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Get your advice from the second-best, not the best

02.06.12 Posted in Achievement, Goals, Habits, Posts by

Image by Philo Nordlund There are some side effects of always blogging about your life and your efforts to improve it. Some good, some bad. For instance, I feel like I’m becoming that guy who is always trying some weird lifehack. I’m not quite to Tim Ferris status yet in terms of bizarre behavior for [...]


Check out the new DailyPath Trail Guide (a daily guide to moving forward)

01.25.12 Posted in Blogging, Entrepreneurship, Goals, Habits, Misc, News, Personal, Posts, Social Media by

Very quick note, just wanted to give you all a heads up that my startup (DailyPath) today launched The DailyPath Trail Guide, which is a blog with short posts on self-learning, productivity, motivation, lifehacking, and moving your life forward. Check out our first post below, and make sure you subscribe! How Cheating Has Opened the [...]


A sunken ship and the absurdity of “goals vs. habits”

01.20.12 Posted in Achievement, Goals, Habits, Posts by

CC Image via Wikimedia Commons There’s a recent guest post on Zen Habits about how you shouldn’t set goals. The headline was intriguing enough to pull me in, and then I was dismayed to find that the author had setup the story as a conflict between goals and habits. And concluded that since people fail [...]


Practice does not make perfect

08.08.11 Posted in Achievement, Education, Goals, Habits, Posts by

Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent. Are you practicing the way you want to perform? Knowing how to learn is one of the most valuable skills you can have, and I think it’s one that most people are worst at. A big part of learning is practice, and how you practice makes a [...]


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