You always need more time. There’s never enough time to deal with deadlines, chores, and tasks. Your to-do list becomes longer and longer and you don’t know where to start. What if you could gain an extra hour every day?
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Personal development
HOW TO BUILD A POSITIVE MINDSET
Research has proved countless times that positive thinking has a wide variety of benefits for our emotional, mental, and even physical well-being. Positive thinkers have better stress-coping skills, stronger immunity, and more friends. But with today’s hectic lifestyle, when we feel overworked, tired, and stressed out by all the pressing demands and timelines, it can become all too easy to focus on the negative. So how can we eliminate negative thoughts and replace them with a more optimistic, positive outlook?
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LIMITING HABITS YOU SHOULD GIVE UP IF YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY
Genuinely happy people don’t just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They set and reach goals, and control their thoughts, feelings, and habits. If we want to experience love, peace, contentment, optimism, and joy, we have to give up our bad, limiting habits.
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EFFECTIVE WAYS TO ORGANIZE AND USE YOUR OWN PRODUCTIVITY JOURNAL
A productivity journal is a great tool to help you stay organized, set and define goals, store important information, and track your progress. Writing things down is like a commitment you make to yourself – it prompts you to choose a specific goal and accomplish it, and it holds you accountable. It also helps you organize and analyze your thoughts in a way that would be difficult – if not impossible – to do if you were just thinking or dreaming about it.
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HOW TO USE THE POWER OF MINDFULNESS TO DEAL WITH PROCRASTINATION
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There are many reasons why people procrastinate: fear of failure, stress, perfectionism, low energy level, or simply the need to feel good in the short term. But when people learn how to actually focus on the task at hand, engage with it, and even come back to it when they get distracted, they can easily overcome procrastination. Mindfulness is a great tool when it comes to dealing with external distractions, like a phone call, background noise, interruptions, and internal distractions: thoughts, worries, and anxiety.
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7 COMMON HOBBIES THAT MAKE YOU SMARTER
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There are so many interesting and creative hobbies that can improve your life and make you smarter! We all need to have hobbies other than our work to add more value and meaning to our lives. Hobbies are fun and invigorating, and they can have a great influence on our intellect. Some may say that these hobbies distract you from your professional objectives. In fact, doing something you enjoy stimulates your creativity and makes you smarter.
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HOW TO PREPARE FOR AN ENLIGHTENED, HAPPIER NEW YEAR
As you always prepare for a new day, use the beginning of this year to contemplate what you’ve accomplished in life so far, and start thinking about how you can make the new year the best year you’ve ever had. Plan to get started on new things feeling revived and focused, and welcome the new year with a sense of calm and preparedness so you can easily get back to your routine.
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24 EASY WAYS TO BE PRODUCTIVE IN 10 MINUTES OR LESS
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Do you ever feel like there’s not enough time in a day? Do you ever wish there were more hours in a day? I noticed that I rarely have 3 free hours to do what I love, but I have many 10-15 minutes periods here and there during the day.
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WHY YOU SHOULD LEARN TO EMBRACE SOLITUDE
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We are daily bombarded with news, text messages, email, and phone calls. We keep in touch using Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and we never miss an update. We envy our friends for their perfect lives, and we pick up the stress from the ones around us. We are always in a rush, constantly striving to accomplish more and become more productive. We do everything faster, we sleep less and work more, and our to-do list seems as if it has no end. It’s nothing wrong with that, but from time to time, we have to allow ourselves to step back, disconnect, and learn to enjoy solitude.
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THE BEST WAYS TO FIND INSPIRATION AND UNLEASH YOUR CREATIVITY
It’s easy to get bored and become uninspired when you follow the same schedule and the same routine over and over again. There’s nothing new and exciting in going to the same places, seeing the same people every day, and doing the same things. You can start feeling not only uninspired, but also tired and unhappy, and that might even affect your overall health.
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