You Have More Time Than You Think

Want your home and life admin to stop piling up? Life OS, the Life Operating System, is a 31-page working manual with 20 frameworks for running your home, each with a worked example, plus 30 AI prompts that help you build them: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/lifeos-workbook?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=feel-behindIf you feel behind in life and can't quite say behind what, some of that feeling may be true, and some of it was never yours. This video gives you a seven-step plan to sort the two: write the feeling down, test which lines you really want, find the real gaps, and get two of them moving again before the year ends. You'll measure your pace instead of the distance, count the progress you've already made, and set a 31 December marker that someone else could check.🔗FREE: The One-Page Year printable sheet, with a filled-in example: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/one-page-year?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=feel-behind━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS0:00 - Why you feel behind0:16 - Step 1: Write the behind sentence3:00 - Step 2: The nobody-knows test5:51 - Step 3: Write the cost line8:20 - Step 4: Pick two10:01 - Step 5: Measure pace, not position12:47 - Step 6: Count your stamps15:23 - Step 7: Your 31 December marker17:31 - Your page, start to finish━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 BOOKS TO EXPLOREThe links below are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you.Late Bloomers by Rich KarlgaardGo deeper into Steps 1 and 2: why the age deadlines you picked up are not the only timeline.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1524759759?tag=ideastothrive-20Range by David EpsteinWhy people who start late or switch paths often do well, so the comparison in Step 2 rarely holds.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735214484?tag=ideastothrive-20Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver BurkemanWhy you can never catch up on everything, and why choosing, as in Step 4, is the way out.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374159122?tag=ideastothrive-20Essentialism by Greg McKeownGo deeper into Step 4: doing fewer things so the ones you pick actually move.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0804137382?tag=ideastothrive-20The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile and Steven KramerThe research behind Steps 5 and 6: why small, visible progress keeps you going.https://www.amazon.com/dp/142219857X?tag=ideastothrive-20━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FORGETTING MOST OF WHAT YOU READ?Readwise collects your highlights from books, Kindle and articles, and resurfaces them daily so the ideas stick. Try Readwise here: https://readwise.io/anshchat/Affiliate link: I may earn a commission if you subscribe, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WANT A PLACE FOR YOUR WEEKLY BOXES?Todoist helps you capture tasks, set a weekly repeat for your two gaps, and see what's next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72zeAffiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📖 REFERENCESStep 1: Age deadlines we pick up without choosing them. Neugarten, B. L., Moore, J. W. & Lowe, J. C. (1965). American Journal of Sociology, 70(6).Step 2: Standards we set for ourselves versus the ones we think others expect of us. Higgins, E. T. (1987). Psychological Review, 94(3).Step 5: The feeling from a goal tracks your rate of progress against the rate you expected. Carver, C. S. & Scheier, M. F. (1990). Psychological Review, 97(1).Step 6: The car wash loyalty cards (19% vs 34% completed). Nunes, J. C. & Drèze, X. (2006). Journal of Consumer Research, 32(4).The Nobody-Knows Test, the Cost Line, Pick Two and the 31 December Marker are Ideas to Thrive's own tools, not research findings. Applying the car wash result to personal goals is my own extrapolation.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.com/subscribeSubscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Want your home and life admin to stop piling up? Life OS, the Life Operating System, is a 31-page working manual with 20 frameworks for running your home, each with a worked example, plus 30 AI prompts that help you build them: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/lifeos-workbook?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=feel-behindPrefer to watch instead? Check here - https://youtu.be/YQtmfU1pCykIf you feel behind in life and can't quite say behind what, some of that feeling may be true, and some of it was never yours. This video gives you a seven-step plan to sort the two: write the feeling down, test which lines you really want, find the real gaps, and get two of them moving again before the year ends. You'll measure your pace instead of the distance, count the progress you've already made, and set a 31 December marker that someone else could check.