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Want one system for your whole year? AOS, the Annual Operating System, gives you one place to plan the year, break it into quarters and weeks, and review it as you go: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=hard-truths-too-latePrefer to watch instead? https://youtu.be/Eyp4LQQyYPU━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS0:22 - 1. You Have Fewer Weekends Left Than You Feel1:11 - 2. Most Time With Your Parents Is Behind You1:49 - 3. You Will Never Feel Ready2:39 - 4. Nobody Is Coming to Save You3:15 - 5. Nobody Is Thinking About You That Much3:53 - 6. People Like You More Than You Think4:39 - 7. Most of What You Worry About Never Happens5:24 - 8. Your Feelings Are Information6:09 - 9. You'll Change More Than You Expect6:51 - 10. Getting What You Want Won't Last7:31 - 11. Your Inside vs Everyone Else's Outside8:20 - 12. Motivation Shows Up After You Start8:52 - 13. Done Beats Perfect9:41 - 14. Busy Is Not the Same as Important10:32 - 15. Your Body Keeps the Receipts11:15 - 16. You Can't Catch Up on Sleep12:06 - 17. Walking Is the Most Underrated Workout12:50 - 18. Adult Friendships Don't Happen by Accident13:46 - 19. You'll Outgrow Some People14:32 - 20. Relationships Decide How Well You Age15:12 - 21. You Become Like the People Around You15:54 - 22. People Are More Honest Than You Assume16:39 - 23. You Can't Change Other People17:10 - 24. Most Arguments Never Get Solved17:54 - 25. Your Phone Is Talking to the Person Across the Table18:20 - 26. Small Kindnesses Land Bigger Than You Think19:00 - 27. The Part of an Apology Most People Skip19:42 - 28. Forgiving Is Mostly for You20:19 - 29. Every Yes Is a No to Something Else20:56 - 30. Your Job Will Not Love You Back21:41 - 31. Money Buys Happiness, Up to a Point22:24 - 32. Savings Buy More Freedom Than a Raise23:03 - 33. Buy Back Your Time First23:40 - 34. Compounding Works on Bad Habits Too24:22 - 35. Luck Matters More Than People Admit25:01 - 36. A Good Decision Can Still Turn Out Badly25:46 - 37. You'll Regret What You Didn't Do26:30 - 38. Grief Doesn't Get Smaller27:20 - 39. Starting Late Is Still Starting27:57 - 40. The Regrets That Stay━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 BOOKS TO EXPLOREThe links below are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you.The Good Life by Robert Waldinger and Marc SchulzGo deeper into Truths 18 to 21: the Harvard study of adult life and why relationships shape how well you age.https://www.amazon.com/dp/198216669X?tag=ideastothrive-20The Power of Regret by Daniel H. PinkGo deeper into Truths 37 and 40: which regrets fade, which ones stay, and how to use them.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735210659?tag=ideastothrive-20━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER?Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72zeAffiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SOURCES- Truth 7: LaFreniere and Newman, Behavior Therapy (2019): about 9 in 10 logged worries never came true.- Truth 16: Depner et al., Current Biology (2019): weekend recovery sleep did not undo a short-sleep week.- Truth 17: Paluch et al., Lancet Public Health (2022): step benefits level off around 6,000 to 8,000 a day for over-60s.- Truth 18: Hall, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (2019): roughly 50, 90 and 200+ hours to build friendships.- Truth 22: Cohn et al., Science (2019): lost wallets in 40 countries; wallets with cash were returned more often.- Truth 31: Killingsworth, Kahneman and Mellers, PNAS (2023): happiness keeps rising with income for most people.- Truth 40: Davidai and Gilovich, Emotion (2018): about three in four named an ideal-self regret as their biggest.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

If you want next year to be the best year of your life, you don't have to wait for 1 January to start it - https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=start-2027-now GET AOS, THE ANNUAL OPERATING SYSTEMPrefer watching this episode? Check it on Youtube : https://youtu.be/ybonxXQW3QEAOS is the app, guide and workbook I built to run this plan for you. Pick your start date and it counts your 52 weeks, labels your four blocks, logs each habit as Green, Yellow or Red with one tap, and walks you through the review every 13 weeks and the year close. No account needed, and it works offline:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━This video gives you a six-part plan for a whole year that starts on the day you choose. You'll find the first crack in last year's plan, pick your own day one and cut the year into four 13-week blocks. Then you plan it backward from week 52, give every habit a full size and a small size, decide ahead of time what a bad week looks like, and repair the plan every 13 weeks so it still works when motivation dies. All you need is a pen and a page.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS0:00 - Your Year Starts When You Choose0:20 - 1. Find What Broke4:13 - 2. Pick Your Own Day One7:19 - The App That Keeps Track for You8:17 - 3. Plan It Backward11:48 - 4. Give Every Habit Two Sizes15:40 - 5. Plan for the Weeks That Fall Apart18:54 - 6. Repair the Plan Every 13 Weeks22:11 - Start Your Real Year Today━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER?Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72zeAffiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SOURCESChapter 1- Strava's analysis of its users' logged activities (2019, about 800 million activities): the day the most people drop their New Year plans falls in mid-January.Chapter 2- Peetz and Wilson, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2013): a personally meaningful date such as a birthday works as a fresh start and raised people's motivation to exercise.Chapter 3- Park, Lu and Hedgcock, Psychological Science (2017): planning backward from the deadline raised motivation, reduced time pressure and improved performance, most of all for complex goals.Chapter 4- Dalton and Spiller, Journal of Consumer Research (2012): a detailed plan helped people with one goal and backfired for people with six.- Lally and colleagues, European Journal of Social Psychology (2010): missing a single day did not materially affect habit formation.Chapter 6- Harkin and colleagues, Psychological Bulletin (2016): across 138 studies and about 20,000 people, tracking progress helped people reach their goals, most of all when progress was written down or made public.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 BOOKS TO EXPLOREThe links below are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you.How to Change by Katy MilkmanGo deeper into Chapter 2: why a fresh start on a date that means something to you gives your motivation a real lift.https://www.amazon.com/dp/059308375X?tag=ideastothrive-20The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran and Michael LenningtonGo deeper into the four 13-week blocks: treating each quarter as its own year, with its own plan and review.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118509234?tag=ideastothrive-20Tiny Habits by BJ FoggGo deeper into Chapter 4: making a habit small enough that you can still do it on your worst day.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0358362776?tag=ideastothrive-20━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.comWhat's your day one going to be? Tell me the date below.Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#GoalSetting #YearPlanning #SelfImprovement

Want to watch this instead? Check it here on Youtube - https://youtu.be/0S3gqpbbq-QPart of you wants to build something big. And part of you would really prefer to do as little as possible. Most advice tells you to get rid of the second part. Some of the most effective people in history kept it and put it to work.This video gives you nine systems for getting more done with less effort. Three shorten the work you can't avoid. Two get set up once and then run without you thinking about them. Three help you turn work down, including a rule for when to stop searching and choose. The last one takes your habit of putting things off and uses it to get the rest done. Each system comes with its steps and an example from everyday life, like getting out for a run, learning the guitar, clearing the loft or buying a house.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📝 GET THE FREE ONE-PAGE LAZY AUDITAll nine systems on one page, each with its steps and one question to answer about your own week. It takes about twenty minutes. It comes with a filled-in example, so you can see a finished page before you start. Editable PDF and HTML, free.https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/one-page-lazy-audit?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=show-notes&utm_campaign=less-effort-systems━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS0:00 - Put Your Lazy Side to Work0:24 - 1. Count the Motions2:40 - 2. Pave the Path You Already Walk4:33 - 3. One at a Time Beats Batches7:44 - 4. Make the Mistake Impossible9:43 - 5. The Brown M&M Test11:35 - 6. Be Irresponsible on Purpose14:39 - 7. Miss More Planes16:43 - 8. The 37 Percent Rule18:55 - 9. Structured Procrastination20:36 - Your One-Page Lazy Audit━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER?Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72zeAffiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WANT ONE SYSTEM FOR THE WHOLE YEAR?AOS, the Annual Operating System, gives you one place to plan the year, break it into quarters and weeks, and review it as you go:https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=show-notes&utm_campaign=less-effort-systems━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 BOOKS TO EXPLOREThe links below are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you.The Art of Procrastination by John PerryGo deeper into System 9: using structured procrastination to turn avoidance into useful work.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761171673?tag=ideastothrive-20Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom GriffithsGo deeper into System 8: optimal stopping, the 37 percent rule, and knowing when to stop searching and choose.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250118360?tag=ideastothrive-20Effortless by Greg McKeownFurther reading on the video's central idea: making important work easier by removing unnecessary effort and setting up systems that keep paying off.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593135644?tag=ideastothrive-20━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.comWhich of the nine would save you the most work this week? Tell me below.Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#Productivity #SelfImprovement #Procrastination

