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Habits and Changes We Want to Make in 2026

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Scott Tolinski

It's new Yarn. New me. New us. New Wes. New Scott. We're gonna be kicking off this year with the type of things that, well, we want to change in ourselves over the course of this year, but also how you can cultivate change in your life and the types of things that you are wanting to see out of yourself over the course of the year. Wes,

Wes Bos

my man, new year, new year. How's it going? Good. I You're standing. Recording this in we're recording this in December. Wes. Standing.

Wes Bos

That's one of my goals this year. I've got the standing desk, and I've forever been a a Sanity desk hater because I say I love the standing desk simply because you can adjust it to be the perfect height for your sitting. You can adjust your chair till you feel good, and then you adjust your your desk up and down so that it feels good as well. But there's gotta be something to to the standing right now. So I'm I'm feeling it right now. So I'm I'm like, new. You're new me. I'm gonna I'm gonna be standing. I'm gonna be trying to stand at least what what's a good amount of hours that you think I should be standing every week to be not standing? As much as possible.

Scott Tolinski

As much as possible? Get those legs some work. Get a little treadmill. Walk on that bad boy.

Scott Tolinski

Get them legs moving. Yeah. Do some squats. You can have your here's here's the the power move.

Scott Tolinski

Program your Wes that it automatically moves up and down so you Scott squat with it.

Wes Bos

That's so stupid. I have work to do.

Wes Bos

I'm gonna say Yeah. I when you have these goals every year, you Node to, like, be, like we always talk about Scott goals. Right? Which is, like, it needs to be specific, attainable, measurable.

Wes Bos

I'm doing it in the wrong order. Yeah.

Wes Bos

They're smart. Time based.

Wes Bos

Yeah.

Wes Bos

So I think I'm gonna try to stand for at least two hours a week, which is not a lot, but No. I hate standing. So here we go. Yeah. There's a book I read,

Scott Tolinski

last year or the year before about taking, like, one small step to make any change. I think it's Kaizen. Kaizen was the book.

Scott Tolinski

And it was Scott, basically, like, anytime you're trying to cultivate a habit or a change or anything like that, start with, like, the smallest possible amount. Like, Wes, I'm gonna stand for the first or I'm gonna stand for, like, a minute every single day. You're you're, like, the one thing that should be the easiest, but I can stand for a minute. Okay? I can stand for thirty seconds a day and then, like, slowly increase that or integrate it into your life, and that makes learning these things a little bit easier. But, yeah, I do agree that as as cliche as that whole Scott goals thing is, it is a good way. It works. It's cliche for a reason.

Wes Bos

Oh, yeah. It works. It that works in in, like, business or anything. Don't just be like, I want to do x, y, and z more. You have to have actual numbers around it so that you can measure if you hit them or not.

Scott Tolinski

Yeah. I it it is funny. So I think some people truly, like, believe that they are the way they are, and they are unable to greatly change or modify things in how they act or their life. And I think to some extent, yeah, that's that's true. But, like, I I think we all are capable of so much more than what we give ourselves credit for in terms of, like, really being able to enact change on ourselves and our processes and our systems by building in small habits and changing them and and getting better about it and all kinds of stuff. And I I personally the types of things that work for me JS, like, habit tracking.

Scott Tolinski

I I did build an app, habitpath.io.

Scott Tolinski

I still use this app. It uses zero sync. It's local data. It's super duper fast. And I track so many habits in this thing. I even added, like, a feature Wes for tracking, like, my, like, daily levels of things, like my sleep quality or my, like, irritability or something like that so you can just see numbers over time. Because I I I I'm greatly motivated by not necessarily like a I am motivated by a streak, but I am motivated by seeing the things light up over time.

Wes Bos

And my You love that.

Scott Tolinski

I do. And my my exercise machine, I had a four year streak going, a four year weekly streak going until my concussion, and then I lost that four year streak, and it was devastating.

Scott Tolinski

But Nuts.

Scott Tolinski

Yeah. I do think that me personally tracking these things can help. You pick something that you would I the the ideal version of me would be good at this. The ideal version of me would be good at email. So, therefore, I'm gonna make a a task or a habit that is inbox zero, and I'm going to have a time in the day that, gets me down to inbox zero every single day and or whatever. I I'm gonna build this into my life, and you just gotta stick to it. I I know it's January, and habits are so easy to say I'm gonna do this in January and then February, whatever whatever whatever.

