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Think positively and change your thoughts or mindset to a new way of thinking about something in order to improve your wellbeing and get things done.
8 Ways to radically increase your productivity - The Globe And Mail
You are what you think. You cannot think negatively and have unlimited success. If you think negatively about business and finances [or leisure and relationships, or whatever else you want to change or improve in your life], your subjective experience will be a lack of both, whether or not that is true in reality. Discipline your mind towards the goals of what you want your productivity to look like and start putting the effort in right now to get there. Keep in mind that suffering over your own suffering doesn't work. Know the negative thought patterns you hold which require change and be deliberate in changing them.
Create daily habits and practices to achieve goals and make your dreams come true.
Feeling determined to change - Zen Habits
The only way you can make something stick is to create a habit through daily practice. So if you want to exercise, set up 10 minutes every day, at the same time of day, when you’re going to do your yoga or pushups or jogging/walking. Put it on the calendar, and make it an unmissable appointment. Quitting a habit is tougher, but perhaps try a “smoking-free zone” when you don’t smoke. (Or a “procrastination-free zone”.) Just an hour a day, then two hours after a few days, then three after a few more, etc. Eventually you’ll learn coping tactics and awareness during your zone that will help you quit completely.
Find and meet up with people who are doing things that you are interested in doing.
Advice for people in their early 20s - Zen Habits
Find people online doing interesting things, meet up with them in real life. Find people who are passionate, who are building things, who are pushing themselves, who dream big, who are mindful and joyful and healthy and friendly and shy and gregarious and adventurous and curious. Befriend them. Be there for them. Be helpful. Make them laugh. These are your people.
Are we friends? Do you care? Let it go, let it go, let it go.
Enlightened - Rotten Tomatoes
Are we connected?
What do you say about me?
Was I mean to you?
Were you to me?
What do you think of me? Deep down?
Am I ridiculous? Or sweet? Or decent?
Are we friends? Do you care?
Let it go, let it go, let it go.
- Party - Electronic, Dance, Dance Rock, Ska, Disco, Electronica, House, EDM
- Energy - Hard Rock, Blues Rock, Alt Rock, Punk Rock, Classic Rock, Metal
- Groovy - Rhythm & Blues, Funk, Hip Hop, Rap, World, Latin, Psych Rock, Jam Rock
- Lively - Adult Rock, Folk, Pop, Country, Britpop, New Wave, Progressive, Art
- Chill - Downtempo, Trip Hop, Chillout, Lofi, Jazz, Soul, Psychedelic, Dream
- Relax - Singer, Songwriter, Ambient, Easy, Blues, Lounge, Soft Rock, Soft Pop
- Work - Productivity, Create, Documents, Mail, Calendar, Notes, Develop, Images
- Read - Reference, Dictionary, Education, Learning, Books, News, Magazines, Blogs
- Live - Communication, Phone, Chat, Social, Groups, Forums, Camera, Microphone
- Play - Entertainment, Music, Movies, Shows, Television, Videos, Radio, Podcasts
- Fact - Information, Database, Maps, Weather, Shopping, Money, Downloads, FTP
- Tool - Utilities, System, Terminal, Automation, Clocks, Home, Calculators, Converts
- Exercise - Walk or exercise for 30 minutes
- Relax - Magnesium and chamomile tea at night
- Outdoors - Touch grass and get fresh air often
- Meditate - Meditate or breathe for 10 minutes
- Don't Smoke - Find a way to relax without smoking
- Green Tea - 5-HTP and drink green tea in afternoon
Each technology we create is always transforming society and we need to be careful about considering if and when different technologies may be affecting us either negatively or positively.
Study Says Technology Could Transform Society - NY Times (1982)
A report commissioned by the National Science Foundation and made public today speculates that by the end of this century electronic information technology will have transformed American home, business, manufacturing, school, family and political life. The report warned that the new technology would raise difficult issues of privacy and control that will have to be addressed soon to ''maximize its benefits and minimize its threats to society.''
- The home will double as a place of employment, with men and women conducting much of their work at the computer terminal. This will affect both the architecture and location of the home. It will also blur the distinction between places of residence and places of business, with uncertain effects on zoning, travel patterns and neighborhoods.
- Home-based shopping will permit consumers to control manufacturing directly, ordering exactly what they need for ''production on demand.''
- There will be a shift away from conventional workplace and school socialization. Friends, peer groups and alliances will be determined electronically, creating classes of people based on interests and skills rather than age and social class.
The solution or explanation with the fewest amount of steps or assumptions should often be preferred in order to simplify the solution down to its essential factor or factors.
Occam's Razor - Wikipedia
In philosophy, Occam's razor (also spelled Ockham's razor or Ocham's razor; Latin: novacula Occami) is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements. It is also known as the principle of parsimony or the law of parsimony (Latin: lex parsimoniae). Attributed to William of Ockham, a 14th-century English philosopher and theologian, it is frequently cited as "Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem", which translates as "Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity", although Occam never used these exact words. Popularly, the principle is sometimes inaccurately paraphrased as "The simplest explanation is usually the best one." This philosophical razor advocates that when presented with competing hypotheses about the same prediction, one should prefer the one that requires the fewest assumptions and that this is not meant to be a way of choosing between hypotheses that make different predictions.
