In this episode the topic is of masssive importance to your quality of your life, and to your ability to achieving your goals: Your habits.

The episode is a recording from a webinar I did on May 19th 2020, and I cover why shaping habits is often hard - and what you can do to succeed.

In the episode, I cover the 20-second rule, the Seinfeld Method and I explain how I use my Habit Tracker. You can go here to read more about the habit tracker and download versions for your own use.

Download the Habit Tracker from HappyWays.com/habittracker

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My guest today is bestselling author Nikola Danaylov, from Singularity Weblog. His book, Conversations with the Future, is available on Amazon.

We discuss where the world is headed, and more importantly how we will get there. We cover the current pandemic, and bad as it is, Nikola points at a silver lining. 

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Each year in January millions of people struggle to meet their New Years resolutions.

Struggle and fail. In this episode, Jon from http://happyways.com deconstructs goal setting and resolutions, and takes a different approach: Try with a theme or a direction instead of a fixed goal.

Recomended on the show:

The book "Goal-free living" by Stephen Shapiro:

https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Free-Living-Have-Life-Want-ebook/dp/B008NC0U4S

A short TEDx talk on 30-day challenges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnfBXjWm7hc

Martin Seligman at TED talking about positive psychology. This is where he drops the comment that you can loose 10% of your body weigth on any diet:

http://www.ted.com/talks/martin_seligman_on_the_state_of_psychology

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This episode features the audio recording from the 2012 TEDxSquareMile conference in London, where your host Jon Kjaer Nielsen from http://happyways.com gave a 10-minute talk of happiness in the workplace.

For the video, go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK5FnBHTl9A

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Jon does a short episode about how he chose to handle his motorbike getting stolen.

Chosing neither anger nor sadness, he looked ahead and chose action and a positive mindset, thereby harnessing what is called the undoing effect.

What follows is a small attempt at drawing a parallel to the election of Donald Trump for President, and how people react in that situation.

All the while trying to avoild making political statements. Did he succeed, or did we just witness the trainwreck of podcasts? Judge for yourself.

For more on Trump and the consequenses I recommed the other podcasts mentioned on this show:

Common Sense with Dan Carlin

Waking Up with Sam Harris

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Jon goes back to sharing facinating findings from science on this episode. This time it all recolves around incompentece.

In this show you'll learn the priciple of Hanlons Razor, saying simply:

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity,"

Next up is the Dunning-Kruger effect, which helps explain why people act incompent and never learn. Both principles will then be applied to you worklife, and to the behaviour of your boss and others.

Mentioned on the show:

Author Shrikumar Rao: http://theraoinstitute.com/

Steve Jobs on the most important findings in life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR--5Gv8kXA

Will Smith dishing out the keys to life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Z0l-E8Qxk

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This is part 3 in a series on personal productivity. For an expanding article with tips and show notes, go to http://happyways.com/productivity

Building on part 1 and 3, Jon shared insight from brain science that shows that your ability to make descicions is rater limited. It's called Excecutive Ressource, and you really should safeguard it better.

Later, Jon looks at how working in intense sprints can be the key to reaching ambitious goals, as opposed to slogging away at a marathon.

Finally, Jon reads chapter 14 - The Thirty-Day Challenge - from his upcoming book with 100 Ways to Happiness at Work.

For an excelent and short TED video on this idea, see this video:

https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days

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This is part 2 of giving an answer to the question of what your should look for when getting a new job, and in this episode Jon explores the importance of who your boss is.

A boss has a massive impact on the quality of your life, both at work at outside, and so you should really pay attention when you are interviewing workplaces to find your future place to work.

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Picking a job is one of the most important choices in life. Besides sleeping, a full-time job is your number one activity, so it really counts!

In this episode Jon answers three questions with just one answer:

- What should I look for in a job?

- What should we focus on when improving our business?

- What's the number one predictor of success?

The answer is culture. Because culture eats strategy for breakfast. 

Do you have a comment or a question for Jon, perhaps for an upcoming Q&A? Email him at [email protected]