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Uncategorized (16)
- Have Trouble Getting to Sleep at Night?, January 21, 2013
- How to Turn Complex Choices into Hard Numbers, September 20, 2012
- How Do You Fix Greed, Part III: Why Should I Sacrifice Myself?, November 15, 2011 (8)
- 5 Authors, 5 Questions: Advice for New Writers at Shimmer, August 18, 2011
- Have an account on Writerspace? Please change your password now!, June 16, 2011
- When Formatting Books with Microsoft Word ..., February 16, 2011
- Tired? Try Getting Some Exercise, September 6, 2010
- Do Bad Choices Make Us Unhappy, or Does Unhappiness Drive Us to Bad Choices?, June 4, 2010
- Just Don't It, April 20, 2010
- My "Use 'em If You Got 'em" Challenge, April 7, 2010
- Free Goals and Habits Coaching Available This Month, March 15, 2010
- How I'm Keeping My E-mail Inbox Empty, February 10, 2010 (5)
- How to Make Self-Motivation Easier, Part II, December 14, 2009
- Improving Motivation Through Better Memory and Learning, September 7, 2009 (5)
- Blog carnivals, May 12, 2009
- Kellen Von Houser on expectations, frustration, and fairness, May 4, 2009
About the site (17)
- Links, People! We Need Links!, March 14, 2012 (2)
- Tweet and Facebook Like Buttons: Sometimes I'm a Little Slow, March 17, 2011
- Combining Sites: Please Do Not Adjust Your Set, January 21, 2011
- Something Completely Different: a New Direction for the Willpower Engine and ReidWrite, January 2, 2011 (1)
- Changing to Three Posts a Week, August 3, 2010
- One Year and 193 Posts Later ..., April 27, 2010
- Seeking Regular Contributors for The Willpower Engine, April 12, 2010
- Starting now, posts every weekday, March 22, 2010
- 100 Posts on Self-motivation and Willpower, October 27, 2009
- Expanded Book Recommendations on The Willpower Engine, October 23, 2009
- New Getting Started Page, September 5, 2009 (2)
- If Your Comment Has Been Eaten ..., August 16, 2009
- Post Willpower Engine Articles on Your Site for Free, August 4, 2009 (3)
- A Quick Shot of Willpower in the Morning?, July 21, 2009
- Looking for and offering guest posts on willpower and self-motivation, June 27, 2009 (1)
- Read The Willpower Engine on your mobile device, May 17, 2009
- How do people do that?, April 26, 2009 (2)
States of mind (82)
- How Do You Forgive People Who Won't Admit They've Done Anything Wrong?, November 20, 2012
- You, Me, and the Dalai Lama, October 18, 2012
- What Our Garage Sale Taught Me About Decluttering My Mind, September 6, 2012
- XKCD: Internal Monologue, August 1, 2012
- Can Money Buy Happiness? Only About the First $75,000 Worth, June 25, 2012
- The Little Lying Creep That Lives in My Head, June 13, 2012 (3)
- Does Simply Believing That You Can Improve Help You Improve?, May 29, 2012
- The Courage to Suck, February 28, 2012 (3)
- How Not to Psych Yourself Out, February 22, 2012
- Always Giving to Others? That's Fine, If You Want to End Up a Stump, February 9, 2012 (7)
- Finding the Perfect Attitude for Willpower, Part II, January 25, 2012 (1)
- Finding the Perfect Attitude for Willpower: Part I, January 12, 2012 (2)
- News Fasting: Is There Too Much News in Your Life?, October 4, 2011 (2)
- Writing and Martial Arts 2: Writing and Punching, August 29, 2011
- Writing and Martial Arts 1: How Do You Like Your Chances?, August 22, 2011 (1)
- Reframing: An Instructive Example, August 5, 2011
- Hope Addiction: Why and How Not to Camp Our Spawn Points, July 1, 2011
- If You Want to Be Happier, You Have to Care Less, May 26, 2011 (2)
- The Surprising Impact of Getting Happy on Career Success, May 13, 2011
- Randall Munroe and Zombie Marie Curie on Greatness, May 9, 2011 (2)
- On Writing and Failure, January 9, 2011 (4)
- Why Happiness Is Key, December 31, 2010
- Recovering After a Failure of Willpower, November 29, 2010 (1)
- Change My Attitude: The Power of Priming, November 19, 2010
- How to Fight Temptation: Don't Be There, November 17, 2010
- How to Believe, November 15, 2010
- How to Harness Desire for Better Willpower, November 3, 2010
- 11 Things Schema Therapy Tells Us About Living a Happy Life, October 29, 2010 (1)
- Willpower: Available Right Now, October 18, 2010
- Transformation: Making One Good Choice Many, Many Times, October 15, 2010
- Want to Reduce Stress? Increase Social Time, July 19, 2010
- Good Intentions Are Fine, But They're Not the Same as Commitment, July 13, 2010
- Willpower as Caring About Lasting Happiness, July 9, 2010 (2)
- How to Be More Focused and Enthusiastic, Part VI: Pairing Pleasure With Goals, July 8, 2010 (1)
- If You're Not Happy Where You Are, Where's Your Mind?, July 2, 2010
- Why Long-Term Happiness Levels Tend to Stay the Same, June 24, 2010
- The Best 40 Percent of Happiness, June 23, 2010
- Mindfulness and Deer Flies, June 21, 2010
- 7 Kinds of Dysfunctional Eating, June 17, 2010
- Telling Bad Advice from Good Advice, June 1, 2010
- Is Willpower Just a Matter of Caring Enough?, May 20, 2010
- What's Drawing You Forward?, May 19, 2010
- The Benefits of Quick, Easy, Pleasant Exercise, May 13, 2010
- How Not to Make Excuses, May 12, 2010
- How to Stop in Mid-Fail, May 11, 2010
- Overcoming Temptation: Begin by Relaxing, May 4, 2010
- Guest Post: How to Be a Badass, April 26, 2010
- Where Are All the Other Beginners?, April 8, 2010 (5)
- Clearing your mind by cashing in, March 25, 2010 (1)
- How to enjoy the dullest tasks, March 23, 2010 (2)
