We often hear different stories of successful people who have been able to accomplish some incredible goals and think that they have been achieving them for a very short period of time, such that they can be even considered as overnight successes, though the truth is too far away from that. Thus, we then think about ourselves that we are not able to accomplish them. As human beings, we have a lot of areas of our lives and not every one of them needs the same treatment or the same attention the whole time. There are a few areas in our lives that need attention at certain periods of time and if we get better at them during those times, they might have a profound impact in our lives. We should be careful of not trying to become a superman in each area in a single month, but be patient and strategically and wisely plan to improve a few of them according to our circumstances. Continue reading
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Your brain is a really great asset that you poses and it is of a crucial importance if you are able to enhance your mental performance. Distractions and notifications are all around the place, pulling your attention towards them and thus, making it hardly possible for your to focus on things that really do make a difference in the quality of your life. Continue reading
A lot of lectures and talks are accompanied with
presentations in which a lot of information is put in every
slide of that presentation. This makes it difficult for a
person in the audience to read it and also prevents that
person from the actual listening of the lecture that is being
given. In other words, the audience is multitasking during
your talk: trying to read your slides and simultaneously
listening your lecture, but they most probably will not learn
and gain information as much as you might have wished.
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Time management is one of the most wide-spread advice we hear
that can help us be more productive. However, you and I are
witnesses of our own personal experience of periods when we
had a considerable amount of time available, but we couldn’t
concentrate properly and get anything done at all. Aside from
planning our day according to your priorities, it is of a
crucial importance to bear in mind the fact the you should try
to also manage your energy.
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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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