Buzz Aldrin spent 21 hours on the moon and the next decade fighting depression and alcoholism. Some goals give you a high and fade. Others make each ordinary day better after you reach them.
I spread one daily marketing block across 8 products and each one lost momentum while I tended to the other seven. With 8 products sharing that block, each one got marketing time once or twice a week.
Each day I reach out to 13 people, do 8 courage challenges and run 34 minutes. As my habits grew, I tightened my anti-habits. Haruki Murakami went to bed at 9pm to buy his 4am writing start. Formula 1 brakes let drivers stay at speed longer before each co
Chegg lost about 99% of its market value while electricians got busier. Markets take the same five routes species take through an ice age: gone, hurt, unchanged, thriving and new.
Ten years back, my interior designer wanted to put a bar cart in my house. Put liquor in plain sight and you're subconsciously primed. Move it out of sight and the thought doesn't form.
Kiese Laymon ran at least six miles a day for 2,564 days straight until his body broke. With most good things, more does less each time. With a few, more starts producing the harm it was protecting you from.
I was on a Trends.vc Masterminds call when the host asked what move had a payoff that wildly outran its cost. Curfew was my answer: an app that blocks YouTube on my laptop until 4pm.
