One practice, six applications
Motivation is a poor foundation for anything that has to happen two hundred times a year. It shows up unreliably and it leaves when the work gets hard, which is exactly when it is needed.
What actually holds is structure: a time already blocked, clothes already out, a standing commitment with another person. Make the right thing the default and you stop spending resolve on a decision you already made.
Health & fitness — the review, applied
All six run on the same habit. Start with the Daily Review.
Writing
The weekdays can feel like a blur, especially once routines are established. Days begin to pass as if they’re moving along an assembly line — predictable, repetitive, and hard to distinguish from one another. Each day does have its own moments. None of them are truly identical. And yet, it often feels…
What does it look like to actually live on your terms? In this episode, I sit down with bestselling author and entrepreneur Joe Pulizzi to talk about his latest book, Burn the Playbook — a no-fluff guide to breaking free from outdated success scripts and building a life of ownership, meaning, and leve…
Watch on YouTube I recently discovered Dan Martell’s work through his conversation with Lewis Howes on The School of Greatness podcast. Within minutes, I knew I had stumbled upon something powerful — not just a productivity framework, but a philosophy that aligns with what we believe at Squared Away L…
The other five
Notes, reading, and AI in service of thinking that holds up.
Planning and review rhythms that survive a bad week.
Money handled by a system, so it compounds instead of leaking.
Managing your own work, and other people’s, without heroics.
Building something your children and successors can actually use.