- Why People Are (or Aren't) Such Jerks Sometimes, February 5, 2010
- The Problem of Living One Minute in the Future, February 1, 2010
- Want to Be More Mindful of Your Moods? Try on an Idiot Hat!, January 27, 2010
- Mental Schemas #1: Abandonment, January 18, 2010 (5)
- When Confidence Suckers Us In, December 21, 2009
- Hunger Won't Be Denied: True or False?, December 16, 2009
- Willpower Simplified: Choosing Thoughts, December 9, 2009 (1)
- Does Willpower Really Get Used Up?, December 7, 2009
- Don't Feel Motivated? 10 Ways to Find Motivation Right Now, October 30, 2009 (3)
- How and Why Music Changes Mood, October 12, 2009 (10)
- How emotions work, September 30, 2009 (4)
- Is Taking on a New Goal Stressful?, September 18, 2009 (3)
- Willpower Is Exactly Like Owning a Dog, September 16, 2009 (1)
- Some Steps for Getting into a State of Flow, August 17, 2009 (8)
- Good Exercise Motivation and Bad Exercise Motivation, August 15, 2009 (2)
- Flow: What It Feels Like to Be Perfectly Motivated, August 12, 2009 (2)
- How We Overestimate Our Own Self-Control, August 4, 2009
- The First Step is Admitting That Everybody Else Has a Problem, August 3, 2009
- Do Goals Do More Harm Than Good?, July 29, 2009
- Having a Bad Day? Here's Why, July 29, 2009
- Living in the Now, Visualizing the Future, and Learning from the Past, July 24, 2009
- Why Self-Reliance Requires Surrender, July 16, 2009 (2)
- How self-help helps everyone else, July 3, 2009
- Hidden urgency: goals and the ticking clock, June 26, 2009
- The difference between pleasure and happiness, June 22, 2009 (3)
- When we don't like the things we want and don't want the things we like, June 8, 2009
- Using enjoyment as a tool to reach goals, May 22, 2009 (2)
- How to get a song out of your head (and other seemingly impossible mental feats), May 14, 2009
- Broken ideas and idea repair, May 13, 2009 (11)
- What to do when self-motivation comes and goes, May 6, 2009 (1)
- Self-Control Fatigue, April 29, 2009 (1)
- Why Moods Magnify Themselves, April 28, 2009 (2)
Habits (35)
- Is Your New Year's Resolution Doomed by Uncertainty?, December 31, 2012
- Sleeping Less Leads to Eating More, November 12, 2012
- The Case for Not Eating Breakfast, September 13, 2012 (9)
- Getting More Fit Without Hard Work, August 31, 2012
- Habit Change: Routine and Reward, August 14, 2012
- Habit Change: Identifying the Cue, August 7, 2012
- Ignorant Redneck Earl Hickey Shows Us a Near-Perfect Model of Science-Based Habit Change, June 11, 2012
- Willpower Through the Holidays: Some Helpful Articles, December 23, 2011
- So This Sucks. What's That Shiny Thing? On Schema Avoidance, December 9, 2011 (2)
- Overcommitted: Not Enough Time, December 6, 2011 (8)
- What's the Drug in Your Life? Part II, September 26, 2011
- What's the Drug in Your Life? Part I, September 23, 2011
- The Two Ways to Strengthen Willpower: Focus and Ease, May 18, 2011
- Why Do Different People Like Different Things?, April 25, 2011
- Knowing It Isn't the Same as Doing It, February 17, 2011
- How Trust Is Like a Bank Account, December 6, 2010
- Why Inconvenience Is Essential to Change, October 13, 2010
- How to Make Habits Form More Quickly, August 25, 2010
- Free Online E-mail to Help You Keep a Clean Inbox, July 28, 2010 (2)
- Immediate Willpower?, July 7, 2010 (2)
- 18 Ways to Get a Good Night's Sleep, June 10, 2010
- How Are Your Friends' Habits Changing You?, June 3, 2010
- How to Break a Bad Habit, May 25, 2010 (2)
- My Empty E-mail Inbox, 10 Weeks Later, April 21, 2010
- Compulsively Checking E-mail and Going to Bed Late: Where Unintentional Habits Come From, April 5, 2010
- Shouldn't We Just Do What Comes Naturally?, February 26, 2010
- How to Form a Habit: It's Like Training a Friendly Idiot, January 22, 2010
- Nothing to Do With Weight Loss: 17 Ways Exercise Promotes Willpower and Motivation, November 6, 2009 (1)
- How Long Does It Take to Form a Habit?, September 14, 2009 (30)
- How Much Sleep Do You Need? 8 Hours Isn't for Everyone, September 11, 2009 (2)
- Why the Worst Time to Change Things Can Be the Best Time to Change Things, July 22, 2009
- Why Organization Improves Motivation, and Some Organization Tips, May 20, 2009 (2)
- How to Strengthen Willpower Through Practice, May 1, 2009 (3)
Strategies and goals (133)
- Randall Munroe Tells You Whether or Not It's Worth the Time, April 29, 2013
- Don't Know, Don't Believe, or Just Don't Care?, March 13, 2013
- New Year's Resolutions for Change from the Inside Out, December 10, 2012
- 3 Keys to Living Effectively: Attention, Calmness, and Understanding, October 31, 2012
- Organization: Useful Principles, October 4, 2012
- The Pareto Principle: Useful, Essential, or Just Another Distraction?, June 5, 2012
- Eight Ways to Organize Information and Ideas, May 21, 2012 (2)
- How to Make Sense of a Flood of Information and Ideas, May 18, 2012 (4)
- Have to Do Something and Don't Want to? Here Are 4 Steps to Get on Track, April 2, 2012 (3)
- Having a Purpose Makes You Powerful, March 28, 2012 (1)
- 5 Keys to a Blissful Work Life, March 15, 2012 (1)
- Stay the Course or Try Something New and Promising? Some Ways to Decide, February 15, 2012
- Annie Bellet on More Productivity Through Scheduled Breaks, December 28, 2011
- Don't Use Your Inbox as a To Do List, July 28, 2011 (2)
- Don't Practice in a Vacuum, July 15, 2011 (2)
