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Strategic Productivity. How to plan more effectively

https://www.aanutshell.com/2022/06/strategic-productivity-how-to-plan-more.html

You cannot hit your targets if you do not set them first. You cannot increase your strategic productivity without a certain level of clarity of your goals and needs, and of course, without an appropriate plan, you won’t be able to achieve them.

To be more specific, efficiency is doing things right while effectiveness is doing things the right way. There is no point in doing the right things if they do not bring you close to your goals.

The importance of long-term thinking.

Predicting your success stays on your ability to think on a long-term basis. By setting long terms goals it means you are saying no to infinite other options and possibilities. This is a good thing because if you remove other options you will be able to direct all your energy toward your goals. Once you know where you heading you will map out the steps you need to take and as a result, each action will have come more impactful.

We can associate strategic productivity with a game of chess where your main goal is to in, however, to do so, you will have to anticipate your opponent’s moves.

Same as chess games go for your goals, identify possible roadblocks and key moves and take action. Everything you will do will be linked to the future that you want to create. If you spend time thinking about where you want to be in 5 years and you map out your steps and take actions you will have a better chance to achieve them, rather than someone who doesn’t and just do things aimlessly.

The power of compounding effect.

The compound effect is another main benefit of strategy productivity and effective planning. Doing a task daily will build momentum over time and make progress each day. Having small wins every day will boost your confidence and increase your motivation, so do not underestimate the compound effect.

Each day builds on top of each other, the progress might seem invisible at first, however, at some point, you will reach the tipping point. When reach the tipping point things will start to accelerate and your success will be exponential.

In short, you have to build momentum and activate the power of compound effect, by focusing on a few things consistently over long periods.

The power of focus.

When you work each day towards your most important goals, you will tap into the power of focus. With enough focus, you will be able to achieve almost everything.

Think of focus like an axe, if you try cutting down a tree by hitting it in 1000 different places will never fall down. However, if you focus all your hits in one place you will be able to cut down even bigger trees. With sharp focus, you can achieve anything you desire.

As Bruce Lee is quoted saying: “I fear not the man who has practised 10,000 kicks one, but I fear the man who has practised one kick 10,000 times”.

Many people will apply the first scenario, they will try to hit a tree in 1000 different spots wondering why nothing happens and then is no wonder why most people fail to achieve their goals.

To return to Bruce Lee’s quote, for example, someone who practices karate every day will have greater chances of improvement rather than if they trained erratic and not consistent, or try to learn 3 different styles at the same time.

Conclusion

Well, strategic productivity means hitting a tree in the same spot until you bring it down. This involves:

Focus on only a few goals at the same time

Implement a proper strategy each time you approach your goals

Make daily progress toward these goals by taking actions that are aligned with your strategy.

As a resource we have used the book:

Strategic Mindset: A 7-Day Plan to Identify What Matters and Create a Strategy that Works by Thibaut Meurisse

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How to Encourage a Positive Attitude in Students?

Negative thinking is a massive barrier. It limits your potential, prevents you from making progress, and halts your forward momentum in life, whether you’re seeking knowledge, personal development, or happiness. Parents have a significant impact on their school-aged children’s development, whether they are homeschooled or enrolled in the top school in Odisha. Thus, parents of K-12 students can witness firsthand the remarkable changes that take place when their children learn to value themselves and maintain an optimistic outlook.

Present Yourself as an Example

What better method to encourage optimism than to create an upbeat atmosphere? Post numerous quotes that are examples of optimistic attitudes as you establish a homeschool classroom bulletin board or planner or as you design your child’s online school workplace. Create some fun by making magnets out of your favourite motivational sayings and sticking them to the fridge. When your kid faces academic problems and possibilities, a happy environment can do wonders to eliminate negative thinking and encourage a healthy learning mindset.

Help Students Visualise Positive Outcomes

Having regular goal-setting sessions with your student is crucial, as is explicit outlines the conditions under which they will be successful. Consider how it will feel when you finally succeed. To what extent will you be rewarded? How should one define success, and why does it even matter? Teaching your pupil the answers to these questions can help them develop a more optimistic outlook and focus on the bright side of things.

