It’s often frustrating getting things done, especially one-off ventures that we have never done before or long and complex operations. The desire to have things done often generates a lot of negative emotions of varying degrees. We need to put off our wish fulfillment or else we become easily distracted by other pleasures that are easier to fulfill in the moment. This can be done through adjusting our expectations of instant gratification and through accepting that fulfillment comes at the end of a road called Preparation.

The “How To Do List” is a tool for organizing work that focuses on the vital, but often overlooked, necessity to create a process for getting things done. In this article I detail how this tool helped me to get through a massive list of things to do on a particularly challenging day. This article is 950 words long and will take about 4 to 5-minutes to read

A very practical and useful article to ensure high-productivity through better preparation. This article is 1000 words long and will take about 5-minutes to read.

This article details the importance of getting new habits off to a better start through an initial period of intensive training to establish momentum and good results at a time of uncertainty. This article is 1450 words long and will take about 7 to 8-minutes to read

This article gives another example of The Journey only this time about a journey that has not yet finished and for which I have no idea of the outcome. All the same, through reading this you can gauge its effectiveness against standard goal-setting techniques. This article is 1600 words long and will take 8 to [...]