Scott Tolinski

But, man, build a system for yourself and stick to that system. I I I think we are all so capable of it, and and I think so many people fall off on these things. Small incremental improvements, man, that can can can really add up. Every single day. Yeah. You you improve in in different ways. There's all kinds of stuff that I, like, wanted to improve on, whether that is, like, stretching or or not drinking alcohol as much or, I was having a shoulder pain, so I wanted to hang from a bar. So I put, like, hanging as a as a daily task, and I hung, and I fixed my shoulder.

Wes Bos

But if I didn't have that I had that as well. I I had, like, a pinch in it, and I couldn't, like, I couldn't lift things up that were, like, away from my body. And, like, I had it for, like, months, and I finally just hung, like, a couple days in a row, and it totally solved it. I had a goal that was, like, just do a handstand every day. And it wasn't, like, spend

Scott Tolinski

thirty seconds doing handstands. It was just do a handstand every day. A single handstand.

Scott Tolinski

I got really stinking good at handstands. So Do it right now, Scott. Have you done yours today?

Wes Bos

No. Here we go.

Scott Tolinski

I don't have a lot of room here, so

Wes Bos

I don't care.

Wes Bos

Oh, my gosh. He's he's gonna kick something. So I I have one hand on carpet and one hand on floor. For audio listeners, you just nailed it. Oh, and he's doing a second. Or he's been a show off now.

Wes Bos

Oh my gosh. Alright. That's enough.

Wes Bos

He's been a show off now.

Wes Bos

I have very little room to do to do that. That's that's I know. I've been in your office. That's very impress I I'd be impressed if you did that if I could do that at all, let alone in your office.

Scott Tolinski

Yeah. Yeah. I, it was one thing I wanted to get better at after doing my, concussion

Wes Bos

was getting back in the handstands because it's pretty low impact. Right? So Yeah. Beautiful. Alright. Next thing. What else, other habit that I have here? I want to learn to wake up early. Probably my biggest flaw is that I hate waking up, and it sucks. And I often think, like, man, how sick would it be if I could wake up at, like, 05:30 and have a little bit more time? Because, like, right now, I do gym twice a week.

Wes Bos

That's just the amount of I have two mornings a week where my wife takes the kids to school. My our evenings right Node, my my evenings, I used previously, I used to be able to just do so much in the evening. I used to do something every night, you know, the house house project or or, like, coding something. And, like, just the way family looks right now, I just don't have that time anymore. You know? By the time you get everybody in bed, it's, like, 09:30, and I just don't have a time for it. So I would love to get at least one more gym day in a week, and where that time comes from is probably in the morning. So I need tips on, like, how to wake up early because leave them down in the comments because I would love to crack that nut. So you think 05:30, that's the time you wanna wake up? Well, I don't know if it's 05:30 or whatever, but it's just earlier. Like, right now, I just wake up, and I'm just like, I hate everything. It takes me, like, a good twenty minutes to just get going. You know? And I would love to just be a morning person Wes you could just wake up and, like, yeah.

Wes Bos

I have my coffee, and I calmly check my emails. And I Wes to the gym, and now the kids are waking up, and and now we can and tackle it. You know? But it's just like right now, it's just like chaos as soon as I wake up.

Scott Tolinski

Yeah. You know what? I, here's a way that you can wake up early. You can get a concussion that gives you, Node. Thanks. Sleep issues.

Scott Tolinski

When I got my concussion, that was, like, one of my biggest things was that I couldn't sleep. And then when I did go to sleep, I would wake up in the middle of the night, and then I would wake up again at, like, four in the morning and not be able to go back to sleep.

Scott Tolinski

And I will say there was a period there before I got on some medication to help me sleep where I was getting up out of bed at, like, 05:00 and going downstairs to work because I was like, what what's the point? I'm not gonna go to sleep anyways. Yeah. And I really liked it. I was like I didn't really like not sleeping, but I really liked that time in the morning, to get my stuff done. And now I wake up at seven ish, like, seven, 06:30, because the kids gotta get to school and stuff.

