7 Ways You Can Easily Increase Your Willpower
general, people have an overly positive vision of themselves and their abilities. But what's the one thing surveys show most everyone will admit they have a problem with? Self-control. And who is most likely to give in to temptation? Ironically, it's the people who think they have the most willpower. Via The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It: Research shows that people who think they have the most willpower are actually the…
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How To Be Resilient: 8 Steps To Success When Life Gets Hard
tick with it!" "Be resilient!" "Never give up!" I see a lot of stuff about resilience, persistence and grit. What I don't see is a lot of legitimate info on how to actually increase those qualities. How can we be more resilient? How can we shrug off huge challenges in life, persist and -- in the end -- succeed? So I looked at the most difficult scenarios for insight. (Who needs resilience in easy situations, right?) When life and death is on the line,…
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How To Motivate Yourself: 3 Steps Backed By Science
u make goals... but then you procrastinate. You write a to-do list... but then you don't follow through. And this happens again and again and again. Seriously, what's the problem? Why are we so good at thinking of what to do but so terrible at actually doing those things? The problem is you're skipping an essential step. Here's what it is... The Mistake Every Productivity System Makes Productivity systems rarely take emotions into account. And feelings are a fundamental and unavoidable…
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Most Productive People: 6 Things They Do Every Day
er feel like you’re just not getting enough done? Know how many days per week you're actually productive? About 3: People work an average of 45 hours a week; they consider about 17 of those hours to be unproductive (U.S.: 45 hours a week; 16 hours are considered unproductive). We could all be accomplishing a lot more -- but then again, none of us wants to be a workaholic either. It'd be great to get tons done and have work/life balance.…
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Decision Making: The #1 Secret Of Astronauts, Samurai, Navy SEALs, and Psychopaths
all make a lot of bad decisions. With careers: More than half of teachers quit their jobs within four years. In fact, one study in Philadelphia schools found that a teacher was almost two times more likely to drop out than a student. In our jobs: A study showed that when doctors reckoned themselves “completely certain” about a diagnosis, they were wrong 40% of the time. And in our personal lives: ...an estimated 61,535 tattoos were reversed in the United…
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Too Busy? 7 Ways To Increase Leisure Time, According To Science
eling overwhelmed? Are you constantly running from thing to thing but never getting it all done? When researchers survey people, they say they're too busy -- about everything. Too busy to make friends, date, sleep, have sex, to go on vacation... or to even have lunch. Via Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time: In surveys, people say they’re too busy to make friends outside the office, too busy to date, too busy to sleep, and…
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How To Motivate People – 4 Steps Backed By Science
ployees, spouses, kids -- what does it take to get people motivated so you don't have to nag them? Motivation is powerful. It predicts success better than intelligence, ability, or salary. Via The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: When tested in national surveys against such seemingly crucial factors as intelligence, ability, and salary, level of motivation proves to be a more significant component in predicting career success. While level of motivation is highly correlated with success, importantly, the source of motivation…
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How To Achieve Work-Life Balance In 5 Steps
hieving work-life balance can look impossible. And, frankly, it seems like it's getting harder. In the ten years from 1986 to 1996 work-life balance was mentioned in the media 32 times. In 2007 alone it was mentioned 1674 times. Via The ONE Thing: A LexisNexis survey of the top 100 newspapers and magazines around the world shows a dramatic rise in the number of articles on the topic, from 32 in the decade from 1986 to 1996 to a high…
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