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The "Boxed Set Approach"
Our lives are often referred to as a stream or a journey, yet our minds more naturally divide life into episodes or seasons, like a DVD boxed set.
The Boxed Set approach helps us to think of a future self as being in a different season, separate and distinct from the person we are now. This...
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If you want to re-ignite your hunger and focus for a given objective, pay attention to any "temporal landmarks" between now and the completion time of the goal. Use public events, birthdays or planned breaks as episode dividers in the path ahead.
Arrange a book deadline for after your bi...
If your goals are unrealistic or too daunting, seeing them lying ahead in a future Season could backfire, damaging your morale and pushing you to procrastinate.
Keep this technique for when you're confident this isn't a risk.
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When we want to change ourselves anew, we often set a date on when to start changing our behaviors or our habits. This is the concept of having a "fresh start".
The effect of the "fresh start" is that we're able to overlook our past mistakes and imperfections of our daily lives and...
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The fresh start effect is defined as the feeling all individuals know at the beginning or end of an experience, week etc. It says that people are better at tackling their goals when they start on so-called temporal landmarks.
What is less obvious actually is the fact that ...
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The fresh start effect is when people are more likely to take action towards a goal after temporal landmarks that characterize new beginnings.
The temporal landmarks cause you to reflect on your life in a big-picture way, which causes you to set goals. It works bec...
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