“The best way to ensure students graduate high school, and do well in college, is to ensure they have success their freshman year.” This is what Joyce, a freshman success coach who spends her days strategizing with high school teachers on how to support students, told me. Research spearheaded by Melissa Rodrick at the University…

Executing your habits require little effort. However, to successfully teach a routine habit of yours to someone else is not easy. Here is a framework to make that a little easier. Step One: Demonstrate how to do xStep Two: Watch them go through the steps you demonstratedStep Three: Have them teach you or someone else…

Specificity is interesting. How are you? < How is your mental health? Specificity also provides more interesting answers. Dare to be specific. Photo by Mike Palmowski on Unsplash.

What would change if you were intentional about being the author of your day? You might make a meal for a friend. Or maybe you’d outline your priorities for the day and make a plan to execute them. You have autonomy, ownership, authorship, don’t let it pass you by. Photo by Gian Cescon on Unsplash.

Should you follow passions, ditch them, or save them for your free time? Contrary to the commonly given advice to follow your passion, which assumes you know your passion and most receiving that advice do not, here are two guiding principles: Be comfortable starting small. If you’re in a position where you’re lucky enough to…