Oct
30
Focus On One Thing At A Time To Completion
Filed Under Career, Conciousness, Entrepreneurship, Improve Efficiency, Money | 40 Comments
Growing up, I remember watching a show on the Discovery channel that talked about different species of human beings, one of which is the Neanderthal. They had the incredible to focus on doing one task at a time, producing far greater amounts than their smarter, but “lazier” cousins. It occurred to me that in terms [...]
Oct
18
The Weakness Of Overconfidence
Filed Under Career, Entrepreneurship, Health, Money, Relationships, The Bigger Perspective | 34 Comments
The Weakness Of Overconfidence We’ve all experienced it before. You take a test that you think is ridiculously easy, so you put it off until the last minute, and end up getting a B. You get into a relationship and start taking your significant other for granted, resulting in a breakup. You invest in a [...]
Oct
12
How To Be Genuinely Interested In People
Filed Under Career, Entrepreneurship, Relationships, The Bigger Perspective | 26 Comments
In Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends And Influence People, he listed genuine interest as one of the most important aspects of a good relationship. I can’t agree more with that statement! In all of my interactions with people and my discussions with people who I think interacts well with other people, this concept has [...]
Sep
21
Appreciate And Love Yourself
Filed Under Career, Entrepreneurship, Health, Motivation & Purpose, Relationships, The Bigger Perspective | 1 Comment
Love Yourself From the previous post Why You Should Show Appreciation, it’s clear that it is very important to give ot people appreciation whenever we get a chance. The irony is, while we do sometimes do this for other people, we often forget to give it to the one person that matters to us the [...]
Sep
19
Why You Should Show Appreciation
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Show Appreciation In Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends And Influence People, one of the most important qualities he mentioned in getting along with people is honest and sincere appreciation. This has proven to be quite true in reality for me, from both the giving and receiving end. I have noticed people’s eagerness to help [...]
Sep
17
Overcome Procrastination By Consulting Your Feelings
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Previously, I’ve written about overcoming procrastination by finding out what your long term goals are. However, that may be a long and involving process taking many years. There may be things that you’re unsure about, but requires doing right away. For example, if there is an assignment due tomorrow, you may feel like procrastinating, but [...]
Sep
10
A Lesson In Standing Up For What You Believe In
Filed Under Career, Conciousness, Entrepreneurship, Health, Motivation & Purpose, Relationships, The Bigger Perspective | 3 Comments
“No! Pick all the vegetables!” my father told me firmly, “they are all nutritious!” “But that’s not what the teacher said!” I retorted, showing him my notes. “See? Here’s the list of vegetables that we talked about in class.” “Then she’s wrong. They’re all nutritious!” my father replied. Seeing the stern look on his face, [...]
Sep
7
The End Of Relationships
Filed Under Career, Conciousness, Entrepreneurship, Health, Relationships, The Bigger Perspective | 438 Comments
In How To Keep A Healthy Relationship, we talked about how to back away from areas of incompatibility when seeking out more common ground. As long as the two people still have the original areas of compatibility, then their relationship can continue as it always has. However, what if one or both people are no [...]
Sep
3
How To Pull An All Nighter
Filed Under Career, Health, Improve Efficiency, The Bigger Perspective | 124 Comments
The All Nighter We’ve probably all had this experience at one time or another: There is something you need to get done tomorrow and you can’t finish it by tonight. So, being the responsible person that you are, you try to stay up late to get it done. Here’s a couple of very important tips [...]
Aug
30
How To Overcome Fear And The Obstacles It Creates
Filed Under Career, Conciousness, Entrepreneurship, Health, Motivation & Purpose, The Bigger Perspective | 208 Comments
A Story About Fear Some years ago, I went to an amusement park with my mother. At first, she was somewhat afraid of the roller coaster, but eventually relented in the name of adventure. As we boarded the roller coaster, I could see the tension in my mother’s body, undoubtedly caused by the adrenaline coursing [...]
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