Detach From Your Ego – Live Life in the Flow
How often do you feel as if you’re not performing at your best because of the whirlwind of thoughts that ceaselessly preoccupy your mind? My guess is if you’re anything like me, the frantic world in...
View ArticlePutting Things Off: Forgetting the Power of Choice
I have an aversion to bureaucracy and completing administrative tasks that borders on the phobic. If fact just momentarily dwelling on a mental image of the copious volumes of ‘official’ administrative...
View ArticleA simple tip for getting things done (even daunting, boring and stressful...
A few weeks ago I wrote about a vicious cycle of procrastination I recently allowed myself to get subconsciously embroiled in; and how my inability to confront what I needed to do head-on left me so...
View ArticleThe Motivation to Act: What’s In It for Me?
How do we motivate ourselves to do anything, and I mean anything? Not surprisingly, motivation arises from wanting to do whatever that anything is. But why do we want to do anything in the first place...
View ArticleMonkeys, Raisins and Intrinsic Motivation
I’m not keen on experiments involving animals I have to admit, but one that always tickles me involved some rhesus monkeys, a simple puzzle and some raisins. In 1949, way before the Nintendo DS and Dr...
View ArticleSingle Tasking: The Key To Reducing Stress & Increasing Efficiency
Living in the present is a truly wonderful thing. It’s when you’re living in the moment that you’re truly released from the insecurities of your past, and when the uncertainties of the future no longer...
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