- When Being Productive is Just Another Way to Procrastinate, July 8, 2011 (2)
- Three Steps to Getting Paid for What You Love, April 28, 2011
- Weed Out Task Lists With the 2-Minute Rule, March 30, 2011
- You Can't Do All That Stuff at Once! (And Neither Can I), February 19, 2011
- To Make Better Choices, Create a Protocol, January 20, 2011
- Taking Stock for a New Year's Resolution, December 24, 2010
- What Kinds of Goals Really Work?, December 22, 2010
- Why New Year's Is Such a Good Time to Make a Resolution, December 15, 2010
- Should You Make a New Year's Resolution?, December 10, 2010
- Why Do You Care?, December 8, 2010
- How Fewer Choices Make for Better Decisions, November 26, 2010
- Instant Feedback: An Example, November 24, 2010
- How to Have a Good Day: 6 More Ways to Make the Most of a Morning, November 12, 2010
- How to Have a Good Day: 4 Ways to Make the Most of a Morning, November 10, 2010
- How to Have a Good Day: The Night Before, November 8, 2010
- Little by Little or Big Push?, November 1, 2010
- Some Tips for Getting Rid of Things, October 20, 2010
- 7 Ways to Find Supporters and Partners, September 29, 2010
- How Supporters and Partners Help Motivate Us, September 27, 2010
- Principles for Prioritizing, Part III: Feelings and Finding the Top, September 24, 2010
- Principles for Prioritizing, Part II: Unimportant Tasks, September 22, 2010
- Principles for Prioritizing, Part I: Moving Targets, September 20, 2010
- The Difference Between an Emotion and a Judgment, September 15, 2010
- Too Many Priorities, September 13, 2010
- Which Comes First: Motivation or Action?, September 8, 2010
- How Exceptions Cripple Organization, August 11, 2010
- How to Interruption-Proof a Task, August 9, 2010
- Fixing a Problem By Leaving, August 2, 2010
- Practice versus Deliberate Practice, July 29, 2010
- Should We Maximize Our Strengths or Minimize Our Weaknesses?, July 15, 2010 (1)
- 6 Steps to Overcome Procrastination, July 12, 2010
- How to Become More Focused and Enthusiastic, Part V: Scared of Trying, June 22, 2010
- How to Become More Focused and Enthusiastic, Part IV: Daily Involvement, June 18, 2010
- How to Become More Focused and Enthusiastic, Part III: Willingness, June 16, 2010
- How to Become More Focused and Enthusiastic, Part II: What Matters and Keeping Score, June 14, 2010 (1)
- How to Become More Focused and Enthusiastic, Part I: Plausibility, June 11, 2010 (2)
- Feeling Tired? Need Energy? Here are 9 Ways to Get Charged Up, June 2, 2010
- The High Cost of Not Liking Your Job, May 28, 2010
- Useful Tool for Daily Tracking: 42goals.com, May 26, 2010
- Tools for Immediate Motivation: Attraction and Distraction, May 24, 2010
- Relax, Goals, Choice, Tactics, May 18, 2010
- Why Weighing In Is a Poor Way to Measure Progress, May 14, 2010 (1)
- How About a Little Later? Would a Little Later Work?, May 3, 2010
- How Do You Keep a Good Thing Going?, April 30, 2010
- True or False? There's Only One Way to Succeed, April 28, 2010
- My Top 1 Task, April 22, 2010
- Motivated, Wise, Productive, April 6, 2010
- Don't Economize in the Wrong Places, April 2, 2010
- Getting Rid of the Little, Distracting Tasks, March 31, 2010
- 7 Tricks for Starting in on an Unappealing Task, March 29, 2010
- Why bother organizing papers?, March 24, 2010
- How Not to Be Late: The 8 Principles of Being on Time, March 19, 2010 (2)
- Will a Good Habit Stop a Bad Habit?, March 12, 2010 (1)
- Why Task Lists Sometimes Fail, February 24, 2010 (6)
- The Eight Things You Can Do With a Piece of Paper, February 22, 2010
- Effective Organization and Filing Are ... Fun???, February 19, 2010
- Are Creative People More Likely to Procrastinate?, February 17, 2010 (4)
- 4 Ways to Make Sure You Get a Task Done, February 15, 2010
- Relieving Stress by Understanding Your Inputs, February 8, 2010 (1)
- Finding More Moments to Focus on the Things We Want to Change, January 20, 2010
- How to Reduce Stress and Get More Done by Turning a Project into a Habit, January 15, 2010 (3)
- The Myth of Just Trying Harder, January 13, 2010
- Resistance Really Is Useless: Why Willpower Isn't About Fighting Ourselves, January 11, 2010 (1)
- To Free Your Mind, Capture Your Responsibilities, January 8, 2010 (2)
- Getting Back on the Scale After the Holidays, January 4, 2010
- 5 Ways to Strengthen a New Year's Resolution, January 1, 2010
- Why Do New Year's Resolutions Fail?, December 28, 2009 (1)
- Choosing a Goal That Will Change Your Life, December 25, 2009
- The Six Basic Requirements of Self-Motivation, December 18, 2009 (1)
- How to Make Self-Motivation Easier, Part I, December 11, 2009
- Harnessing a Winning Streak, December 4, 2009 (5)
- How to Support Someone in Pursuing Their Goal, December 2, 2009 (1)
- How Not to Blow a Diet Over the Holidays, November 23, 2009
- Dealing With Distractions You Can't Prevent, November 20, 2009
- Handling Distractions by Managing Responsibilities, Devising Rules, and Erecting Barriers, November 18, 2009
- Locations That Prevent Distractions, November 16, 2009
- The High Cost of Distractions, November 13, 2009 (1)
- 5 Ways Moderation Gets in the Way of Real Progress, November 11, 2009
- How Preparation Enables Stronger Willpower, November 9, 2009
- 24 Ways to Stop Feeling Hungry, November 4, 2009 (26)
- Where Hunger Comes From, November 2, 2009
- Sustain Your Motivation By Tracking Your Progress Daily, October 23, 2009 (1)
