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6 Killer Tips to Concentrate on Studies and Avoid Distractions

Learning how to concentrate on studies can make a big difference to your college career and your future work career. While distractions may only cost you time at this stage of your life journey, frequent distractions and interruptions can cost you a lot of money in the future. So let me share the 6 tips I have used to help me concentrate on my studies in undergraduate and graduate school. 1. Concentrate on Studies and Work: Why We Don’t Concentrate Recent statistics show that the average worker spends between 1.5 – 3 hours avoiding work. That time is spent doing…

Productivity

7 Tips on How to be (Realistically) Optimistic When Tackling Big Work Projects

So what have I been up to? As someone who loves to write, I actually spent it writing some more. And I spent it tackling writing projects in philosophy. As much as I enjoyed my last (quite massive) project, I am now happy to focus on this blog and share more new lessons and insights. The focus of this article, as you may have already guessed, is about the feelings and attitudes we experience in the process of attempting to complete big work projects. Uninformed Optimism and Big Work Projects I understand a big work project to be any…

Coaching, Productivity

2 Tips to Help You Follow Through On Your Commitments

It would be great if we all could just follow through on our better judgements. We would all be healthy, wealthy and happy. Most people, however, don’t. They say they want to go to the gym after they get out of work, but they end up talking themselves out of it. They say they want to use their time off on the weekend to work on a startup, but they get distracted. Other times, they start out with the intention to go all of the way but they stop half way. Here are two tips that I personally use on…

90 Day Challenge, Productivity

How to Be More Creative

Creative people are really good at solving problems. They come up with novel and useful solutions that allow them to cut costs, become more efficient, and simplify the processes they work with. However, a lot of people believe that creativity is an inborn talent; that some are born creative and can use that gift in the areas they choose, but others aren’t. But I believe that creativity is something you have to decide to want to do. That’s the only way for you to discover how creative you are and to pursue the development of this area. You don’t have…

90 Day Challenge, Goals, Productivity

How to Stay Focused All the Way Through

It’s very easy these days to lose focus, slack off and take the back seat. We’re bombarded with a ton of distractions from emails, phone calls, and all sorts of requests and invitations, and such distractions can prevent us from staying focused and working productively and efficiently. The most common advice given to people who are struggling with staying focused is “to eliminate distractions.” This advice comes from the belief that people lose focus when other things compete for their attention. So in order to stay focused, as the advice goes, you should control your working space and deflect all…

90 Day Challenge, Productivity

How to Get In a “Flow” State

After struggling and failing a number of times to complete a 10k run, you decided to take the time to develop your stamina and speed. The grueling months of practice and dedication have finally come to an end and you now feel more ready than ever to go to the track and give it one more try… … you start hitting your strides slowly, but with every step you take you gain more and more confidence. Each step begins to feel more natural, more rhythmic. Your breathing feels more disciplined and under control, your vision narrow and focused, and your…