How To Change (with Katy Milkman)
How to get from where you are to where you want to be.
How To Change (with Katy Milkman)
Articles about goals
Fear Of Missing Out (with Patrick McGinnis)
Fear Of Missing Out (with Patrick McGinnis)
Learning to embrace what's in front of you.
Four Questions For 2020
Four Questions For 2020
It's the time of year when many people are thinking about what the next twelve months have in store. On this episode, I share four questions to help you think about 2020 and set goals for life and work.
Three Principles For Achieving Your Goals
Three Principles For Achieving Your Goals
We are wired for two conflicting things: comfort, and conquest. To achieve goals, we need to disrupt the comfort instinct long enough to experience our first successes on the path to the goal. On this episode, I share three core principles for doing the hard work necessary to get moving on your goals.
How To Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone
How To Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone
Three kinds of goals that will help you achieve your ambitions.
How To Finish (with Jon Acuff)
How To Finish (with Jon Acuff)
There's so much discussion about how to get started, how to overcome creative block, and how to find your motivation, but you know what's rarely discussed? That's right - how to finish when things get hard. Today's guest Jon Acuff has written the book on the topic, and he's here today to discuss his creative process, and some core principles for finishing challenging long-arc goals in your life and work.
Four Questions for 2018
Four Questions for 2018
It's a new year, and that means many of us are thinking about how we want to make 2018 our best year yet. Last year, I introduced four questions that you can ask to help you gain better clarity and establish more meaningful goals. On this episode, I re-visit those questions and share how I'm answering them for the upcoming year.
Podcast: Shooting For The Three
Podcast: Shooting For The Three
Is the thing you think you're trying to do with your work really what you're doing? What if the entire system is set up to get you to do something else, but you don't even realize it? On today's episode, I explain why pop radio is so bad, how artists end up as willing accomplices in mediocrity, and how your team might be doing the same thing (and not even know it).
Podcast: Four Questions To Help You Start Your Year Right
Podcast: Four Questions To Help You Start Your Year Right
It’s the start of a new year, and of course that means that many people are beginning to think about where they’d like their life and work to go over the coming months. It’s easy to use this season to set big goals and make big plans, but I often find that even my best plans are thrown by unexpected opportunities and obstacles. Yes, it’s important to have objectives and a strategy for executing them, but I want to challenge you to consider a roundabout way of getting to them. Instead of simply writing a list of goals, begin with a set of questions that might help you think about the upcoming year in a new way.
Podcast: How To Live A Good Life (with Jonathan Fields)
Podcast: How To Live A Good Life (with Jonathan Fields)
What does it mean to live a good life? How do you build your life and your work in such a way that it reflects the best of who you are? On today's episode, Jonathan Fields shares insights about all of this from his new book How To Live A Good Life.
Failure Is Inevitable. What Matters Is How You Deal With It.
Failure Is Inevitable. What Matters Is How You Deal With It.
After expending so much time, energy, and focus on something you care about, it can be devastating when it just doesn't click. What you do next is very important.
AC Podcast: Jeff Goins on Taking Action In Your Art
AC Podcast: Jeff Goins on Taking Action In Your Art
Jeff Goins is a writer who challenges others to get moving on their dreams. His new book, The In-Between, is about living in the space between where you are and where you want to be.
Don’t Give Up Before It Gets Good
Don’t Give Up Before It Gets Good
The lag is the gap between cause and effect. It's the season between planting a seed, and reaping a harvest.
Trophies, Metrics, and Great Work
Trophies, Metrics, and Great Work
How your metrics for success determine the choices you make about life and work.
Everyone Gets A Trophy?
Everyone Gets A Trophy?
Has the emphasis on childhood "self-esteem" negatively impacted creativity?
Chasing “The Thing”
Chasing “The Thing”
Do you remember the old episodes of the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote? When I was a kid, I couldn’t wait to tear out of bed on Saturday morning, pour a giant bowl of cereal and watch in anticipation of the coyote actually catching him. Then it happened. One...
The Fly In The Middle Of The Room
The Fly In The Middle Of The Room
When everyone is responsible for something, no one is. Creative teams need to make sure that there are specific goals, metrics and accountability for creative work. Don't fall prey to the "fly in the middle of the room" mindset.
Chasing Vapor
Chasing Vapor
Are your goals effective, or just vaporous visions of some distant, ideal self?
AC #143: Rails
AC #143: Rails
It takes intentionality to engage with creative projects on our own time - they don't just make themselves. In this episode, we talk about some disciplines that can help us creatively engage and get moving on our "pet"...