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How to get past Quitters Friday in 5 easy steps

How to get past Quitters Friday in 5 easy steps

Quitting Friday, or Quitters Day, marks when many abandon New Year’s resolutions. Daniel Pink’s Drive offers insights to stay motivated through autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Own your goals by aligning them with personal values, focus on progress over perfection, and reconnect with the deeper "why." Build supportive habits and lean on accountability partners. Motivation isn’t about never faltering but persevering. On Quitters Day, choose to recommit, rekindle your fire, and keep moving forward.

jonathan couserJanuary 7, 2025habits, best practices, strategy, health, goals

What can you do to keep learning in a world of algorithms?

What can you do to keep learning in a world of algorithms?

You are consuming more information than ever before. Still, you are learning less than ever before because unless you intentionally make an effort, almost all the content is content you are already agreeable to.

Only consuming agreeable content, especially in short form, prevents you from learning.

To relearn the art of learning, you need to be intentional about applying the steps in this article.

jonathan couserOctober 1, 2024habits, best practices, learning

10 Lessons on living your best life from my trip to Colorado

10 Lessons on living your best life from my trip to Colorado

If you move through life at the pace of everyone else, you will experience life like everyone else. If you experience life like everybody else, you should expect to get the same results as everyone else.

So, if your goal is to get better results than everyone else, you must experience life differently.

Here are some examples of the fruits of living differently from a recent trip to Colorado.

jonathan couserJuly 24, 2024behaviors, best practices, learning, relationships

What are assumptions that are worth making? Here are 7.

What are assumptions that are worth making? Here are 7.

We are always told not to make assumptions, but should we never assume anything? What are some good assumptions to make? Here are 7 assumptions you should make if you want to live a better life. #bestlife #winning #bestself

jonathan couserJune 26, 2024bad behaviors, behaviors, best practices

10 things parents are doing to exasperate their children in 2024

10 things parents are doing to exasperate their children in 2024

What is the goal of parenting?

To raise children who become self-sufficient adults who are decent human beings. Self-sufficient meaning they can manage their own emotions, provide for their own needs, and live in mutually beneficial relationships with others.

This article covers 10 things you are doing that are hurting your ability to lead your kids to success.

jonathan couserJune 12, 2024parenting, best practices, bad behaviors, communication, success, goals, strategy, podcast

10 (+1) Keys to making the most of your 24 hours

10 (+1) Keys to making the most of your 24 hours

So, the true gateway to increased productivity and greater success is to stop living in fear. 10 things you can do to make the most of your 24 daily hours. #productivity, #discipline, #lifehacks

jonathan couserMay 14, 2024best practices, success, habits, behaviorsComment

What do you do when you don’t have 100% to give?

What do you do when you don’t have 100% to give?

Taking the mindset of giving 100% of all you have, especially when it is less than 100% you have to give, helps avoid procrastination and creates forward movement. You will be surprised how good it feels to accomplish small things when you start from a place of believing you can’t accomplish anything. This article talks about how to do it. #habits #momentum #impact #forward

jonathan couserApril 30, 2024habits, best practices

2024 Word of the Year: Reflection

2024 Word of the Year: Reflection

Taking the time to reflect will lead to a better life. Here is encouragement to reflect and a path towards making it worth it.

jonathan couserJanuary 2, 2024best practices, strategy, goals, development

Is the $1,000 egg worth it?

Is the $1,000 egg worth it?

Wisdom is deciding not to make a decision based on whether or not to pursue something new based solely on the initial cost. Everything worth doing requires an initial investment. Some of those costs might even cause you to reconsider if it is worth it.

Here is a process to help you determine if it is worth.

jonathan couserOctober 3, 2023best practices, change, purpose, career advice

Set boundaries to help others achieve their best

Set boundaries to help others achieve their best

Setting healthy boundaries leads to better outcomes. Boundaries are required for you to be sustainably generous and a great leader. Great news is you control your ability to create boundaries. #boundaries #mentoring #leading #successful #generosity

healthy relationshipsjonathan couserJune 28, 2023communication, leadership, guiding principles, relationships, engagement, best practices, behaviors, bad behaviors

Are you preparing to win or to be a not loser?

