Write Down 3 Things Each Day to Live Longer and Stronger. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates If you write down 3 things each day, an amazing thing starts to happen.
You take control of your life. In the book Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy – Until You’re 80 and Beyond, Chris Crowley and Henry Lodge make the case that there are three keys to live longer and stronger: nutrition, exercise, and commitment. And writing about these 3 things each day, helps you examine and count what counts. Simply put it helps you get on track and stay on track.
The Examined Life is the Good Life Writing stuff down, as lame as it sounds, actually works. Via Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy – Until You’re 80 and Beyond: “Back to earth and some mundane advice about the mechanics of caring. Write Down 3 Things in Your Log. Career success will not automatically lead to happiness. Career success at all costs won’t make you happy, as Scrooge learned the paranormal way.
Source: Supplied IT’S generally assumed that there’s a specific career trajectory we should try to follow to attain success: 1. Get a job with good career prospects. 2. 3. 4. And while this is how most people view work, the latest happiness research shows that the model is wrong on every level. The clearest sign that this mental model is bogus is probably the number of highly successful career men who are failing miserably at life. You know the type: The 50-something VP who, yes, gets the stellar salary and the company Mercedes, but who also hates his job, is recovering from a double bypass operation, is hated and feared by his employees, just went through his third divorce and whose kids refuse to talk to him. Will the memory of your Mercedes keep you happy in your twilight years? Here are the three most important scientific reasons why this model of work life is a sham: 1. The Difference Between Urgent and Important.
Do What Is Important Whenever I realize I’ve been running ragged, I know I’ve fallen into a rut of reactive rather than proactive work.
Instead of going about my day steered by plans and intentions, the unstable “whatever comes up” gets to dictate my day. This schedule of working deadline to deadline, fighting fires and flying by the seat of your pants racks up time debt. You’re borrowing from other areas of your life like spending time with your family or on your wellbeing. Humans tend to be bad at understanding how we’ll feel in the future.
Urgent vs. The problem is that we mistake urgency for importance. Let’s go back to the very basics and look at definitions. Mistaking what’s urgent for what’s important comes at the cost of our profound goals and values. This distinction between urgent and important, of course, is nothing new. You have to deal with Quadrant 1 tasks, which are integral to keep going. In a way, this simplifies the matrix even further — focus on what’s important. 7 Ways To Build Your Courage Against Impossible Odds. Fear has a place in our emotional life, and it shows up daily.
Everything causes it: finding new work, dealing with financial uncertainty, creating something new, contemplating failure. By necessity, our minds are designed to let fear in--without it, we'd never survive. But how do you keep fear from impeding your ability to fulfill your potential? Conquering fear is about self-awareness, wisdom, and understanding your strengths--often in the face of adversity. You can practice and cultivate these personality traits, thank goodness, and it even gets easier over time. These seven principles helped me develop my courage: 1. Acting fearlessly often means heading into uncharted territory, challenging conventional paths, or putting aside the need for safety and comfort. 5 Unexpected Ways To Get More Done.
I wrote a post recently about ways that you can work smarter, not harder.
As I worked through the list of techniques I’d collected, the post became so long that I had to split it in half. Here are even more suggestions to help you make your day more productive without putting in extra hours. 1. Limit your to-do list I’ve written about the history of the to-do list before, and how to write a great one. One way to do this is by choosing one to three Most Important Tasks (MITs). “Do your MITs first thing in the morning, either at home or when you first get to work. The rest of your to-do list can be filled up with minor tasks that you’d like to do, so long as you’ve prioritized 1–3 MITs.
Plan the night before Another to-do list tip that can reduce work anxiety is to write out your to-do list the night before. Focus just on the present day My most recent and favorite change to my to-do list has been separating my “today” list from a master list of everything I need to get done.