I’m in the middle of the tenth month of my year-long Foundations project. This month’s topic is focus. I’ll share some personal updates in the next post, but for now I’d like to share some of my takeaways from this month’s reading. In case you’re interested, here are the previous nine months’ reading: The 3-Minute […]| Scott H Young
I’m wrapping up the ninth month of my year long Foundations project. This month’s focus was connection—improving the closest relationships in your life. As part of my efforts this month, I read seven books, including one textbook, on the topic. For those interested, here are my previous reading lists about fitness, productivity, money, food, reading, […]| Scott H Young
Some reflections on my close relationships, the ninth month in my year-long project.| Scott H Young
I’m wrapping up the eighth month of my year-long Foundations project. This month’s focus was on reflection. In addition to reading eight books about thinking and feeling better this month (which I wrote about here), I also stuck to a habit of daily journaling. In case you’re interested, you can see my day-one plans, books […]| Scott H Young
I read eight books on reflection this month. I chose to interpret the topic fairly broadly, with my reading covering not just thinking itself, but therapy, meditation, journaling and philosophy. Those interested in the previous seven reading lists for my year-long Foundations project can check them out here: 1-Minute Summary of What I Learned Our […]| 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
I’m wrapping up the seventh month of my year-long Foundations project. This month’s focus is sleep. I’ll share some personal reflections in the next post. In this post, I’ll share the books I read and key takeaways on sleep. For those interested, you can also read my updates and book lists from previous months here: […]| 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
Why loneliness is akin to smoking, democracy depends on bowling leagues, and how to make new friends as an adult.| 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
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
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
Want to be better with money? Here are ten books + the one-minute summary of what you need to know.| 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
