Mindset: Goal setting
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Productivity & habits
Podcast
Don't follow your passion: build career capital instead
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
February 3, 2022
Productivity & habits
9
Goal setting
7
- Why matching your job to a passion rarely produces job satisfaction
- Get rare, valuable skills first — use them as leverage to shape your career
- Work backwards from the life you want, not forward from a dream job title
Resilience & grit
Podcast
21 Stoic quotes to guide a better life
The Daily Stoic
January 30, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Goal setting
6
- Why the best revenge is simply refusing to become like them
- Self-sufficiency beats wealth — want less, depend on nothing
- Time and patience are your most powerful allies, not speed
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Five strategies to nail your performance review
Dr. Grace Lee
January 29, 2022
Identity & self-belief
9
Goal setting
7
Productivity & habits
6
- Show ripple-effect impact on revenue, not just task completion.
- Partial progress on past challenges still counts — communicate the steps.
- Arrive with a post-review action checklist aligned to company goals.
How to build capacity and achieve meaningful goals
Dr. Grace Lee
January 15, 2022
Goal setting
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Resilience & grit
7
- Capability is about holding energy, not just taking action
- Unknown unknowns are where your biggest opportunities hide
- Busyness and responsive action are not the same thing
How to use the EOS Life Journal and Planner
EOS Worldwide
January 11, 2022
Goal setting
7
Business operating systems
5
- Sort every task into four quadrants, then delegate the bottom two.
- Plan the next day the night before — always, every day.
- Weekly clarity breaks keep your vision and priorities from drifting.
Year-end reflection and goal-setting for bootstrapped founders
Startups For the Rest of Us
January 4, 2022
Goal setting
9
Long-term planning
6
- Can't estimate next year's growth? You're either pre-PMF or getting lucky.
- What you decide to stop doing matters as much as what you start.
- Delaying a full-time hire by iterating through freelancers costs months.
Goal setting for 2022: people, beauty, and slow living
Silicon Valley Girl
December 30, 2021
Goal setting
9
Relationships & family
7
Delegation
5
- Why chasing material goals signals you lack a real vision
- Hiring experts in every life sphere beats doing it yourself
- Slow living: protect your energy for the work you love
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Twelve Stoic questions to redirect your focus and values
The Daily Stoic
October 17, 2021
Identity & self-belief
10
Goal setting
8
Deep work & focus
6
- The right question changes your life more than any answer
- Most energy goes to things outside your control — stop it
- Live time vs dead time: every moment is a choice
How to retire in the next 12 months by designing a life worth living now
Noah Kagan
September 17, 2021
Goal setting
7
Work-life balance
6
Bootstrapping
5
- Low costs plus work you'd do free beats decades of deferred living.
- Your real retirement number is almost always less than you think.
- Freedom without stakes feels empty — meaningful hard work is the point.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Is organisation the same as productivity? Plus deep work and life Q&A
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
September 13, 2021
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
8
Goal setting
5
- Knowledge work chaos stems from poor design, not capitalist exploitation
- Saying no to projects is the default — meaning doesn't scale with quantity
- Remove the smartphone: peer pressure is easier to solve than lost interests
What discipline is and how to build it through a compelling vision
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
August 30, 2021
Goal setting
9
Deep work & focus
7
Identity & self-belief
6
- Discipline is acting toward what you value, not what feels good now.
- A vision compelling enough to feel in your bones is the only reliable foundation.
- The deep life is not intense intellectual work — it's intentional living in any form.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Cal Newport answers deep work, productivity, and career questions
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
August 2, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Goal setting
6
- Amateur motivation flees negatives; professionals pursue a compelling positive vision.
- Money as a neutral value test: get paid before quitting your job.
- Fix a broken tech relationship by rebuilding from values, not tweaking notifications.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
The productivity baby steps for mastering your professional life
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
July 8, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Goal setting
5
- Seven-step system for moving from disorganization to complete mastery of your professional workload
- Break long-term projects into discrete work chunks: aim for one to four days per task maximum
- Daily shutdown routines create mental closure and prevent work bleeding into your personal life
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Finding happiness by starting with the end of your life in mind
Bill Gallagher
July 6, 2021
Identity & self-belief
9
Goal setting
6
- Having everything you wanted but still feeling trapped is common.
- Imagine the end of a successful life — who would you be?
- Becoming that person now dissolves suffering faster than solving problems.
A simple strategy for making better decisions: the Iceberg Yes
How I Work
June 28, 2021
- Saying yes to anything means saying yes to the full iceberg
- We overweight exciting outcomes and underweight hidden effort
- One question reframes every decision: what's below the surface?