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🌳 How To Make a Start In Creating Your Future
If you’re in a position in life where you feel like you’re completely stuck with no purpose, no calling, no passion or direction then you’re in what’s known as an early life crisis. This is a result of everything around you moving so quickly and you feeling like you need to catch up and be one step ahead of the curve. It’s a problem many young people face when trying to decipher what direction to take their life in and many people stay in this crisis for months to years at a time.
🌳 The Self-improvement Death Trap
A member of The Kaizen team was speaking to his friend recently and discovered something rather shocking that counters all the self-improvement advice that we know and love and urged us to share the story. His friend (let’s call him Ben) has been on a self-improvement journey for years. He developed habits, learnt time management, Is in the best shape of his life and has a thriving business yet he noted that when asking Ben how everything was going he said that he constantly fell into these traps of despair.
🌳 Top 5 Regrets Of Those On Their Deathbed
Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded their dying epiphanies in a blog called Inspiration and Chai, which gathered so much attention that she put her observations into a book called The Top Five Regrets of the Dying.
🌳 How To live A Healthy Life
The most common attributes you think of when asked ‘how do you live a healthy life?’ are probably along the lines of wealth, health & happiness right? And although you're not wrong, there are some more unconventional attributes that lead to a healthy life that you may have overlooked.
🌳 The Physics of Productivity
In many ways, procrastination is a fundamental law of the universe. It's Newton's first law applied to productivity. Objects at rest tend to stay at rest. The good news? It works the other way too. Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. When it comes to being productive, this means one thing: the most important thing is to find a way to get started. Once you get started, it is much easier to stay in motion.
🌳 How Constraints Will Make You Better
It is common to complain about the constraints in our lives: too little time, not enough money, too small of a network, barely enough resources. Certainly, some of these constraints do hold us back. However, there is also a positive side. The constraints in our lives often force us to make choices and cultivate talents that would otherwise go undeveloped. Constraints drive creativity and foster skill development.
🌳 The 'Seinfeld Strategy' - How To Stay Consistent
Jerry Seinfeld is one of the most successful comedians of all time. He is regarded as one of the top comedians and tv producers of all time and according to Forbes, Seinfeld reached his peak in earnings when he made $267 million dollars in 1998. (Yes, that was in one year. No, that's not a typo.) A full 10 years later, in 2008, Seinfeld was still pulling in a cool $85 million per year.
🌳 2 Reasons Your New Habits Fail
Between 81% and 92% of New Year's Resolutions fail. This means at least 8 times out of 10, you are more likely to fall back into your old habits and patterns than you are to stick with a new behaviour. Why is that? What are the biggest reasons new habits fail to stick? And what can we do to make positive changes easier?
🌳 How To Stay Consistent
You probably realize that consistency is important for making progress, doing better work, getting in shape, and achieving some level of success in most areas of life. In fact, there is this principle called the 100-hour rule that states if you do something for 100 hours over a year (18 minutes a day) then you will be better at that thing than 95% of the world…
🌳 How to Build Skills That Are Valuable
Everybody is obsessed with building the next BIG THING yet Nobody is focused on starting from the ground up. We live in a society that values skills, but everyone is obsessed with results. The problem with this is that it can become really easy to get trapped focusing on results when you should really be building your valuable skills.
🌳 What To Do When You Feel Like Giving Up
We all have those days, those days when nothing is going to plan, you don’t feel like doing the things you know you have to and you just want to start again. Those days when you feel like giving up. The thing is that research has shown that grit is the characteristic linked most closely to success.