How to strengthen your willpower and achieve your goals.
We are constantly distracted by interruptions. Research (Gloria Mark) shows that in 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 to return to the task. And even that...
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 can organize your event at a local bar or restaurant. Ask if...
Most people want to have some level of control in their lives. In one extreme if you just let go you might feel that you are the victim of life happening to you. At the other end of the spectrum, trying to control everything...
I have used self-affirmations for year and found them really working for me. Then self-affirmations started to get a bad rap. There was not much scientific evidence about the workings of self-affirmations. Now there is a growing body of evidence on the benefits of...
Sometimes you bump into old friends on street or a shopping mall. You chat for a few minutes and say goodbye. You think to yourself that you should do that more often but then life interferes and you never quite get to it. Make...
Enough sleep is the key to your wellbeing. Sleeping replenishes your health and mind giving you energy to deal with physical and emotional activities of the day. Your willpower is at it’s highest levels shortly after you wake up. I collected some of the...
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 school system...
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 say that you...
Smiling will make you feel better and stay positive. Make yourself smile and then think of something negative without letting go of the smile. It’s not easy because smiling is bodys way to say everything is OK. Even if you have real negative reasons...
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 results do not...
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