Everyday Systems Podcast

Habit tracking when apps or magic markers won't cut it

How pandemic proof are the Everyday Systems? A quick review of 14 systems and how they are holding up.

A system for balancing "infinite work" with "first things."

How to ingore both of the evil voices in your head and attain comic detachment from your psychomachia.

Reflect on what is giving you trouble with your self improvement system. Write a contract with yourself on a 4*6 index card. Record yourself speaking it. Listen to this recorded mantra every day.  

No S for the soul? 14-Year Jubilee updates on 8 "spiritual" systems: Weekend Luddite, Audiodidact, Chain of Self-command, Low Smoking, G-Ray Vision, Monthly Resolution, Lawful Good Biker and The Study Habit

It's been 14 years now since everyday systems first went online in 2002.   And I think that significant anniversary deserves some kind of acknowledgement.   So I think what I'm going to do to observe this is give a kind of "state of the systems" check-in episode, a brief tour of how all the everyday systems are still working for me, -- whether they're still working for me --  how I notice they're...

Are my low podcast production values good enough to produce an audiobook? You be the judge! For this episode, an experimental reading of Chapter 1 of the No S Diet book. Let me know if a few tweaks here and there might do the trick, or if I had better rethink this whole project.

Habit is powerful. But is it always the answer? Is there room for one-time, decisive actions in the realm of self-improvement? I think there is -- but perhaps not quite where you expect it.

In which the subtle but crucial difference between S-days and Cheat Days is expounded upon.

Long term planning with index cards is back! You can now capture your entire life strategy, operations, and tactics in three index cards.

No-tech medium term task managment with index cards.

Low-tech, high-psychology productivity tracking gets even simpler.

The "what the hell" effect sounds funny but it can seriously screw you up. How can everyday systems practitioners defend against it?

Hate your S-days because they make you feel out of control? Here's a mod to help you enjoy them again.

Change your biker-alignment to Lawful Good. Be flamboyantly, comically observant of traffic rules.

Shovelglove without the sledgehammer. Or at least, without making the sledgehammer a requirement.

How to roll your own everyday system from scratch. Introducing the idea of Systematic Moderation.

Still want to tweak an Everyday System? Here's how.

Want to modify an Everyday System? It's possible -- but risky, as this episode emphasizes. Subtitled: "In Praise of Vanilla."

Feel like over the top S-days are undoing all your hard work during the week? Here's how to diagnose and correct this problem.

How well do I practice what I preach? What level of compliance is necessary for big picture success? What's the hardest everyday system? I attempt to answer these questions in my first annual self performance review.

Just as your daily task list should fit on a single 3x5 index card (see Chain of Self Command and Personal Punch Cards), your life strategy should fit on an single 8x11 sheet of paper.

You may think you know the answer to this already -- or at least, the answer I am going to give you. But you're probably wrong. Because it's not a sledgehammer. Or even a sledgehammer with a sweater wrapper around it. It's a timer.