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Why the Hours After Work Seem to Vanish
You get home, there's dinner and dishes and someone needs help with something, and you finally sit down to catch your breath. The next time you look …
2 hours ago
7 Good Minutes: Extra - A Five-Minute Progress Report for the Plan You Keep Talking About
If there's a plan you've talked about more than you've done, this short exercise gives you a different way to share it: report progress to one person…
16 hours ago
Why Announcing Your Plan Can Make It Harder to Start
You tell the family at dinner that you're getting back into running, three mornings a week. Everyone cheers, and for about an hour you feel like a ru…
1 day, 3 hours ago
7 Good Minutes: Extra - A Fair Hearing: Four Lines for When You Keep Picturing the Worst
When something you want to do keeps setting off the same worst-case film in your head, you can treat it as one prediction among several instead of th…
1 day, 17 hours ago
Why the Worst Case Feels Like the Realistic One
You've been meaning to ask your manager about leaving at three on Thursdays for school pickup. Every time you think about it, the same short film pla…
2 days, 3 hours ago
7 Good Minutes: Extra - The Small Trip: Get a Little Vacation Feeling Every Week
The good feeling from a vacation usually fades within about a week of getting home. Three of the things that helped create it can come back in smalle…
2 days, 17 hours ago
Why the Vacation Feeling Fades So Fast Once You're Home
It's the first Monday back. The suitcase is still half unpacked in the hallway, there's sand in a shoe somewhere, and by Wednesday the trip already f…
3 days, 3 hours ago
7 Good Minutes: Extra - The One-Line Trace: Find the Person Your Work Helps
At the end of a flat workday, pick one routine thing you did. Not your biggest win. A report, a delivery, a repair, a phone call.
Then ask one questio…
3 days, 17 hours ago
When Your Job Feels Like It Doesn't Matter
It's Thursday afternoon. You've answered forty emails, sat through a meeting that could have been a message, and somewhere around three o'clock a qui…
4 days, 3 hours ago
7 Good Minutes: Extra - The Tomorrow Test: A Simple Check Before You Say Yes
Someone asks you to take on one more thing, and you feel that small sinking feeling. Before you answer, here's one quick way to slow the moment down.…
4 days, 17 hours ago