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Improve your Life

Strategies · Effort · Optimize · Tinker

Start Your Journey

Try. Fail. Learn. Repeat.

We help people achieve their goals and overcome obstacles by focusing on four key elements of success: using strategies, making effort, optimizing work, and tinkering.

Work Smarter.

Work Smarter, Not Harder.

What does that even mean?

"Work Smarter, Not Harder" means that sometimes,
effort alone doesn't cut it.

How to work smarter.

How to work smarter…

Imagine a fly stuck inside a house, and desperately trying to get through a closed window to freedom. The fly can try as hard as it wants, but it just can’t break through the glass.

If only, the fly could take a step back and find the open door a few feet away. Seems obvious, but sometimes it’s not so obvious when you’re stuck in the thick of things.

Working smarter means…

Try different STRATEGIES

Think about how you could reach your goal,

Figure out what the actual obstacle is,

Try different tricks and ways,

Figure out why these strategies might work…

Put in the EFFORT

Actually try...

It’ll be hard work, but find a reason to keep going...

Or, find a way to make the process fun...

OPTIMIZE what you do

Keep track of how things are going,

Focus your energies on strategies that produce results...

TINKER more

Try little experiments that probably won't work...

Learn from your successes and mistakes

Wonder.

Play and explore with the problem...

Watch the Free Goal Setting Slideshow Lesson for Students

A lot of students want to improve. Not everyone knows how.

So we have a complete Goal Setting unit for students. It’s “The Ultimate Guide to Achieving your Goals and Dreams.”

But, it's not just for students. It's for anyone; it's for everyone. This stuff works at school, at home, at work, or anywhere in life. Persevering over obstacles is a transferable skill, baby!

Goal Setting Slideshow for Students

Read stories about success

We need better role-models in our lives.

You are what you eat. You are what you consume. You are what you watch.

We need more stories about grit, tenacity, and resilience. Regular people failing and picking themselves up. We need more stories that show us that life is a process. Happy ever after is just the beginning of the next chapter...

Stories from our Blog

Obstacle: 3M finds that people have mixed reactions to Post It Notes. What happens Next? SEOT: Strategies, Effort, Optimize, Tinker

People didn’t always use Post-It® Notes

In 1978, not everyone loved this brand new sticky note invention – Should 3M continue working on this project, or …

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Strategies to develop a growth mindset and communicate more clearly: Pick and choose your battles

Pick and Choose Your Battles

Look at the big picture and the situation in general. Is this issue really worth your time and energy? If …

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SEOT.ca Goal Setting Strategy - Ask questions when they say no

STRATEGY: When you feel rejected, stay engaged. Don’t run.

Jia Jiang was an Asian American person, who like many of us, had a huge fear of rejection. We’re often …

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SEOT.ca Goal Setting Strategy - Run Away when they say no

STRATEGY: Run away (when they say no)

Jia was trying to overcome his fear of rejection. He decided to try to do this by asking people for things and …

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SEOT.ca image of person pushing obstacle - How to overcome your fear of rejection

How to overcome your fear of rejection: Get Rejected 100 times

Jia Jiang had an embarrassing experience happen to him when he was six years old. He was publically rejected, and …

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Cover with SEOT wheel of success metaphor in a car: Want a better life for your kids? Start Here (Goal Setting)

START HERE: Why do we need to teach our students and children goal setting?

Because life doesn’t always go our way. Because nothing worth having comes easy. Because at some point in life, we’re …

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We want to crowd source stories of grit, tenacity and resilience.

Stay tuned. We have great plans!

Why we need to teach students how to achieve goals.