Everyday Systems Podcast

By Reinhard EngelsHealth & Fitness Education Self-Improvement

Everyday Systems Podcast episodes

September 14, 2021 Everyday Systems #58: Loose Lips Sink Ships
A helpful image from WWII propaganda to keep you from sabotaging your self-improvement efforts with premature talk.
6 min
July 15, 2021 Everyday Systems #57: Posifactive
All the self-help books ever written distilled into one word, with a note of enlightened self-mockery that makes the whole thing bearable:
6 min
May 31, 2021 Everyday Systems #56: Good Redundancy
Engineer intentional redundancy into your habit systems to make them fault tolerant.
12 min
April 30, 2021 Everyday Systems #55: The Lifelog
Habit tracking when apps or magic markers won't cut it
22 min
January 01, 2021 Everyday Systems #54: State of the Systems 2020
How pandemic proof are the Everyday Systems? A quick review of 14 systems and how they are holding up.
20 min
December 08, 2020 Everyday Systems 53: Timebox Lord
A system for balancing "infinite work" with "first things."
17 min
October 28, 2020 Everyday Systems #52: Demogorgon vs. Asmodeus
How to ingore both of the evil voices in your head and attain comic detachment from your psychomachia.
22 min
April 03, 2020 Everyday Systems #51: Contract Cards & Mantrafication
Reflect on what is giving you trouble with your self improvement system. Write a contract with yourself on a 4*6 index card. Record yourself speaking it. Listen to this recorded mantra every day.
21 min
July 29, 2016 Everydays Systems #50: 2016 State of the Systems Check-In (Spiritual)
No S for the soul?

14-Year Jubilee updates on 8 "spiritual" systems: Weekend Luddite, Audiodidact, Chain of Self-command, Low Smoking, G-Ray Vision, Monthly Resolution, Lawful Good Biker and The Study Habit
23 min
June 24, 2016 Everyday Systems #49: State of the Systems 2016 (Physical)
It's been 14 years now since everyday systems first went online in 2002. And I think that significant anniversary deserves some kind of acknowledgement. So I think what I'm going to do to observe this is give a kind of "state of the systems" check-in episode, a brief tour of how all the everyday systems are still working for me, -- whether they're still working for me -- how I notice they're working for other people, and any additional insights I might have about them
16 min