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How To Spend Less Time On HackerNews With The Noprocrast Feature

December 27, 2020 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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Hacker News at the first sight seems like a very simple tool with many links, but it’s actually a forest of many valuable insights and discussions. It loads up pretty fast and there are no ads, no side banners to distract you, just a list with many posts.

It’s no surprise that it is so famous, as it resembles a place where developers from all over the world get to interact with each other. Of course, as in any other place on the internet, there can be trolls that can make you feel bad, or express some harsh criticism or even trolls, but aside from that, it’s actually a really great place, especially for the discussions that are shared in there.

Do not trust your future self

February 5, 2017 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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If you have a task that you need to finish and you have so much time available, but still plan to postpone doing this task for tomorrow, because you are not feeling motivated right now, then this is not a good idea. Chances are that you are not going to feel motivated to do it tomorrow either. People have the tendency for wishful thinking. They simply believe that things will somehow get better without having the resolve and commitment to take any action at all. Continue reading

3 pillars of motivation

January 22, 2017 / Fatos Morina / 2 Comments

2 days before his match with the undefeated back then Mike Tyson, Buster Douglas’s mother died. Douglas was preparing for one of the most difficult challenges that he had until that time of his life and another calamity hit his life. It is obvious that it was a very hard period for him, yet he managed to beat the ‘undisputed’ heavyweight champion of that time Mike Tyson via knockout, because he had a reason. Reason is only one pillar of motivation. The other two are autonomy and mastery.

Disability is not an obstacle to success

December 11, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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When we hear about Elon Musk, Michael Jordan, Stephen Hawkings, Bill Gates and many other people who have accomplished so many incredible things, we might start to think that they are simply born with all those abilities that have made them possible to accomplish what they are known for. We might not be guilty to think like that, as media is constantly showing up only the successes that they have had. Continue reading

Become more motivated by keeping a did-it list

November 20, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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The number of apps that claim to increase your level of productivity is constantly in the rise. Most of them tend to promote themselves as tools that can help you capture the tasks that you need to do. However, they do not either emphasize nor seem to promote another important factor: Keeping a did-it list, about the history of finished tasks. This might sound a bit weird and unheard, but it is something very helpful that can have a considerable impact on the levels of productivity. 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

How to increase your motivation to learn something “boring”

June 12, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 1 Comment

It is usually inevitable to stumble upon a certain topic that you have to learn, but that you simply do not find any compelling reason to learn it. You are procrastinating, browsing Facebook and doing everything else instead of learning it. Avoiding it will not help. Something has to be done related to it. This article might inspire you to think and tackle this. A key to open new ways of thinking and solving problems is asking proper questions. Below I have listed a few that can potentially help you in this regard. 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

Do not let perfectionism prevent you from starting

August 2, 2015 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

It is important to do your job really well, with the best of your abilities, but if you delay starting working each time, then it might be because that aim for perfectionism is actually becoming an alternate road that is causing you to procrastinate. Continue reading

Consider removing the need for motivation from the equation

July 19, 2015 / Fatos Morina / 1 Comment

We are often not very keen to do our job, to perform our best and to finish off our to-do list because we do not feel motivated and think that we will do better other times when a moment of inspiration comes. This continues on a consistent basis and then becomes a habit, something that you feel better to do than to not do it. If you want to escape this dangerous trap that might spread into other areas of your life as well, you need to do something about motivation. You might even consider removing motivation from the equation of action at all. Continue reading