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Motivated

If your goal is to impress, you’ll never stay motivated.

Discipline and Habits

I love this article from Tony Schwartz in Harvard Business Review, “The Only Way to Get Important Things Done”:

The counterintuitive secret to getting things done is to make them more automatic, so they require less energy.

It turns out we each have one reservoir of will and discipline, and it gets progressively depleted by any act of conscious self-regulation. In other words, if you spend energy trying to resist a fragrant chocolate chip cookie, you’ll have less energy left over to solve a difficult problem. Will and discipline decline inexorably as the day wears on.

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Regrets of the Dying

The “Regrets of the Dying” have quite a bit of overlap. Let us learn from them now, early, in this lovely piece by Bronnie Ware:

  1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
  2. I wish I didn’t work so hard.
  3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
  4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
  5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

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Will I?

The Willpower Paradox: Scientific American says that asking yourself whether you will do something results in a more open mind that can accomplish more… getting you closer to your goal. Forcing yourself doesn’t work as well as asking of yourself:

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Will Smith, On Goals

“I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick. Just lay one brick, dude.”

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Blue Hill Restaurant

Someday, I will eat at Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York. As Mr. Nice Guy points out in his post about taking his wife there for their anniversary:

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Finding Your “This”

Conan O’Brien’s commencement address at Harvard makes a pretty quick read and an excellent examination of fantastic comedy writing. In addition to functioning on the levels of entertainment and humor, the speech goes a step further: it actually inspires. This line between laughter and inspiration is particularly difficult to walk in public speaking, but Conan did so quite successfully here. I’d highly recommend reading the entire speech, but here’s my favorite part, in which Conan speaks about starting up [Late Night with Conan O’Brien] in 1993.

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French Proverb

It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom.

— French Proverb