- Why People Who Track Their Behavior Are Much More Likely to Lose Weight, October 21, 2009
- How Do Tactics Change As We Learn New Habits?, October 16, 2009
- How To Do Something You Don't Know How To Do, October 9, 2009
- Knowing Isn't Enough: The 4 Steps Between Knowledge and Action, October 7, 2009 (2)
- Don't Be Tricked By Fake Goals, October 2, 2009
- Strengthen Willpower Through Meditation, September 28, 2009 (5)
- How Tools and Environment Make Work into Play, Part II: Letting Your Environment Help You, September 23, 2009 (1)
- How Tools and Environment Make Work into Play, Part I: The Example of Scrivener, September 21, 2009 (4)
- But It Started Off So Well! What Happened?, September 4, 2009 (2)
- How to Multitask, and When Not To, September 2, 2009 (3)
- How to Get a Lot of Different Things Done Without Going Crazy, August 31, 2009 (1)
- How Feedback Loops Maintain Self-Motivation, August 28, 2009 (12)
- A Surprising Source of Insight into Self-Motivation: Video Games, August 26, 2009 (3)
- Going a Year Without Coffee, August 24, 2009 (7)
- Can a Little Exercise Make Hunger Go Away?, August 21, 2009 (3)
- Time Magazine Says Exercise Doesn't Help People Lose Weight; They May Be a Little Confused, August 18, 2009 (6)
- Why Tackling Big Tasks Doesn't Have to Be a Big Deal, August 14, 2009 (4)
- One Good Way to Judge Goals: S.M.A.R.T., August 11, 2009 (3)
- How Making Rules Can Improve Willpower, August 10, 2009
- Why Knowing Your Next Step Makes Motivation Easier, August 5, 2009
- 10 Top Things That Go Wrong With Willpower, and How to Fix Them, July 27, 2009 (9)
- Mental Obstacles, Emotional Obstacles, and Organizational Obstacles, July 23, 2009
- How To Improve Willpower Through Writing Things Down: Decision Logging, July 20, 2009
- 6 Key Self-Motivation Strategies for Losing Weight, July 17, 2009 (2)
- 7 Key Self-Motivation Strategies for Writers, July 9, 2009 (19)
- 4 steps for getting back on track when you feel overwhelmed, July 6, 2009
- More tactics to aid willpower, July 5, 2009
- Examples of aiding willpower through controlling environment, July 4, 2009 (6)
- Self-Motivation Techniques for Starting (or Restarting) a Big Project You've Been Avoiding, July 1, 2009
- 12 motivation techniques for reaching a goal, June 9, 2009 (4)
- Motivation through visualization: the power of daydreams, June 2, 2009 (2)
- How to handle multiple priorities, May 27, 2009
- Do you have enough talent to become great at it?, May 8, 2009 (5)
- Two kinds of self-motivation: habits and projects, May 2, 2009
Handling negative emotions (62)
- Why People Won't Apologize, April 1, 2013 (1)
- High Pressure and Losing Streaks, April 5, 2012
- Mental Schemas #18: Punitiveness, October 12, 2011
- Mental Schemas #17: Unrelenting Standards, September 28, 2011
- Mental Schemas #16: Negativity, September 9, 2011
- Mental Schemas #15: Emotional Inhibition, September 2, 2011
- Getting Past Our Own Uncomfortable Silences, June 22, 2011
- Cures for Sadness, Part I: Ideas and People, February 2, 2011
- Anger: Keeping Your Cool with Preparation and Self-Awareness, December 29, 2010
- Anger: Does Venting Help or Just Make It Worse?, December 27, 2010 (2)
- How to Not to Get Into an Argument, December 17, 2010
- What Are Your Mental Schemas? A Quiz, Part 3, October 27, 2010
- What Are Your Mental Schemas? A Quiz, Part 2, October 25, 2010
- What Are Your Mental Schemas? A Quiz, Part 1, October 22, 2010
- Mental Schemas #14: Need for Approval, October 8, 2010
- Great Expectations Alone Won't Cut It , October 4, 2010
- Mental Schemas #13: Self-Sacrifice, October 1, 2010
- Mental Schemas #12: Subjugation, September 10, 2010
- Finding Comfort in Uncomfortable Situations, August 20, 2010
- Heading off a Bad Day, August 13, 2010 (1)
- Control, Direct Influence, and Indirect Influence, August 6, 2010 (3)
- Two Top Tools for Reducing Stress, August 4, 2010
- When Is It Time to Make a Change?, July 30, 2010
- Mental Schemas #11: Lack of Self-Control, July 26, 2010 (3)
- Dealing With Problems That Can't Be Fixed, July 23, 2010 (1)
- Mental Schemas #10: Entitlement, July 16, 2010 (5)
- Mental Schemas #9: Failure, July 5, 2010
- A Simple Way to Start Dealing With Worries, June 25, 2010 (2)
- Mental Schemas #8: Enmeshment and Undeveloped Self, June 9, 2010 (1)
- Fighting Anxiety with Hopelessness, June 7, 2010 (2)
- Does Guilt Help or Hurt Self-Motivation?, May 21, 2010
- Mental Schemas #7: Vulnerability to Harm, May 7, 2010
- Mental Schemas #6: Incompetence, May 6, 2010
- Why Lousy Is a Great Place to Start, April 29, 2010
- Tools for Feeling Better, Part III, April 16, 2010
- Tools for Feeling Better, Part II, April 15, 2010
- Tools for Feeling Better, Part I, April 14, 2010
- Examples of Broken Ideas (Cognitive Distortions), April 9, 2010
- Everything Sucks. Reboot? Y/N, April 1, 2010 (1)
- Impostor Syndrome, March 17, 2010
- Self-Control: So Simple, a Five-Year-Old Can Learn It, March 10, 2010
- The Benefits of Feeling Bad, March 5, 2010
- Mental Schemas #5: Alienation, March 1, 2010
- Mental Schemas #4: Defectiveness, February 12, 2010 (4)
- Mental Schemas #3: Emotional Deprivation (with help from Holden Caulfield), February 3, 2010
- Why I'm Proud to Have Been an Unoriginal, Talentless Hack, January 29, 2010
- Mental Schemas #2: Mistrust, January 25, 2010
- Some Ways to Find Out What's Really Bothering You, December 23, 2009 (1)
