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How-Tos

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“With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer” – Unknown

I think skills often make the difference between success and failure. I think one of the best ways to share skills and expertise is through How Tos.

How Tos are also a great way to turn insight into action.

This is my page of How Tos for building personal development skills, leadership skills, productivity skills, business skills, and more.

Popular How Tos

How To Achieve Any Goal
How To Avoid Breaking Under Pressure
How To Build Unshakeable Confidence
How To Change Any Emotion
How To Change Any Habit
How To Figure Out What You Really Want
How To Find Your Strengths
How To Find Your Values
How To Improve Your Crucial Conversations
How To Think Like Bill Gates

How Tos by Category

Browse How Tos by your area of interest:

Career

How To Be a leader In Your Field

Coaching

How To Use a Coach Effectively

Confidence

How To Build Unshakeable Confidence

Decisions / Decision Making

How To Decide with Criteria and Weight
How To Make Better Decisions Through Disagreement
How To Develop Your Intuition

Emotional Intelligence

How To Change Any Emotion

Focus

How To Change Focus

Goals

How To Achieve Any Goal
How To Set Better Goals with Well-Defined Outcomes
How To Create Well-Formed Outcomes Using PRIEST

Habits

How To Change Any Habit

Identity / Self-Image / Self-Esteem

How To Boost Self-Esteem

Interpersonal Skills / Influence

How To Repair a Broken Work Relationship
How To Communicate Without Conflict with Anyone
How To Improve Your Crucial Conversations
How To Negotiate More Effectively
How To Overcome Mistrust
How To Overcome Resistance
How To Deal with Hard Bargainers
How To Get Your Ideas Adopted through Imperfection

Limiting Beliefs / Negativity

How To Use the Triple Column Technique to Defeat Negative Self-Talk

Mind / Thinking Skills

How To Think Like Bill Gates
How To Use the PMI Technique to Improve Your Thinking
How To Use Six Thinking Hats to Improve Your Thinking

Motivation

How To Use the TIC-TOC Technique to Motivate Yourself
How To Defeat Procrastination with a Daily Activity Schedule
How To Defeat Procrastination with a Daily Record of Dysfunctional Thoughts
How To Defeat Procrastination with an Anti-procrastination Sheet
How To Defeat Procrastination with the But-Rebuttal Method

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)

How To Elicit a Strategy in NLP
How To Create Well-Formed Outcomes Using PRIEST
How To Reduce Generalization, Deletion, and Distortion

Problem Solving

How To Solve Problems with Skill
How To Rapidly Solve Personal Problems Using Structured Questions

Purpose / Passion

How To Design a Fulfilling Life
How To Find Your Why
How To Figure Out What You Really Want
How To Use a Pleasure-Predicting Sheet to Find Your Passion

Strengths

How To Find Your Strengths
How To Put Your Strengths to Work

Stress

How To Avoid Breaking Under Pressure
How To Use the Relaxation Response to Melt Away Stress

Task Management

How To Avoid Task Saturation
How To Do Tasks More Efficiently
How To Use Timeboxing for Getting Results
How To Pave a Path Forward

Teams / Teaming / Teamwork

How To Consistently Build a Winning Team

Vision / Mission / Values

How To Write a Personal Mission Statement that Inspires You
How To Find Your Values
How To Paint a Future Picture to Share Your Vision
How To Step Into Your Future to Visualize Success
How To Visualize Success
How To Visualize with Skill
How To Inspire a Vision

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