Category: Personal Development (Page 8 of 20)

How to get good ideas

May 1, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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Best selling author, Seth Godin in a podcast interview in the Tim Feriss Show recently was asked to give suggestions about getting good ideas. He said that it simply does not happen to come at a great idea regularly, but you keep writing about a lot of ideas on a consistent basis and then, after a lot of bad ideas have been written down, you then are able to come across to a good idea. He mentioned a time when he and one of his friend used to generate hundred of business ideas on a weekly meeting. This practice was done as they felt it as a helpful strategy for their future intended careers. Continue reading

Underestimating the small consistent work

April 24, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 3 Comments

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle

I told a few friends of mine that I have been writing articles in this blog on a consistent basis. I mentioned that I have written 2 articles per week during 2015 and my goal for 2016 is to write at least 1 article per week and they looked this as something way too easy and underestimated it. I agree with them that it is not that hard to write 1 article per week, but I think here we are dealing with something much broader. Continue reading

Three simple questions from a famous CEO that can help you in tough times

April 10, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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No matter how happy you try to be, or how your current lifestyle design is bringing you a lot of joy, there will be times when you will be thrown into some sort of tough situations. You get angry from a reaction of another person, or you are waiting for a friend that is consistently late. Simply put, there are times when you are in a bad mood and you simply get pissed off from something unpleasant. The CEO of ceolifestyle.io, Nelson Wang in a recent Quora post has mentioned that he uses three questions as a method that can help get passed off those types of states. Continue reading

Combining to-do lists with calendars

April 3, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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To-do lists are very handful when it comes to collecting the items that we are supposed to finish at a certain time in the future. Writing down everything that we should do is something that is mentioned several times in past few articles of this blog and we are not going to go much into detail about that here. Usually, they turn into a source of stress and disappointment, as we are never able to accomplish everything that is in our list. Even though we might read and try to implement the techniques for which we are convinced that are backed up by science, there is so much that we should do. The list simply keeps getting with endless number of tasks. However, calendars might come in handy at times like these and might even get combined with to-do lists. Continue reading

Goals are meant to change our current state

March 27, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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We all have goals, whether we have set them by ourselves, or the others. Get a degree, get a good job, get married, buy a car and a house and other types of common goals are well spread. These types of goals might be ours, or ones that the family or the society sometimes tries to set for ourselves. Even though they might have good intentions, sometimes they can simply put a lot of stress and pressure upon an individual such that it is unbearable for him. However, goals should not be like that. They are targets that should first and foremost be for us and not against us. Continue reading

Lessons from my 30 Day Challenge: Exercising everyday

March 13, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 1 Comment

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About a month ago, for the first time in my life, I decided to publicly declare e 30 day challenge that I was trying to set for myself. It was about exercising every single day, without excuses. I decided to do this challenge because I had the desire to exercise and knew that it is very helpful for our bodies and brains to exercise on a regular basis. I had been procrastinating and delaying working out for years, even though I knew that I needed to exercise. When a time comes that you do something you had long ago aspired to do, then you can see how many benefits you have already wasted.

I can say that I was not very consistent with my dedication of working every single day, because most of the time I forgot. I did not put any reminder besides publishing a post in my blog, which was not sufficient for me to recall every single day that I had to work out. I sometimes found myself lying in bed in the evening, only to remember that I had not exercised that day. However, I am glad I started this experiment because, besides starting working out at a local fitness gym where a very good friend of mine works as a trainer, I learned a few lessons and tips that I would like to tell you about. Continue reading

Self-improvement does not mean being self-centered

March 6, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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There a lot of blogs and books of different people that might proclaim to be a very reliable resource of self-improvement. By self-improvement type of blogs, I mean all blogs that are meant to give suggestions about ways of being a better person. Among other things, a person who is very compelled to read such contents might get the initial impression that self-improvement can become an obstacle of a collective group of people, because it simply installs make an individual to be self-centered. Although, this might be the case and that might even be the intention of some writers, but I disagree that it has to be that way. Continue reading

Have a progressive mindset: Not yet

February 28, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

A lot of us are learned to say that we are not simply meant to do something. We are not meant to become the best at what we do. We are not meant to pursue that dream career that we aspired when we were kids. We cannot leave the legacy that we have been dreaming for a lot years. However it does not matter that it should be like that for the rest of our lives. We can change our mindset and see these as something that we have not accomplished yet, and that there is still some hope, desire and willpower to accomplish them. Continue reading

Delaying procrastination

February 19, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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It is natural for a human being to want to delay doing something later on, or get trapped in procrastination. If we are to choose whether we want to book a flight at 12 or 12.30, it is highly likely that we will choose to go at 12.30. That is the way we tend to see things. That is true for almost anything that we want to do. We keep putting things off and plan to do them later. What if we could simply reverse this order and rather than seeing that particular task as something that should be done later as a task that right now deserves our attention and postpone procrastinating for later on? Continue reading

Learning to control our response

February 5, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

When you think about the word successful, who is the first person who comes to mind? Then, if you think it once more, you might probably think about somebody else instead of the first person that you remembered. If you would take about ten minutes to think about this, you might get surprised when you mention another name now, which is quite different instead of the first name that popped up in your head. This is just an experiment of knowing how our response can change over such a short period of time for the same thing even when we are dealing with such a simple question. Continue reading