Motivation can be a difficult state to achieve. Even if we’re lucky to experience periods of increased drive, our energy can easily disappear without much warning. It’s important to have the right mental frameworks in place when we’re trying to motivate ourselves. This is an important topic for me personally right now, because lately I …
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It’s easy to think of productivity as working longer hours with more effort. But when we boil it down, productivity is all about avoiding distractions while maintaining focus. Time batching is a technique we can use to focus on our most important tasks while avoiding unnecessary distractions. In this post, we’ll discuss the benefits of …
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Productivity is easy when we have something to work on. But other times we need other people to help execute the tasks and projects that matter to our core goals. The Waiting For list is a core component of the GTD methodology that allows us to stay on top of work that other people perform. …
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Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.— Ferris Bueller Deep down, I think everyone wants to find meaning in their work. We want to spend our time working toward something that really matters to us. That’s the difference between being motivated to work …
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It’s easy to get carried away when somebody insults us. Depending on the situation, it can signal that the insulter doesn’t like us or simply wants to broadcast our flaws to the world. As a practical philosophy, Stoicism teaches how we can live our best daily lives. One such lesson is how to best deal …
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The most unbearable things in life are often the things we never expected. And these things are unbearable because they catch us off-guard. When we expect only good things to happen to us, the smallest thing might ruin our entire day. That’s why today’s topic is negative visualisation. In this post, we’ll discuss this practice, …
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Achieving success in life is primarily psychological. Even when we talk about physical activities like elite sport competitions, our minds play a big part. The key to success is our mental ability and the strength of our character. Developing self-awareness helps us understand who we are. And with this insight, we can fine-tune our actions …
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Victor Frankl wrote the book Man’s Search for Meaning to account for his time in concentration camps during World War II. He tells his story through the lens of Logotherapy, his own branch of therapy focused on the importance of meaning. In this post, we’ll discuss Viktor Frankl’s background, his philosophy and the core ideas …
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Charles Duhigg wrote the book Smarter Faster Better, in which he discusses the eight secrets of being productive in life and business. The first half of this book comprises the secrets of self-motivation, creating effective teams, focusing with mental models and setting effective goals. Part two dives into managing others, making effective decisions, leveraging creativity …
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Charles Duhigg wrote the book Smarter Faster Better, in which he discusses the eight secrets of being productive in life and business. One of the eight principles is how to absorb data in a world plagued by information overload. In this post we’ll discuss methods to improve our understanding of data. We’ll also run through …
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