🔗 FREE: The Catch-Up Page, all seven steps on one printable sheet, with a filled-in example: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/catch-up-page?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=feel-behind━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS0:00 - Why you feel behind0:16 - Step 1: Write the behind sentence3:00 - Step 2: The nobody-knows test5:51 - Step 3: Write the cost line8:20 - Step 4: Pick two10:01 - Step 5: Measure pace, not position12:47 - Step 6: Count your stamps15:23 - Step 7: Your 31 December marker17:31 - Your page, start to finish━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 BOOKS TO EXPLOREThe links below are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you.Late Bloomers by Rich KarlgaardGo deeper into Steps 1 and 2: why the age deadlines you picked up are not the only timeline.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1524759759?tag=ideastothrive-20Range by David EpsteinWhy people who start late or switch paths often do well, so the comparison in Step 2 rarely holds.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735214484?tag=ideastothrive-20Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver BurkemanWhy you can never catch up on everything, and why choosing, as in Step 4, is the way out.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374159122?tag=ideastothrive-20Essentialism by Greg McKeownGo deeper into Step 4: doing fewer things so the ones you pick actually move.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0804137382?tag=ideastothrive-20The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile and Steven KramerThe research behind Steps 5 and 6: why small, visible progress keeps you going.https://www.amazon.com/dp/142219857X?tag=ideastothrive-20━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FORGETTING MOST OF WHAT YOU READ?Readwise collects your highlights from books, Kindle and articles, and resurfaces them daily so the ideas stick. Try Readwise here: https://readwise.io/anshchat/Affiliate link: I may earn a commission if you subscribe, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WANT A PLACE FOR YOUR WEEKLY BOXES?Todoist helps you capture tasks, set a weekly repeat for your two gaps, and see what's next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72zeAffiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📖 REFERENCESStep 1: Age deadlines we pick up without choosing them. Neugarten, B. L., Moore, J. W. & Lowe, J. C. (1965). American Journal of Sociology, 70(6).Step 2: Standards we set for ourselves versus the ones we think others expect of us. Higgins, E. T. (1987). Psychological Review, 94(3).Step 5: The feeling from a goal tracks your rate of progress against the rate you expected. Carver, C. S. & Scheier, M. F. (1990). Psychological Review, 97(1).Step 6: The car wash loyalty cards (19% vs 34% completed). Nunes, J. C. & Drèze, X. (2006). Journal of Consumer Research, 32(4).The Nobody-Knows Test, the Cost Line, Pick Two and the 31 December Marker are Ideas to Thrive's own tools, not research findings. Applying the car wash result to personal goals is my own extrapolation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Want one system for 2027? AOS, the Annual Operating System, gives you one place to plan the year, break it into quarters and weeks, and review it as you go: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=twice-as-much-donePrefer to watch instead? Youtube - https://youtu.be/ERaLb__BmAIMost lost hours don't go to laziness. They go missing in four places: getting started, staying on it, switching between tasks, and redoing work you've done before. This video gives you eleven habits, grouped by those four places, from a song that starts your hardest task to a list that means you only build things once. None of them need you to start earlier or stay later.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS0:00 - Where your hours go missing0:16 - Getting started. Habit 1: One song, one job1:43 - Habit 2: Rehearse the snag3:19 - Habit 3: Talk to yourself by name4:45 - Staying on it. Habit 4: One window6:12 - Habit 5: Draft first, judge later7:38 - Habit 6: Surprise yourself8:53 - Switching cleanly. Habit 7: Answer with a proposal10:45 - Habit 8: The ready-to-resume note12:01 - Never doing the same work twice. Habit 9: Build it once14:19 - Habit 10: Say it back15:56 - Habit 11: Learn the ten you use daily17:06 - Where to start: the four boxes━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 BOOKS TO EXPLOREThe links below are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you.Bird by Bird by Anne LamottThe source for Habit 5 and the "child's draft": write it all down first, shape it later.