Automate all simple financial tasks such as paying bills, credit cards, and investing

Figure out what role you need to play at different times and set alarms with labels that provide a nudge to "turn on" that character when that time hits. It's a simple behavioral intervention that can go a long way.

Develop a simple Power Down Ritual to more effectively separate work from your personal life.

A Power Down Ritual is a fixed set of actions and behaviors that mentally and physically mark the end of your professional day. An example of my fixed sequence might look something like this: Check...

Do the new thing for 30 minutes per day for 30 straight days. 900 minutes of accumulated effort will yield surprisingly significant results. You can get started learning a new language, dramatically improve your physical fitness, pick up an instrument, or build a writing/reading practice.

These windows should become sacred windows of progress on the important long-term tasks (not the urgent short-term ones). If you are like me, you might need a forcing function to shut everything down, so use an app like Flow to force the issue.

In 1666, a 23-year-old Cambridge University student left campus and returned to his small hometown village to avoid the plague that was ravaging Europe at the time.

The bright young man would spend his year in a perpetual state of creative a...

PLP stands for Pull-ups, Lunges, Pushups. On Day 1, you do 10 reps of each, on Day 2, you do 11 reps of each, on Day 3, you do 12 reps of each, and so on, all the way up to 69 reps. The slow, steady accumulation of volume creates impressive progress (I've gotten leaner and more dense from doing i...

With Spaced Repetition, information is consumed at increasing intervals until it's committed to long-term memory. If you first consume some new information at 8am, you'd have Rep 1 at 9am (1 hr later), Rep 2 at 12pm (3 hrs later), Rep 3 at 6pm (6 hrs later), Rep 4 at 6am (12 hrs later), and so on...

2023 is officially upon us. Will it be your Annus Mirabilis?

To get you started, here are 23 actionable ideas to help you crush the year ahead—segmented into work, health, money, and personal categories.

Action Note: To avoid overwhelm, simply pick ONE from each categ...

11 minutes of weekly cold water immersion (showers or full immersion) has been shown to have a whole host of mental and physical health benefits. I have personally experienced this over the last year, and can honestly say that the 4-7 minutes of daily cold exposure has changed my life—an incredib...

Once you put something in your shopping cart, walk away from the computer and come back 48 hours later. If you still want it, buy it. Most of the time, you'll realize you don't need it. Invest that money instead and watch it compound.

As time passes in any relationship, it becomes easy to take the good for granted and focus on the stress or tensions. Don't fall into this trap. Highlight the good and watch the amazing impact it will have.

You don't need a fancy morning routine—just go for a walk. The sunlight, movement, and fresh air have a direct positive impact on your mood, circadian rhythm, metabolism, digestion, and more. Leave your phone at home (or put it on airplane mode). Let your creativity flow.

Go into your calendar and add at least two 15-minute blocks for absolutely nothing. During these windows, don't check email or get anything done. Go for a walk, read something non-work related, sit and stare into space, whatever. Prioritize and protect these short bouts of rest as a key part of y...

Learn the difference between urgent and important. Work towards delegating or deleting the unimportant tasks that are draining your time and mental energy. The goal is to spend more time on important tasks that further your long-term values, missions, goals, and principles.

 To identify what to prioritize and what to attempt to delegate or delete from your days, use my Energy Calendar Technique.

• For one week, at the end of every weekday, go through and color-code your calendar from the day. Green for Energy Creating, Yellow for Neutral, and Red for Energy...

Identify a topic, try to explain it to a 5-year-old, study to fill in knowledge gaps exposed by the explanation, and iterate on the process accordingly. Teaching is the most powerful form of learning. Progress to teaching as quickly as possible and you will cement your learnings and highlight the...

Create an automated direct deposit for a small amount of money into an investment account every month.

Never look at the account. Don't pay any attention to it. A $100 monthly investment into the S&P 500 for the last 10 years would be worth ~$20,000 today. Let it compound.

The simplest way to action this is to default to 25-minute calls/meetings (instead of 30 minutes) and take a simple walking or breathing break during the 5 minutes. Most calls/meetings have 5 minutes of wasted time on pleasantries (or terrible talk about the weather...), so just cut that and get ...

To feel energized as soon as you get out of bed, try using my 5-5-5-30 Method.

When you wake up, do 5 push-ups, 5 squats, 5 lunges, and a 30-second plank. You can do it while you are brewing coffee or right when you get out of bed. It will jumpstart your metabolism and give you a boost of e...