Say thank you to everything and everyone, even to your grief and those who frustrate you. Ask how you want to use this gift of a day. See this moment as the most important moment in the world, and don’t wait to be happy. Do every task out of love for someone else, and yourself. To make better habits, put…
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It happens to all of us: you are going strong with a project, with learning something new, with a new habit or two … and things go sideways. You get derailed. By Leo Babauta from zenhabits This is a critical junction. If you let yourself quit, all your time and effort up until now has been for naught. If…
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Are you a perfectionist? by MaryJaksch from goodlifezen.com Your answer will reveal the truth: Do you often try to achieve a perfect standard in your work? Do you feel a need to perfect at everything you do, even at the expense of your health and well-being? If your answer the two questions above was ‘Yes,’ then you are in danger of…
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Have you ever heard the phrase “inch wide, mile deep” with respect to picking an area of focus for your education, career, website, business, etc? The idea here is that you should narrow your focus and concentrate on becoming highly skilled in one particular subfield. Then you’ll be able to carve out a space within your industry where you’re competent…
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Neurological imbalances can show up as psychological, behavioral, and motivational problems. If we try to treat these problems at the psychological or behavioral levels, however, we can’t effectively cure them because the problems have physical causes, such as a buildup of toxicity in the brain. by Steve Pavlina, from stevepavlina.com It’s my opinion that a wide swath of personal development…
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Many times when people get stuck working on some aspect of their personal growth, it’s because they’ve defined their core problem in a way that it can’t really be solved. by Steve Pavlina, from stevepavlina.com One of the most common forms of this is when someone defines their problem as a mental or psychological one. I see this all the…
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by Steve Pavlina, from stevepavlina.com Today I finished typing up my detailed plan for this quarter, which is about 10 pages long. I revise my goals and plans roughly every 90 days, and I find that although this can be tedious (usually 10-15 hours of tiresome work), it’s an essential tool for me, not just for running a business but…
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by Steve Pavlina, from stevepavlina.com Many people find it really challenging to finish a 30-day trial when wanting to build a new habit or explore a new lifestyle possibility, such as eating vegan or getting up at 5am. People often give up after a few days, lacking the discipline (or so it seems) to follow through on such commitments.…
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Do you ever feel like you’ve lost control of your life and that you’re spending too much time dealing with someone else’s agenda for you? by Steve Pavlina, from stevepavlina.com Last year I read an interesting book called The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter, which is about a resurgence in analog technologies such as vinyl records…
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Do you ever feel you should be further along on your goals and projects, given how much time you’ve been spending in your workspace? by Steve Pavlina from stevepavlina.com To enter a state of high productivity, we know that it’s important to avoid distractions and really concentrate deeply on a task or project. You want to enter the…
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