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.

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

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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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 […]