It just takes one little slip to lose your momentum and all incentives from the hard work you had previously put in. But temptations will come, so you must have a greater understating of your true motivations to help you deflect those moments of weakness.

I once had a boss who tried to reassure me that my inability to clean my office (and create order) wasn’t a sign of failure, because I thrived when working in chaotic situations. This is me stating for the record that while I can work through just about any stressful situations, I still believe I can always operate at a higher if I am actually working from a base state of calm.

The ability to spread misery is more powerful than any virus that man could imagine. But you can do your part to keep the spread of misery down when you do find yourself in that state.

Being alive on a planet with over 8 billion other humans means abiding by rules to keep everyone civil and safe. But every rule on the books, despite its ability to keep us all civil and safe, may not be as necessary now as it seemed to be when originally passed.

There are two simple tenants to personal improvement. It is improvement for yourself that can affect the world around you (not the other way around), and there must be some sort of measurement of improvement to gauge if the efforts are working. And they are efforts that involve work.

In times of trouble, it’s good to know who will really be there to help you out. Do you know who will really be there to help you out in times of trouble?

Any goal worth achieving will take effort--i.e.--work to accomplish. But when that work turns to obligation or tedious activities, you have to ask yourself what about your work is making it so much like ‘work?’

This is the 100th episode of the Ten Minute Life Lesson podcast. And while I am normally big on celebrating milestones, this episode will focus on a simple premise: using a checklist to stay productive (and sane).

If you need a form to use for your own checklists, you can try my Daily Dozens Planner here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hep00ddyc94of7z/daily_dozens_combined_sheets.pdf?dl=0

You have a story that someone needs to hear.

What people are into is a window into what they are going through.