According to a recent report teenagers are spending hours a day on social media including Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and other social media services. The average person spends nearly two hours (approximately 116 minutes) on social media everyday, which translates to a total of 5 years and 4 months spent over a lifetime. Even more, time spent on …
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Are you wondering if doing a morning mediation is the best time to meditate? There are some pitfalls you want to avoid if you want to learn to meditate better than a Tibetan Monk but they are sometimes hard to spot. Meditating early in the morning helps you to clear your mind and …
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Oooooh, mind control…no, this blog post isn’t about being abducted by aliens or experimenting with something strange from a mad scientist’s laboratory. I wrote this article to help you to take back control of your mind. Every day we are bombarded by notifications, sounds from an app that used popped up on your …
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One of the weirdest things anyone has ever seen when you are looking for signs of Facebook Addiction is a group of teens waiting for their club or sports practice to begin. These youngsters are sitting with their backs to each other and their faces turned toward their cell phones. Their thumbs are flying, …
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Peter Drucker wrote 50 years ago that effective knowledge workers batch tasks together and work on tasks in long, uninterrupted sessions. Cal Newport’s book “Deep Work” argues you should do the same. So why should you care? Deep Work is nothing new. It should be common sense. Some people would refer to “Deep …
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StayFocusd is an excellent productivity extension for Google Chrome to block certain websites on your computer temporarily. However, there are a few essential things you need to know before you use this productivity tool. Imagine you installed the StayFocusd website blocker to increase your willpower and minimize time spent reading about dietary habits …
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Before finding ways to strengthen your willpower, you need to understand what willpower is, what it does, and how it behaves. It draws upon your desire to accomplish something. It is most easily achieved over the short term but can drive one to extraordinary effort over the long term. What is Willpower, and Who Has …
According to the urban dictionary, FOMO is the fear that if you miss a party or event, you will miss out on something great. What Does FOMO Stand For? FOMO stands for Fear of Missing Out and despite the long history of events where people had to deal with the fear of missing out on …
We live in a world deprived of sleep, hurried through meals, and often driven to exhaustion and beyond by our daily work. Aren’t there any natural remedies for focus and concentration that will help us to deal with this world? Let me ask you this: Is it any wonder that afternoon traffic is a …
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Willpower and SelfControl. We’ve all heard of it, talked about it and even wished for it, but what is it exactly? What is the difference between willpower and self-control? Why do some people have no willpower? There is only one thing that is certain. All of us could use a lot more of …