Thu, 14 December 2006
Make your goals fun, important, and attainable with Personal Olympics.
Direct download: Everyday_Systems_17__Personal_Olympics.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:45pm EDT |
Wed, 6 December 2006
A month is a much better granularity than the more typical yearly resolution we make on new years, because you can estimate better on that smaller scale, and recover and reset faster. And it's long enough (over 21 days!) for some habituation to occur, even with a slip up or two.
Direct download: Everyday_Systems_16__Monthly_Resolution.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:34pm EDT |
Wed, 29 November 2006
Limit your celebratory eating to the holidays themselves. Adjust your expectations so that your goal is mere maintenance. If you screw up, don't wait till new years to get back on the wagon.
Direct download: Everyday_Systems_15__Seasons_Warnings.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:03pm EDT |
Wed, 22 November 2006
One thing that every self help guru can agree on is
that you have to have an arbitrary number in your system. It is a little weird that the most rational concepts we have available
to us -- numbers -- are so irrationally inspiring. But it clearly is
the case.
Direct download: Everyday_Systems_14__Top_5_Abitrary_Numbers.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:30am EDT |
Wed, 15 November 2006
Strictness builds habit faster. Dumb down what to be strict about with "fence around the law." Avoid punishment and reparations.
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Thu, 9 November 2006
Use the full habit traffic light for 21 days to build your habit, then switch to more efficient negative tracking.
Direct download: Everyday_Systems__12__Negative_Tracking.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:39pm EDT |
Thu, 2 November 2006
Need to keep track of something? Keep track of behavior, not results, with the Habit Traffic Light. Mark each calendar day with green for success, red for failure, yellow for exempt (S-days). It's cheap and keeps you focused on what you can control.
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Thu, 26 October 2006
How to identify behaviors that are easily automated into unconscious habit.
Direct download: Everyday_Systems_10__Habit_Friendly_Behaviors.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:24pm EDT |
Wed, 18 October 2006
Want results? Frame your goals in terms of behavior. Results goals are just wishful thinking. Automate conscious behaviors into unconscious habits.
Direct download: Everyday_Systems_9__Habit_Management.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:10pm EDT |
Wed, 11 October 2006
Smooth out dangerous and humiliating binge drinking into moderate and pleasurable moderate drinking with a 2 drink a day "glass ceiling."
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Thu, 5 October 2006
For every labor
saving device there seem to be at least two time consuming devices to
soak up all that freed time again. As T.S. Eliot put it, we are "distracted by distraction from distraction." Weekend Luddite is a system that addresses (at least in part) this problem of distraction management.
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Wed, 27 September 2006
Reimagine yourself so that walking
becomes the most important, the most exciting thing you could
possibly be doing.
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Wed, 20 September 2006
14
minutes is one minute less than the smallest unit of schedulistically
significant time. No calendar has a finer granularity than 15
minutes. No one ever has a meeting that starts at 9:05 or 9:14. You
have no excuse not to do this. Time-wise, it doesn't even
register.
Direct download: Everyday_Systems_5__Shovelglove__when_.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:32am EDT |
Wed, 13 September 2006
Take a sledgehammer and wrap an old sweater around it. This is your
"shovelglove." Every week day morning, set a timer for 14 minutes. Use
the shovelglove to perform shoveling, butter churning, wood chopping
and other motions until the timer goes off. Stop. Rest on weekends and
holidays
Direct download: Everyday_Systems_4__Shovelglove__what_.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:48pm EDT |
Tue, 5 September 2006
Last week I gave a
high level overview of the no s diet to give you a sense of how
something this simple could possibly work. This week I'm going to zoom in a little to a
smaller scale and go over each of the rules in a bit of detail.
Direct download: Everyday_Systems_3__No_S_Diet_Rules.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:32am EDT |
Wed, 30 August 2006
Direct download: Everyday_Systems_2__No_S_Diet_Overview.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:04am EDT |
Wed, 30 August 2006
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