✅ 🕒 This is How to Finally Stop Procrastinating
Plus 21 mind-expanding books -- and what to do with the rest of your life.
🔧🛑 1. NEW VIDEO: 7 ways to stop stalling and start moving.
I procrastinate. So do you. I want to do better. And so, I’ll bet, do you.
In our just-released 10-minute video, I walk through seven tools backed by science (and tested on myself) that can help you slay the procrastination dragon:
Follow the two-minute rule.
Remake your environment.
Bundle your temptations.
Visualize future regret (and success.)
Break tasks into microtasks.
Make a public commitment.
Say, “Just five more.”
You can watch the video here. (And don’t forget to subscribe!)
📚💥 2. ICYMI: 21 books. Zero fluff.
Earlier this month, we published a video that summarized 21 books that have sharpened my thinking and expanded my mind.
A few of you responded thusly (and here I’m paraphrasing): “Dan, as much as we enjoy savoring your honeyed voice and gazing at your smooth-yet-manly face. . . just give us the damn list of books!”
Okay. Here you go —with links:
Grit by Angela Duckworth
( Amazon | BN.com | Independents | Public library)
Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
(Amazon| BN.com | Independents | Public library)
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
(Amazon| BN.com | Independents | Public library)
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
(Amazon| BN.com | Independents | Public library)
The Stoic Challenge by William Irvine
(Amazon| BN.com | Independents | Public library)
The Sports Gene by David Epstein
(Amazon| BN.com | Independents | Public library)
Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt
(Amazon | BN.com | Independents | Public library)
Give and Take by Adam Grant
(Amazon| BN.com | Independents | Public library)
The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
(Amazon| BN.com | Independents | Public library)
Unfair by Adam Benforado
(Amazon| BN.com | Independents | Public library)
Influence by Robert Cialdini
(Amazon| BN.com | Independents | Public library)
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers by Michele Gelfand
(Amazon | BN.com | Independents | Public library)
The Genetic Lottery by Kathryn Paige Harden
(Amazon | BN.com | Independents | Public library)
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
(Amazon| BN.com | Independents | Public library)
Uncivil Agreement by Lilliana Mason
(Amazon | BN.com | Independents | Public library)
Mindset by Carol Dweck
(Amazon | BN.com | Independents | Public library)
Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir
(Amazon| BN.com | Independents | Public library)
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
(Amazon| BN.com | Independents | Public library)
Nonzero by Robert Wright
(Amazon| BN.com | Independents | Public library)
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
(Amazon | BN.com | Independents | Public library)
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
(Amazon | BN.com | Independents | Public library)
If you want the summaries along with the list, watch the video by clicking the image below.
🤔🛤️ 3. THE BIG QUESTION: What should you do with the rest of your life?
Our most popular video this year (so far) is “How to Find Your Life’s Purpose” — which delivers seven brutally honest questions to help you answer the ultimate question: What should you do with the rest of your life?
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