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You Need to Identify Your Motivations for Your Goals

Completing large goals can naturally prove challenging. But clarity about why you’re pursuing them can help you focus on seeing them through.

January 20, 2025 · 7 min · J. David Stark
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You Need to Know What You Want to Accomplish in 2025

What do you want to accomplish in the next year? Intentionally planning with these 5 steps will help you make the most of it.

January 13, 2025 · 15 min · J. David Stark
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Happy New Year 2025!

As the year ends, life tends to slow a bit. That ebb provides helpful space to consider the year that’s passed and the one that lies ahead.

December 30, 2024 · 3 min · J. David Stark
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Where Do You Want the Most Help Next Year?

Where do want help next year? Drop me an email or take a quick survey to let me know what would be most helpful.

December 16, 2024 · 2 min · J. David Stark
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How to Make Your Goals Even More Actionable

Even actionable goals aren’t doable. That’s why you focus on the next actions they require. And when those are done, your goals will be too.

April 1, 2022 · 5 min · J. David Stark
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You Need to Scale Up Your Research Project Timeline

You need to scale up your research timeline because of inaccuracies in small samples, differences between projects, and the planning fallacy.

July 12, 2021 · 4 min · J. David Stark
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How Long Will Your Research Project Really Take?

You can better understand how long your research project may take if you track your progress, set your scope, and scale your timeline.

July 5, 2021 · 3 min · J. David Stark

Daily Gleanings: Planning Preaching (20 September 2019)

Daily Gleanings about planning preaching and coordinating it with academic work.

September 20, 2019 · 2 min · J. David Stark

Daily Gleanings (5 July 2019)

Daily Gleanings about complex systems, their failure, and remedies for these failures, as well as brief suggestions for restoring motivation.

July 5, 2019 · 1 min · J. David Stark

Are You Free to Focus? (Part 4: Acting)

Continued review of Michael Hyatt’s “Free to Focus.” We discuss the three elements of “acting” on what you’ve identified as most important to pursue.

April 29, 2019 · 4 min · J. David Stark

TopTracker

TopTracker provides a straight-forward, free time tracking utility that works on both Windows and OS X.

October 9, 2017 · 1 min · J. David Stark