My most-viewed posts, and an unboxing for New Year’s

Happy New Year!

If it seems like 2024 was the longest year of your life, remember we had a leap day tucked in at the end of February.

Here’s my happy new year message, with a bonus goofy unboxing because the box arrived on December 30th, and I thought it would be fun.

Why share my most-viewed posts?

This is my 146th weekly post on this blog. Since it’s the last day of the year, I figured I’d share the most-viewed posts since I started writing this blog.

Some of those views came through organic search. Some through my social media posts. Many came because I suggested them to clients.

I find that I can follow up nearly every client session with something I’ve already written. So, I’m sharing the most-viewed posts on the theory that they’re the most widely appropriate, appreciated, and applicable.

I’ll be including many of these in a book I’m putting together early in 2025, along with some new material and a few exercises I’ve found particularly meaningful to my clients. To get notified when that book is available, join my email list. (I will never share or sell your email address to anyone else.)

Most-viewed posts of all time

1. Your perfectionism may be driving your employees to mediocrity. Don’t rewrite their work.
   October 6, 2022
   A real send-up of micromanagement and how it drives your best employees toward mediocrity.
2. Your future self is a jerk. Don’t let them get away with it.
   July 11, 2023
   How you view your future self, and why getting too attached to your vision is stressing you out.
3. Controlling the answers by controlling the questions
   June 12, 2023
   Mostly about selection bias, but also about making sure you’re asking the right questions.
4. Life is short, and there’s plenty of time. Make the most of today.
   August 9, 2022
   Today is important. Make the most of it, whatever that means. This one is personal.
5. Middle managers struggle with mental health at work, too
   December 5, 2023
   Middle managers are squeezed, which creates a real identity problem.
6. Three tips for overcoming disappointment and moving forward
   April 24, 2023
   When a sure-thing deal fell through, I had to get through that disappointment. Here’s how I did it.
7. Miscommunication: so much depends on which definition you use
   November 14, 2023
   When people use the same word to mean different things, bad things happen
8. Don’t hire me to make your employees better at enduring a terrible workplace
   September 29, 2022
   Coaching shouldn’t be a substitute for good management and positive work culture.
9. Is your favorite self-improvement guru a fraud?
   August 23, 2022
   Hire a good coach, not necessarily a popular coach. Here’s how to tell the difference.
10. Six reasons you betray your future self, and how to stop doing it
    December 6, 2022
    How teaching myself HTML in the 1990s led to me going bowling at the White House.

While I’m a little surprised at a few of the posts on this list, it’s not surprising that the most-viewed posts of all time are the older ones. After all, they’ve existed for more days.

So that is a look back, which I don’t do often enough. There’s a thing to be learned there. I’ll have to ponder it. Tomorrow I’ll be back to looking forward and all the exciting, fabulous plan I have for the coming year.

What are you planning on for 2025? How will you make your life more fulfilling, complete, and joyful?

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