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INTRODUCTION
0. Pilot your plane
Planning leads to success
PSYCHOLOGY
1. Seeing the world through far-colored glasses
Construal theory and the gulf between dreaming and doing
SELF ANALYSIS
2. Mike Tyson’s bathtub
Working from your strengths
DECISIONS
3. The busyness trap
Shifting focus from keeping busy to working on long term goals
PLANNING
4. One rabbit
Having only one active goal at a time
METRICS
5. Achievable goals
Define the metrics of success
CONTINGENCY
6. Idea journal
Preventing new ideas from sacking your current goals
ACTION
7. The positive and negative confidence spirals
Building genuine confidence and competence
PSYCHOLOGY
8. Lying to yourself to look good for others
Social desirability bias and the dangers of self deception
SELF ANALYSIS
9. Tacoma narrows bridge failure
The only failure is failing to learn
DECISIONS
10. Dangerous drugs and hard decisions
Experiments vs. Accomplishments
PLANNING
11. The first-last-milestones technique
Planning an exact path to success
METRICS
12. Marathon or sprint?
Defining the intensity of your commitment
CONTINGENCY
13. Prioritization life raft
How to manage your goals when things go sideways
ACTION
14. The problem with setting goals
Linking action-oriented and results-oriented mindsets
PSYCHOLOGY
15. But will you be any happier?
Why we often fail to be happier, even when that’s what we want
SELF ANALYSIS
16. What’s your self-improvement debt?
Manage and minimize your existing list of commitments
DECISIONS
17. The California sunshine problem
Why we’re prone to focus on the wrong things when making decisions
PLANNING
18. The effort paradox
Why you misjudge what will actually cause you difficulties
METRICS
19. Goals vs project metrics
How to know what to measure
CONTINGENCY
20. Spot disaster before it strikes
Sense out friction points in your execution
ACTION
21. Can’t exercise today…
Waiting for ideal conditions before taking action
PSYCHOLOGY
22. Alfred Hitchcock and the elephant
Who is really making the decisions?
SELF ANALYSIS
23. Untested convictions
Getting rid of assumptions that derail us
DECISIONS
24. Shortcut vs effort mindsets
Getting the best of both worlds
PLANNING
25. 1-5-20 Method
Learning from others ahead of you
METRICS
26. Are you checking your stats too often?
How often should you be looking at your metrics
CONTINGENCY
27. Thales fell in the well
Don’t forget your goals
ACTION
28. Overkill method
Finding a sustainable intensity to work on your goals
PSYCHOLOGY
29. The horse is here to stay
Fallacies in projecting success into the future
SELF ANALYSIS
30. Accountability partners
Your personal support system
DECISIONS
31. Flexible versus Rigid Decisions
When do be flexible with your decisions
PLANNING
32. A few minutes
The importance of planning and prioritizing each day
METRICS
33. What to do with your metrics?
Do you change your project based on feedback or stay the course?
CONTINGENCY
34. Burnout
Managing yourself in physical and emotional burnouts
ACTION
35. Be unreasonable
Push through on the intense projects
PSYCHOLOGY
36. 3-pointers from your bed
Mental rehearsals
SELF ANALYSIS
37. Project Post-Mortem
Once you execute your project, use the metrics and be honest about failures
DECISIONS
38. Perfectionism paradox
Deciding when good enough is good enough
PLANNING
39. Your personal assistant
Using a productivity system
METRICS
40. What gets measured, gets improved
Qualitative vs quantitative metrics
CONTINGENCY
41. Front-loading
Avoiding last-minute scrambling
ACTION
42. Sprint to the finish line
The art of finishing what you start

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