The Pomodoro technique simply and effectively splits up tasks into manageable chunks with pre-defined breaks. This article will show you how to increase your productivity with time management whilst working more efficiently and for fewer hours. The name comes from the tomato shaped kitchen timer used by the technique’s inventor Francesco Cirillo. Pomodoro is [...]
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The Power of Setting Your Intentions
Every day, in secondary schools across the country, the teacher writes on the board: “Aims for today”. There is a good reason for that, having a target works. If you have a target, it’s easy to categorically decide for yourself if you have achieved or not. School inspectors like that unambiguity that targets contribute to [...]
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This motivation article will teach you how to exploit the feeling of reward you get from completing tasks, by feeding it back into the cycle of pro-activism. This week I have been practising an idea, that involves pre-exposing your outcomes to boost your momentum, energy and of course, happiness. Completion = reward The thought [...]
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Identifying strong and weak points in your character, is an essential component in your quest for personal development and self improvement. Working on these strong and weak points is the easy part, the difficulty comes with critically evaluating yourself, and judging what needs improvement from a completely impartial point of view. What people think of [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Interesting Tips to Keep Going at Work
If your job involves managing people, juggling high risk investments, working with children or driving HGVs, you’ll know better than anyone what is meant by a long hard day. I am no stranger to 15 hour days. This I’ve done several times per week for the last 3 years. However unlike people I know who [...]
Read the rest of this entry »How to Fake Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm can only come from within. To those who don’t have it, mysterious and alien seems the concept. To those who manifest and harness it, life isn’t worth living unless it permeates through your existence. How can you manifest enthusiasm? Enthusiasm comes from happiness, which feeds off itself. To be enthusiastic about a hobby, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Understanding Difficult People – 4 Steps to Resolving Conflicts
“Here we go again”, “She started it”, “Don’t talk to me in that tone of voice”. No prizes for guessing why we say those things. Resolving arguments, and even better, preventing them in the first place, is very challenging. What do you do when you’re in the middle of a conflict? Do you: Shout louder than [...]
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Upon flipping a coin ten times and having ten successive “heads” as an outcome, is heads or tails more likely on the eleventh toss? Surely it’s tails? Wrong!! It is a 50/50 chance of course! Every time! You may have fallen into this trap before – the “Gambler’s Fallacy” - where there is a tendency [...]
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When established, a daily habit becomes second nature. Just like cleaning your teeth in the morning or taking a shower – it would feel wrong to not do it. However with infrequent habits like music practise 3-6 times per week, or exercise twice per week, taking a day off can cause it to be harder [...]
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De-clutter, a place for everything and everything in its place If you’re anything like me, or alternatively slightly normal, then you’ll know how clutter can accumulate like crud and detritus on the forest floor. Looking at it once can’t reveal any change, but after a few weeks there is a noticeable difference. The frustration is [...]
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