- What Really Messed-Up Thinking Looks Like, November 30, 2009 (1)
- How to Recover When You've Completely Blown It, November 27, 2009
- How to Repair a Broken Idea, Step by Step, October 28, 2009 (2)
- How to Detect Broken Ideas, October 26, 2009 (2)
- Tools for Taking on a Task You Dread, October 19, 2009
- 6 Ways to Be Happy at a Job You Don't Like, October 14, 2009 (3)
- Good "should" and bad "should", October 5, 2009 (4)
- Where to Find Motivation After Losing a Job, August 19, 2009 (5)
- Specific Steps We Can Take Toward Accepting and Moving On, August 7, 2009 (2)
- How to Stop Having a Bad Day, July 31, 2009
- Dealing with a powerful temptation, June 24, 2009
- Antidotes to bad moods and negative emotions, May 29, 2009 (3)
- How to overcome specific fears and anxieties, May 4, 2009 (1)
Resources (55)
- Wait--Eating Lots of Fat Is GOOD for Your Heart?, March 5, 2013 (1)
- Climate Change Posts: Eating Oil, Carbon Pie Chart, and Hope, December 19, 2012
- My new blog site: Face Climate Change, November 21, 2012
- Things I Love: Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000, October 25, 2012
- Organization: Where Do I Start?, October 9, 2012
- Useful Book: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, August 2, 2012
- Inclusivity and Exclusivity in Fiction: Where Are the Female Villains?, July 29, 2012 (4)
- Book Yourself Solid: A Book on How Integrity and Passion Make for Successful Marketing, April 25, 2012
- What's the Essential Job of Parenting?, April 23, 2012 (1)
- Should You Exercise When You're Sick?, April 17, 2012
- Online Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Courses with Cat Rambo, January 10, 2012
- Writing Motivation for Academics, November 30, 2011
- New Futurismic Column: Wait, You're Not a Real Writer at All!, September 29, 2011
- Breaking Bad Habits by Changing Cues, September 13, 2011
- Another ToDoist outage (now over) ..., August 18, 2011 (3)
- Dean Wesley Smith: "All my early report cards said I had no talent for writing", August 11, 2011 (2)
- ToDoist Is (Was) Down, July 28, 2011 (8)
- On Mental Paralysis and Choosing Tasks at Random, July 11, 2011
- Psychological Warfare Against POWs and Against Ourselves, June 3, 2011
- Hurrah for the Comment King! , May 23, 2011 (2)
- Erik Calonius on How to Be Lucky, April 13, 2011
- Video: What Really Motivates People (Hint: It's Not Money), March 14, 2011
- Useful Resource: CollaborationPaysOff.com, February 25, 2011
- Tips for Easier Meditation at Tiny Buddha, February 11, 2011
- Useful Book: Emotional Intelligence, January 13, 2011
- Where Procrastination Comes From, January 5, 2011
- Microgoals, Red X's, and Unbroken Chains, October 6, 2010
- Communicating Emotions: Useful Words, September 17, 2010
- When Self-Help Goes Wrong: Red Flags and Bad Advice, August 27, 2010 (1)
- Two Tips for Eating Less, August 18, 2010
- Good Resources on Mental Schemas, July 27, 2010
- All About Broken Ideas and Idea Repair, July 22, 2010 (2)
- Useful Book on Social Networks: Connected, July 21, 2010 (1)
- 15-Minute Online Guided Meditation from Kelly McGonigal, April 19, 2010 (1)
- Useful tool for Nutrition and Fitness: SparkPeople, March 30, 2010 (2)
- Useful Book: Getting Things Done, March 3, 2010
- On Clarkesworld: How Memory Works, Copying Brains, and More Science Fiction, March 2, 2010
- The Top 10 Willpower Engine Posts of 2009, December 30, 2009
- Examples of Motivating Workspaces, December 22, 2009
- Useful Book: The 9 Truths About Weight Loss, November 25, 2009 (1)
- A great article about lateness, November 17, 2009
- Free eBook hot off the press--The Writing Engine: A Practical Guide to Writing Motivation, November 8, 2009
- Book Review: Jenefer Robinson's Deeper Than Reason, October 15, 2009
- On Zen Habits, a top-notch article on habit change, September 29, 2009
- Kelly McGonigal on the Power of Expecting Less, September 25, 2009
- Book Review: Brain Rules, September 13, 2009
- New Study Connects Exercise to Easier Weight Maintenance, September 6, 2009
- A Post Crammed Full of Good Motivation Information at Radsmarts, September 6, 2009
- Kaizan on Whether It Helps to Announce Goals Publicly, August 20, 2009 (2)
- Relaxing a Little and Focusing on Positive Interactions at Zen Habits, August 20, 2009
- Chris Quick on Being a Master at Anything, August 12, 2009
- Digging Out, Cleaning Up, Uncluttering, and Getting Organized: Let's Start With a Link, July 18, 2009
- Some of My Favorite Ridiculous Advice About Willpower, July 10, 2009
- The benefits of friends with flaws, June 12, 2009
- Creativity and fitness motivation resources, June 3, 2009
Interviews (22)
- Rick Novy Interviews Luc at Entropy Central, April 17, 2013
- Aikido Interviews #5: It Helps Us Dump Our Egos, February 18, 2013
- Aikido Interviews #4: Something Had Been Activated, February 11, 2013
- Aikido Interviews, #3: Like Learning How to Play Music, February 4, 2013
- Aikido Interviews, #2: "Lift Your Head and Say â€Isn’t Today a Great Day?’", January 30, 2013 (2)
- Inclusivity and Exclusivity in Fiction: Anatoly Belilovsky on Atrocities and Menschkeit, November 9, 2012
- Inclusivity and Exclusivity in Fiction: Aliette de Bodard on Crossing Over, November 2, 2012 (1)
- Aikido Interviews, #1: Trying to Discover Truths, October 24, 2012
- Interview with Del Law: World Building and Character Building in Beasts of the Walking City, September 27, 2012
