Prioritization and overcommitment
Too many things, none of them done well.
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You Feel Behind Because Your Tabs Are Open
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Trying Really Hard Is Not a System
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The Books You Tell People You're Reading
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Not Moving Fast Enough to Trust Yourself
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Staying Consistent When Your Capacity Drops
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Your Scrolling Is Protecting You From Choosing
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Overwhelm Isn't Something You Wait Out
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Abandon The Circle You're Standing In
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Is It A Character Flaw Or Missing Tools?
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Don't Waste Your Life
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I'd Feel Overwhelmed Too If I Told Myself I Was
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The iAlign Filter and the Prioritization Protocol
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The Printer in the Corner
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This Is Your World Cup
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Would a Billion Dollars Fix Your Turkey Sandwich?
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Why Your Hard Work Is Making You Feel More Behind [Challenge Your Priorities]
Why was it that I could spend so much energy trying to progress in my life and yet still feel behind? I’ll tell you. If you feel…
Switching Cafes Will Not Fix Your Focus
Unconscious wishing can be one of the most dangerous things you do. It’s why I couldn’t be satisfied with my current state of…
Large goals are accomplished with small decisive uncomfortable actions
The reality is that any large goal or dream is really just the consequence of thousands of small actions. Many of those actions…
The Inertia Moment
I failed the shit out of my first organic chemistry II test my senior year of college. I saw my score while I was in my power…
Rejection Is Proof You Stopped Hesitating
Several years back I got rejected from MIT. It was for a spot in a lab deeply aligned with my passion for studying the human…
Saying Yes Feels Too Much Like Doing
One of the reasons why I had difficulty following through with projects or responsibilities that I was committing to in my past…
The Week You Overcommit Is A Pop Quiz
I am currently over committed as far as the number of work hours that I'm capable of putting in are concerned. This puts me in an…
What is evidence based living?
I'm a big believer in practicing what I preach, I just recorded a video on evidence-based living, which is my philosophy for…
You Will Choose Wrong. Start Anyway.
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Epstein Files
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Prioritization Question Response
Recently I was asked about prioritization and a 70 hour work week: “How are you deciding where those 70 hours should be…
Prioritization Wrong
I was sitting and watching the ocean break and people walk by beneath my airbnb here in South America with some semi-shitty…
Mad Therapist
I was at a sushi restaurant and this therapist started to basically yell at me. I mean… she didn't actually yell at me, but she…
Your phone isn’t winning your environment is
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Split Your Attention, Lose The Only Good Part
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Trapped by Our Phones
You are shutting your brain down and literally giving away your fucking soul. The more time you spend on your phone, the more…
Permission to Feel Success
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Environmental Optimization
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Stuck Because Standards
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Your Focus Is Fine. You Never Start.
Your capacity to focus is failing you. However, and you know this already, you’re actually quite good at focusing once you get…
Current Programming
You think “giving it your all” is going to take you far in life. And you’re both right and wrong. Below is an excerpt from an…
Stop Wavering. Set A Three Minute Timer.
This is how you assess your current priorities in life through action. Without this practice, you may continue to just waver…
Observer Seat
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Coping Mechanisms
Without fail, within an hour or two of you waking up, some shit hits the fan. Something just doesn’t go as you’d like. Sometimes…
Reframing Setbacks as Opportunities
I was lying on the ground on the blue rug my dad passed down to me from my grandmother next to my bed. I’d tell you I was feeling…
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