Chris Loper has been writing about self-improvement and helping busy adults with habit formation since 2017. He also writes an education blog for parents and students for Northwest Educational Services. Along with Greg Smith, Chris is the cocreator of Parenting for Academic Success, a series of transformative classes that create empowered parents, confident students, and harmonious families. His most recent endeavor combines his academic and habit-formation expertise to help students thrive in college. Visit SmartCollegeHabits.com to learn more. In 2021, Chris published a humorous memoir titled Wood Floats and Other Brilliant Observations, a book that blends crazy stories with practical life lessons. He lives in Issaquah, WA where he is the owner of South Cove Tutoring.
I have a problem with to-do lists. Writing things down is a good idea, of course, but the basic to-do list is, well, pretty basic. The typical to-do list fails to differentiate between short-, medium-, and long-term objectives. It doesn’t distinguish between things you have to do today and things you’d merely like to do today. It also doesn’t distinguish between today and tomorrow, between this week, this month, and… Read More »How to Write Better To-Do Lists
Do you ever find yourself rushed to get out the door in the morning, even though you theoretically had plenty of time? For me, this usually happens when I let my desire to do certain things get the better of me. Instead of doing the things I have to do first, I do the things I want to do up until I realize that I barely have enough time to… Read More »Have-To’s Before Wants
What’s awesome? In other words … What’s going really well? What are you proud of yourself for doing? What are you grateful for? What is there to be happy about? What improvements have you made lately? How are you currently succeeding? What are you making progress toward? My answers: I’m doing more than ever, I haven’t missed a day in nearly three years, and I’m noticing the benefits in my… Read More »2 Questions
I want you to think about how you feel when you have to listen to someone else complaining. Does it feel good? Now I want you to think about the fact that, when you complain, you’re making other people feel just as crummy as you feel when they complain. I also want you to think about the fact that, when you complain, you’re making yourself listen to yourself complaining. Does… Read More »Why Complaining Makes Things Worse