I’m wrapping up this month’s focus, reading, in my year-long Foundations project. Normally, I split my final posts into one covering the books I read during the month and one discussing my personal experience and habit changes in the month’s focus area. However, since this month was *about* reading, I decided to merge the two. […]| Scott H Young
Money is the third month of my Foundations project. Read about my plans for improving my personal finances, and how I got to where I am today.| Scott H Young
I’m just beginning the fifth month of my year-long Foundations project. The focus for this month is reading. In case you’re interested, here are the previous months’ content: I picked this focus as one of the twelve because I believe a regular habit of reading, particularly from books, is one of the best foundational habits […]| Scott H Young
I’m wrapping up the fourth month in my year-long foundations project. This month, my focus was on food. You can also read my opening update, and my book notes for the month. Previous months centered on fitness, productivity and money. You can also watch my wife’s and my conversation about how this month in the […]| Scott H Young
As I write this, I’m concluding the first month of my year-long foundations project. The first month’s foundation was fitness. You can read my opening update here and my post covering all the books I read this month here. In this essay, I’ll be focusing on how the first month went for me personally, as […]| Scott H Young
Fitness is the first foundation in my year-long project. Here's how I'm getting back into shape.| Scott H Young
Looking to eat better? Here's some books to add to your shelf that helped me!| Scott H Young
I’m writing this on the first day of the fourth month in my year-long foundations project. The focus for this month is on food. See here for my previous months focusing on fitness, productivity and money. What we eat is a central foundation in life. Food provides the energy we use to live. It is […]| Scott H Young
I’m now rounding out the third month in my year-long project to improve my foundations. This month’s focus was money. In particular, the keystone habit I asked students of my course to work on this month was setting up a system to track their expenses and reviewing it at least monthly. Monthly expense tracking has […]| Scott H Young
Want to be better with money? Here are ten books + the one-minute summary of what you need to know.| Scott H Young
As might be expected given my renewed focus on productivity, I was pretty productive this month—especially at home, which was a bit of a weakness in my old system.| Scott H Young
Insights from ten classic books on productivity, a continuing series on my year-long Foundations reading project.| Scott H Young
Productivity is the second foundation in my year-long project (and course) to improve the universal elements essential to a good life. As I write this, today is the first day of my month-long productivity challenge, although you’ll probably be reading this in the newsletter around a week later. I didn’t want to publish my month-end […]| Scott H Young
As I write this, I’m wrapping up the first month of my year-long project to improve my foundations. This month was focused on fitness, where I concentrated on establishing a daily, thirty-minute exercise habit. Next week, I’ll share an update on how my first month went. But today, I’d like to focus on the other […]| Scott H Young
So much of modern life relies on specialization. But are you good at all the core activities? The foundations?| Scott H Young
