Plug into Your Hard-Wired Happiness
March 9th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...How Do I Stop Procrastinating?
March 8th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...To this viewer, the second of the two techniques explained in this short video by Eben Pagan was an incredible eye-opener — a brilliantly simple yet powerful way to use the lever of accountability to instantly short circuit your procrastination loops.
Most advice for ending procrastination focuses on the ‘procrastination personality,’ and how to gradually change your innate (or habitual) tendencies over time by working on building self-discipline. Instead, Eben explains how you can create a scenario in which, in the blink of an eye, the thought of procrastinating becomes almost impossible.
Eben also mentions his “Wake Up Productive” video, which focuses more on the aspects of habit and structure in our daily lives, and how creating the framework of a routine can have a deep impact on our productivity. Definitely worth your time if you are at all dissatisfied with your current level of productivity. (You will be asked for an email address, but the video is made available immediately – you do not have to visit your inbox to activate the link – and you can unsubscribe at any time. Richardsreader has no affiliation with Eben Pagan.)
The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory
March 2nd, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics, Daniel Kahneman, reveals how our “experiencing selves” and our “remembering selves” perceive happiness in a completely different way.
Evidence That Little Touches Do Mean So Much
February 27th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...Students who received a supportive touch on the back or arm from a teacher were nearly twice as likely to volunteer in class as those who did not, studies have found. A sympathetic touch from a doctor leaves people with the impression that the visit lasted twice as long, compared with estimates from people who were untouched. The evidence that touch can lead to clear, almost immediate changes in how people think and behave is accumulating fast. View article at nytimes.com.
The Singing Mechanic
February 24th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...Singing is one of the fastest and easiest ways to change your emotional state from negative to positive. Singing is something you can do instantly. Singing can also raise the energy of the people around you. I’ve seen it happen first hand. View article at erinpavlina.com.
One Week On, One Week Off
February 19th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...If you’d like to boost your productivity far beyond the results you get with the 9-to-5 grind, an interesting alternative work schedule to consider is the One Week On, One Week Off approach. Instead of working week after week, you alternate between one intensive work week followed by one vacation/personal week. View technique at stevepavlina.com.
50 Questions that Will Free Your Mind
February 15th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...The Pomodoro Technique
February 14th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...The passage of time is no longer perceived as negative, but positive. Every Pomodoro represents the opportunity to improve, or in crisis situations, to rapidly reorganize. The more time passes, the more the feeling of anxiety is assuaged, and in its place come enhanced consciousness, sharper focus on the here and now, and a clearer mind in deciding your next move. The result is higher productivity. Download free instruction booklet at pomodorotechnique.com.
Spark
February 13th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...John J. Ratey, M.D., author of Spark, embarks upon a fascinating journey through the mind-body connection, presenting startling research to prove that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to aggression to menopause to Alzheimer’s. Amazing case studies will change forever the way you think about your morning run — or, for that matter, simply the way you think.
Ninety Percent of Life is Just Showing Up
February 8th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...Being able to overcome inertia is what separates the visionaries from the crowd, the notables, the heroes, the leaders. That’s it. Simply taking action takes you from just another member of the crowd to a leader. Instantly. This seemingly simple truth had me looking for some deeper explanation. View article at pmorganbrown.com.
Cognitive Biases
February 4th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...Innate cognitive biases can lead humans (and animals) to unfortunate errors in judgement. Often, these evolutionary behavioral and cognitive traits are also helpful adaptive mechanisms. Welcome or unwelcome as they may be, completely eradicating such biases — or at least their negative effects — is highly unlikely. An awareness of our shared tendencies, however, may help us better govern our thinking and decision-making processes. View list of cognitive biases at wikipedia.org.
How You Give Your Power Away
February 4th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...Once you achieve a certain degree of financial abundance, you tell yourself, then you can use your wealth to finally have some breathing room to figure out your purpose, do what you love, and make a real contribution. Step 1: Become a worthy millionaire. Step 2: Do something more rewarding and fulfilling. View article at stevepavlina.com.
Never-Never
February 1st, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...Missing is a pain
in everyplace
making a toothache
out of a day.
But to miss something
that never was:
the longest guilt
the regret that comes down
like a fine ash
year after year
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The Sedona Method: Lester Levenson’s Story
January 29th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...Contemplating the source of intelligence and energy, I discovered that it too was available in unlimited amounts, and that it came simply by my freeing myself from all these former compulsions, inhibitions, entanglements, hang-ups. I didn’t have to be subject to anything. Seeing this allowed the power that was right behind my mind to flow through as it had never flowed through before. View article at playswithlife.me.