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385480016?tag=ideastothrive-20Chatter by Ethan KrossGo deeper into Habit 3: why talking to yourself by name calms the voice in your head.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525575235?tag=ideastothrive-20Attention Span by Gloria MarkThe research behind Habit 4, including how quickly we now switch screens.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1335449418?tag=ideastothrive-20Rethinking Positive Thinking by Gabriele OettingenWhy picturing the obstacle, as in Habit 2, works better than picturing success alone.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1617230235?tag=ideastothrive-20━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FORGETTING MOST OF WHAT YOU READ?Readwise collects your highlights from books, Kindle and articles, and resurfaces them daily so the ideas stick. Try Readwise here: https://readwise.io/anshchat/Affiliate link: I may earn a commission if you subscribe, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER?Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72zeAffiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📖 REFERENCESHabit 2: Phelps's goggles filled with water in the 2008 200m butterfly final. Duhigg, C. (2012). The Power of Habit.Habit 3: Using your name or "you" in self-talk improved how observers rated people's speeches. Kross, E. et al. (2014). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106(2).Habit 4: Time on one screen fell from about 2.5 minutes in 2004 to about 47 seconds. Mark, G. (2023). Attention Span.Habit 5: The rough "child's draft". Lamott, A. (1994). Bird by Bird.Habit 6: An uncertain $1 or $2 got more people to finish than a sure $2. Shen, L., Fishbach, A. & Hsee, C. K. (2015). Journal of Consumer Research, 41(5).Habit 8: A short plan for resuming reduced attention residue after an interruption. Leroy, S. & Glomb, T. M. (2018). Organization Science, 29(3).Habit 9: Boeing's Model 299 crashed at Wright Field in October 1935 with the gust locks left on; the pilot checklist followed.Habit 10: The 1977 Tenerife runway collision and the read-back practice that followed. Spanish civil aviation accident report (1978).Habit 11: Cut, copy and paste came from Larry Tesler and Tim Mott's Gypsy editor at Xerox PARC in the mid-1970s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prefer to watch it instead? See here https://youtu.be/fqzLPyCJzPoYou probably have a few hours of free time every day. So why does it never feel like you have an hour for the things you care about?This video gives you a six-part plan for getting back the free time you already have, in pieces big enough to use. You'll count the pieces in one ordinary day, find the one thing that keeps cutting them up, and move the fixed jobs that shrink your free time before it starts. Then you'll write a menu for the small pieces you can't join up, use one question to stop saying yes to a future that isn't empty, and give yourself one block each week that other people plan around. All you need is a pen and a page.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📝 GET THE FREE ONE-PAGE FREE TIME PLANThe whole plan on one page, with a filled-in example so you can see a finished page before you start. It takes about five minutes tonight to count your pieces. Editable PDF, free.https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/one-page-free-time-plan━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS0:00 - You Have More Time Than You Think0:23 - 1. Count the Pieces4:08 - 2. Name the Cutter6:26 - 3. Move the Edge8:47 - 4. The Piece-Size Menu11:02 - 5. The This-Week Test13:15 - 6. The Predictable Block15:21 - Put the Whole Plan on One Page━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER?Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72zeAffiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WANT ONE SYSTEM FOR THE WHOLE YEAR?AOS, the Annual Operating System, gives you one place to plan the year, break it into quarters and weeks, and review it as you go:https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=more-time-than-you-think━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 BOOKS TO EXPLOREThe links below are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you.Time Smart by Ashley WhillansGo deeper into Chapter 1: why free time arrives in scraps and what to do about "time confetti".https://www.amazon.com/dp/1633698351?tag=ideastothrive-20Overwhelmed by Brigid SchulteGo deeper into Chapter 1: the book that gave us the phrase "time confetti" and shows why leisure gets chopped into bits.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374228442?tag=ideastothrive-20Attention Span by Gloria MarkGo deeper into Chapter 2: what interruptions cost, and how long it takes to get back to what you were doing.