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The Keys to Essential Meaningful Productivity
How do you make sure that you are not being busy just for the sake of busyness? How do you insure the work you are doing has a greater purpose than just another item to cross off of your to-do list? Read on to see how Leo Babauta from ZenHabits answers those questions. You can actually do this in an infinite number of ways, but here are some elements I’ve found to be important in my own exploration: Work on what matters. Do you know your most important tasks for today? For the week? For the month? For your mission or life? This is something to get clear on. We…
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10 Benefits of Meditation
Why do so many people use and promote meditation? The answer is because it works. Meditation is successful for many reasons. Meditation Decreases Anxiety Some people have what is known as too much fight or flight syndrome. Their gut instincts tell them they are in danger when they are really not. Meditation can help ease anxiety. There’s a neural pathway which leads to the part of our brains in which we need to determine whether or not we are in real, imminent danger. For some, those connections are so strong we feel we are in danger when we are not. When taking on the practice of meditating, this connection can…
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Avoid These Goal Traps
A goal trap is something that keeps you from making progress toward, and ultimately achieving, a goal. Read through this list of tricky traps to avoid, which can reduce the effectiveness of goal setting. Deferred Decisions A goal is a decision and a commitment. Setting goals can be uncomfortable because you’re narrowing your options and tightening your focus, and it’s common to try to keep your options open by pretending to commit. A common way to water down your goals is by defining a goal as a decision to be made and thereby not really committing yourself. A telltale sign that you’re doing this is if your goal includes words…
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How to Nurture Creative Thinking
There might be times you find yourself lacking in creativity. The cause for your lack of creativity can be for different reasons. It could be you haven’t been using your creative muscles regularly and they’ve become hidden. There are many tricks you can use to improve your creative thinking. One of the best ways to keep yourself inspired to create every day is to have rituals in place that you use regularly and routinely. Having routines that inspire you conditions your brain to tap into your creativity easily. Some examples of a ritual might be to Read in the morning. Listen to music every day. Meditating for 5 minutes. Deep…
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15 Tips to Increase Productivity
Success in any aspect of your life is a result of planning out your goals and utilizing your creativity. Gaining the right kind of knowledge and putting that knowledge into practice will set you up for a happy and productive life. Read the following tips and advice with a determined mind that will see each idea as an opportunity to try new activities and open the door to a clearer picture of how you can increase your productivity, learn to use your time wisely, and set yourself up to successfully reach your goals. 1. Set short-term and long-term goals Goal setting is effective in every area of your life. Giving…
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A Guide to Dealing with the Growing Tiredness & Boredom of the New Normal
This pandemic is no longer an exciting (but scary) novelty. We’re a couple months into this lockdown and crisis, and it’s starting to wear on many of us. We experience it as boredom, tiredness, exhaustion. We experience it as ongoing burden, and can’t wait for it to be over. We lose patience, and want to do anything else but this. That all makes sense. It’s also exactly why we have difficulty sticking to habit changes, to long-term deep commitments, to ongoing projects and long-running challenges. It’s one thing when things are new, novel, exciting, fresh. It’s a completely different thing when things are boring, dull, tiring, burdensome. What would it…
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4 Simple Productivity Habits
If you often find yourself wishing you could get more done, you’re not alone. We all have the same 24 hours in a day. How do some people manage to get so much done? They adopt simple productivity habits to keep them on track and moving forward. Whether you want to do more in the same amount of time, need more motivation for getting stuff done, or are looking to reduce the amount of time you waste in a day, these simple productivity habits can help you improve your time management so that you can get more done each day. Habit #1: Keep Your Desk Decluttered While creativity can arise…
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Don’t Let Labels Limit You
How many different assessments have you taken that classified you as having a certain personality type, strengths, and so on? Maybe you did a Myers-Briggs assessment, the Strengths Finder test, the Kolbe test, or other assessments, and they told you something about yourself. Perhaps this started with learning your astrological sign and discovering that you were supposed to be a certain way because of when and where you were born. When I was in high school, I took a test called the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey. It said that career-wise, I was most aligned with becoming a computer programmer. Second was a forester. And third was a math teacher. I…
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Defining Happiness for Yourself
The dictionary defines happiness as “the state of being happy.” Unfortunately that definition doesn’t even begin to give you any clarity about the idea, feeling of, or state of happiness. So, how do you define happiness? Let’s look at some different things that happiness can be, but realize that in truth, happiness is in the mind of the beholder. Your Needs are Met – When a person is happy, they usually don’t even have any needs that aren’t being met to the level they want them to be met. It doesn’t mean that someone is not having a hard time it’s all about how you make what you have fill…
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Is Multitasking Sabotaging Your Productivity?
If you’re like many people you spend most days multitasking. You’re probably so used to multitasking that you don’t even realize when you’re doing it. After all, it’s a skill many employers look for in their employees. Many people believe multitasking saves them time. However, there are many reasons why multitasking is bad. It’s time to stop feeling feeling like you need to constantly be working on 10 different things at once so that you can focus and increase your productivity instead. Focusing lets you concentrate on one task or thought at a time, helping you create a better result for each task. Why is multitasking bad? Many people like…
