We’ve all been there. You show up at the desk, the whole day’s ahead of you, but you can’t figure out how to stay focused at work for an hour or two. It can be particularly challenging to keep your concentration focused on a task, especially if you work online. Whether it’s decision fatigue, bad …
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 …
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 nightmare …
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 it. If …
It is the start of a new semester or maybe halfway through a current one. You know that your study habits aren’t the best. You know you can’t seem to focus on studying. You’ve read the instructor’s suggestions for good study methods. They include all the tried and true methods: Pomodoro (timed study sessions, with …
There are a lot of ways to study. If you are asking yourself ‘How to focus on studying?’ it’s obvious that some techniques are more effective than others. Something to remember, however, is that the real goal of studying is to acquire knowledge that can be used at a later time. The use might be to …
A few years ago Mark Zuckerberg spoke to a large auditorium of young entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. The already successful founder of Facebook shared his lessons learned with people starting a business who wanted to start a successful company as well. According to this story by Ben Casnocha, there were two people in the auditorium …
SelfControl is an OS X application which blocks access to incoming and/or outgoing mail servers and websites for a predetermined period of time. For example, you could block access to your email, facebook, and twitter for 90 minutes, but still have access to the rest of the web. Once started, it can not be undone …