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1335449418?tag=ideastothrive-20 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Want every page for this plan laid out for you? The Year in Review & Reset workbook has a page for each of the five steps, a filled-in example, and a plan for your first thirteen weeks of next year: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/year-in-review?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=last-60-daysPrefer to watch instead. See here - https://youtu.be/xtvIP4U0dc8Most of us can name what we finished this year. What we left half-done is vaguer, and it all follows us into January. This video gives you a five-step plan for the last sixty days: list what you're still carrying, give the stalled things a deadline, seal what you drop, finish one last thing, and settle what you owe people. It works even if this year went nothing like you planned.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS0:00 - Five steps to close your year0:18 - Step 1: List what you're carrying2:55 - Step 2: Give stalled things a deadline5:36 - Step 3: Seal what you drop8:08 - Step 4: Finish one last thing10:17 - Step 5: Settle what you owe11:51 - Close the year━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 BOOKS TO EXPLOREThe links below are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you.Quit by Annie DukeThe source for Step 2: deciding in advance when to walk away, including the Everest turnaround time.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593422996?tag=ideastothrive-20Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerThe full account of the 1996 Everest season behind the turnaround story in Step 2.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385494785?tag=ideastothrive-20Transitions by William BridgesWhy every new start begins with an ending, and how to close one well.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738285404?tag=ideastothrive-20The Power of Regret by Daniel H. PinkGo deeper into Step 5: why the regrets that stay with us are mostly the things we didn't do.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735210659?tag=ideastothrive-20━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER?Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72zeAffiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📖 REFERENCESStep 1: Investors sell winning shares more readily than losing ones, except in December. Odean, T. (1998). Are investors reluctant to realize their losses? Journal of Finance, 53(5). See also Shefrin, H. & Statman, M. (1985), Journal of Finance, 40(3).Step 2: Setting a turnaround time before the climb. Duke, A. (2022). Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away.Step 3: Sealing a written regret in an envelope reduced how bad people felt about it. Li, X., Wei, L. & Soman, D. (2010). Sealing the emotions genie. Psychological Science, 21(8).Step 3: Small rituals ease grief after a loss, even for people who don't believe in them. Norton, M. I. & Gino, F. (2014). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(1).Step 4: A chocolate labelled "your last one" was enjoyed more and picked as the favourite far more often. O'Brien, E. & Ellsworth, P. C. (2012). Saving the last for best. Psychological Science, 23(2).Step 5: Over time, regrets of inaction outlast regrets of action. Gilovich, T. & Medvec, V. H. (1995). The experience of regret. Psychological Review, 102(2).━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.com/subscribeHow many of yours are marked "not sure"? Tell me below.Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#YearInReview #NewYear #selfimprovementbooks ideas to thrive, use the last 60 days of the year like this, close 2026 before you start 2027, last 60 days of the year, end of year review, year in review, how to end the year strong, year end reset, new year reset, how to prepare for the new year, finish the year strong, when to quit a goal, unfinished goals, productivity, self improvement, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prefer to watch instead? Check here https://youtu.be/-ysVZhOpp_UWant one system for your whole year? AOS, the Annual Operating System, gives you one place to plan the year, break it into quarters and weeks, and review it as you go: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=successful-people-dayFrom the outside, most famous routines look impossible: early alarms, long hours, whole days with nobody else in them. Take those parts away and the same nine patterns keep showing up in the days of Jane Austen, Toni Morrison, Benjamin Franklin, Jeff Bezos, Mark Twain and others. This video walks through each one and shows you how to use it in an ordinary day, even with a job or kids.