Scott Tolinski

Six, seven. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. They said it. We said it.

Wes Bos

We did it. Yeah. We did it. Yeah. Our kids are big into six, seven right now. Oh, man. Mine too. And I I play into it too. It's great. Although, apparently, the new there's a new brain rot called twenty five, which JS, like, Christmas brain rot. So now they're walking around me like, 25.

Wes Bos

They're just ruining every number.

Scott Tolinski

Wes. Okay.

Scott Tolinski

Yeah.

Scott Tolinski

I know. It is very funny. It it is it is ridiculous.

Scott Tolinski

Even, like, the kids' school, they were at, like, a Halloween assembly, and the dance teacher comes out, and she's like, is everyone six seven today? And they're like, the kids went nuts. It's just like So good. My gosh. It's wild.

Scott Tolinski

Yeah.

Scott Tolinski

A habit that I would like to cultivate for this year would be to really embrace my to dos at the start of every day. Any single time that I am feeling scatterbrained or unproductive or, like, I'm doing this or that or I'm, like, not feeling like I'm accomplishing a whole lot today. I, you know, I tell my wife, and she's always like, did you do your to do list for the day? And I have to shamefully go, no. I didn't. And I know if I did, I wouldn't have this problem. And then I do my to do list, and then I knock things off. So, like, I really need for my to do list, which I use the app tweak.so and still really, really love this app for how minimal it JS. I need for this system for me every single morning to do my to dos, like, to list them out, to prioritize them, to schedule them, to keep it organized.

Scott Tolinski

Because even it was it I I I did a good job of it, but then by November, especially with the concussion stuff I know I'm gonna be saving a lot this episode. It really threw me off, and things would just stick on my to do list for months and months and months. And this is like, alright. This is no longer a to do. This is like you've tremendously passed this by. So, like, I need to really stay on top of my to do list. What I do is I I use things,

Wes Bos

and I have, like, an I have an inbox where I just dump everything, which is like that that's probably what you're using for. It's like, I have to do this at some point, and what I do is I'll just dump it into my inbox. And I also have it it's hooked up to Apple reminders, so I can just do it from my phone as well. I often do it on my watch. I'll just be like, remind me to to do x, y, and z, and I use that a ton because often I'm just, like, falling asleep or whatever or, like like, with the kids, and I go, oh, I forgot to do x, y, and z, or I need to do this tomorrow, or or that would be a really good video idea. Yeah. And I'll just pop it in under my watch, and then I'll I'll go in the inbox. And then you can drag things into the today to today, any day. I have a whole bunch of different categories that I'll drag things into. I use it also just as, like, a just a way to have, like, video ideas.

Scott Tolinski

Wes. Like yeah. Yeah. Tweak has that where they have different ESLint. So I do have a videos list. I have a three d print list. I have individual items for projects I'm working on. They sell on marketplace list that for a long time only grew. And guess what, Wes? With the advent of AI browsers, I finally started selling things on marketplace.

Wes Bos

Oh, man. You know what? I I got penalized on marketplace. I took pictures and gave them a chat at GPT and said write a description of what this product is. That's I've done that. Yeah. But it it, like, it, like I got, like, shadow banned or something on Marketplace. Like, nobody rep replied to anything that I was I was selling. I was like, oh, shit. I got shadow banned. Yeah. And I tried I I've been posting stuff just regular old. So I think they're they're doing something with with that.

Scott Tolinski

My rower. I sold my Wi Fi six router.

Wes Bos

I sold all kinds of stuff this Yarn, and only because AI helped me do that. Oh, that's great. But, yeah, to do list is so key. And then I'll just drag things into to today list, and then I'll bubble them, I call it. I move them up and down and then just tackle every single one, especially when I'm feeling, like like you said, frazzled. I'll have a stack of mail. I hate mail so much. You get the all these mails in the thing, you got property taxes that you have to pay and all these, like Node. Like, health cards that need to be renewed.

Wes Bos

I hate it so much. So I'll just have a house stack, and then I'll just, like, blitz through it all at once. Yeah. And it makes me feel better. Is a a hole in the wall that, like, just drops it into a shredder somewhere or something. Because

Scott Tolinski

I end up what I have is just a big pile of stuff to be shredded. That's all I do. And then you do it, and it takes all day. I have a I have a shredder in my office, and I just walk over and.