- Inclusivity and Exclusivity in Fiction: Vylar Kaftan, August 3, 2012 (2)
- Interviews by Deborah Walker on Flash and Favorites and Alethea Kontis on Hard Choices, May 7, 2011
- Judson Roberts: "A slave ... set upon the path to becoming a great warrior", March 4, 2011
- Lawrence M. Schoen: "Marginally self-aware collections of atoms", March 1, 2011 (2)
- Kelly Barnhill: "Gifts to the child I was", February 9, 2011 (4)
- Interviews, Creative Mojo, and Procrastination, January 22, 2011
- Tobias Buckell Writing Motivation Interview, Part III: Bouncing Back, July 1, 2010
- Tobias Buckell Writing Motivation Interview, Part II: Handling Serious Health Problems, June 30, 2010
- Tobias Buckell Writing Motivation Interview, Part I: Desire, ADHD, Flow, and Going Public, June 29, 2010
- Writing Motivation Interviews, Number 1, June 8, 2010 (2)
- Black Belt Motivation: An interview with Gordon White (part II), September 26, 2009 (1)
- Black Belt Motivation: An interview with Gordon White (part I), September 25, 2009 (1)
- Entrepreneurial Motivation and Creating a Business from Scratch: An Interview with Nancy Fulda, September 9, 2009 (5)
Self-motivation examples (19)
- Marie Curie's Losses and Triumphs, November 7, 2011
- Black Belt Mom, August 8, 2011
- Finding Peace in Crazy-Making Situations, July 20, 2011
- Toward a More Motivating Working Space (Sylvia Spruck Wrigley), July 13, 2011
- Steve Bein on Handling Multiple Projects, June 13, 2011 (1)
- Help Amy Become Less Wishy-Washy, May 27, 2011
- Experimenting With a $100 Bet, April 10, 2011
- Andrew's Results: One Month of the Slow Carb Diet, April 1, 2011 (3)
- Andrew, Week 3: Adjusting for a Moving Target, March 22, 2011
- Andrew, Week 2: Movement in the Right Direction, March 15, 2011
- Andrew, Week 1: Damn the Torpedoes; Full Speed Ahead, March 9, 2011 (1)
- Andrew's Challenge: 20 Pounds in 31 Days, March 2, 2011
- A Very Clear Example of the Power of Awareness, February 10, 2011 (2)
- Examples of How Not to Get Into an Argument, December 20, 2010
- The Tipping Point of a Habit, December 3, 2010
- Two Years Without Coffee: How to Resist Temptation, September 1, 2010
- Mental Secret Weapons versus a Cinnamon Bun, April 13, 2010
- Black belt, March 8, 2010 (1)
- Finding Exercise You Love: The Taekwondo Example, January 6, 2010 (2)
The human mind (26)
- The Power of Vulnerability, March 27, 2013 (2)
- Ten Ways to Detect a Lie or Secret, November 6, 2012
- Do You Have Hidden Reserves of Creativity?, July 23, 2012
- Singing Scientists Describe the Wonders of the Human Brain, June 15, 2012
- Research Suggests Self-Awareness Helps Maintain Willpower, June 1, 2012
- Sudden perspective shifts, May 14, 2012 (4)
- How to Change the World: Simon Sinek on Leadership, March 22, 2012 (2)
- Deferring and Sharing: The Well-Being of Others and Our Future Selves, November 29, 2011
- A Simple Trick for Remembering Things That Are on the Tip of Your Tongue, November 17, 2011 (1)
- How Can Bad Relationships Feel So Right?, October 18, 2011
- Brain Overload and Why Your Doctor May Seem Like a Jerk, July 26, 2011
- How Clenching Muscles Can Boost Immediate Willpower, December 13, 2010 (1)
- Who's Changing Your Mood? The Yawning Example, December 1, 2010
- Meditation Mistakes, November 22, 2010
- Can Just Grabbing a Pen Boost Willpower?, November 5, 2010
- What Do Divorce and Malpractice Suits Have in Common?, October 11, 2010
- How Getting a Little Distance Can Help Willpower, September 3, 2010
- How Other People's Happiness Affects Our Own, August 23, 2010
- Using Body Language to Change Our Moods, July 20, 2010 (1)
- Can We Expect Other People to Help Us?, July 14, 2010
- Mirror Neurons and Accomplishing by Watching, July 6, 2010
- The Debate Over Whether Willpower Tires Our Brains, June 15, 2010 (2)
- How to Tell If Someone's Interested in You, and Other Powers of Body Language, May 27, 2010 (3)
- Learn It Again, Sam, May 5, 2010
- Do We Really Only Use 10% of Our Brain?, April 23, 2010 (1)
- What did I just train my brain to do?, March 26, 2010
Guest posts (9)
- In Which Elizabeth Shack Continues Her Quest for a Simple Way to Track Habits, December 21, 2012 (1)
- Vicki Hoefle: If They Can Walk, They Can Work!, June 27, 2012 (1)
- Vicki Hoefle: End Temper Tantrums, In 4 Words or Less, May 16, 2012 (4)
- Erik Calonius guest posts on Greatness and Luck, May 19, 2011
- Guest Post: Tricia Sullivan - Butthead and Butthead, August 30, 2010
- What in the World Is Cognitive Behavior Therapy?, June 28, 2010 (1)
- “I think I can.” vs “Can I?” , May 31, 2010 (5)
- A Solution to Depression?, May 17, 2010
- The 5 Stages of Grief for a Parent, May 10, 2010 (12)
Projects (3)
- Practical Takeaways from Running Our Garage Sale, September 26, 2012 (1)
- The Help: Kathryn Stockett Achieves Resounding Success After Years of Rejection, July 5, 2012
- Making It All About Just One Thing, January 7, 2011
Writing (66)
- When You Hate Your Novel, February 20, 2013
- New Submitomancy Site Will Manage Market, Response, and Submissions Data, January 7, 2013
- 11 Essential Things to Know If You Want to Write Fiction for a Living, November 26, 2012 (2)
- Writing Naked: How to Profit by Embarrassing Yourself, October 19, 2012 (1)
- There's Always Another Way to Write It, October 12, 2012
- Better Writing Through Writing About Writing, October 5, 2012
- Wait, You’re Not a Real Writer at All!, September 11, 2012 (3)
