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Are these obvious principles? If your life is a mess, like mine was, I don’t recommend trying to get organized all in one shot. So here are the 7 habits: Reduce before organizing. If you take your closet full of 100 things and throw out all but the 10 things you love and use, now you don’t need a fancy closet organizer. How to reduce: take everything out of a closet or drawer or other container (including your schedule), clean it out, and only put back those items you truly love and really use on a regular basis. Write it down now, always. How to Get Motivated: A Guide for Defeating Procrastination. Followup to: How to Generally Reduce Procrastination and How to Stop Procrastinating Right Now UPDATE: The poster has been updated and is now available as a full-sized poster. Jump down to the end if you want the download links. Two of my recent posts were meant to highlight clear, actionable things we can do to defeat procrastination – whether it’s general life and environment changes or things that can be done immediately – based on The Procrastination Equation by Piers Steel.
They’re a bit long, and despite my best intentions to use as many of the methods from the book as possible, when I’m in the middle of procrastinating I don’t tend to go out of my way to look up a post, find a method, and implement it. It needs to be easier; it needs to be as easy as possible! So, I created a flowchart, to be printed in colour and posted somewhere visible, to help me actually use the anti-procrastination advice I so desperately need! Download It Here! Buy the Poster! Before Using It… 13 Things to Avoid When Changing Habits | Zen Habits. “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.” - Mark Twain Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter. I’ve learned a lot about changing habits in the last 2 1/2 years, from quitting smoking to taking up running and GTD and vegetarianism and waking early and all that. I could go on, of course, but you get the picture.
I’ve not only learned a lot about what you should do when changing habits, but through my failures, I’ve learned about what not to do. And trust me, I’ve had lots of failures. I’ve found failures to be just as important as successes when trying to learn how to improve, especially when it comes to changing habits.
I’ve done that, with one failure after another, and would like to share a few things I’ve learned to avoid when trying to change a habit. “Motivation is what gets you started. Taking on two or more habits at once. “We are what we repeatedly do. How To Stop Facebook From Tracking Everything You Do [Facebook Weekly Tips] Facebook has basically made a business out of knowing as much as they can possibly find out about everyone. So, tracking your behaviour online and offline makes perfect sense to them.
However, it might not seem that rosy to you. Sometimes, it’s nice to have a little privacy. There are many ways Facebook is tracking you and it’s worth knowing how to block this tracking where possible and how to opt out when required. Sadly, it’s getting more and more complicated as time goes by. Here are the main ways Facebook keeps tabs on you and the best ways to stop them. Facebook Connect Facebook Connect is the proper way of describing how you log into various sites around the web using your Facebook login. Block Cookie Tracking Facebook and many other social networks will often try to track you online by using cookies.
Opt-Out Of Data Collection From Third Parties There are a couple of things you can do to eliminate this sort of tracking. Updates: Caramel Filled Apples Is the Best Thing To Ever Happen To Halloween. Caramel Filled Apples Is the Best Thing To Ever Happen To Halloween By Andrew Liszewski There’s two big problems with the traditional caramel apple. They’re messy to eat, and once the caramel coating is gone you really have no incentive to keep eating the apple. But with the caramel on the inside, it’s a whole new ballgame that will give you a new appreciation for fruit. The recipe is actually for creating caramel apple jello shots, since the addition of gelatin helps the caramel sauce hold its shape when the cored-out apple’s been sliced up. But if you intend to serve it to kids, you can just leave out the vodka or the bourbon. [Buzzfeed via Foodbeast] How to Get Motivated: A Guide for Defeating Procrastination.
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