We are products of our own behaviors, that we consciously or
unconsciously do, also known as habits and the results that we
have in our lives are mostly the outcomes of them.
According
to a study published by Duke University in 2006, we spend more
than 40 percent of our time engaged in habitual actions that
we do not give a second thought about. Thus, it is very
important to improve our habits, if we want to get things that
we have not achieved until now.
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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.
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A couple of days ago, a person that I know told me something
that surprised me and once again inspired me to believe about
the tremendous impact that little
acts can have. Only during the year 2015, he has read around 20-30 books
despite having a full time job and also having family
responsibilities and having to travel about 2 hours each day
to go and come back from the workplace.
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It is easy for you to get inspired once from a movie and go
and do fifty push-ups without stopping, but then months pass
by and you do not do even a single push-up. It is easy for you
to write a great blog article because of the lessons that you
have learned from a great book that you have read recently,
but then you stop writing and forget that you have a blog at
all. It is easy for you to get up early and start working on
your most important tasks once a year and then you get back to
your normal procrastination mode of not doing your tasks until
it becomes almost too late.
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When somebody achieves a goal, he or she usually tends to get
a good feeling and starts to think about himself or herself as
an unstoppable person who is constantly successful and that
his or her success yesterday might be sufficient for him or
her today. There is a great quote that might serve as a proper
counterargument against that opinion.
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You are constantly thinking something, whether that is about
your past events or situations, your current state and task
that you are dealing with, or a future plan that you have put
on your to-do list. Sometimes it is possible that among these
cases, you might not feel inspired and ready to do your work,
and a new thought pops up into your head that you might not be
doing the right job, or that you have not found the passion of
your life yet. You start to make different false connections
in your mind to justify these situations, and maybe even
identify these cases as indicators that you have are not
productive; you are a lazy person. Wait a second: what if that
is just another thought that is probably wrong?
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Windows 10 is one of the latest operating systems that has
been announced recently, and new versions of Windows series
have been produced throughout the years. Its first version was
released nearly 30 years ago and it differs so much, that it
would be even difficult for a stranger to identify
them as units of the same family.
Ryan Holiday in his book
“The obstacle is the way” mentions one of the
greatest samurai warriors that ever lived, Miyamoto Musashi,
to be the type of the person who was able to fight against
multiple opponents, even without a sword.
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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We are constantly being bombarded by thousands of tools and
apps that try to attract us to use them, that we are even
being into dilemmas about which tool should we choose. Instead
of first having a motive, then a plan about what we want to
accomplish, we try to begin with a search on Google about the
best tool. Even though there are some really good tools that
can make your work easier, usually the type of tool is not the
main culprit, but yourself, because you are trying to hide and
avoid the uncomfortable work. Don’t believe me? Let’s take
some examples.