How to strengthen your willpower and achieve 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...
Multitasking does not work! No, It doesn’t! We are constantly distracted by interruptions. Research (Gloria Mark) shows that in an office environment we have only 11 minutes on any given task before we are interrupted. And what’s even more disheartening, it takes 25 minutes...
Many of us tend to be insecure. We doubt that we can achieve the goals we set to ourselves. We feel like hacks. There’s even a thing called impostor syndrome. We listen to others who discourage us. We are afraid to fail. Don’t do...
You want to continuously improve the quality of your life. You want to get results in your professional life and devote time to family and friends. I have put together a list of 30 ways you can improve your life one way or the...
Feeling that you have control over your life is a source of happiness and well-being. But you also want the flexibility to balance the rigidity of control. Most people want to have some level of control in their lives. In one extreme if you...
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...
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