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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5 Ways to Accelerate Progress With a DIY School Report
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 »5 Things I Learned From Giving up TV
On May 9th 2011, I said goodbye to the first love of my life. I gave up TV. The purpose of this journey of self discovery was to experience living without the hyperbole of a news channel, the cringing antics of the first round of the X-Factor, and of course, adverts for household cleaning products. [...]
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 »The 28 Day Challenge – Give Up Bad Habits
The 28 day challenge is a powerful personal growth technique. Giving up bad habits or starting new ones is always difficult because of the effort needed to implement a daily change. The reason people often fail when it comes to new years resolutions or long term lifestyle changes is that they try to do too [...]
Read the rest of this entry »4 Steps to Improving Your Handwriting – However Bad
Whatever your problem is with handwriting, it is very unlikely it cannot be remedied. People of all ages and professions take steps to improve their handwriting and almost always succeed. It’s probably not your fault but due to the way that you were taught. Recently, handwriting has been given less emphasis in schools, partly from [...]
Read the rest of this entry »5 Reasons to Give Up TV
How much time do you waste on TV? On average it’s between 5-8 hours every day. People have lived for tens of thousands of years without them and seemed to survive perfectly well without “Neanderthals got Talent”, or “Nice Cave, Shame about the Mammoth”. Is TV the secret to everlasting happiness? I don’t think so. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Harness the Power of your Inner Voice
Do you ever talk to yourself? My Granddad said that if you do, you’re talking to someone with a bit of common sense. It therefore is quite clever to listen to that voice inside your head every so often. However it is usually only a small voice continually masked with other things; and too often [...]
Read the rest of this entry »5 Ways to Maintain “Almost-Daily” Habits
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 [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The Foolproof Guide to a Tidy Room
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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