Scott Tolinski

See, my my my office is outside.

Scott Tolinski

My shredder's in the basement. Yep.

Wes Bos

I'm not just near it anymore. You're not walking to it. I always process my mail in my office, so it works.

Scott Tolinski

You bet.

Scott Tolinski

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Scott Tolinski

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Scott Tolinski

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Wes Bos

K. Let's talk about email.

Wes Bos

I'm Yeah. The worst at email because I get so much garbage that I can't find the, like, actual good stuff out of it. And I've complained about this for a long time. I tried setting up a whole bunch of AI rules, and it all just doesn't work. I cannot figure out how to surface the email that matters to me. I get so much, like, slop incoming AI, like, cold emails.

Wes Bos

And, obviously, I block it, but they just spin up a new domain name.

Wes Bos

But I need to figure out a system, a, to get less email. You know? I gotta figure out how to stop it from coming in the first place.

Wes Bos

And, b, another system for just, like, dealing with it. You know? Like, I hate email, and I I I rarely go through. I go like, I scan it once or twice a day and and see hopefully, I catch the important stuff, but sometimes stuff gets missed, and I I don't love it. I love inbox zero, and I would love to help you get there. I

Scott Tolinski

reached I've currently reached inbox zero for the last six weeks. I hit inbox zero two hundred and forty four days of last year Oh, man.

Scott Tolinski

Which means I have no emails in my inbox. Let me tell you. The key to inbox zero is to use your inbox as a to do list. If it is in your inbox, you have to do something with it. If it is meaningless, you you archive it, you get rid of it. If it's something you can do right now, you do it right now or you leave it for that part of the day where you can do it. If it's something you cannot do today, you snooze it. Bingo, bango. You do that, you never have an email. Like, the most emails I ever have is when I wake up and there's, like, you know, 12 emails in my inbox total.

Scott Tolinski

But, like, if you treat it like that, like, truly, like, it's a to do list, man, like, not only do you feel lighter about it every day. Yeah. But, for me personally, it acts JS, like, a to do ESLint, another system like that that I can, like, truly feel like I I know where everything's at, and I'm never I'm never guessing. Right? The things that are, a need to accomplish or not accomplish. So yeah.

Wes Bos

It's probably Scott, my part probably not an email problem. It's more of a, like, I don't feel like dealing with this right now, and then it just stacks up. Snooze it. And then it yeah. But then I I do snooze it, but then, like, it's true. Then I get so like, how many emails have I got today alone? And I aggressively block and unsubscribe from everything. And I have about 23 emails so far since midnight, and it's Yeah.

Scott Tolinski

About twelve, thirteen hours, which is not a I get it's not a lot. You know? I could probably blitz through those in five minutes. But I I do it first thing every day. And then I close my email, and I don't open it for the rest of the day unless I'm, like, expecting a back and forth. But I do it very first thing, and and I do it, like, as part of my my morning routine. I get into the office. I open up my inbox, and I either snoo I get I snooze this thing sometimes for, like, a week. I'll say, I don't I can't do this now until next Wednesday, and you'll just snooze it, for a week or whatever. Problem is that I, like, I sit down and I I hopefully know what I'm gonna work on, and it's I'm just getting into the code or I'm working on whatever project.

Wes Bos

And, like, that's my energy is the highest in the morning, and that's what I wanna get. I don't wanna fritter away my time fussing with emails. You know? Especially because I feel like most of the emails are people just demanding my time pnpm.

Wes Bos

Get rid of them. Trash it. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. Then they then they send follow ups. Oh, I'm just checking in. Did you see x, y, and z about our stupid AI tool? Would you like to do Block and report spam. Block and report spam. Yeah. I do. I do. I do every single one, and they spin up brand new domain names

Scott Tolinski

every single time. And I'm on Node of the apps, so I think it's because my email address is in the RSS feed. Those are the fastest ones you can get through, though, because you can just zoom right through them. You know it's That's true. You don't have to read it. You just trash, trash, trash, trash. You know? I I like I know Superhuman was bought by Grammarly. I know it's an expensive tool. The thing I like about it, though, is that the whole thing can be keyboard navigation, and the the key for getting rid of something is just e or something. So you can just look at your Bos, go you're like, you're in one, and I can just hit e. The next one pop up to e. Next one pop up an e. You know? I'm not, like, having to click through the things or find the buttons or whatever.

