Simple Daily Practices for a Positive Mindset and Productivity

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Explore the benefits of making your bed in the morning and reflecting on a positive event from your day. Learn how these simple habits can prime your brain for positivity and help you achieve small goals. The chapter also touches on topics like relationships, decluttering the mind, work-life balance, handling procrastination, and bridging the intention-action gap to lead a more productive life.

In this episode, we sit down with therapist Britt Frank to discuss the intention action gap, the psychological term for the chasm between what you very much intend to do and what you tend to do instead. It turns out, there's a well-researched psychological framework that includes a term for when you have a stated, known goal – a change you'd like to make in your life – something you wake up intending to finally do or get started doing, but then don't do while knowing full well you are actively not doing what you ought and wish you had done by now. After we discuss this phenomenon and how to deal with it, we get into procrastination and how to escape all manner of dead-end behavioral loops.

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