How many seminars have you walked out of certain you were going home a changed person, and how many times did that hold. Justin Humphries asks it directly, then spends two posts building something meant to survive the drive home, on the grounds that being inspired and being changed are not the same event.
His structure is unfashionably simple. Believe it is possible, make an actual decision, then act on that decision as though nothing else exists. He is honest that he does not know why resolutions collapse, only what has worked for him once he stopped treating them as wishes.
The post on why new businesses fold rejects the usual answer about running out of capital and goes looking for the reason sitting underneath it.
Seven posts, and one of them is a personal letter rather than an article. Read the two part piece on overcoming as a pair, because the first half exists only to set up the second.