How to Find What You Love to Do
January 28th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...You must decide what destination to steer your life in. Otherwise, you leave yourself wide open for others to direct your life, as well as at the mercy of the winds and storms of life. If you know where your destination is, the rest is easy.
You will find once you know what you want to do, all uncertainty and burden will be lifted off your shoulders and you will have clear vision as to what your journey is and that journey will truly be joyful. View article at briankim.net.
Overcoming Procrastination Over Decisions
January 26th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...Making decisions is a behaviour which can be learned, just like any other behaviour. You can train yourself to make big decisions by practising making small decisions. View technique at markforster.net.
If It’s Not Working, Change Your Approach
January 25th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...Your ability to change your thinking, feeling, and doing is the key to changing your lot in life or changing the results you get. View article at sourcesofinsight.com.
How Much Did You Pay for that Comfort Zone?
January 25th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...Comfort zones feel good. They take the sharp edges off life. Comfort zones are a relaxing place to recharge, to heal, and to prepare us for our next adventure. View article at zen-moments.com.
How to Build a Stronger Ego
January 22nd, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...How does it serve you — or anyone else — to play the game of life with a weak character? Are you really doing much good by checking out from life and cocooning yourself in a mini-monastery? Instead of trying to weaken your ego, consider what good you might achieve with it instead. How would you like to develop your character during your time here on earth? View article at stevepavlina.com.
You Do Not Belong to You. You Belong to the Universe.
January 22nd, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me – each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking instead of trying to accommodate everyone else’s opinions, credos and theories. I vowed to apply my inventory of experiences to the solving of problems that affect everyone aboard planet earth. -Buckminster Fuller View article at tinyapps.org.
Getting Back To Work: A Personal Productivity Toolkit
January 20th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...Work is a sort of conditioning. It’s not natural to sit at a desk for hours on end, nor is it natural to perform dull, repetitive tasks, but we train ourselves to do it. Unfortunately, it’s easy to lose that conditioning, and it takes a while to get it back. View article at kuro5hin.org.
Invictus
January 18th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
- William Ernest Henley
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
January 18th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...What would your life be like if you did not care what other people thought of you? If you were completely independent of people’s opinions, good or bad, and would go about your day without so much as a single self-conscious decision. It would be wonderful freedom, of course. You would feel free to do what you wanted, and have a clarity of mind that comes with not being constantly preoccupied with thinking about the judgment of those around you. View article at everydaywonderland.com.
The Americanization of Mental Illness
January 13th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...In the end, what cross-cultural psychiatrists and anthropologists have to tell us is that all mental illnesses, including depression, P.T.S.D. and even schizophrenia, can be every bit as influenced by cultural beliefs and expectations today as hysterical-leg paralysis or the vapors or zar or any other mental illness ever experienced in the history of human madness. View article at nytimes.com.
No Limits #37: Purpose of Life
January 11th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...A collection of essays on the purpose of life. View this publication at scribd.com.
Loss Aversion Bias
January 9th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loss aversion is an error in our brains that makes us fight like a rabid animal to avoid a small loss, while chewing our cud stupidly when it comes to getting what we want. Data from Kahneman and Tversky suggests we prefer avoiding loss about twice as much as acquiring gains. That’s a trap. View article at petermichaud.com.
Reclaim Your Right to Be Self-Ruling
January 7th, 2010 § 0 comments
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Loading ...We need never answer any part of ourselves that wants to punish us, intimidate, or otherwise drag us down… we owe them nothing — not one consideration, not even the wish that they would leave us alone! View essay at guyfinley.com.
The Concept Fan
December 28th, 2009 § 0 comments
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Loading ...Concept fans help you find new approaches to problem solving when you have rejected all obvious solutions. Originated by Edward de Bono in his book Serious Creativity, they develop the principle of ‘taking one step back’ to get a broader perspective. View this technique at mindtools.com.
Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up
December 21st, 2009 § 1 comment
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Loading ...Ask yourself why this result feels like a failure. What theory does it contradict? Maybe the hypothesis failed, not the experiment. View article at wired.com.
Create New Habits: Self-Regulation
December 13th, 2009 § 0 comments
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Loading ...Start with a little bit of self-regulation – to get an effect across many habits. View article at senia.com.
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