Strategies for Health, Happiness, and Success
We’ve already covered the strategic value of predicting how you could fail when you’re trying to establish a new habit or quit an old one: Imagining the situations that could lead you to slip up gives you a chance to mitigate them in advance. One thing we haven’t discussed that I’ve come to see as Read More Visualizing Failure The post Visualizing Failure appeared first on Becoming Better .
You are what you repeatedly do.1 Any behavior that you repeat over years naturally solidifies into part of your identity. This makes the behavior feel impossible to change – like it’s just who you are. But this is wrong. You can still change; it’ll just be harder. I was a marijuana addict for 11 years. Read More You Are What You Repeat The post You Are What You Repeat appeared first on Becoming…
“A 100-foot long boat that’s 99% complete is going to sink before it leaves the dock. That gaping hole is more than enough to do it in. On the other hand, a baked ziti that’s 99% as good as the best baked ziti ever made is exactly good enough to serve in any setting. … Read More Will it Sink the Boat? The post Will it Sink the Boat? appeared first on Becoming Better .
This is Sammy. He belongs to my dad’s friend Dan. Sammy is simultaneously the friendliest and most well-behaved dog I’ve ever known. I came to love Sammy despite spending my whole life as, frankly, not a dog person. I’ve always been a cat person. Cats make sense to me, and we have a natural affinity Read More Can You Choose to Like Something? The post Can You Choose to Like Something? appeared…