Avoid Negative Talk

Take a deep breath and relax when your pupil says, “I can’t do it.” Communicate this negative outlook to your kid. Try to get to the bottom of the deeper meaning. Inquire as to what is holding you back and create a strategy for overcoming it. You may change your child’s “I Can’t” into a “We Can” by showing them that you are in this together.

Be Their Biggest Fan

Your attitude as a parent or Learning Coach in an online school setting can have a profound effect on your child’s sense of competence. They will develop the same traits if you have faith in your student. As a parent, you might want to try out some of these self-acceptance exercises to help your child recognise his or her individual qualities. When this happens, the learner can start thinking more positively, building self-esteem, and accepting who they are as an individual.

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How to be Confident and Achieve Greatness

Identify your skills and passions.

Ask yourself what it is that you want to achieve.

Set aims and goals to work towards what you want to achieve.

Be a master! Work on polishing and refining your skills.

Eat healthy, exercise, hydrate as this helps boost your mood. When you are in a positive mood your focus is sharper and thus you become more productive.

As you continue to invest in yourself you will start to feel a sense of achievement and reward.

Now you are ready for anything!

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10 Different Ways to Grow

1. Try Something New

The world has so much to offer. Experiencing new events can help you exit your comfort zone and explore new ways to apply your strengths. With so many activities available, avoiding new experiences can easily hold you back from finding all the ways to enjoy an authentic life. Applying this strategy exposes you to new activities and hobbies as well as amazing people who can boost your confidence and assist you in times of need.

2. What Can I do to Make Tomorrow Better?

This is an incredibly important question, as it helps you identify areas of need. If you ask yourself how to improve for the next day, do not view yourself as inadequate. Part of having a growth mindset is realizing there is always room for improvement, but still remaining confident in your strengths. Once you determine how to improve, you can take actionable steps to reach your goal. Thinking in this way discourages bad habits and encourages far more productive habits.

3. Learn to Really Listen

Give a voice to others and help them bring out their inner strength. Even if you are uninterested in a conversation or disagree with someone, give them the respect they deserve and truly try to comprehend what they state instead of making assumptions. Listening can become more natural if you visualize what the other individual states, and confirm their feelings after they finish speaking. This activity improves your relationship-building skills and builds upon your empathy.

4. Read More

Reading a book exposes you to many new cultures, ideas, and ways to possibly improve yourself. It is arguably the best way to start intellectual growth. Both nonfiction and fiction help boost your memory power and can also give readers a profound sense of enjoyment. Fiction increases one’s empathy as it puts you into the shoes of a character. Nonfiction can help you reflect on past tragedies or mistakes made by others, thus increasing your awareness and giving you a powerful lesson you can easily remember. Make reading a habit instead of unproductive activity.

5. Laugh

It is often stated that laughter is the best medicine. This thinking certainly applies to growth. Instead of fretting about your inadequacies, laugh at your mistakes. Acknowledge what you did wrong, but do so in a lighthearted way. Disassociate negative feelings stemming from missteps to your self-worth, another key aspect of the growth mindset. This keeps your confidence high but allows you to be in tune with your strengths and weaknesses, which is highly beneficial to your development.

6. Give Back

Giving back to your community boost levels of dopamine, thus increasing positive feelings and happiness. Donating time or money, helping out an elderly person, or simply buying more ethical products are all forms of giving back. Doing so aligns your actions with your beliefs and develops a sense of meaning.

7. Set Meaningful Goals and Take Ownership of Your Future

If you create vague goals, formulating a strategy can be difficult and ineffective. Develop specific goals and create a list of ways to achieve them. Ensure your goals are SMART: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely. This means having deadlines, making goals achievable, and learning from any mistakes you make.

8. Get Grateful

Since we get used to the many wonderful aspects of our everyday lives, those items and people may be taken for granted. Create a habit out of listing all the individuals and items you are thankful for. Let others know if you appreciate them. Doing so makes them happy and builds a stronger bond between you.

9. Learn to Stand Up for Yourself

Letting your desire to be liked to overtake your priorities can lead to uncomfortable situations. You must learn to prioritize your wellbeing and happiness as opposed to always pleasing others, even if the latter is instinctual. Let others know when you feel unsatisfied or if they are too demanding; do not assume they understand your emotions. This turns a bad situation into an opportunity to express your thoughts and grow to reach a conclusion between both parties.

