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The 9 Epiphanies That Shifted My Perspective Forever - Global One TV - StumbleUpon
By David Over the years I’ve learned dozens of little tricks and insights for making life more fulfilling. They’ve added up to a significant improvement in the ease and quality of my day-to-day life. But the major breakthroughs have come from a handful of insights that completely rocked my world and redefined reality forever. The world now seems to be a completely different one than the one I lived in about ten years ago, when I started looking into the mechanics of quality of life. It wasn’t the world (and its people) that changed really, it was how I thought of it.
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More information about the Day Zero Project here (Unfortunately, the site appears to be having some difficulties at time of posting - I'll cover the details here) The Challenge: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days. The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on your part). Why 1001 Days?
So you've finished a few goals - how about taking the next step? Instead of doing New Years Resolutions, this year, start a Day Zero Project. : GetMotivated
Overcome Fear and Anxiety by Making It Your Only Option
Little changes can have big consequences leading to a lot of natural anxiety and fear, but by forcing yourself into situations you can't back out from, you can push through your anxiety and accomplish your goals. Image by jonrawlinson Brett Kelly suggests by finding a point that's more difficult to turn back from, you, in effect, have only one direction to continue moving: forward. Even by adding money to a situation, you often force yourself to push through any change or task that's causing you anxiety. "Tell your family that you're going to make them homemade Gnocchi for dinner and they can beat you senseless with a phone book if you don't deliver."
A Guide to Meditation for the Rest of Us
Believe it or not, you can improve your concentration and slow down your day-to-day life with meditation without ever uttering the word "chakra."
An unexamined brain is a tricky thing to carry around. You've got unintentional biases, marketing weaknesses, "overclocking" issues, and all kinds of other mental bugs you may not know about. Here's a helpful list of the mind's weird ways. There's a way of thinking that goes that, since you didn't grow up with genius parents or Einstein's instinctive reasoning, you're only going to be so intellectually able throughout your life. But consider that when a group of college students were given a course that studied the ability to grow smarter and improve performance, they performed notably better in their further college studies than those students who were never taught such thinking. You can easily convince yourself that rigorous study can be a time sink, or let yourself believe in the brain's ability to adapt, and then actually adapt your own gray matter.
Top 10 Ways Your Brain Is Sabotaging You (and How to Beat It)
Looking for a personal productivity system that doesn't suffer the rigidity and unwieldiness that have thwarted your best efforts to adopt other systems? Autofocus offers simplified task management and emphasizes getting stuff done instead of getting stuff filed, organized, and tagged. Almost two years ago we highlighted Mark Forster's Autofocus personal organization system . Since then he's tweaked his system considerably, and now he's joining us to share his reworked Autofocus productivity system. Give it a look to see if it might be a good fit for you. Ed. note: The interview above offers a great hands on look and some insights into the Autofocus system.
The Autofocus Productivity Method: Stop Maintaining To-Do Lists and Start Getting Stuff Done
Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com
And check out the classroom. Does Junior’s learning style match the new teacher’s approach? Or the school’s philosophy?