Thu, 10 November 2011
Hate your S-days because they make you feel out of control? Here's a mod to help you enjoy them again.
Direct download: 40_Everyday_Systems_40__No_Solitary_Snacking_--_Even_on_S_days.mp3
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Fri, 13 August 2010
Change your biker-alignment to Lawful Good. Be flamboyantly, comically observant of traffic rules.
Direct download: 39_Everyday_Systems_39__Lawful_Good_Biker.MP3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:34am EDT |
Mon, 5 April 2010
Direct download: 39_Everyday_Systems_38__14_minutes_of_ANYTHING.MP3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:59pm EDT |
Sun, 2 August 2009
How to roll your own everyday system from scratch. Introducing the idea of Systematic Moderation.
Direct download: 37_Everyday_Systems_37__Mods_and_Tweaks_Trilogy_Part_III__When_a_mere_mod_isnt_enough.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:13am EDT |
Sat, 30 May 2009
Still want to tweak an Everyday System? Here's how.
Direct download: 36_Everyday_Systems_36__Mods_and_Tweaks_Trilogy_Part_II__How_to_Tweak.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:28am EDT |
Wed, 29 April 2009
Want to modify an Everyday System? It's possible -- but risky, as this episode emphasizes. Subtitled: "In Praise of Vanilla."
Direct download: 35_Everyday_Systems_35__Mods_and_Tweaks_Trilogy_Part_I__To_Tweak_Or_Not_To_Tweak.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:25pm EDT |
Wed, 29 April 2009
Feel like over the top S-days are undoing all your hard work during the week? Here's how to diagnose and correct this problem.
Direct download: 34_Everyday_Systems_34__S-days_Gone_Wild.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:19pm EDT |
Mon, 28 January 2008
How well do I practice what I preach? What level of compliance is necessary for big picture success? What's the hardest everyday system? I attempt to answer these questions in my first annual self performance review.
Direct download: 33_Everyday_Systems_33__2007_Annual_Compliance_Review.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:02pm EDT |
Wed, 19 December 2007
Just as your daily task list should fit on a single 3x5 index card (see Chain of Self Command and Personal Punch Cards), your life strategy should fit on an single 8x11 sheet of paper.
Direct download: 32_Everyday_Systems_32__The_Bigger_8x11_Picture.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:38am EDT |
Mon, 12 November 2007
You may think you know the answer to this already -- or at least, the answer I am going to give you. But you're probably wrong. Because it's not a sledgehammer. Or even a sledgehammer with a sweater wrapper around it. It's a timer.
Direct download: 31_Everyday_Systems_31__The_best_piece_of_exercise_equipment_you_can_buy.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:03pm EDT |
Thu, 5 July 2007
Track your habits with this free, simple, and visually compelling online tool.
Direct download: 30_Everyday_Systems_Podcast_30__Introducing_the_HabitCal.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:10pm EDT |
Thu, 5 July 2007
I've been asked to talk about the top five health and fitness books I've
read. Unfortunately I don't think I've read that many health and
fitness books in my entire life, and they certainly weren't all worth
recommending. So I'm going to have to narrow it down to four. And I'll
be cheating a little because one of them hasn't even been published
yet.
Direct download: 29_Everyday_Systems_29__Top_5_Health_and_Fitness_Books_sort_of.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:59pm EDT |
Wed, 23 May 2007
90% of our increased calorie consumption since 1977 has come from snacking. So snacking is not only the biggest problem in terms of dietary excess, it is almost the entire problem.
Direct download: 28_Everyday_Systems_28__A_90_solution_for_diet_in_2_words.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:38am EDT |
Wed, 28 March 2007
Talk to yourself -- and record it. Why? Autotherapy. Catch all those great ideas that would have gotten away otherwise. Nag yourself into doing impossible tasks. Keep an even-keel diary that reflects a broader range of experience. Give serious books the serious attention they require.
Direct download: 27_Everyday_Systems_27__Audiodidact_output.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:24pm EDT |
Mon, 12 March 2007
No time to read? Hate mindless but necessary chores? Solve both problems at once by listening to audiobooks while you do housework.
Direct download: 26_Everyday_Systems_26__Audiodidact_input.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:05pm EDT |
Fri, 2 March 2007
Consolidate well-understood routine tasks into compound tasks. Break up poorly understood novel tasks into more atomic components.
Direct download: 25_Everyday_Systems_Podcast_25__Compound_and_Atomic_Tasks.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:41pm EDT |
Wed, 14 February 2007
How I lost 10 pounds, overnight, without even trying.
Direct download: Everyday_Systems_24__Put_the_scale_in_perspective.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:48am EDT |
Wed, 7 February 2007
Convenience is stronger than you are. Accept this fact. But with a little planning, the convenient thing doesn't have to be too awful. Case in point: "optimize your oatmeal."
Direct download: Everyday_Systems_23__Intelligent_Dietary_Defaults.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:23am EDT |
Wed, 31 January 2007
Stop using evasive euphemisms. Own up to "failure" or you become it.
Direct download: Everyday_Systems_22__In_Defense_of__Failure_.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:47am EDT |
Thu, 25 January 2007
Moderation isn't mushy. Learn from extremists by drawing hard lines -- just draw them in different places. Get the clarity of cold turkey abstinence without the sweeping deprivation.
Direct download: Everyday_Systems_21__Extreme_Moderation.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:09am EDT |
Wed, 17 January 2007
No time to exercise? Get philosophical. Use enlightened self-mockery, a neo-Kantian personal categorical imperative, and an existential leap of action to get you moving.
Direct download: Everyday_Systems_20__When_you_dont_have_14_minutes.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:55am EDT |
Wed, 10 January 2007
How to use index cards for todo lists at the three scales of the chain of command: daily, monthly, yearly.
Direct download: Everyday_Systems_19__Personal_Punch_Cards.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:38pm EDT |
Wed, 3 January 2007
Organize your self improvement efforts on
three temporal scales: year=general, month=officer, day=footsoldier.
Direct download: Everyday_Systems_18__Chain_of_Self_Command.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:59pm EDT |
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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