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5 Simple Ideas That Will Make Your Life 10x Easier

June 8, 2020 By Melissa

In today’s time-starved society, sacrifices need to be made.

A million different things are vying for your attention. You only have so much time and energy to pursue a number of them. Anytime you’re presented with an activity, you have three options to choose from: start, stop, or continue.

The question is, which door do you walk through? At first glance, the answer may seem obvious. Start or continue the actions that give the greatest output, and drop everything else.

But in reality, your time ends up getting swallowed by all the little things. They take up precious hours that could have been put to better use. Maybe it means doing something unnecessary, enduring an unexpected hassle, or working on something that at first glance seemed simple.

When you find ways to get rid of those small annoyances, you can change your life in big ways. All of a sudden, it feels like your time has been freed up. It’s as if a burden has been lifted off your shoulders.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: change, life, life lesson, productivity, productivity tips

How to Use the Eisenhower Matrix to Get Your Most Important Work Done

September 2, 2019 By Melissa

Do you ever feel like you’re scrambling around like a chicken without a head?

Tasks just keep piling up on your plate. You frantically try to get everything done, leaving you flustered. In fact, sometimes there’s so much happening that your brain just ends up shutting down instead.

No matter what you do, there’s that sinking feeling at the end of the day that you haven’t really achieved what you wanted to. Sure, you might have done a number of things, but you can’t shake the feeling that something is missing.

If this sums what you’ve been experiencing, there’s a method you should consider using to organize your day.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: change, goal setting, habits, life lesson, motivation, productivity, productivity tips, success

Focuster: Get Work Done Using To-Do Lists, Automated Scheduling, and Reminders

April 29, 2019 By Melissa

At any given moment, you have over a thousand choices at your fingertips.

You’re sitting at your desk. You can fire up your computer and browse websites endlessly. You can go outside and grab coffee along the way. Or, you can finally buckle down and finish the work that’s been sitting on your desk for a week.

We assume that having more choices is better. Yes, more choices mean you can decide the best option for yourself. It means greater control over your circumstances. But there comes a point when we suffer from too many choices. When it comes to productivity, too many choices becomes debilitating to getting our work done.

That’s why accomplishing more is about paring down choices. It means minimizing distractions so you can deep dive into your most important goals. When you focus on one task at a time, you make greater progress.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: business, goal setting, productivity, productivity tips, success

How to Make New Year’s Resolutions That Stick

January 28, 2019 By Melissa

It’s around this time New Year’s Resolutions start to slip.

Remember counting down to when the clock struck midnight? The second it happened, a burst of fireworks shot into the sky. They exploded into an array of colors, signaling the promises, hopes, and dreams of a new year to come.

But as January slowly crawls towards February, our enthusiasm from that moment wanes. The New Year, with its new hopes, turns into “maybe later”. We begin to back out of our aspirations.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: change, complacent, goal setting, habits, inspirational, life lesson, motivation, productivity tips, psychology, success

4 Simple Changes You Can Make to Boost Workspace Productivity

September 17, 2018 By Melissa

Forget the aesthetics. Forget the newest design trends buzzing around. Forget the fancy workplaces in countdown lists.

If you run your own business or work remotely, chances are your workspace isn’t going to look like those you see in glossy magazine pages. Besides, do you really want a full playground in your room?

Well, maybe you do. Regardless, the point is that you don’t have to turn your office upside down to improve your workspace. With a few tweaks, you can create an environment that helps you become happier, healthier, and perform optimally.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: business, habits, health, office, productivity tips, success, work

Do You Consume or Do You Create?

August 20, 2018 By Melissa

When you gaze at a painting, are you the one admiring it or are you the one putting on the final touches?

When you watch a video, are you the one pointing and criticizing, or are you the one making the edits?

When you see what someone else did, do you wish you did that, or are you figuring out how to replicate the steps they took?

It’s easy to let things come to you, like a gust of wind that blows in your direction. It’s much more difficult to produce things. Anything you create and show to the outside world will get exposed to harsh elements, such as criticism, shame, and doubt.

Still, it is something you must do if you want to achieve anything.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: art, change, complacent, goal setting, habits, inspirational, life lesson, motivation, productivity tips, success

5 Ways to Sneak More Reading into Your Daily Routine

May 28, 2018 By Melissa

What is the easiest way to absorb information, learn from others’ experiences, and escape to faraway places?

The answer is simple: read. Read, and you’ll be transported to worlds as extraordinary as the mind can conjure. Read, and you’ll glean more about a topic than you would otherwise.

That’s all well and good, but there’s just one problem. Time. Every day, we have a never-ending list of tasks, errands, and chores. As we get older, the responsibilities pile up, leaving little space in our schedule to read. Even if a book looks enticing, we put it aside until it can be squeezed in later.

While it can be hard to find a quiet afternoon, catching up on a book can be combined with regular routines to save time. Here are five ways you can sneak in that book you’ve been meaning to read:

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Filed Under: Books Tagged With: books, learning, life lesson, productivity tips, reading

How to Thrive in an Environment that Doesn’t Support Your Goals

May 7, 2018 By Melissa

You are the product of your environment.

The environment we live in influences, and in some ways, reflects who we are. Similar to how our bodies reflect the foods we eat, the places we visit and the people we meet reflect the way we think and believe.

Being raised in an inner-city neighborhood means you’ll likely live in the same neighborhood as an adult, while growing up in a middle-class area is a strong predictor of your future lifestyle. It’s difficult to escape the chains in which we are bound.

So how do you thrive in an environment that doesn’t support your goals?

The Count of Monte Cristo

In Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo, the protagonist Edmond Dantès is set up for a promising future. He’s soon to become captain of a ship, newly engaged, and popular amongst his peers. However, his perfect life is about to take a turn for the worse.

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Filed Under: Success Tagged With: book, change, complacent, failure, goal setting, happiness, history, inspirational, life lesson, motivation, persistence, productivity tips, psychology, stress, success

20 Things You Need to Stop Doing Now

September 14, 2017 By Melissa

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

Once in a while, we sit down and try to figure out what we need to start doing. We ponder our past actions and their results, where we are right now, and what we should do next.

While these are logical steps to take, we neglect the fact that putting more things into our lives means we have to take out other components. After all, we only have so much time and energy in the day. And in order to make space for what we want to do, we need to discard our bad habits first.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: change, complacent, goal setting, habits, health, life lesson, motivation, productivity tips, research, success

5 Types of Music That Will Increase Your Productivity, According to Science

September 14, 2016 By Melissa

Music has a way of permeating through empty corners and filling up environments with substance. It can help you relax, make you well up in tears, or feel alive. But can it make you more productive?

We use music to set the tone of our environment and our mood, whether we’re unwinding after work or throwing a party. But in an age when many of us spend our time staring at a computer screen, music has also become a mode of escape from outside distractions or dull tasks.

So how useful is music when it comes to focusing on your work?

Let’s take a look at the science behind music and productivity.

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Filed Under: Success Tagged With: brain, music, productivity tips, science

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