A lot of us know the actions we need to take to live a better life or to break a bad habit. However, there seems to be a disconnect between being able to recognize what needs to be done and actually doing what needs to be done.

What if someone told you there’s one question you can ask yourself that will allow you to create the change you need in your life?

Would you be willing to ask it?

When thinking about productivity, many of us tend towards questions like “How much money do I make?” or “How much work did I accomplish?” as metrics for measurement. But how do you know when you’ve had enough? This cold, corporate approach seems to miss the mark. A superior alternative to these measures is intentionality: The pre-decision of choosing what you do before you do it.

Science or personal experience? Which is the best informant of our decisions, especially when it comes to maximizing our potential and living better—whatever that means to us as individuals?

Author, entrepreneur, and photographer James Clear offers an off-the-beaten-path answer to that question that involves holding on to two distinct ideas simultaneously.

You know you need to build accountability into your New Year’s resolutions AND find the right people to support you in achieving your biggest and most important goals in 2019.

But odds are, you still don’t have adequate accountability in your life.

It’s been an incredible year here at The Science of Success and to wrap things up we decided to pull together some of our favorite episodes from 2018 into one place!

When you think about your New Year’s resolutions – they probably feel very personal.

You’re probably telling yourself that you need do it all by yourself. You have the willpower and the ability to stick to it to make your goals happen.

You don’t need anyone’s help.

I always used to tell myself the same thing.

Do you struggle with people-pleasing and being afraid to say ‘no’ to people?

A lot of the behaviors that we think are nice often come from fear, obligation, or guilt and you don’t want this approval-seeking to dominate your actions and behaviors. 

“New year, new you.” If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a hundred times.

I know I’ve personally had the experience of getting excited, setting a ton of awesome New Year’s resolutions and then slowly dropping the ball on each one as the year went on.

Honestly - most of them didn’t even make it past January. Then, the next year… rinse and repeat.

That was before I completely transformed the way I think about goal setting and creating results. I’ve seen the other side and I know that you can see the same change for yourself.