Scott Tolinski

And that, to me, it makes it really smooth. My tasks in general, I think, everything in my life, I would like to have more minimal. I've done a good job of this with inbox zero as evidenced just now, but I do find my to do system, as I mentioned before, things pile up.

Scott Tolinski

My systems allow for things to pile up sometimes. And I don't mean just to dos and emails. I mean, physical items sometimes. I got papers over here that pile up. I got another stack of papers over here that pile up. I hate papers so much.

Scott Tolinski

My file system on my computer Yeah. Yeah. My file system on my computer and my NAS drive have just become a dumping ground of, like, I'll organize this later.

Scott Tolinski

And I know, like, there's gotta be some tools. I actually built a an I I, built some personal software for myself, Wes, called Filebro.

Scott Tolinski

And Filebro, I don't necessarily trust it just yet, but it will hopefully solve some of these issues where you can build it's like Hazel Wes you can build these kinda, like, complex automations and then just have it buzz through and move your files around.

Scott Tolinski

I I need to build in the ability to, like, undo before I really let this thing rip on my file system. But I could find, like, alright. Scan because it does transcripts too. So you could say, scan these, video files. And anytime I mentioned the word level up tutorials, put it in the level up tutorials folder. Anytime I mention, the name of the course, this is the name of the course.

Scott Tolinski

Put it in this, and then I have these, like, complex JSON workflow documents. See, I did that with my email,

Wes Bos

and it was just it's all in the edge cases. You know? It works Oh, yeah. Like, 93% of the time, but it works just not often enough

Scott Tolinski

that you're And I don't I don't need this to work, like, automated for me every day. What I need this is to clean up the existing structure because it is like what I have is a giant pile of clothes, and what I need is those clothes to get folded and put in the right drawer. So that way, when I get a new piece of clothing, I don't just throw ESLint the pile, and I have somewhere to put it. That is my problem.

Wes Bos

Yeah. Systems, man. Minimals. System. Minimals.

Wes Bos

Yeah. Wes. That's a that's that's a big problem of mine is that I'm a I love things.

Wes Bos

Like, not not not like, like, physical things, but, like, I love Oh, I love physical things. ESLint Yeah. Hobbies.

Wes Bos

You know? I love hardware and and and wires and Christmas lights and all of this stuff. And I would love to be minimalist, but I'm I am way too enthusiastic about learning new things.

Wes Bos

I will not be able to do that.

Wes Bos

So I have many more systems as to, like, where this stuff goes so that I can go grab it. Like, I have all these boxes of different wires and things, and that's been that's helped me so much.

Scott Tolinski

Yeah. I I I don't need to be minimalist, but I would like to be minimalist with my systems or organized, I just say. Yeah.

Wes Bos

Here's one that I am going to get so much better at this year JS getting faster at typing and more accurate at typing. You know? I feel like I I just did a test, and I'm at, like, 75 words a minute. I would love to be in, like like, on a good day, 75. You know? And, like, I wish I could be at maybe 90 words a minute and, like, very accurate as well. Do you have a type checking tool type typing tool? Yeah. So I just asked on Twitter, and a bunch of people sent me there's one tool that will help you get better, and it uses an algorithm based on, like, it sees what your like, what mistakes you are. For mine, it's I'm using the wrong finger to press I.

Wes Bos

You know? I'm I'm using my pointer Peter Pointer to touch I, and I should be using my middle finger.

Scott Tolinski

Do you wanna do a live type speed typing on the show right now? Let's do it.

Wes Bos

Because I one year from now, I am going to figure out if it's my keyboard

Scott Tolinski

and or whatever. I'm gonna I would like to do this too because I think I might be worse than you. Really? No. Yes. What, what is this tool? I gotta sit down for this. Hold on. You ready? This is it.

Wes Bos

Yeah. But I'm gonna I'm gonna kick my mic away because I I feel like it gets in the way even though I don't look at it. K. Ready? Yes. 321.

Wes Bos

Go.