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS0:00 - Why famous routines look impossible0:30 - Pattern 1: Work in small pieces (Jane Austen)2:26 - Pattern 2: Split the day in two (Simone de Beauvoir)4:07 - Pattern 3: Keep your own work apart (Le Corbusier)5:40 - Pattern 4: Think early, decide fresh (Jeff Bezos)7:06 - Pattern 5: Decide the one thing first (Ben Franklin)9:13 - Pattern 6: Protect one block (Toni Morrison)12:12 - Pattern 7: Give your evenings a limit (Franz Kafka)13:39 - Pattern 8: End the day on purpose (Mark Twain)15:22 - Pattern 9: Say tomorrow out loud (Kurt Vonnegut)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 BOOKS TO EXPLOREThe links below are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you.Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason CurreyThe source for many of the routines in this video, with the working days of more than 150 writers, artists and thinkers.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307273601?tag=ideastothrive-20Daily Rituals: Women at Work by Mason CurreyThe companion volume, on how women writers and artists found time to work around everything else.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1524732958?tag=ideastothrive-20On Writing by Stephen KingThe book from Pattern 3, where King says the one thing a work space needs is a door you're willing to shut.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439156816?tag=ideastothrive-20The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinPattern 5 in his own words, including the hour-by-hour schedule and his morning question.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486290735?tag=ideastothrive-20Kurt Vonnegut: LettersPattern 9's source: the 1965 letter where Vonnegut describes his day to his wife.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385343760?tag=ideastothrive-20Deep Work by Cal NewportGo deeper into Pattern 6: how to protect one block of focused time in a busy day.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1455586692?tag=ideastothrive-20━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER?Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72zeAffiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.com/subscribeWhich pattern is your day missing? Tell me the number below.Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#DailyRoutine #Productivity #SelfImprovement Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prefer to watch instead? Watch here https://youtu.be/bZppkE_YYLwWant one system for your whole year? AOS, the Annual Operating System, gives you one place to plan the year, break it into quarters and weeks, and review it as you go: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=stop-procrastinatingFree printable: The Stall Finder. The six-question check from this video, with space for your fix, your re-check dates and backup fixes for each stall: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/stall-finderProcrastination is not one problem. It comes down to six different stalls, and each one needs its own fix. This video shows you how to find yours in about two minutes, then gives you the fix built for it: the next physical action, naming the feeling, the tired version, lowering the audience, borrowing a deadline and the parking pad. It ends with how to re-check when your stall moves.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS0:00 - Why you keep putting things off0:26 - Find your stall (the Stall Finder)2:58 - Stall 1: I don't know where to start (the next physical action)5:02 - Stall 2: It feels bad (name the feeling)7:17 - Stall 3: I'm too drained (the tired version)9:09 - Stall 4: What if it's not good enough? (lower the audience)11:12 - Stall 5: No deadline, so never (borrow a deadline)12:43 - Stall 6: I start, then drift (the parking pad)14:20 - When the stall moves━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER?Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72zeAffiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.com/subscribeWhich stall is yours? Tell me the number below.Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#Procrastination #Productivity #SelfImprovement Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Want one system for your whole year? AOS, the Annual Operating System, gives you one place to plan the year, break it into quarters and weeks, and review it as you go: https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=hard-truths-too-latePrefer to watch instead? https://youtu.be/Eyp4LQQyYPU━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS0:22 - 1. You Have Fewer Weekends Left Than You Feel1:11 - 2. Most Time With Your Parents Is Behind You1:49 - 3. You Will Never Feel Ready2:39 - 4. Nobody Is Coming to Save You3:15 - 5. Nobody Is Thinking About You That Much3:53 - 6. People Like You More Than You Think4:39 - 7. Most of What You Worry About Never Happens5:24 - 8. Your Feelings Are Information6:09 - 9. You'll Change More Than You Expect6:51 - 10. Getting What You Want Won't Last7:31 - 11. Your Inside vs Everyone Else's Outside8:20 - 12. Motivation Shows Up After You Start8:52 - 13. Done Beats Perfect9:41 - 14. Busy Is Not the Same as Important10:32 - 