Today is the first day of the tenth month of my year-long Foundations project. This month’s theme is focus. Focus is a complement to productivity, the second month, which emphasized creating systems that capture, organize and plan your efforts. But this system-building has an obvious weakness: it doesn’t decide what needs to be done and […]| Scott H Young
Some reflections on my close relationships, the ninth month in my year-long project.| Scott H Young
I’ve just begun a new month in my year-long Foundations project. This month is focused on reflection, where I’m restarting a daily journaling habit and digging into some of the research on thinking and feeling better. For those interested, you can check out my previous seven months here: Why Journal? The keystone habit for this […]| Scott H Young
Today is the first day of the seventh month in my year-long Foundations project. This month’s focus is sleep. In case you’re interested, here are my notes from the previous six months: Sleep is essential for health, productivity and well-being. Yet often we don’t give it the attention it deserves. While those who shirk on […]| Scott H Young
I’m now entering the sixth month of my year-long Foundations project. This month’s focus is on outreach. One of three socially-oriented foundations, outreach focuses on meeting new people and sustaining friendships with people you don’t see every day. Two related foundations, connection and service, will focus on improving close connections and finding ways to help […]| 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
Fitness is the first foundation in my year-long project. Here's how I'm getting back into shape.| Scott H Young
Foundations - A Year of Focused Renewal| join.ingeniumcourses.com
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
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
So much of modern life relies on specialization. But are you good at all the core activities? The foundations?| Scott H Young