Wes Bos

Alright. What you got? Oh, my dear.

Scott Tolinski

Unmute.

Scott Tolinski

Okay.

Scott Tolinski

Man.

Scott Tolinski

Yeah. So I I learned something about myself here JS that when I was reading ahead of time, I was better than when I was just typing at like like, following the word and just typing the next word I saw. If I, like, read and typed at a lag, I I did better.

Wes Bos

How did you do? I got 62 words a minute Sanity 96 accuracy.

Scott Tolinski

Okay. I did 58 words per minute with 96 accuracy.

Scott Tolinski

We're pretty close then. Pretty close. Yeah. I told you. I'm not good.

Scott Tolinski

Not good.

Wes Bos

That's the problem JS that I have a lot of accuracy problems, and it's obnoxious when you're coding because Totally. Then you gotta go back, especially with, like, curly brackets and things like that. So I wanna get up to, like, 90 warp a minute, and I think I can get there if you just if I just, I don't know. I asked on Twitter. People sent me this, like, a couple websites to practice, but, also, I'm wondering if a a keyboard because I I think my problem is that I I'm touching the wrong keys.

Wes Bos

And That's not my problem. I'm I'm using the wrong fingers. Yeah. That obviously, that's the problem. You're touching the wrong keys, but I'm using the wrong fingers to go to the keys. So if I maybe what if I move to a new keyboard to just hard break those problems? Will I be amazing? Can I get up to 90, a 100 words a minute? Can I be amazing? And, like, I use speech to text quite a bit, but it's there's still something something so key about being a fast typer.

Wes Bos

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know, man. I,

Scott Tolinski

that was a frustrating experience for me.

Scott Tolinski

I but I would I would absolutely I think this is on my list as well. It would be fun to redo this at the end of this year and see. I do feel like my issue is just straight up typing the the next letter instead of, like, the current one. I, like, wonder, like, how much, my dyslexia plays into here. I'm not making excuses, but I do wonder if if those reading challenges also matter. But I know I I could be way faster. I I don't know. My I felt like I was cruising too, and I wonder if, like, just fixing the accuracy issues increases the words per minute, by a ton.

Wes Bos

That was that was good. So let us know down below, what is your words per Sanity, and how do we get better at this? Because I I wanna be a machine. You know, Ben Benvenger types a 150, 140 words a Sanity.

Wes Bos

And I don't know. Like, that's that's so key in coding. The funny part about that is he would often think about what he was, like, typing in Slack, like, quite a bit. So you would you would see Ben JS typing for so long because he's he's going back. I'm like, oh, maybe we should phrase that different. But for his coding,

Scott Tolinski

so good. Yeah. Yeah. Totally.

Wes Bos

Yeah.

Wes Bos

I need to it's the year of the year of learning to type fast.

Scott Tolinski

Yeah. It's the year of learning to type fast. I love it. Cool. I agree with you on that one. I I gotta have that. Another thing I would like to do is continue listening to more, like, self help book and personal, advancement books, those types of things. I do and have always loved a good self help book. My Audible is just a graveyard of self help books, and I'll I'll listen to any of them. I'll listen all the way through. It does not matter if I end up implementing any of the things. It gets me a bit of juice to, implement change in my life. But I did find over the past Yarn, and things were stressful with me with my my head injury and just, like, the amount I didn't feel like I had any room for personal growth even though I was, like, I was doing a lot of healing. So I would love to get back into listening to a bunch of books. And I already have a whole bunch downloaded and ready to go that I I, downloaded legally off of whoever knows where you guide by legalaudiobooks.com.

Scott Tolinski

But I I would love to just reimplement that in life and listen to more more books because I can fill my time with a lot of boring ass podcasts or you know? See, I much prefer the, like, interesting podcast. I used to be huge into audiobooks,

Wes Bos

and I still am. Like, I I like the, like, atomic habits or whatever, but I find a lot of these self help books so cheesy.

Wes Bos

You know? I listen I listen to this, like, David Goggins. You Node, everyone's crazy about how amazing this guy JS, and and, like, I'm just, like, listening to this and being like, yeah. This guy can, like like, obviously, run marathons and break his legs and and keep running, but, like, the rest of your life is in shambles, brother. You know? You have no good relationships.

