Mindset: Goal setting

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Identity & self-belief

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Mindset shifts and habits that build wealth and fulfillment

Silicon Valley Girl September 29, 2022


Identity & self-belief 9
Goal setting 8
Productivity & habits 7
  • One high-value client can outperform dozens of budget ones
  • Warren Buffett's 25-goal rule: focus only on your top five
  • Set targets beyond reach — you land further than playing small

Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Epictetus: The Enchiridion — practical rules for living (Part 2)

The Daily Stoic September 11, 2022


Identity & self-belief 10
Resilience & grit 9
Goal setting 5
  • Only your judgment about an event can harm you — not the event.
  • Being passed over costs nothing; you simply kept your dignity instead.
  • Most people master philosophical logic while failing to apply rule one.

Goal setting

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How to transition careers by identifying priorities, transferable skills, and building a network

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life August 29, 2022


Goal setting 9
Identity & self-belief 6
Prospecting & outreach 5
  • Clarity about life priorities must come before any career move.
  • Every role builds transferable skills — even ones you outgrow.
  • All client work came through relationships, not formal networking.

Deep work & focus

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Cal Newport's three-part planning system for deep work and life

Deep Questions with Cal Newport August 29, 2022


Deep work & focus 9
Productivity & habits 9
Goal setting 6
  • A decade-tested system connecting values to daily time blocks
  • Open offices reduce face-to-face interaction and productivity, not increase them
  • Build your ideal life vision around your burnout triggers, not despite them

Motivation

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How to become more irreplaceable at work over time

Dr. Grace Lee July 13, 2022


Motivation 7
Goal setting 6
  • Absolute irreplaceability is a myth — progress is the real goal
  • Align your growth with your organisation's values and priorities
  • Each new skill or relationship compounds your value year on year

Deep work & focus

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Cal Newport on deep life principles, slow productivity, and career capital

Deep Questions with Cal Newport July 11, 2022


Deep work & focus 10
Productivity & habits 9
Goal setting 6
  • A Fields Medal winner does only three hours of focused work daily.
  • Industrial-era busyness metrics are the wrong measure for knowledge work.
  • Career capital — rare skills — is the practical fuel for a deep life.

Resilience & grit

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Five practical hacks for breaking out of your comfort zone

Dr. Grace Lee July 2, 2022


Resilience & grit 9
Goal setting 6
  • Comfort zone dependence silently caps your capability and resourcefulness
  • Burning your fallback plan creates the urgency goals alone never generate
  • Rebalancing assumptions about comfort dissolves fear of leaving it

Identity & self-belief

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Four practical ways to build self-awareness as a leader

Dr. Grace Lee June 18, 2022


Identity & self-belief 9
Goal setting 5
  • Why you must ask unasked questions to know yourself
  • How to choose problems that fuel resilience and motivation
  • Your real values drive decisions — not the ones you wish you had

Identity & self-belief

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Unsubscribing from validation, vanity metrics, and external expectations

Sunny Lenarduzzi June 7, 2022


Identity & self-belief 8
Goal setting 6
  • Chasing subscriber counts led directly to burnout and lost purpose
  • A 'boring, predictable' business outperforms hustle and shiny-object chasing
  • Narrowing your audience focus creates more impact, not less reach

Productivity & habits

Podcast

Cal Newport announces Slow Productivity and revisits the Four Hour Work Week

Deep Questions with Cal Newport May 23, 2022


Productivity & habits 8
Deep work & focus 7
Goal setting 5
  • Tim Ferriss's anti-overwork message was buried under 'productivity hack' branding
  • Lifestyle-centric career planning beats passion-chasing for meaningful work
  • Minimal corner marking outperforms complex note systems for book research

Resilience & grit

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Five ways to train your brain to be more open-minded

Dr. Grace Lee April 30, 2022


Resilience & grit 9
Identity & self-belief 8
Goal setting 6
  • Open-mindedness is a trainable state of mind, not a personality trait.
  • Reframing challenges as refinement tools removes the root cause of closed thinking.
  • Unresolved self-rejection gets projected outward, triggering defensiveness toward others.

Productivity & habits

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Five steps to get out of a rut and organize your life

Dr. Grace Lee March 23, 2022


Productivity & habits 8
Goal setting 7
Identity & self-belief 5
  • Ruts are caused by limiting beliefs, not circumstances
  • Entropy fills unplanned time with low-priority distractions
  • Align every daily action to your defined vision of order

Productivity & habits

Podcast

Doing hard things: three practical tips from Brandon Sanderson

Deep Questions with Cal Newport March 3, 2022


Productivity & habits 9
Deep work & focus 8
Goal setting 7
  • Writing 13 manuscripts before selling one is normal, not failure.
  • Scheduling philosophy and ritual matter more than motivation or inspiration.
  • Living a deep life means acting on values despite anxiety, not after it vanishes.

Work-life balance

Podcast

What is the deep life: a framework for radical alignment with your values

Deep Questions with Cal Newport February 21, 2022


Work-life balance 9
Productivity & habits 7
Goal setting 6
  • Radical change without values alignment leaves you miserable on a Pacific island
  • Keystone habits and bucket overhauls earn the right to make a radical shift
  • The deep life is systematic, not inspirational — built in stages over months

Goal setting

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10 lessons I'd tell myself if I started over as an entrepreneur

Sunny Lenarduzzi February 15, 2022


Goal setting 9
Identity & self-belief 8
Resilience & grit 7
  • Vanity metrics feed your ego but drain your energy and soul
  • Burnout at 29 forced a redefinition of success as peace, not busyness
  • Being uncopyable comes from grounding everything in your own story

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