by todd@gbnonline.com | Nov 11, 2019 | Education
Last week, we began discussing James Clear’s excellent book, Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones. (#ad) We talked about three starting points for habit formation: 1) improving by 1% each day, 2) relying on systems rather than...
by todd@gbnonline.com | Nov 6, 2019 | Education
Since May, we have been talking about personal productivity, habits, and willpower. Early in my research, I stumbled over James Clear’s excellent book, Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones. (#ad) It is an excellent book, and I...
by todd@gbnonline.com | Oct 9, 2019 | Education
As promised, in this lesson, I will talk about how willpower works. Let’s start with how the human body works. The human body is remarkably designed. Consider all of the redundant systems in the body. You could see with just one eye, but you have two. You could pick...
by todd@gbnonline.com | Sep 25, 2019 | Education
In the last lesson, we talked about how habits subtly undermine our best intentions. In this lesson, I want to talk about how to form a positive new habit. On Friday, I went to the doctor for my annual physical. I have lost 16 pounds since my last visit 4 months ago....
by todd@gbnonline.com | Aug 14, 2019 | Education, Uncategorized
If you have been following the last 10 lessons, you know by now that in the early summer, I set out to a) learn what I could about productivity and b) become more organized. Summer, for a professor, is a natural pause in the rhythm of life. I still teach a couple of...