Are you preparing to win or to be a not loser?

Being a winner instead of a not loser; isn't just a play on words. There is a high difference between living your life to win and living your life trying not to lose. Four things are highlighted here. #lifehacks #success #habits #winningatlife

jonathan couserMarch 6, 2023relationships, best practices, purpose, strategy

Find the joy than choose it.

There is joy all around you, even when things aren’t going your way. Choosing to see it is a mindset you control. I encourage you to look for and find joy in whatever you experience today. It actually does make bad situations more tolerable, plus joy is contagious. Here are three examples from my own experience.

jonathan couserJanuary 24, 2023best practices, behaviors, relationships, personal brand

My word for 2023 is focus.

My word for 2023 is focus.

If your 2023 is a year of greater focus, your 2023 will be more incredible. Don’t measure yourself by how much you do or how busy you are; instead, measure yourself by how profound your impact is and how engaged in life you are. Here are steps to take to bring more focus to your life.

jonathan couserJanuary 4, 2023best practices, communication, strategy, habits, behaviors

10 Lessons in Pictures (2022)

10 Lessons in Pictures (2022)

2022 was a year to practice being courageous. Here is what I learned from that pursuit. #lifeprinciples #communicating #relationships #learning #leadership

jonathan couserDecember 12, 2022best practices, communication, relationships, leadership, guiding principles

Are you more accountability or grace when you lead others, why not both?

Are you more accountability or grace when you lead others, why not both?

jonathan couserAugust 17, 2022leadership, communication, best practices

The danger is in believing the lie so long it becomes your truth.

The danger is in believing the lie so long it becomes your truth.

Effective communication, core beliefs, values, beliefs

jonathan couserAugust 2, 2022communication, leadership, best practices

Seven C's of a Successful Marriage

Seven C's of a Successful Marriage

A healthy marriage is one of the biggest blessings that you can experience. An unhealthy marriage can be one of the most significant burdens you will ever endure. You get to choose.

A hard reality is that your marriage will impact the lives of generations of individuals, some you know and some you will never meet. The question you must ask yourself is what do I want that impact to be (positive or negative), and am I living out my marriage in an intentional way to get there?

Here are 7 factors that if you apply them intentionally to your marriage, you will achieve lasting positive impact and leave a legacy worth repeating.

jonathan couserFebruary 15, 2022family, marriage, best practices

Life Lessons from the other side of moving (Part 1)

Life Lessons from the other side of moving (Part 1)

Having experienced the reality of barely surviving (more truth than hyperbole in that statement) the stress, discomfort, lack of control, and fatigue of moving. I on fully on board with the research that concludes the physical, mental and emotional demands of moving lead it to being one of the most stressful events in your life.

jonathan couserOctober 13, 2021change management, change, learning, relationships, leadership, best practicesComment

Feedback is a gift or a weapon you get to choose which one

Feedback is a gift or a weapon you get to choose which one

We all receive feedback continuously. Everything from projects we are working on to teams we are a part of to the apps we use involves feedback loops.

Since feedback loops are everywhere, it is not whether or not they exist that dictates the effectiveness of the feedback, but how we choose to engage in the loop and react to the feedback that dictates if we move closer to or further from achieving a new future state with better outcomes. Meaning YOU own if the feedback becomes a tool or a weapon.

jonathan couserSeptember 1, 2021feedback, teams, best practices

The Lies you Tell Yourself Don't Just Hurt, They Prevent Greatness

The Lies you Tell Yourself Don't Just Hurt, They Prevent Greatness

Let me share a brief personal story with a broadly applicable life lesson. Our youngest daughter is adopted. She joined her forever family at the age of 6.

jonathan couserMay 18, 2021Habits, ARCH, career advice, best practices, authenticityComment