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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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