15. Your Body Keeps the Receipts11:15 - 16. You Can't Catch Up on Sleep12:06 - 17. Walking Is the Most Underrated Workout12:50 - 18. Adult Friendships Don't Happen by Accident13:46 - 19. You'll Outgrow Some People14:32 - 20. Relationships Decide How Well You Age15:12 - 21. You Become Like the People Around You15:54 - 22. People Are More Honest Than You Assume16:39 - 23. You Can't Change Other People17:10 - 24. Most Arguments Never Get Solved17:54 - 25. Your Phone Is Talking to the Person Across the Table18:20 - 26. Small Kindnesses Land Bigger Than You Think19:00 - 27. The Part of an Apology Most People Skip19:42 - 28. Forgiving Is Mostly for You20:19 - 29. Every Yes Is a No to Something Else20:56 - 30. Your Job Will Not Love You Back21:41 - 31. Money Buys Happiness, Up to a Point22:24 - 32. Savings Buy More Freedom Than a Raise23:03 - 33. Buy Back Your Time First23:40 - 34. Compounding Works on Bad Habits Too24:22 - 35. Luck Matters More Than People Admit25:01 - 36. A Good Decision Can Still Turn Out Badly25:46 - 37. You'll Regret What You Didn't Do26:30 - 38. Grief Doesn't Get Smaller27:20 - 39. Starting Late Is Still Starting27:57 - 40. The Regrets That Stay━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 BOOKS TO EXPLOREThe links below are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you.The Good Life by Robert Waldinger and Marc SchulzGo deeper into Truths 18 to 21: the Harvard study of adult life and why relationships shape how well you age.https://www.amazon.com/dp/198216669X?tag=ideastothrive-20The Power of Regret by Daniel H. PinkGo deeper into Truths 37 and 40: which regrets fade, which ones stay, and how to use them.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735210659?tag=ideastothrive-20━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER?Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72zeAffiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SOURCES- Truth 7: LaFreniere and Newman, Behavior Therapy (2019): about 9 in 10 logged worries never came true.- Truth 16: Depner et al., Current Biology (2019): weekend recovery sleep did not undo a short-sleep week.- Truth 17: Paluch et al., Lancet Public Health (2022): step benefits level off around 6,000 to 8,000 a day for over-60s.- Truth 18: Hall, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (2019): roughly 50, 90 and 200+ hours to build friendships.- Truth 22: Cohn et al., Science (2019): lost wallets in 40 countries; wallets with cash were returned more often.- Truth 31: Killingsworth, Kahneman and Mellers, PNAS (2023): happiness keeps rising with income for most people.- Truth 40: Davidai and Gilovich, Emotion (2018): about three in four named an ideal-self regret as their biggest.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you want next year to be the best year of your life, you don't have to wait for 1 January to start it - https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=start-2027-now GET AOS, THE ANNUAL OPERATING SYSTEMPrefer watching this episode? Check it on Youtube : https://youtu.be/ybonxXQW3QEAOS is the app, guide and workbook I built to run this plan for you. Pick your start date and it counts your 52 weeks, labels your four blocks, logs each habit as Green, Yellow or Red with one tap, and walks you through the review every 13 weeks and the year close. No account needed, and it works offline:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━This video gives you a six-part plan for a whole year that starts on the day you choose. You'll find the first crack in last year's plan, pick your own day one and cut the year into four 13-week blocks. Then you plan it backward from week 52, give every habit a full size and a small size, decide ahead of time what a bad week looks like, and repair the plan every 13 weeks so it still works when motivation dies. All you need is a pen and a page.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS0:00 - Your Year Starts When You Choose0:20 - 1. Find What Broke4:13 - 2. Pick Your Own Day One7:19 - The App That Keeps Track for You8:17 - 3. Plan It Backward11:48 - 4. Give Every Habit Two Sizes15:40 - 5. Plan for the Weeks That Fall Apart18:54 - 6. Repair the Plan Every 13 Weeks22:11 - Start Your Real Year Today━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER?Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72zeAffiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SOURCESChapter 1- Strava's analysis of its users' logged activities (2019, about 800 million activities): the day the most people drop their New Year plans falls in mid-January.Chapter 2- Peetz and Wilson, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2013): a personally meaningful date such as a birthday works as a fresh start and raised people's motivation to exercise.Chapter 3- Park, Lu and Hedgcock, Psychological Science (2017): planning backward from the deadline raised motivation, reduced time pressure and improved performance, most of all for complex goals.Chapter 4- Dalton and Spiller, Journal of Consumer Research (2012): a detailed plan helped people with one goal and backfired for people with six.