Triple Your Productivity Tomorrow | PickTheBrain Is work slowly suffocating you? To-do lists, projects and random chores all piling up until they surround you? When this happens, your best strategy is to get ahead. Get on top of all your work and go beyond completing today’s tasks, complete more than you need to so you can have room to breathe. How do you do this? I’ve done hundreds of these Project-Kill days, so if you’re looking to start your own here’s how: Wake Up Early – If you aren’t normally an early riser, set your alarm clock early. Morning Exercise – This isn’t strictly necessary, but I find starting my early day with a run or even some push-ups in my room is another great way to build momentum. Create a Fixed To-Do List – Before you start the day, write down all the things you need to accomplish. Isolate Yourself – Most of my work is solitary. Cut the Cables – Television, web, Facebook, phones and instant messengers all go offline during your day. No Mid-Task Breaks – Breaks of any kind should be minimized during your day.
Edge : Conversations on the edge of human knowledge 50 Lifehacks to Help You Live Longer and Healthier With all the work that's put into fitness and health, it's a wonder how some people manage to have lives outside of work and exercise. A healthy lifestyle can be a pretty hard thing to achieve. There seems to be so much micromanaging involved, from scheduling your workouts to tracking your diet for calories, carbs, proteins, and fats. That's what lifehacks are for. Diet and Nutrition Fifteen Negative Calorie Foods — You'd be surprised to know that some foods actually burn more calories than they contain. Fitness and Exercise Recording Yourself Helps Increase Your Reps — Exercise is half mental — you've got to stay focused and dedicated to your workout if you want any results. Mental Wellness Boost Your Brain's Health with Loud Music — Sure, our mothers might have gotten on our backs once or twice before for having our earphones on too loud, but you'd be surprised to learn that loud music can actually be good for your brain. Emotional Wellness Health and Cleanliness Vanity Other
Brain Fitness And Memory Programs, Brain Training - CogniFit 7 Ways For The Introvert To Communicate Confidently Even If You Don’t Feel Confident — Introvert Zone First impressions count. Like it or not, people will make some sort of judgement about you based on their first impression within the first few seconds of meeting you. You’ve heard it said that ‘you never get a second chance to make a first impression.’ So when you are meeting people for the first time, think of what first impression you want to give them. Communicating confidently is essential if you are going to succeed no matter what you are doing. As introverts, we tend to be in our thoughts most of the time and are most concerned with what we are going to say. It turns out that other people are paying the most attention to our body language. When you do, they will think that you are confident even if you’re not feeling it inside. So, how do you do this? Here are 7 ways to communicate confidently even if you don’t feel that way: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. The way that you move sends a subconscious message to your mind which helps the way that you feel.
Khan Academy The 21 Day Challenge Everyone Should Take I'm on day 14 of a 21-day challenge that I semi-invented and so far I have to admit the results have been nothing short of amazing. Now, when I say that I semi-invented it, that is purely because I took the idea from the excellent book 'Psycho Cybernetics' and put it in a format that everyone can follow, myself included. I'm not exaggerating when I say this challenge can literally help with any aspect of your life that you would like to improve. Before I go into more detail on how you can follow along, I need to talk a little about our 'self image' and why it is very important. Understanding the Self Image In the mid 20th Century, Maxwell Maltz who was a plastic surgeon, wrote a book called Psycho Cybernetics that has now sold millions of copies and been updated for modern times. In looking into this further, he states that we all have a self-image that is purely a mental image of how we see ourselves. The 21 Day Challenge Let's look at the 4 parts of this challenge… The 4 Parts 1. 2. 3. 4.
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10 Ways History’s Finest Kept Their Focus at Work Post written by Albert van Zyl from the blog HeadSpace. The lives of great people give us interesting clues about how to organise our days. All of them attached great value to their daily routines. This is because they saw it as being part of ‘becoming who they are’, as Nietzsche puts it. For the same reason they were also highly individual in their routines. This is perhaps the first lesson that we can learn – that it takes courage and resolve to design and stick to a routine that suits you. There are at least 10 other lessons that the daily routines of the great can teach us: 1. Despite the modern obsession with physical presence at offices (also known as ‘presenteeism’), very few of the great worked long hours. Philosopher Michel Foucault would only work from 9am to 3pm. 2. Even during these short days, the great took plenty of breaks. Socrates would sometimes simply stop and hold completely still for several minutes. 3. 4. Churchill would even have a bath and dress for meals. 5. 6. 7.