10. Forgive Others, and Yourself

You probably feel regret when recalling some events. Perhaps you may have even thought of what you would do differently if given the opportunity to change the past. While that is unfortunately impossible, you should find ways to correct the behavior which placed you in a bad situation. Additionally, recognize that you are only human and that a growth mindset does not demand perfection. Learn to keep your own humanity in mind when judging yourself or others. Of course, this is not an excuse to dismiss bad behaviors, but it is simply a reminder not to be overly harsh.

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All to often, tough circumstances are used as excuses for not investing in personal development. It seems or may seem impossible for someone to grow when going through a stressful event, whatever that may be. Luckily, anyone and everyone can take these steps to better themselves, no matter what their current situation is. I have faith you'll grow into the person you want to be, as long as you give it your all, at giving your all, all the time. Good luck!

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Commit to your new life.

When you become aware of how you speak, how you think and how you act, you are no longer programmed by the past.

Teach your body how your future is going to feel like. Feel the emotions in the present moment. Right now, feel the emotions you want to feel in the future.

You can become grateful and abundant before the promotion, or before you get the job.

You can feel in love before the relationship happen. You can fall in love with your life, your body, your choices.

You can steer your emotions with your thoughts.

So if you have been waking up grumpy for the past year, start disciplining your mind to feel grateful in the morning.

Practice guided meditations to create the feeling of abundance in your life. Start a gratitude journal. Praise yourself in the mirror. Flirt with yourself. Spoil yourself. You are the captain of your thoughts. Your thoughts influence your emotions. Emotions create your life.

Build a new personality.

If you really did believe your thoughts create your future, you would show up and do the work. You would observe your thoughts daily and when any negative thought pops into your head, you would flip it and built constructive ones.

All it takes is awareness and discipline. Start today. Start right now. You are capable of changing your life just like anybody else.

Sending you much love 💖

abnormall

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What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.

Never forget, always remember.

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I’m trying to understand why cats are so cute

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someday you will wake up in bed next to the love of your life. you will hold her close, cherish her, kiss her good morning and talk softly about your plans for the day while sunlight slowly pours into the room. you will see her stretch, see her body arch in pure, innocent ways. you will see that you have fallen in love with a goddess.

she will be no aphrodite, no artemis, no athena. no, she will be different; she will be so much better. she will be real and raw and made of jagged edges that soften just for you. she will be fiery but soft, romantic but guarded. you will know that she is the one from the first time you hear her curse at the sky on a stormy day, or the first time you see her focus while comparing prices of two lipsticks that look too similar to tell a difference.

she may not be perfect, but her hand will fit perfectly in yours. she will have a lopsided grin, mischievous eyes that say "come get me, i'm yours." she will be a body of contradictions but each juxtaposition will draw you ever closer, until all you know is the feeling of her lips on your cheek.

the love of your life may not be perfect, but then again, nothing ever is. nothing except the moments you spend wrapped in her arms.

1995june

I am quite a messy person. I am insecure. I eat too much, or not enough. I sleep and dream the same way, erratically. Some days my heart beats too fast, faster than I can keep up with, and other days I don’t feel it beating in my chest at all and I wonder if I am still alive or if this some kind of sick joke in which I feel “being”, but I am not. My bones don’t sit quite as softly in my skin like I used to remember them and now I find fault in every blemish of my being and in all of the places that used to carry a childish wonder. And these days my body feels like a house poorly constructed by a god who doesn’t know what it means to be (human). The yellow wallpaper constantly peeling and crumbling away, the rooms misshapen, the furniture tossed about like orphaned children and other seemingly unloved things, and the windows and doors far too small to let passing through. And there’s a knocking, always a knocking, ringing through out the halls, or trapped between the walls, but every time I call out for someone, I am greeted with an eerie silence. Two hundred sixty-four moons have blossomed and withered since I have taken up residence in my skin, my bones, and crawled into this world. How come I still can not find the courage to live comfortably in my own skin? And most days, rather than repainting the walls, and finding love out of the oddity of my ill built rooms, I spend my time wondering if I’ll ever come to love this skin I’ve been born into. I wonder if the haunting will ever go away, or will I have to get used to the knocking.

twenty two by nicole moon