I have seen myself procrastinating countless times, with the justification of not being in the right mood , or I was thinking that this is not the right moment to start doing my tasks, despite the prior planning. In other words, more often than not, I was only giving excuses, because I was only overthinking things and hoping for a better time that will somehow improve the circumstances and push me on the other end. According to American Psychological Association, 20 percent of U.S. men and women are chronic procrastinators and I have previously mentioned some methods that can help you beat it. 2 minutes rule can help you start acting instead of scrolling up and down on Reddit, and in this post I will tell you two quick steps that might also help you. Continue reading
Category: Personal Development (Page 19 of 20)
A lot of people do not manage to finish their tasks on time as they are supposed to do and for this there might be several reasons. Deadline is a commonly used word in different areas of life and the two words that when combined form it can help us get a new insight on how we should consider it and that can make us more productive. Continue reading
Teaching is an art of preparation and elaboration of one’s knowledge and wisdom, that is closely related with the methods used to teach. For this reason a person who takes the responsibility to give lectures and help other people learn despite knowledge should also possess proper manners and patience of behaving. While we are living in an age of abundant information, where information is only a few clicks away, the art of teaching should be mostly circulating around the ability of the teacher in relating well with students.
Initially, being able to connect with the ones whom you are teaching results with the opportunity of identifying students’ weaknesses. Hence it will be easier to address and work on them, thus ending up being more efficient, instead of trying to make broad generalizations. Continue reading
Have you ever been wondering why is it so easy for you to give advice to others, but when it comes to finding pathways after facing roadblocks you get stuck? This is something that is not happening only with you and you should not blame yourself. However, it is not something that you cannot work on and improve.
Despite the benefits of modern ways of communication that now make it easier than ever before, face-to-face communication is still better than texting, calling, or sending an email. Even though sometimes it is more comfortable to communicate by sending a short email without having to move from your working chair, it seems a not very proper way to communicate as it avoids the need of presence of some necessary elements that make face-to-face interaction a more desirable means of a relationship. Continue reading
There are at least a few things that we all should accomplish, but we do not start doing them. Procrastination is a really serious problem nowadays. To illustrate this, we can take as an example the work of Professor Piers Steel from the University of Calgary. The esteemed Professor was doing some studies about procrastination and was supposed to finish them for five years, but because he himself procrastinated, it took him twice as much to finish the work he started. And even though there are dozens of time-management tips and tricks that proclaim to make you start doing the things you have been delaying to accomplish, a lot of them aren’t helpful. Continue reading
We all agree that learning is really important, but it might not be done and represented in the best form during lectures in our schools. That is why we see children happily engaged playing different computer games and spend a lot of time on them and usually not care that much about learning and doing their homework. Some of the reasons why children aren’t learning is because they aren’t properly educated and informed about the value that it has, and also because of the way used to treat learning. Continue reading
Learning a foreign language can usually be seen as a very difficult task to do, especially if you didn’t learn that language when you were younger. But this doesn’t seem to be true, because according to a research, this belief is false and that age is not a valid excuse for failing to learn a new language. Let’s investigate maybe one of the main reason why children are better in learning a new language compared to old people, which has been as a factor to form that belief about the potential impact of age in learning a new language. Continue reading
Whether you joined a fitness club but you aren’t regularly going to the gym because you don’t have time, or whether you don’t have the willpower to do the workout at your own house, things will not change by magic if you aren’t going to take measures to do something about these excuses that you are telling yourself.
If you want to find something compelling, that could give you enough reasons to exercise, let me tell you a tip that might help you: Imagine yourself being a millionaire, having a beautiful yacht near the ocean and having a great carrier, but somehow you feel that something important is missing from you. Something really important. You don’t seem very enthusiastic and alive as before, you don’t have the health, the vitality, the energy to stand up and enjoy all the things that you have available now, which you have dreamed for ever since you were born. Continue reading
It has been said that being able to focus will be the superpower of this century, because we live in a time when a large amount of information is racing towards us that want to attract our attention. Self-control is over-rated, so we should try to better manage our focus and our time in order to be more productive. The famous protagonist Odysseus from the Homer poem demanded his sailors tie him to the mast so that he wouldn’t take a swan dive off the starboard side when he heard the alluring singing of the Sirens. He tried to take measures to better control himself, because he was aware about the distractions that were during his journey. I am not saying that you should try to do the same thing, but if you want to get an important thing done, then you should try to take it seriously and take measures to accomplish that and not give excuses. Continue reading