Prefer to watch instead? Check it here - https://youtu.be/fXeekYUNun0Your evenings are the only part of a working day that's really yours. So most of us try to protect them with a strict routine. Then, a few days in, dinner runs late or we're too tired, and we're back to scrolling until bed.This video is a one-page evening plan that expects life to get in the way. You'll count the evening you really have, decide tonight's one thing hours before you get home, build a short crossing between work and home, work out which kind of tired you are, find the refill your evenings are missing, and give each weeknight one job. The plan is firm at the start and loose after that, so it survives a bad week.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌙 GET THE FREE ONE-PAGE EVENING PLANThe blank template from the video, with a space for every line we write. Page 2 tracks two weeks of evenings with one line a night. It comes with a filled-in example, so you can see a finished plan before you start. Editable PDF and HTML, free.https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/one-page-evening-plan?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=stop-wasting-evenings━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS0:00 - Why Strict Evening Routines Break0:27 - 1. Stop Calling It Wasted3:12 - 2. Decide Tonight Before You Get Home5:31 - 3. Plan It Loosely7:47 - 4. Build a Crossing10:34 - 5. Which Kind of Tired Are You?12:48 - 6. Pick the Refill That's Missing15:44 - 7. Give Each Evening Its Own Job17:37 - Your One-Page Plan18:03 - When a Week Goes Wrong━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER?Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72zeAffiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WANT ONE SYSTEM FOR THE WHOLE YEAR?AOS, the Annual Operating System, gives you one place to plan the year, break it into quarters and weeks, and review it as you go:https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=stop-wasting-evenings━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SOURCESChapter 1- Sharif, Mogilner & Hershfield (2021), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: free time and well-being in more than 35,000 people.- Tonietto, Malkoc, Reczek & Norton (2021), Journal of Experimental Social Psychology: seeing leisure as wasteful makes it less enjoyable.Chapter 2- Read & van Leeuwen (1998), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes: snacks chosen in advance versus on the day.Chapter 3- Tonietto & Malkoc (2016), Journal of Marketing Research: scheduled leisure feels more like work.- Uitdewilligen et al. (2023), Occupational Health Science: detailed evening plans did not help people switch off.Chapter 4- McAlpine & Piszczek (2022), Organizational Psychology Review: the commute as a space between roles.- Kreiner (2006), Journal of Organizational Behavior: keeping work and home apart versus mixing them.- Adam Fraser, The Third Space (2012): reflect, rest, reset.Chapter 5- Marcora, Staiano & Manning (2009), Journal of Applied Physiology: mental fatigue makes effort feel harder.Chapter 6- Sonnentag & Fritz (2007), Journal of Occupational Health Psychology: the four recovery experiences.- Kubey & Csikszentmihalyi (2002), Scientific American: how people feel during and after TV.- Guy Winch, "How to turn off work thoughts during your free time" (TED talk).Chapter 7- Etkin & Mogilner (2016), Journal of Consumer Research: variety across a week versus inside an hour.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.comWhich refill do your evenings miss most: switching off, calming down, getting better at something, or choosing? Tell me below.Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#EveningRoutine #AfterWork #SelfImprovement

Prefer to watch instead? Check it here - https://youtu.be/fXeekYUNun0Your evenings are the only part of a working day that's really yours. So most of us try to protect them with a strict routine. Then, a few days in, dinner runs late or we're too tired, and we're back to scrolling until bed.This video is a one-page evening plan that expects life to get in the way. You'll count the evening you really have, decide tonight's one thing hours before you get home, build a short crossing between work and home, work out which kind of tired you are, find the refill your evenings are missing, and give each weeknight one job. The plan is firm at the start and loose after that, so it survives a bad week.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌙 GET THE FREE ONE-PAGE EVENING PLANThe blank template from the video, with a space for every line we write. Page 2 tracks two weeks of evenings with one line a night. It comes with a filled-in example, so you can see a finished plan before you start. Editable PDF and HTML, free.https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/one-page-evening-plan?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=stop-wasting-evenings━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS0:00 - Why Strict Evening Routines Break0:27 - 1. Stop Calling It Wasted3:12 - 2. Decide Tonight Before You Get Home5:31 - 3. Plan It Loosely7:47 - 4. Build a Crossing10:34 - 5. Which Kind of Tired Are You?12:48 - 6. Pick the Refill That's Missing15:44 - 7. Give Each Evening Its Own Job17:37 - Your One-Page Plan18:03 - When a Week Goes Wrong━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER?Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72zeAffiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WANT ONE SYSTEM FOR THE WHOLE YEAR?AOS, the Annual Operating System, gives you one place to plan the year, break it into quarters and weeks, and review it as you go:https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=stop-wasting-evenings━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SOURCESChapter 1- Sharif, Mogilner & Hershfield (2021), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: free time and well-being in more than 35,000 people.