Today I had an extremely important realization: I need excitement to live, to survive, to be effective, to enjoy my life. It’s as important to me as breathing, as fundamental as eating and drinking. Somehow I didn’t completely realize that fact. I focused too much on less existential things like fun, productivity, effectiveness, or purpose. Excitement is much more ...
I seem to be very susceptible to the disease called perfectionism. Yes, it is quite literally a dis-ease: It prevents things from being easy. As perfectionist you don’t just want to do something – you want to do it the best way possible. So, if you don’t feel able to do it the best way possible you don’t do ...
Huh? Optimism Vs. Positivity? Wouldn’t that have to be Optimism Vs. