Procrastination. The Misconception: You procrastinate because you are lazy and can’t manage your time well.
The Truth: Procrastination is fueled by weakness in the face of impulse and a failure to think about thinking. Netflix reveals something about your own behavior you should have noticed by now, something which keeps getting between you and the things you want to accomplish. If you have Netflix, especially if you stream it to your TV, you tend to gradually accumulate a cache of hundreds of films you think you’ll watch one day.
This is a bigger deal than you think. Take a look at your queue. Psychologists actually know the answer to this question, to why you keep adding movies you will never watch to your growing collection of future rentals, and it is the same reason you believe you will eventually do what’s best for yourself in all the other parts of your life, but rarely do. A study conducted in 1999 by Read, Loewenstein and Kalyanaraman had people pick three movies out of a selection of 24. Sources: How to Become an Early Riser. It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. - Aristotle Are morning people born or made?
In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I rarely went to bed before midnight, and I’d almost always sleep in late. I usually didn’t start hitting my stride each day until late afternoon. But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high correlation between success and rising early, even in my own life. . … and the next morning, I got up just before noon. Hmmm… I tried again many more times, each time not getting very far with it. It’s hard to become an early riser using the wrong strategy. The most common wrong strategy is this: You assume that if you’re going to get up earlier, you’d better go to bed earlier.
It seems there are two main schools of thought about sleep patterns.
Let’s Make Leadership Real Again. <A HREF=" Widgets</A> Issue 94 - 04 | Let’s Make Leadership Real Again By Mike FigliuoloPublished May 9, 2012 11:00 a.m.
“What has happened to leadership? With all the crises and challenges we face and the increasingly risk-averse environment in which we operate, leadership has become generic, ephemeral, and bland. We have devolved from leaders into managers. Admiral Grace Murray Hopper said it best—you manage things, but you lead people. The result of all of this is our people don’t trust us anymore. Download About Mike Figliuolo | Mike Figliuolo is the Founder and Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC—a leadership development and training firm. Request Processed. 31 Days to Better Game Series Listing. About the Author I'm Bobby Rio, one of the founders of TSB.
You'll know more about me on Google+. I tend to write about what is on my mind so you'll find a mix of self development, social dynamics and dating articles/experiences. For a collection of some of my favorite articles check them out. See All Posts by Bobby Rio The 31 Days to Better Game series recently ended and I’ve been getting a lot of requests to create a page specifically for all of the articles… so here it is. This is the central page of the 31 Days to Better Game series that I ran here at TSB Magazine. What is the 31 Day Project About? To put it most simply – its a month long series of posts here at TSB Magazine designed to walk you through 31 tasks that you can do to take your game to a higher level. I would also like to thank all of the guest authors who submitted some really great posts to make this series special.
To Keep up to date with future projects like this subscribe to TSB’s RSS feed. The Lessons. "Your Brain on Porn" Serie 1. **The New Formula for Picking Up Chicks** INTJ Personality. All About the INTJ Personality INTJ is my basic personality type on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), currently the most commonly used personality type system.
The MBTI categorizes individuals as 1 of 16 types based on four variables that measure how they process energy and information, make decisions and structure their lives. INTJ is one of the rarest of the 16 types – some say the rarest - estimated to make up only around 1% of the population. The letters denote that I prefer: Introversion (I) [refreshing my energy in solitude] over Extraversion (E) [refreshing my energy among people]Intuition (N) [perceiving information primarily from within my own mind and imagination] over Sensing (S) [perceiving information primarily from the external world]Thinking (T) [making decisions based on consciously weighing pros and cons] vs. Names for the INTJ Various authors have assigned different names to the INTJ type in the Myers-Briggs scheme. Characteristics of the INTJ. Men’s Interests and Lifestyle.