Will You Make Good on Your New Year’s Resolution?

I also appreciated her “triple check” or “head, heart, hand” method, adapted from the psychologist Hugo Kehr, for identifying the root causes of procrastination: Ask “Is the task appropriate?” (head); “Is the task exciting?” (heart); “Is the task doable?” (hand). These questions can yield the insight needed to identify when and where to change cour... See more

Instead of thinking about quantitative time, consider qualitative time—that is, whether you’re logging fulfilling experiences on the way to achieving your goal. Le Cunff calls these moments “magic windows: those periods of creative flow that often occur when we are immersed in activities that capture our full attention, when we spend time with love... See more

Le Cunff points to three mental shifts we must make to replace rigid timelines with “fluid experimentation”: from anxiety to curiosity, from fixed ladders to “growth loops,” and from outcome to process.