LINGUIST List. LSA: Welcome. » Everything You Wanted to Know About Simplifying Your Life, and Way More. Meg Whitman. The most watched and most highly-rated TED talks at the moment. How to Crush Self-Doubt and Become an Epic Human Being. Recently I was looking at some epic blogs written by amazing people.
This made me sick. I looked at pitiful old Empty Fist and thought: “My design isn’t as sexy … I don’t have very interesting things to share … There’s no way I’ll never be able to write like that… My blog is just not good enough.“ A wave of self-doubt hit me. Between the two of us, I’m not the only one who has felt the pangs of doubt, am I? This doubt can be destructive: it ruins our productivity, happiness, and zest for life.
If you’re looking for some trite feel-good quotes to hide your doubts under the rug until tomorrow, search Google. Become the World’s Best [INSERT YOUR NAME HERE] As I was looking at those sickeningly-good blogs this week, one thing struck me. You can’t succeed by copying someone else’s style. Isn’t that encouraging? Leave Comparison Shopping to the Websites Have you ever bought something online and used the comparison feature? Self-doubt always and only arises out of comparisons with others. Mind Tools - Management Training, Leadership Training and Career Training. Time Management - MindTools.
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Be More Effective. Achieve More. Bring focus to the way you work. © iStockphoto This section of Mind Tools teaches you time management skills. The 40+ skills taught here help you become highly effective, by showing you how to identify and focus on the activities that give you the greatest returns. Start with our short time management quiz, which helps you target the techniques that will help you most, and then explore the other articles. The Browse by Category box below will help you find specific skills, and you can skim through the list below to find useful topics. General Time Management Tools Leverage Achieving Much More With the Same Effort Prioritization Scheduling Time Management Challenges Concentration and Focus In Flow Maximizing Productivity Through Improved Focus Goal Setting Self-Motivation Join the Mind Tools Club ... and get 65 in-depth Bite-Sized Training™ sessions as well as more than 900 articles like the one you've just read.
Find out what you get. Www.vpul.upenn.edu/lrc/lr/PDF/procrastination %28W%29.pdf. Procrastination hack: '(10+2)*5'. Following on the idea of the procrastination dash and Jeff’s progressive dash, I’ve been experimenting with a squirelly new system to pound through my procrastinated to-do list.
Brace yourself, because it is a bit more byzantine than is Merlin 2005’s newly stripped-down habit. It’s called (10+2)*5, and today it will save your ass. Who it’s for procrastinatorsthe easily distractedcompulsive web-surferspeople with a long list of very short tasks (a/k/a “mosquitos”) people having trouble chipping away at very large tasks What you’ll need a timermust be easy to resetelectronic kitchen timer is particularly good (pref. with multiple alarm memories), oran app like Minuteur (get the newest version—several cool new features)a reduced subset of your to-do list tasks that can be worked on (not necessarily completed) in blocks of 10 minutes or lessGTD people: next actions only, pleasean hour of your time (less is potentially okay, but it’s non-canonical)your sorry, procrastinating ass How it works.