Browsing
Category: Goalsetting
-
Resistance Isn’t Laziness, It’s Energy-Guarding: Understanding Analysis Paralysis Through a First-Principles Lens
Resistance is the nervous system’s desire to conserve energy due to lack of hope that expending energy is going to net a reward.
-
Why Ultrarunner Casey Stillwagon’s Stronger Every Stride Inspired Me to Try Running Again – This Time From a Different Mindset
Where can you shift from “I have to” to “I get to”? What pain are you willing to choose—because something within you knows it’s the path to your next level?
-
Harnessing the Zeigarnik Effect: The Art of Opening and Closing Loops
Why Loops Matter We all know the feeling: unfinished tasks, unresolved decisions, or unmet goals quietly lingering in the background, consuming mental energy. These “open loops” create cognitive tension that makes it hard to focus on what matters most. But here’s the opportunity: when we can master the art of moving through life intentionally opening…
-
Struggling with Motivation? Here’s How Expectancy Theory Can Help
Expectancy Theory says three things must align for action: Do you believe your effort will lead to success? Will success bring the outcome you want? And do you even want the outcome? If any piece is missing, it’s no wonder you feel stuck.
-
The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It: Wisdom from Peter Drucker
We all want a better future—a life where we feel fulfilled, successful, and aligned with our true goals. But more often than not, we get stuck. Whether it’s staying in a job we no longer love, procrastinating on starting a new business, or holding back on a personal project, our brain tends to resist anything…
-
Reflective Accountability: The Key to Making Steady Progress Toward Your Goals
Struggling to stay consistent with your goals? Discover how using reflection as an accountability tool can help you stay engaged, adjust strategies, and maintain momentum without judgment. Learn compassionate approaches to growth and reconnect with your ‘why’ to keep moving forward.
-
Clarify Your End Game, Then Create Your Life
Paint a future so compelling that you’ll want to go through the transformation required to achieve it. Do so by clarifying your end game first, then design your life.
-
Bottlenecks Are Signals That Decisions Need to Be Made
Bottlenecks are not a problem, a moral failing, or a sign that you should give up. They’re signals that decisions need to be made, and the sooner you make them, the sooner things can flow again.
-
Choose New Year’s Resolutions That Help You Stop Quitting on Yourself
Instead of rehashing the same old new year’s resolutions, try picking goals that help you become the person you need to be who is capable of creating whatever it is you want.
-
Can You Really Change Your Life in Twelve Months?
I started off with a simple goal: to build my self-trust, one small step at a time. But I ended up with so much more. ………. I started this year with a commitment to learning how to build my self trust, one small step at a time. To me, self-trust meant trusting I would do…