- Inclusivity and Exclusivity in Fiction: Concerns and Obstacles, August 9, 2012
- Inclusivity and Exclusivity in Fiction: Leah Bobet, July 27, 2012
- Will Writers Benefit from Amazon Studios' Success?, July 25, 2012 (5)
- Critique, Mentors, Practice, and a Million Words of Garbage, July 11, 2012 (2)
- K. Bird Lincoln on Plot Turns and the Short Attention Span Writer, June 22, 2012
- How to Write 10,000 Words a Day, Part II (Luc Reid), June 8, 2012 (1)
- How to Write 10,000 Words a Day, Part I (James Maxey), June 7, 2012 (5)
- Inspiration: Essential Magic or a Load of Hooey?, May 25, 2012 (2)
- The Most Troubled Plurals in the English Language, May 23, 2012 (8)
- How Do You Research Characters and Settings So That They Feel Real?, May 9, 2012 (1)
- Writing a Novel in One Week, May 2, 2012 (1)
- Brilliance and Dreck: Using Good and Bad Writers to Self-Motivate, April 11, 2012
- 14 Patterns for Successful Article, Post, and Speech Titles, March 30, 2012
- Writing Differently: Picking Up the Scary Tools, March 26, 2012
- In the April Writer Magazine: "Instant Writing Motivation", March 6, 2012
- Cartoonist Raises $1.25 Million--How? By Offering Stories People Love, March 1, 2012
- When a Failed Story Becomes a Great Story, February 16, 2012
- Choosing What to Say in Your Bio, for Writers and Others, February 13, 2012
- Your Opinion and Twenty-Five Cents: Judging Your Own Writing, February 7, 2012 (5)
- What Makes Characters Riveting?, January 20, 2012 (2)
- On Futurismic: Better Writing Through Writing About Writing, December 21, 2011
- Would Scrivener Make You a Happier Writer?, November 9, 2011 (2)
- Should Writers Have Blogs?, October 20, 2011 (4)
- 15 Ways to Avoid Embarrassment Over Your Young Adult Fiction Habit, October 14, 2011
- Writing and Martial Arts 3: On Mushin and Ignoring the Footwork, October 5, 2011
- Three-Act Structure: Answers to All Your Questions, September 12, 2011
- Three Act Structure: Essential Framework or Load of Hooey?, September 6, 2011 (2)
- Codexian Writing Quotes: James Maxey, August 24, 2011
- Codexian Writing Quotes: Eric James Stone and Helena Bell, August 1, 2011
- Do Introductions Turn Away Readers?, July 21, 2011
- Codexian Writing Quotes: Joy Marchand, June 27, 2011
- Do Agents Own Authors, or Do Authors Employ Agents?, June 24, 2011
- Codexian Writing Quotes: Alethea Kontis, June 20, 2011
- Top-Notch Advice About Literary Agents, June 17, 2011
- Literary vs. Commercial Fiction: Choosing What to Write, May 16, 2011
- Joy and Misery for Writers, May 11, 2011 (3)
- Tobias Buckell Experiments with eBook Pricing, April 12, 2011
- Diana Rowland: Writers, Don't Make This Mistake, March 31, 2011
- Newly-Added Writing Posts: Collaboration, Description, and the SF Ghetto, March 23, 2011
- New from Luc on SFWA.org, Can't Backspace, and Futurismic, March 16, 2011 (1)
- Orson Scott Card announces 2011 Writing Class and Literary Boot Camp, March 10, 2011
- An Infinite Supply of Writing Prompts: Wikipedia Prompt Trails, March 6, 2011 (4)
- Codex Members Garner 15% of 2010 Nebula Nominations, March 1, 2011
- Slowly Revealing Characters With the Snowflake Method, February 24, 2011
- Slowflake: Structure vs Diving In, February 5, 2011
- Trusting Books, January 27, 2011 (2)
- A Novel in One Sentence, January 24, 2011 (1)
- The Virtuoso Writer's Cheat Sheet, August 10, 2009 (1)
- A Method for Collaboration, October 5, 2007
- Six Superpowers of Description, September 1, 2007
- That Certain Something, August 13, 2007
- Avoiding Your Story, July 18, 2007
- Oh yeah?, May 13, 2007
- Promoting Our Writing to other Launderers, May 9, 2007
- Luc's Desiderata of Titling, April 29, 2007 (1)
- How many light bulb jokes does it take to exhaust the genre?, April 18, 2007
- The Myth of the Science Fiction Ghetto, April 13, 2007
- Do you need to go to college to become a writer?, April 7, 2007 (3)
- Luc's Adventures in Writerland, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Interviewing Strangers, January 15, 2004
Just generally interesting (6)
- Vermont Ten-Fest of 10-minute plays (including my "Discovery of Fire"), August 16, 2011
- Too Timid? Too Mean? Maya's Been There, Too, June 14, 2011
- Please, Please Don't Avoid Doctors, June 9, 2011
- Off-topic: Bada** History, March 22, 2011
- Off-topic: Does Wanting Something Make It Real?, February 27, 2011
- Some Common Misconceptions, January 21, 2011
eBooks and Publishing (32)
- When Should a Writer Consider Kickstarter?, May 8, 2013
- How Do I Preload Books onto a Kindle I'm Giving as a Gift?, October 29, 2012
- Interview with Alex Shvartsman on Unidentified Funny Objects, August 27, 2012 (1)
- Three Pillars of Writing Success for Any Publishing Environment, June 29, 2012 (1)
- Smashwords Releases Revealing Analysis of eBook Pricing and Selling, April 26, 2012 (1)
- Finding Your Place in Tradpub versus Selfpub, March 5, 2012
- Digital Book World's ePublishing Predictions for 2012, December 26, 2011
- Free until 12/26: Family Skulls - Curse-fighting in rural Vermont, December 24, 2011
- How Can Libraries Survive the Rise of eBooks?, December 22, 2011
- Are Libraries Doomed?, December 20, 2011 (1)
- Codex Writers' Group Invites Indie Authors to Join, December 7, 2011
- Sandra Tayler on Some Persistent Advantages of Plain Old Paper Books, November 10, 2011
- Amazon Starts Free Kindle Lending Library, November 8, 2011 (2)
