Strengthen your willpower and reach your goals
Set goals and write down your goals! Research has shown that people who set goals perform better than the ones that don’t. Goal setting will help you in many different ways. Setting clear goals improves your performance at any given task. Clear goals help...
Let it go! You don’t have to be right all the time! You don’t have to win every fight. You don’t have to change lanes in front of that car. Many of us tend to be competitive even when there’s no competition, and the...
Build your social circle and make your life more interesting. Find ways to make people’s lives less routine and entertain them. Hold a dinner at your place. As an alternative, you can organize your event at a local bar or restaurant. Ask if they...
Stop watching TV! The time people spend watching TV is mindbogglingly vast. And that time is pretty much wasted. Even trying to make yourself feel better by arguing that you only watch Discovery and educational stuff doesn’t really count. The only time you can...
Has there ever been a situation where the other person completely misunderstood what you were saying? If you want other people to trust you, then listen to what they have to say. If you want to be understood, then you also have to listen....
The school system managed to make the learning something we tried to avoid. For many of us, the system didn’t fully succeed, but there’s no huge excitement associated with learning. I have noticed that as I get older and the memories of the school...
Waking up early? Do you think it’s impossible or insane to get up at 5AM or even earlier? I loved being awake late and doing interesting things. It’s 3 AM, and I’m still thinking just another 30 minutes. I have spent most of my...
You need alone time! Throughout the day we are bombarded with requests from others. Colleagues who need something or just want to chat at the water cooler. Friends who want to meet up and talk. The family wants to connect and take a bite...
Do you want to have less stress and be happier? Tackle the problems you have with other people. Sometimes we try to solve the problems by avoiding them. But you will soon find out that problems are connected to people. When you ignore people...
Take a day off. You are not a robot. From time to time step out of the rat race and have a day just for yourself. Use that day to unplug and relax. You can use that time to be alone, to completely unwind,...
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