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Lessons from my 30 Day Challenge: Journaling

December 4, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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In the end of October, I wrote an article publicly declaring that I will start a new 30 day challenge of journaling every single day. Fortunately, it went really well. I journaled every single day for a month and now I am planning to continue this habit of journaling. Here I am going to tell you how did I manage to pull this off on a regular basis.

This is my second 30 day challenge that I announced publicly in my blog. Previously, during the first half of this year, I wrote that I wanted to do a workout session every day for a month, but I was not consistent during that time. After learning a few lessons the hard way going through my previous challenge, I decided to implement them during this new one. Continue reading

Why accountability can motivate you to be more productive?

November 6, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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Maybe you have been in a situation where you have told someone that you will do something, and then managed to get it done as promised. On the other hand, you might have set a task on your to do list in which others are not involved and have been postponing it for a long time, or even let it unfinished at all. You did not finish it for more than a week and are surprised and feel guilty about this. The reason for these types of sabotages about your own goals, and commitments to tasks where other people are not involved might be because of accountability and ego. Continue reading

Appreciate what you already have

August 14, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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There are a lot of things that we currently do not have and wish we had, despite the fact that we have a lot of other ones that a lot of other people only dream about. We tend to always look for more things, and aspire to have more, and we forget to appreciate what we currently possess. It is no secret that we might never get all the things that we might want to have, because it is almost impossible.

Why do we quit before finishing something?

July 24, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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A few weeks ago a thought came to mind about the reason why I let my guard down before I finish doing something. I almost finished doing a task that I had to do and almost at the end of it, I found myself thinking that I have already finished it so maybe it is time to move on something else. Then I had less motivation to continue as hard as up to that point. I identified the false reasoning that was behind this thought that has kept repeating in my life. Continue reading

Dealing with big goals that seem too far away

June 18, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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I read a post on Facebook, someone mentioned that he used to have a big goal that seemed like a lifetime achievement that he used to try to achieve, yet never took any action to do something in this regard. After breaking it into smaller pieces, he had made huge progress towards accomplishing it. He used a way of describing that initial goal which made me write this article. Continue reading

Change your habits by protecting the bottom line

January 29, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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Big goals are overwhelming and usually paralyzing that can simply become obstacles rather than compelling destinations that pull one towards them. Habits are a set of behaviors that are triggered, done and followed by a reward that you are usually after. They can be a reasonable means of accomplishing your goals. You do something on a regular basis until that type of behavior gives you the specific reward that represents your goal. Despite sounding so easy, in fact, it is not. Sometimes, we are also procrastinating from starting the habit formation itself. Continue reading

Hesitate to start, until you are willing to put years working on it

October 11, 2015 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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We might be very fast at starting something, but we usually find ourselves quitting from and not finishing. The reasons why we quit might differ based on your own personality or your own circumstances, but this should not be as a curse that you think you should carry for the rest of your life. Rather this should serve as a lesson of hesitating to start everything that comes to you, and start working only on the things that you are ready to put sweat and tears towards them – in other words, you do not plan to quit at least for a few coming years. Continue reading

“I don’t have time” is not the main reason

September 20, 2015 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

The granddaddy of all excuses is “I don’t have enough time”, or similar excuses. This is a very frequent answer that we give when we are asked about the reasons that we do not do something that is important for us. Continue reading

Beat procrastination with the Feynman technique

August 23, 2015 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

Richard Feynman was a Nobel Prize winner in Physics who used a method of learning complex things that seems very obvious and immediately makes sense that it is easy, but in fact only a few people use it. I have already mentioned it in a previous blog post as a way of learning and preparing for your exams, and I will not focus on that, but I have had an insight about the way and the possibilities of using this technique as a means of beating procrastination. Continue reading

What are results that you are after

July 19, 2015 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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There are usually different ways of achieving something, different pathways that might lead to the same destination and usually the only one that is in front of us might not be the best and the shortest one. Our culture might have shaped our own way of thinking and perceiving the reality, such that we do not realize that the same results that we are after can be achieved through other means. Continue reading