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

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

If success hurts it isn't success

Truly successful people are achieving a definition of success that they develop for themselves, and they are intentional about the way they achieve and measure success. Truly succession people are filled with joy, not regret. Truly successful people aren’t comparing their success against others because they don’t care; they know success can’t be measured in comparison to others only through comparing today’s version of you to yesterdays.

jonathan couserApril 2, 2024goals, habits, success

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

Worry less; be more consistent instead

We spend touch effort and time worry about making mistakes and not enough effort becoming consistent in our actions. Becoming consistent is better than worrying.

jonathan couserMay 31, 2023relationships, communication, personal brand, goals

Too BUSY for self-care? That's on you

For this article taking care of yourself means proactively addressing the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of your life in ways that help you achieve your long-term goals and/or improve short-term performance.#habits#goals#betterlife

jonathan couserOctober 25, 2022habits, goals, bad behaviors, change

Pressing Pause before Pursuing a new job; a recipe for better outcomes

When deciding if a new job opportunity is a wise change. The goal of is to try to ensure you are going after the opportunity as an intentional part of your life’s goals/plan with your eyes wide open to the good, the bad, and the ugly. Here is a plan for how to do that more often.

jonathan couserMarch 22, 2022career, career advice, purpose, goals

The Courage to be Intentional in a World of Amplification and Distraction

The books on culture, leadership, and success I read last year provided consistent advice for teams, leaders, and companies that want to be great. Get exceptionally good at knowing what the most important things are, talk about them constantly, execute against them flawlessly and measure success. The advice is basically: Be more intentional.

jonathan couserJanuary 13, 2022change, change management, strategy, goals

The word of 2022 needs to be Courage Part 1: What is Courage and Why you Need it

As I was reflecting on my reading list from 2021 , two things stood out. First, it’s a much shorter list this year. I only read 27 books. This was mainly because my family bought a farm, which required me to divert my time resources for three months away from reading and towards packing, moving, unpacking, and then restoring our full of potential fixer upper.

jonathan couserJanuary 6, 2022habits, leadership, learning, goals

Falling in love with a process leads to death

So, although the process exists for a reason, and there may be parts of the process that are necessary because they enable you to follow the rules/laws, or they keep you/others safe or enable success today. The goal of your job is ALWAYS BIGGER than the process. I guarantee it. How can I do that? Because if the BIGGER thing didn’t exist, there would be no need for the process. The process exists to achieve the thing, not the other way around.

jonathan couserAugust 25, 2021habits, change management, change, purpose, goalsComment

The goal is to chase after the light, not avoid the darkness

In life you will enter into dark places, all people do. Living life trying to avoid dark times is not helpful. Figuring out how to leave the dark place as quickly as possible having learned the intended lesson is a much healthier approach. Here are thoughts on how to achieve that.

jonathan couserAugust 3, 2021health, development, goals Comment

First Name Fear then Set Goals

When setting goals, you first need to figure out why you don’t have them already. Conquer what scares you about setting goals. So you can achieve your goals more often.

jonathan couserMarch 6, 2021goals, purpose

Blog Insights and actions for a better life

Insights through words aimed at making an impact.

What is the goal of parenting?