- Tonietto, Malkoc, Reczek & Norton (2021), Journal of Experimental Social Psychology: seeing leisure as wasteful makes it less enjoyable.Chapter 2- Read & van Leeuwen (1998), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes: snacks chosen in advance versus on the day.Chapter 3- Tonietto & Malkoc (2016), Journal of Marketing Research: scheduled leisure feels more like work.- Uitdewilligen et al. (2023), Occupational Health Science: detailed evening plans did not help people switch off.Chapter 4- McAlpine & Piszczek (2022), Organizational Psychology Review: the commute as a space between roles.- Kreiner (2006), Journal of Organizational Behavior: keeping work and home apart versus mixing them.- Adam Fraser, The Third Space (2012): reflect, rest, reset.Chapter 5- Marcora, Staiano & Manning (2009), Journal of Applied Physiology: mental fatigue makes effort feel harder.Chapter 6- Sonnentag & Fritz (2007), Journal of Occupational Health Psychology: the four recovery experiences.- Kubey & Csikszentmihalyi (2002), Scientific American: how people feel during and after TV.- Guy Winch, "How to turn off work thoughts during your free time" (TED talk).Chapter 7- Etkin & Mogilner (2016), Journal of Consumer Research: variety across a week versus inside an hour.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.comWhich refill do your evenings miss most: switching off, calming down, getting better at something, or choosing? Tell me below.Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#EveningRoutine #AfterWork #SelfImprovement

Prefer to watch it instead? Check it out on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3hJ8_7wH2AWhat you do in the last three months of this year can shape the whole of next year. And there's less time than it looks. Once you take out the holidays, the trips and the busy weeks you already know are coming, most of us have about nine real weeks left.This video is a plan for using those weeks to finish 2026 well and start 2027 early, so that on the first of January you're already nine weeks into next year's goal. You'll count the time you really have, pick the three things that deserve it, start your biggest goal on a Monday this month, keep it going with a weekly score, use this year's calendar to book next year's good things now, and plan how the year ends. By the end, the whole plan fits on one page.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🗓️ GET THE FREE REST-OF-YEAR MAPThe one-page plan from the video, ready to fill in this weekend. Page 2 is a weekly score that runs straight through New Year, and page 3 is the calendar review. It comes with a filled-in example, so you can see the whole thing done before you start. Editable PDF and HTML, free.https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/rest-of-year-map?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=show-notes&utm_campaign=last-3-months━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS0:00 - You Have About Nine Real Weeks Left0:42 - 1. Count the Time You Really Have2:44 - 2. Make Room: Pick Your Three5:22 - 3. Start Next Year's Goal Now7:49 - 4. Keep It Going With a Weekly Score10:36 - 5. Choose What Next Year Holds12:55 - 6. End the Year Well16:44 - Your One-Page Plan17:37 - Free Rest-of-Year Map━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER?Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72zeAffiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WANT ONE SYSTEM FOR THE WHOLE OF NEXT YEAR?AOS, the Annual Operating System, gives you one place to plan the year, break it into quarters and weeks, and review it as you go:https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=show-notes&utm_campaign=last-3-months━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━BOOKS TO EXPLORE (Amazon affiliate links)As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran and Michael LenningtonBehind Chapter 4: turning the next twelve weeks into a focused plan, scoring weekly actions and using the 85% execution benchmark.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118509234?tag=ideastothrive-20Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver BurkemanBehind Chapter 2: accepting limited time, keeping only three projects active and putting everything else on a waiting list.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374159122?tag=ideastothrive-20How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan GardnerBehind Chapter 1: making realistic plans by looking at what actually happened before, rather than assuming everything will go perfectly.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593239512?tag=ideastothrive-20