- Lally and colleagues, European Journal of Social Psychology (2010): missing a single day did not materially affect habit formation.Chapter 6- Harkin and colleagues, Psychological Bulletin (2016): across 138 studies and about 20,000 people, tracking progress helped people reach their goals, most of all when progress was written down or made public.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 BOOKS TO EXPLOREThe links below are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you.How to Change by Katy MilkmanGo deeper into Chapter 2: why a fresh start on a date that means something to you gives your motivation a real lift.https://www.amazon.com/dp/059308375X?tag=ideastothrive-20The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran and Michael LenningtonGo deeper into the four 13-week blocks: treating each quarter as its own year, with its own plan and review.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118509234?tag=ideastothrive-20Tiny Habits by BJ FoggGo deeper into Chapter 4: making a habit small enough that you can still do it on your worst day.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0358362776?tag=ideastothrive-20━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.comWhat's your day one going to be? Tell me the date below.Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#GoalSetting #YearPlanning #SelfImprovement Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prefer to watch instead. Check it here - https://youtu.be/aN6okleJ2vQWhen you were a kid, someone told you to put things back where you found them. You've probably been hearing it ever since, and the scissors still go missing. There's more to being organized than a tidy house.This video gives you nine habits that organized people use so they never have to rely on memory. Three let you see when something is missing. Three stop you guessing where a thing went or how old it is. Three warn you about a problem weeks before it happens. They come from places where losing track of something is dangerous or expensive, like an operating theatre, a library and a restaurant kitchen. Each habit comes with its steps and an example from everyday life, like a hotel checkout with children, a mortgage application, a boiler that stops in winter or a passport that expires before a holiday.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WANT THE SAME KIND OF SYSTEM FOR YOUR GOALS?AOS, the Annual Operating System, is a guide, a workbook and an app for planning your year and keeping it on track. The 2027 edition is out now, and you can have your first day logged in about twenty minutes:https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=organized-people-habits━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS0:00 - Why Tidy Isn't the Same as Organized0:36 - 1. Draw the Outline2:46 - 2. Count In, Count Out4:32 - 3. Line It Up6:02 - 4. The Returns Cart7:54 - 5. Search, Don't Sort9:39 - 6. Date It11:34 - 7. Restock to Par13:50 - 8. Seal the Kit15:35 - 9. File by Date17:06 - Where to Start━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEELING OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER?Todoist helps you capture tasks, organize priorities, and focus on what matters next. Try Todoist here: https://get.todoist.io/hg3f62cx72zeAffiliate link: I may earn a commission if you upgrade, at no extra cost to you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━BOOKS TO EXPLORE (Amazon affiliate links)As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul GawandeFurther reading connected to Habits 2 and 8: using simple checks and written lists to catch omissions before they become problems.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0312430000?tag=ideastothrive-20Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David AllenGo deeper into Habit 9: using a tickler file and trusted reminders so you don't have to remember every coming deadline.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143126563?tag=ideastothrive-20Organizing from the Inside Out by Julie MorgensternFurther reading on creating practical homes for your belongings and an organising system that fits how you actually live.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805075895?tag=ideastothrive-20━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📩 Newsletter: https://ideastothrive.beehiiv.comWhich of the nine would have saved you the most trouble last month? Tell me below.Subscribe to Ideas to Thrive for practical systems you can run in your own life.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#Organization #SelfImprovement #Productivity Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.