Mindfulness is a skill that many people have no desire to improve or have no idea exists. A lack of mindfulness can cause problems such as overthinking, worry, stress, and poor perception. Mindfulness is defined as a mental state achieved by focusing awareness on the present moment. A person in a truly mindful state recognizes and accepts thoughts and feelings and lets them pass, like a leaf floating down a river. There are many free mindfulness resources available on the Internet. Take the initiative and begin to improve your present awareness with this simple mindfulness exercise.
Exercise without progress tracking can lead to loss of motivation and a slower rate of improvement. It is important to know where you stand on a fitness level so you know how far you have come and can take steps to keep improving. Many assessments people give themselves are subjective and simply based on how much they can lift or how far they can run. While these may be somewhat useful indicators, a more specific set of tests is needed.
Check out this Men’s Health article on how to assess your current physical state.
Do you catch your mind consistently wandering when trying to tackle an important task? Tend to be easily distracted when you are in a productive mode? Find yourself multitasking on activities that do not necessarily relate to each other?
If you answered “yes” to these questions, it is time you work on improving your focus. The amount of focus and willpower you have is not a static quality. These characteristics can be trained and improved with hard work and dedication. Eban Pegan has come up with three C’s to help manage your focus and attention.
Clean Focus
Only focusing on one thing at a time. Multitasking may seem like a more efficient use of your time, but each task you add pulls away attention and focus from the others. This approach is antagonistic in nature: each task takes longer to complete, the results are not products of your best abilities, and this mental marathon drains your focus and willpower quickly and detrimentally.
Clean Cuts
Push things out of your mind that you have already focused on or need to focus on. These thoughts are distracting and can cause you to lose important trains of thought or work ethic momentum.
Change Channels
You should spend your day working different aspects of your mind. If you focus on only one or two things, your mind will tire out and leave you unhappy. Change channels between physical, social, mental, and emotional tasks. Examples include: lifting weights, chatting with a friend, reading, and making love with your partner, respectively.
Check out Egan Pegan’s video for more detail on these three tips.
Dogs are truly man’s best friend. The relationship between this dog and human are incredible; they’ve definitely reached a level of companionship that everyone wishes they could reach. Also, these two have skills!
Check out these two best friends doing parkour jumps with each other!
DID YOU KNOW: At the age of 25, American businessman Mark Cuban was working as a bartender in Dallas before becoming a salesperson at a PC software retail store. Now, he has a net worth of 3 billion dollars and is the proud owner of the Dallas Mavericks. It’s important to see that successful people all didn’t start out rich. Some made it by studying hard through school, whereas others decided to drop out to pursue their dreams.
Learn more about what some successful business people did when they were also 25 years old
How often do you get asked “How are you?” And how often do you reply back “I’m fine”? Are you really “fine” though? When you say that you’re fine, you’re saying that you’re content with everything that you currently have in life. It’s like saying that you have no more aspirations. No more dreams. By saying that you’re fine, you make an excuse to yourself that the reason you aren’t more successful is that you were content with what you had. In this TedxTalks video, Mel Robbins explains how you can stop screwing yourself over and how you can get what you want. Author Of Your Own Story firmly believes in self-improvement, and that means not accepting lower than what you deserve. Don’t be “fine”;be “GREAT!”
Check out the full explanation and more here.
All first time business owners face a multitude of problems; either they’re not efficient enough,or constantly make mistakes. Here are some tips so that you can remain cool and collected while building your new business. (These tips also apply to anyone who may want to get better at their job, or to show you how you can finally get that raise you deserve!)
- Remain focused. Focus on what your current and long-term goals are, and avoid straying away from the task at hand.
- Do what you’re good at. It’s important to know what you’re capable of and to own it. Work in an area that you are comfortable growing in.
- Be able to sell yourself at any given moment. Any good business owner will be able to explain his work and his business concisely.
- Understand that you will never know everything. There will always be things that you don’t know or understand about your business, and that is totally okay. What’s important is that you aren’t afraid to ask others for help and that you know who to ask.
- Act like a startup. Being frugal and detail oriented will help cut down on costs and build a better foundation for your business.
Read 5 more tips and more details!
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The first date can be a very nerve‐wracking thing for many people. What makes or breaks the experience may count on many factors, but we want to help your chances of having a successful first (or second, third, etc…) date! First of all, do what you and your date feel comfortable doing (stray away from base‐jumping if they’re afraid of heights, for example). Next, be interested in your partner; trust me, they’ll notice. Finally, don’t just hang out and chill, make it exciting! This means to plan multiple activities so that the date is constantly moving and fun. Now, here are some ideas of places you could go or things you can do for your date:
- Boat ride
- Bowling
- Clubbing
- Beach
- Fancy restaurant
- Ice skating
- Arcade
- Karaoke
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Buddhism is more than just a religion. It is a way that one can live their life. Many Buddhist sayings are like pictures: they are worth a thousand words. They can apply to all aspects of life and improve the relationships with yourself and others. Check out these Buddhist quotes for your daily dose of inspiration. Here are a few to get you started:
“Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase your good deeds.”
“What we think, we become.”
“Do not dwell in the past, dream about the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
Are you looking for a new training program to whip yourself into shape? Are you bored by running on a treadmill or monotonously lifting weights? Interval training is a high-intensity activity that involves switching between activities of varying speed with minimal rest in between. This type of exercise trains muscular strength, muscular endurance, and cardiovascular endurance.
Check out this simple exercise video to get started.
