Mindset: Goal setting
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Productivity & habits
Podcast
Three morning journal questions that change your day in a week
The Daily Stoic
February 26, 2026
Productivity & habits
9
Goal setting
6
- One daily question forces you to name the single most important thing.
- Sense of control over your actions predicts health, happiness, and earnings.
- Most behaviour is past-pattern repetition — naming a quality breaks the loop.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How your preferences, not your personality, shape your life outcomes
Brendon Burchard
February 16, 2026
Identity & self-belief
9
Goal setting
7
- Your preferences — not personality or past — determine your outcomes.
- Willingness to take on complex problems sets your earning ceiling.
- Most life change requires shifting current preferences, not healing the past.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
How to learn anything in months, not years: three core principles
Matthew Volkwyn
February 8, 2026
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
8
Goal setting
6
- Accumulate real practice hours fast; theory alone never builds skill.
- Periodic expert feedback redirects hours toward weaknesses that self-study misses.
- Daily practice generates seven sleep cycles weekly, compounding long-term retention.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Kevin Kelly's 450 principles for a well-lived and productive life
Founders
January 25, 2026
Productivity & habits
10
Deep work & focus
9
Goal setting
8
- Habit beats inspiration every time — build systems, not motivation
- Don't be the best. Be the only.
- Your golden ticket: seeing the world through other people's eyes
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Making time for what matters: Oliver Burkeman on limits and letting go
How I Work
January 21, 2026
Productivity & habits
9
Goal setting
7
Deep work & focus
6
- Your to-do list is infinite — you're always choosing, not clearing
- Comparing output to zero, not infinity, dissolves productivity guilt
- Quantity goals beat quality goals for getting creative work moving
How to audit the last year and reset with intention
Brendon Burchard
January 19, 2026
Goal setting
9
Resilience & grit
7
Identity & self-belief
6
- Your excuses may be working even when your life isn't
- Accountability without shame is a learnable skill
- The Four P's — purpose, progress, positivity, presence — reveal where life is working
Goals are problems to solve, not targets to chase
Matthew Volkwyn
January 18, 2026
Goal setting
10
Identity & self-belief
5
- A real goal is something you want but have no idea how to achieve
- Reverse-engineer until you have a clear daily action, then just execute
- If you know what to do and aren't doing it, it's a priority problem
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: specific knowledge, authenticity, and defining success
Business Book Club
January 12, 2026
Identity & self-belief
9
Niche selection
8
Goal setting
7
- Work that feels like play to you is your competitive moat.
- Copying advice without a filter is as dangerous as ignoring it.
- Define your own success before society defines it for you.
Why January is the wrong time for personal planning
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
January 9, 2026
Goal setting
8
Work-life balance
6
- January's winter energy actively works against meaningful personal planning
- Spring equinox — not New Year — is the natural reset point
- Two boxes matter most: annual rituals and one 90-day relationship focus
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Productivity without burnout: choosing agency over the illusion of control
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
January 8, 2026
Productivity & habits
9
Goal setting
7
Resilience & grit
6
- Control is brittle — agency is what actually adapts when plans collapse.
- A four-step process to reclaim focus when stress hijacks your day.
- Plan like a menu, not a script — one priority, built-in margin.
Clarify your intentions: why directionlessness leads to failure
The Daily Stoic
January 5, 2026
Goal setting
9
Identity & self-belief
6
- No defined goal means no wind is ever favorable.
- We default to wanting what others want — not what we actually need.
- Planning to the end prevents overshooting success as much as missing it.
Sahil Bloom on building a scoreboard that reflects what matters
How I Work
December 31, 2025
Goal setting
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Relationships & family
6
- Wrong metrics drive wrong actions — money alone is a broken scoreboard
- The new opportunity test: assume twice as hard, half as rewarding — still yes?
- Tiny consistent relationship actions compound more than occasional grand gestures
A goal-setting system that compounds: the 5 A's framework
Daniel Priestley
December 30, 2025
Goal setting
9
Long-term planning
7
Communication
6
- Alignment expires every 90 days — re-enrol your team each quarter.
- Suppressed blind spots cause the same problems to repeat indefinitely.
- A $10k lead-gen asset can outperform a $1M property investment.
Six-step system to make 2026 your best year
Dan Martell
December 27, 2025
Goal setting
9
Time management
8
Delegation
6
- Pick one project — the single unlock that makes everything else possible.
- Leverage beats effort: automate, delegate, and stack tasks to multiply output.
- Your circle sets your ceiling — audit it and cut ruthlessly.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Journaling and saying no: Michael Bungay Stanier's practical systems
How I Work
December 24, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Time management
8
Goal setting
6
- Four daily questions that replace 40 years of failed journaling attempts
- A five-criteria filter that makes saying no structural, not emotional
- Two words for the year beats one — they need to be in tension