Wes Bos

You're just hurting everybody in your life. Like, all of this is at the cost of what? What. Yeah. And, like, I'm not motivated by this. You know? Like, it's I find myself the older I get, the less the more I find this stuff to be super cheesy. I don't know why that is. I I don't think that I'm, like, becoming negative, but I just like, I see through a lot of this stuff. Like, yeah. But, like, rest of your life Yeah. You kinda sacrifice everything else in your life to get really good at running through the desert.

Scott Tolinski

I agree with that, but I still like some of those things. I think for me, like, the the thing that turns me off of one is, like, when something is super derivative of something else I've already listened to before, or you can tell it's just, like, a reworking of these other ideas that, somebody else had. One of the things that I've I've been liking lately in books, especially about, like, technology, is, like, maybe, like, more history in stories about, like, real things and real history.

Scott Tolinski

They call that history. And and I do think that, like, those things are inspiring to me in the same way that self help books Yarn. So maybe that's it too. Maybe I just, like, have reached the limit on. I've listened to all of the good self help books and need to listen to more history or more things that I actually wanna spend time on, because I do love history, personally.

Wes Bos

History and science. Yeah. Maybe that's where I'm at as well. It's like, I've listened to them all. I understand all of the to do whatever. I have a pretty good to do system, and I understand the habits and everything. And Yeah. It's similar to, like, coding as well. You know? Like, I there's only so many tutorials you can do before you just gotta go and do it. You know what I would like to do also, Wes? I would like to and I I actually built an app for this. Not VibeCoded, by the way. I built this by hand, not that it matters.

Scott Tolinski

But long term habits where you have your daily habits and your, like, daily resolutions, things you wanna do every single day. But there's, like, some things I would like to do once a month. So I built, like, an app where you can say, remind me to do this thing every four months or remind me to do this thing every three months. And then, like, it just has, like, a feed and it pops up, and it says, like, alright. You have two months until you have to do this again. And, you could just kind of always see that what's at the top to these things that like, that way, you can make sure that you're, like, staying on top of either relationships you wanna cultivate, like professional relationships.

Scott Tolinski

Like, oh, my you know, there's a a buddy of mine I haven't talked to him in in months.

Scott Tolinski

Like, one of those things could just be, like, send so and so a message because, you know, life gets busy. And just stuff like that. You know? I would love to develop and improve that system.

Scott Tolinski

Or what I should do is I should take that long term kind of habits, like things that only happen several times a year, and just put that in my habit tracker app. Just put it in that. So that way I don't have two surfaces. I'm already looking at the habit tracker app every day. Oh, here's one.

Scott Tolinski

I would like to ship more things. I have a real big problem of starting a lot of things and not finishing them. I Wes all do. Yeah. Yes. I would love to ship some things. I have a video recording app that, hopefully, by the time you're listening to this, has been shipped. I actually have it signed by my Apple developers account, and I would like to get in the hands of people like Wes to test it. So that way, I can actually ship it because I'm using it right now. And you know what? It does me no good to just write this thing and have myself use it. I could put it up online and have other people use it as well. So I gotta ship. I gotta ship this year. Me too. I I you make so many fun things, and then you get

Wes Bos

unexcited about it. And then you just Yeah. Like, I actually finish it, and I use it. But, like, that extra, 10% of, like, actually pushing it out there so other people can use it and enjoy it is That's the hardest part. Kinda key. Yeah. And and then on top of it, actually making a video about it. Like, I made this cool sticker printer thing Yeah. That, like, prints stickers based on AI, and

Scott Tolinski

that worked that did super well on Twitter and and short form content. I was like, I should really make a I posted the code. Bunch of people are using it, but I didn't make a video on it. I should Make a video about that, Wes. I'm demanding it because I like that. I wanna see what you did there, and I wanna do it myself. Alright. So that's all I got. What kind of habits would you like to cultivate in your life this year? What types of things would you like to change, and how are you doing that? What's your systems like to dos? What's your systems like for habits? All this stuff. Books that you like, that you think we might like. Love all of that stuff and more. So hit us up with that information in the comments, Twitter, Facebook, whatever. Hit us up. We'd love to hear from you. As always, we'll catch you in the next one.

Wes Bos

Peace.

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