- What Will Amazon's New Kindle Format Mean for Writers (and Readers)?, October 25, 2011 (1)
- Amazon Announces $200 Tablet, $80 Kindle, and Touchscreen Kindles, September 28, 2011
- Seeing a Sudden Drop in Sales of Your eBook?, September 16, 2011 (3)
- An Introduction to eBook Publishing, August 12, 2011
- Jud Roberts: Nook vs. Kindle, July 22, 2011 (4)
- Short Collections of Very Short Stories, July 5, 2011
- Learning to Hate Google Books, June 29, 2011 (3)
- My Young Adult Novel Family Skulls Released for Kindle, June 23, 2011
- 172 Stories for 99 Cents, June 15, 2011
- Favorite Hidden Kindle Features: Automatic Audiobook, June 10, 2011
- The Ideal Publisher, June 7, 2011 (4)
- A Nice Big Trap for Pro Writers, May 28, 2011
- Some Reasons for Amanda Hocking's Success, May 2, 2011 (4)
- The Strongbow Publishing Saga: Part II, April 17, 2011
- New Short Flash Fiction Sampler eBook: 17 Stories About the End of the World, April 15, 2011
- The Strongbow Publishing Saga: Part I, April 14, 2011
- This Week Only: Bam! for Free, March 7, 2011
- Traditional Publishing vs. Self-Publishing ("Indie Publishing") Breakdown, February 15, 2011 (4)
- eBooks: What Will Happen Over the Next Decade?, February 3, 2011
I’m just sayin’ (3)
- Counterfictionals: The Witch of the West, December 1, 2011
- If It's Not Fun, Why Do It? A Few Pointed Answers, May 31, 2011 (3)
- When Not to "Be Here Now", May 21, 2011 (2)
Techniques (7)
- How Writing Can Help Cure Depression, July 17, 2012 (2)
- A Cure for Task List Avoidance, May 7, 2012
- The Top 5 Body Language Mistakes in Photos, April 30, 2012 (1)
- How to Make Small Talk, March 20, 2012 (1)
- Body Language for Actors: Common Mistakes, November 4, 2011
- Four Ways to Fight Depression, August 10, 2011
- How to Tell a Real Smile from a Fake Smile, August 4, 2011 (5)
Society and culture (12)
- Luc to Be Interviewed on Vermont Public Radio Today, April 23, 2013
- Fight Climate Change With a Grocery Basket, January 28, 2013
- Inclusivity and Exclusivity in Fiction: Pamela Rentz on People Running Off to Have a Vision Quest, January 11, 2013 (1)
- Inclusivity and Exclusivity in Fiction: Leah Bobet on Literature as a Conversation, September 21, 2012
- Inclusivity and Exclusivity in Fiction: Anaea Lay on "An Element of Excitement", August 24, 2012
- If You Think People Don't Change, You Need to Get Out More, August 23, 2012
- Inclusivity and Exclusivity in Fiction: Steve Bein on Alterity, August 17, 2012
- Inclusivity and Exclusivity in Fiction: James Beamon on Elf-Bashing, August 10, 2012
- Why Amazon Studios Will Succeed, Part 2: Customers and Distribution, July 19, 2012
- Why Amazon Studios Will Succeed, Part 1: Crowdsourced Projects, July 12, 2012
- How Do You Fix Greed? Part II: American Society Is Built for Greed, November 3, 2011 (4)
- How Do You Fix Greed? Part I: The Roots of Greed, October 27, 2011
Luc’s writing projects (26)
- My Never-Ending Project Is Now Finished, March 18, 2013
- Belatedly: Free Audio of My Tall Tale "Tornado on Fire" at Escape Pod, February 12, 2013
- Just Released: The Expanded, Illustrated 2nd Edition of Talk the Talk: The Slang of 67 American Subcultures, January 22, 2013
- Four Days Left to Win a Kindle Fire HD, December 28, 2012
- We're Giving Away a New Kindle Fire HD and 13 Engrossing eBooks, December 4, 2012 (2)
- Watch online: The Discovery of Fire (and Other Bad Ideas), November 14, 2012
- Free Historical Fantasy Novelette Wed-Thu: The Violin-Maker's Wife, November 7, 2012
- Collaboration Leads to 1800's Witchery: The Violin Maker's Wife, September 17, 2012
- Your Opinion: A 30-Second Book Title Poll, August 29, 2012
- Goodreads Giveaway: 5 Copies of Bam! 172 Hellaciously Quick Stories in Paperback, August 28, 2012
- In the Journal Nature: My "Ways to Enjoy Nutrient Blend 14", August 8, 2012 (2)
- On Daily Science Fiction: "Dear Editor, Enclosed Please Find My Story About Your Unfortunate Demise", August 8, 2012
- Audio Fiction: Luc Reid Reading Stories from Bam! at Readercon 23, July 30, 2012
- Your Favorite Habit and Willpower Posts, July 20, 2012
- Bam! Stories of the Impossible and the Wildly Improbably: Free eBook This Weekend, July 13, 2012
- Live at Daily Science Fiction: "You Can't Come Here Any More", May 3, 2012 (1)
- Audio Fiction at Toasted Cake: Tales of the Exiled Letters, April 24, 2012 (1)
- New Flash Fiction of Corporate Interplanar Disaster Planning, April 1, 2012
- Audio Fiction: Hunting for Ernest Hemingway in Kudu Heaven, March 9, 2012 (1)
- Audio Fiction: The War With the Clowns, March 2, 2012 (1)
- Audio Fiction: The Wave's Second Day, February 24, 2012
- Amber Sistla's Writer Wednesday Interview with Luc Reid , January 4, 2012
- Announcement List for Luc's Writing, December 14, 2011
- Bam! 172 Hellaciously Quick Stories free on Amazon until 12/15, December 12, 2011
- Thanksgiving Fiction: On Reincarnation in Turkeys, November 23, 2011
- New on Every Day Fiction: Keeping an Eye Out for the Time Police Regardless, November 21, 2011 (1)
Events (3)
- Readercon: Science Fiction, Creativity, and Fascinating People, July 3, 2012
- The Dalai Lama to Speak in Middlebury, Vermont in October, May 1, 2012
- Talking Writing Motivation with the New Hampshire RWA, March 13, 2012 (1)
Speaking (1)
- Now Offering In-Person Talks on Drive, Focus, Motivation, and Habits, April 12, 2012 (1)
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