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    4 Simple Ways to Never Lose Your Ideas

    Ideas are precious. Especially in this Internet age where many things quickly becomes commodity, ideas are what set you apart and keep you ahead of the pack. You need to always have good and fresh ideas. Unfortunately, we often cannot anticipate when an idea will come. Suddenly, out of the...
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    How to Get the Most Out of Your Books

    Reading a (nonfiction) book is one thing, but getting the most out of it is another thing. Too many people only reach the surface of the book and never really get into the treasure that is hidden below it. Or maybe they get a portion of the treasure, but they lose the chance to get the whole...
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    How to Live Your Books and Not Just Read Them

    Reading books is one thing, but actually living them is another thing. Many people just read a book without ever living it. But as you know, you can never get full benefit from a book if you just read it without putting it into practice. Of course, it is easier said than done. Most of us just...
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    Bookmark Template for Your Most Important Books

    Last month I wrote the post How to Live Your Books and Not Just Read Them. There I introduced the idea of “most important books” (MIBs) which says that you should treat some very important books differently to get maximum benefit. Reader Ann M. Mione took the idea and created a bookmark template...
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    The Benefits of Keeping a Journal

    If you want to grow, one important thing you should do is keeping a journal. It may seem simple, but it can make a big difference in your life. I myself have been journaling for years. Writing all the lessons I learn and all the ideas I get has become a habit for me. And to be honest, it’s...
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    How to Write in a Journal Effectively

    Note: This is a guest post from Jonathan Beebe of Develop Minds You may know all the reasons why you should keep a journal, but if you’ve never written in a journal before, or have limited experience with it, you may not exactly know how to get started. You’ve got your notebook out, and a blank...
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    Video Journaling: Find Your Video Voice

    Note: This is a guest post from Michael ‘Sean’ Kaminsky of Video Regeneration Got video? Not long ago, video cameras were mainly owned by pro videographers and home enthusiasts. Now with a camera stashed in nearly every phone, digital camera and laptop, you are more likely to struggle to find a...
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    A Simple Guide to Becoming a Voracious Reader

    The more I learn about the lives of great people, the more I know that many of them are voracious readers. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are two contemporary examples. My favorite example, though, is Theodore Roosevelt (TR). While he was at the White House, TR read at least one book a day, even...
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    How to Fix Foot, Ankle, and Shin Pain with 2 Simple Foot Exercises

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Today, I’m going to teach you two foot exercises: foot circles and point flexes. Doing these foot exercises strengthens the muscles of the foot and lower leg, improves foot and ankle mobility, and helps promote circulation throughout the body. If you do these foot...
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    Upper Back Opener: 10-Minute Follow Along Yoga Flow with Sima

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Welcome to my eight-part yoga flow series! Each of these videos will be presented in a follow along format, so all you have to do is hit “play” and join me in a free yoga class. We will focus on something a little different each time, but you’re guaranteed to get both a...
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    42: Time and Money

    Takeaway: In her book Time Smart, behavioral scientist and Harvard Business School professor Ashley Whillans digs into the fascinating relationship between time, money, and happiness. While making more money is an easier goal to chase, Ashley’s research shows that making time-first choices...
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    The easiest way to track your time

    Takeaway:Track only the time you spend on your most important tasks. This makes the exercise less of a pain, and allows you to see, at a glance, how productive you actually are. Estimated Reading Time:2 minutes, 3s. Like most people, I find tracking my time a huge pain. While devices like the...
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    49: The Power of Novelty

    On this episode, we chat about the power of novelty—and how this one ingredient influences our perception of time and how meaningful our life feels. Topics covered include: How novelty has affected our perception of time during the pandemic The ways that novel moments serve as markers in time...
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    Some practical tips for slowing down

    Takeaway:Slowing down can be tough these days, as I found during a month-long sabbatical. Here are a few tips that helped me take pause during this anxious time. Estimated Reading Time:3 minutes, 46s. I recently took a mini, month-long sabbatical from work, with an intention to totally...
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    The Rolling Time Block Method

    Takeaway: If time blocking hasn’t stuck for you, become less rigid with it. Trying jotting down how many hours you’ll want to have worked on tasks by day’s end to take a looser approach to time blocking. Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes, 39s. I’ve never been a big fan of time...
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    My favorite email tactic is to do message sprints

    Takeaway When you get a bit of time throughout the day, set a timer, and then blow through as many email messages as you can. When the timer finishes, shut down email until the next sprint. Estimated Reading Time 1 minute, 35s. My favorite email productivity tactic is to do email sprints. The...
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    What did you spend the last 40 minutes doing?

    Takeaway: Throughout the day, be aware of how you spend your time. One way to increase your time awareness is to create an hourly awareness chime on your watch or phone. Or ask, on a regular basis: What did you spend the last forty minutes doing?Estimated Reading Time: 1 minutes, 41s. What...
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    To become more productive this week, try working less

    Takeaway: By working less—including by working fewer hours during the week or by scheduling less time for your important work—you do two things at once: you expend more energy over a shorter period to get your work done, and you prevent your work from expanding to fit how much time you have...
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    The Rule of 3

    Takeaway: One of the best prioritization rituals is defining three priorities every day, week, and year. Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes, 15s. One of my favorite time management and prioritization techniques for becoming more productive is “The Rule of 3.” We all have a lot of stuff to...
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    The Best Productivity Advice is Time-Negative

    Takeaway: Productivity advice is great. But you have to make that time back—and then some.Estimated Reading Time: 55s. Consuming productivity advice is great, but it can also take a lot of time. You need to make all those minutes back—and then some—for that time to have been well spent...

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