Self-Improvement Archives

Change Your Mindset: 4 Simple Steps, From Fixed to Growth

You’ve heard about Carol Dweck’s growth mindset and fixed mindset. What’s your mindset? People can have a mix of the two mindsets, or they can apply a fixed mindset in certain situations and a growth mindset in others. You may have fixed beliefs about your intelligence but a growth mindset (believing you can improve) when it comes to other qualities. However, one mindset or the other — fixed or growth — tends to dominate your life. If you have a fixed mindset, how do you change your mindset to be more successful? We’ll cover how to change your mindset from

How to Avoid Mistakes: The #1 Strategy (And It’s Simple)

We all make mistakes, but sometimes we look back and see that we could have easily prevented some of our errors. Do you ever wonder how to avoid mistakes that seem obvious in hindsight? To avoid mistakes at work and during your everyday tasks, use a checklist. We’ll cover how checklists prevent failure, how to create effective checklists, and why they’re necessary in today’s complex world.

The “Stop Doing” List: Better for Business Than a To-Do List?

What is a “stop doing” list? Why is it an essential tool for business? A “stop doing” list is a list of things you or your company are not going to do. It’s a counter-intuitive technique for maintaining an organization’s discipline from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great. We’ll cover the benefits of the “stop doing” list and why it can be more effective than a “to-do” list, from Jim Collins’s Good to Great.

The 2 Greatest Advantages of Checklists, for Work and Life

What are the advantages of checklists? How can they make you more efficient and less liable to make careless mistakes at work and at home? We’ll cover the benefits it checklists and look at examples of the advantages of checklists in the worlds of aviation and medicine.

How to Avoid Silly Mistakes: The Simple, Proven Strategy

People are pretty amazing: we can predict dangerous storms, explore distant planets, and save people from life-threatening conditions and injuries. Yet highly trained, experienced, and capable people regularly make avoidable mistakes. Do you ever wonder how to avoid silly mistakes? In The Checklist Manifesto, Boston surgeon Atul Gawande contends the reason is that knowledge and complexity in many fields have exceeded the capacity of any individual to get everything right. Under pressure, we make simple mistakes and overlook the obvious. Drawing lessons from spectacular successes and failures in recent years, he argues that the solution is a checklist. While not a

How to Make a Checklist—5 Steps for Great Checklists

While it should be simple to use, developing an effective checklist isn’t a simple task. It requires analysis, real-world testing, and revision. You may wonder how to make a checklist that’s effective. We’ll cover strategies for how to make a checklist from a flight desk designer for Boeing. We’ll also look at why checklists are so effective and provide a checklist for your checklist, so you can make the most effective checklist possible.

The Only 2 Types of Checklists that Matter

Budgeting and Planning: Why Is It So Important?

What are the two most powerful and effective types of checklists? How do you create them to increase your efficiency and avoid careless mistakes? We’ll cover the two types of checklists–the Do-Confirm and the Read-Do–and discuss how to decide which one is right for you and your situation.

Ultimate “Checklist for Checklists”—20 Steps to a Great List

Can checklists help you be more efficient in your life and avoid careless mistakes? How do you create a great checklist? Look no further than our ultimate “checklist checklist”–everything you need to know to create an effective checklist. Take a look at our checklist for checklists, then learn about how to create a checklist and how checklists can improve your life.

Why Do I Make So Many Mistakes? A Checklist Can Help

In the 21st century, we can do things that were unthinkable not long ago. Yet highly trained, experienced, and capable people regularly make avoidable mistakes. You may be wondering, Why do I make so many mistakes? After experiencing his own mistakes and observing those of colleagues, Boston surgeon Atul Gawande set out to learn why smart people make avoidable errors and, more importantly, to find a way to prevent them. The result is The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, in which Gawande proposes a simple solution: a checklist. Learn how to use it to prevent yourself from making avoidable

Why Do We Make Mistakes? The Most Common Reason (+Solution)

Today we can do amazing things: we can predict hurricanes and tornadoes, we can build skyscrapers of all shapes, and we can save people from heart attacks and severe injuries that would have been fatal a few decades ago.Yet highly trained, experienced, and capable people regularly make avoidable mistakes. You may be left wondering, Why do we make mistakes? We’ll cover Boston surgeon Atul Gawande’s process as he sets out to learn why smart people make avoidable errors and how to prevent them.