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How to Stop Procrastinating on Your Goals by Using the “Seinfeld Strategy”
James Clear, author of the New York Times best-selling book Atomic Habits, described the Seinfeld method this way: Don’t break the chain on your workouts and you’ll find that you get fit rather quickly. Don’t break the chain in your business and you’ll find that results come much faster. Don’t break the chain in your artistic pursuits and you’ll fi
... See moreAnthony Raymond • Ikigai & Kaizen: The Japanese Strategy to Achieve Personal Happiness and Professional Success (How to set goals, stop procrastinating, be more productive, build good habits, focus, & thrive)
The comedian Jerry Seinfeld once gave a young comic named Brad Isaac some advice about how to write and create material. Keep a calendar, he told him, and each day that you write jokes, put an X. Soon enough, you get a chain going—and then your job is to simply not break the chain. Success becomes a matter of momentum. Once you get a little, it’s e
... See moreStephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
how to be a better comedian. Seinfeld told him the key was to write jokes (hint: his ONE Thing!) every day. And the way he’d figured out how to make that happen was to hang a huge annual calendar on the wall and then put a big red X across every day he worked on his craft. “After a few days, you’ll have a chain,” Seinfeld said. “Just keep at it and
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Why does it work? -It's simple enough to actually work.*Complexity is often a weakness because it makes it harder to get back on track.-It forces you to make tough decisions. Prune your deas and trim away everything that isn't absolutely necessary. Basically, if you commit to nothing, you'll be distracted by everything.-It removes the fri... See more
jamesclear.com • The Ivy Lee Method
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Visual cues can be used to drive short-term and long-term motivation. The Paper Clip Strategy can provide daily motivation, but you start from scratch each day. However, another type of visual cue, like the “Don’t Break the Chain” Calendar that I described in my article on the Seinfeld Strategy can be used to showcase your consistency over longer p... See more
James Clear • How to Stick With Good Habits Every Day by Using the "Paper Clip Strategy"
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“Don’t break the chain” is a powerful mantra. Don’t break the chain of sales calls and you’ll build a successful book of business. Don’t break the chain of workouts and you’ll get fit faster than you’d expect.