ideas about how to use our limited time, all of which are pretty much guaranteed to make things worse.” That’s how Oliver Burkeman, the author of ‘Four Thousand Weeks,’ explains our relationship to happiness and time. In this episode, he and Derek talk about his philosophy, the downside of constantly living for some future achievement, goals versus habits, and making peace with our finitude. Host: Derek Thompson Guest: Oliver Burkeman Producer: Devon Manze Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why write things down on a calendar when you can *computerize* it?Woman’s Day, August 1969 pic.twitter.com/RFKhAo4vpm— Ian Petrie (@icpetrie) November 13, 2021

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.