Prefer to watch this instead? See it here - https://youtu.be/bQOGZ71pyaQGET THE FREE CONVERSATION CHECKLISTAll ten strategies on one page, so you can pick the right one before a conversation that matters. Page two is a prep sheet for that conversation. https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/conversation-checklistWhat makes someone a great communicator? Confidence, eye contact and fewer filler words are cosmetic fixes. The people who get their ideas remembered and their arguments taken seriously are running strategies you can learn.This video breaks down ten communication strategies from Warren Buffett, David Ogilvy, Barbara Minto, Jim Collins, Hans Rosling, Chip and Dan Heath, Albert Einstein, Marshall Rosenberg, Charles Duhigg and Benjamin Franklin. You'll learn how to explain things clearly, structure what you say so people follow it, make an idea stick, and handle a disagreement when the other person understands you and still pushes back. Each strategy comes with simple steps you can use in your next conversation.CHAPTERS0:00 - What Great Communicators Actually Do0:41 - 1. Talk to One Person, Not Everyone (Warren Buffett)2:53 - 2. The Electric Clock (David Ogilvy)5:07 - 3. Answer First, Reasons Second (Barbara Minto)6:46 - 4. Give the Idea a Handle (Jim Collins)9:11 - 5. Make It Seeable (Hans Rosling)10:56 - 6. The Curse of Knowledge (Chip & Dan Heath)13:12 - 7. Find the Train (Albert Einstein)14:55 - 8. What Each Position Is Protecting (Marshall Rosenberg)17:31 - 9. Which Conversation Are You In? (Charles Duhigg)19:52 - 10. Find Where They're Right (Benjamin Franklin)22:31 - Free One-Page ChecklistMORE FROM IDEAS TO THRIVEGet AOS, the Annual Operating System:https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=how-successful-people-talk📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.comRECOMMENDED BOOKS (As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.)These books either appear directly in the script or develop one of its communication strategies further.## The Pyramid Principle - Barbara MintoFor putting the answer first, grouping the supporting reasons, and making complex explanations easier to follow.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1292372265?tag=ideastothrive-20## Good to Great - Jim CollinsThe source of Collins's flywheel idea: a memorable image that explains how repeated effort builds momentum.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0066620996?tag=ideastothrive-20## Made to Stick - Chip Heath and Dan HeathFor understanding the curse of knowledge and making ideas clearer, more concrete, and easier to remember.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400064287?tag=ideastothrive-20## Supercommunicators — Charles DuhiggFor recognising whether someone needs a practical, emotional, or social conversation and responding accordingly.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593243919?tag=ideastothrive-20## Nonviolent Communication — Marshall B. RosenbergFor moving beneath fixed positions to the needs and concerns each person is trying to address.https://www.amazon.com/dp/189200528X?tag=ideastothrive-20## Ogilvy on Advertising - David OgilvyFor seeing how specific details, evidence, and carefully chosen language make an idea persuasive.https://www.amazon.com/dp/039472903X?tag=ideastothrive-20## Factfulness - Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling RönnlundFor communicating data in ways that challenge assumptions and help people grasp what the numbers mean.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250107814?tag=ideastothrive-20Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life.#CommunicationSkills #HowToCommunicate #SelfImprovement

GET THE FREE ROUTINE RESET WORKSHEET - https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/routine-reset?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=show-notes&utm_campaign=routine-reset-worksheetPrefer to watch this video instead, check it here - https://youtu.be/lqHK3J6DAFsEver had a routine fall apart when life changed, then struggled to get it back? Trying harder can leave the real problem untouched.This video walks through eight steps for rebuilding a routine after a trip, an illness, a move, a new baby, or a changed family schedule breaks it. You'll learn how to find which part actually stopped working, decide whether the old conditions are coming back, adapt the cue or the activity itself, choose what pauses when several habits get harder at once, and come back without starting from zero.A step-by-step companion to this video. It walks you through naming what stopped, choosing what to keep, lighten, or pause this week, and setting a date to review it. - [LINK]CHAPTERS0:00 - Introduction0:14 - Step 1: Find What Stopped Working2:43 - Step 2: Are the Old Conditions Coming Back?4:02 - Step 3: Sequence Over Schedule6:43 - Step 4: What the Alternative Actually Preserves8:56 - Step 5: Manual-Mode Triage11:58 - Step 6: Set a Review Point, Not a Restart13:14 - Step 7: Savings, Not Square One15:12 - Step 8: Review the Arrangement, Not Your Character16:43 - Free Worksheet + ClosingMORE FROM IDEAS TO THRIVEGet AOS, the Annual Operating System:https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.comBOOKS TO EXPLORE (Amazon affiliate links)As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick by Wendy WoodFurther reading on how your surroundings shape habits and why willpower alone often isn't enough.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250159075?tag=ideastothrive-20How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Katy MilkmanFurther reading on identifying the obstacle holding you back and choosing a strategy that addresses it.https://www.amazon.com/dp/059308375X?tag=ideastothrive-20Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeownFurther reading on making deliberate tradeoffs and choosing what deserves your limited time and energy.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0804137404?tag=ideastothrive-20Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver BurkemanFurther reading on accepting your limits and making room for what matters without trying to do everything.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374159122?tag=ideastothrive-20#HabitFormation #Consistency #SelfImprovement