80% of the results will often come from 20% of the causes, so focus on finding the vital few inputs or actions that will provide the most benefit or effect.
Pareto Principle - Wikipedia
The Pareto principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the "vital few"). Other names for this principle are the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity. Management consultant Joseph M. Juran developed the concept in the context of quality control and improvement after reading the works of Italian sociologist and economist Vilfredo Pareto, who wrote about the 80/20 connection while teaching at the University of Lausanne. In his first work, Cours d'économie politique, Pareto showed that approximately 80% of the land in the Kingdom of Italy was owned by 20% of the population.
Give honest and sincere appreciation. - Dale Carnegie
How To Win Friends And Influence People - Goodreads
Lincoln once began a letter saying: "Everybody likes a compliment." William James said: "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." He didn't speak, mind you, of the "wish" or the "desire" or the "longing" to be appreciated. He said the "craving" to be appreciated...Let's try to figure out the other person's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be "hearty in your [compliments] and lavish in your praise." and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime - repeat them years after you have forgotten them.
"Don't criticize, condemn, or complain." - Dale Carnegie
How To Win Friends And Influence People - Goodreads
Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment...Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness. "To know all is to forgive all."
If they ask you to stand, well they just want you to kneel.
Come On Come On - Jet
Now I am a young man I see cracks in the steel
If they ask you to stand, well they just want you to kneel
If you don't know what you want then you just have to take it all
Hey man, you gotta understand
I got the world in my two hands
Hey man, never goin' back, never going back
Come on come on
I don't need anyone
To tell me what to believe
Come on come on
Shout it out everyone
You can't tell me what to believe
He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride.
He That Is Down Needs Fear No Fall - Hymnary
He that is down needs fear no fall;
He that is low, no pride;
He that is humble ever shall
Have God to be his guide.
I am content with what I have,
Little be it or much;
And, Lord, contentment still I crave,
Because thou savest such.
Fulness to such a burden is
That go on pilgrimage;
Here little, and hereafter bliss,
Is best from age to age.
You can positively influence other people's lives by telling them you believe in them, you think they are a good person, they possess good qualities, and you expect they will perform well because they have the ability to do so.
Pygmalion effect - Wikipedia
The Pygmalion effect is a psychological phenomenon in which high expectations lead to improved performance in a given area and low expectations lead to worse. It is named after the Greek myth of Pygmalion, the sculptor who fell so much in love with the perfectly beautiful statue he created that the statue came to life. According to the Pygmalion effect, the targets of the expectations internalize their positive labels, and those with positive labels succeed accordingly; a similar process works in the opposite direction in the case of low expectations. The idea behind the Pygmalion effect is that increasing the leader's expectation of the follower's performance will result in better follower performance. Within sociology, the effect is often cited with regard to education and social class.
Your beliefs and thoughts influence your mind and your life, so any expectations you have about your self, your character, your abilities, your goals, and your dreams can and often will come true if you believe they will.
Self-fulfilling prophecy - Wikipedia
A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that comes true at least in part as a result of a person's belief or expectation that said prediction would come true. In the phenomena, people tend to act the way they have been expected to making the expectations come true. Self-fulfilling prophecies are an example of the more general phenomenon of positive feedback loops. A self-fulfilling prophecy can have either negative or positive outcomes. Merely applying a label to someone or something can affect the perception of the person/thing and create a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The kids are having none of it. They can't be bought, they can't be taught your hate.
The Kids Are Having None Of It - Frazey Ford
Get out of the way
You've had your day
And it's no longer how we gon' play
The kids are having none of it
The kids are having none of it
They can't be bought, they can't be taught your hate
Always a mistake
To underestimate
Watch them now, they're stepping to the plate
The kids are having none of it
The kids are having none of it
They can't be bought, they can't be taught your hate
Add separators to your taskbar to keep them organized in groups, help you focus, and keep your mind clearer, possibly in groups of 6 apps together.
Three useful tricks for organizing your messy Windows taskbar - Lifehacker
If you've ever wanted to group your apps into separate spaces on your taskbar, you actually can - with a little help from this workaround we've talked about before. All you need to do is create a shortcut to a fake EXE file, give it a transparent icon, and add it to your taskbar. You can separate your office apps from your games, or even your slow-loading apps from your fast-loading apps - that way, if you accidentally click on the wrong button, you don't have to wait 60 seconds for the wrong app to load before you close it. Check out our original post for the full rundown on how this works.
Simplify the amount of folders you use by organizing your documents into folders by type, and only creating albums, groupings, or project folders when necessary.
Geek To Live: Organizing my documents - Lifehacker
There are a million and one ways to arrange files and folders on disk. Some might argue that spending a moment even thinking about it in the age of desktop search is unnecessary. That may be true, but some semblance of order will clear your desktop and your mind and make you "ready for anything." Over the years I've come up with a six folder structure for "My Documents" which I create on every computer I use without fail. This scheme accommodates every file I might come across, keeps my desktop clear, smoothly fits in with an automated backup system and also makes command line file wrangling a breeze.
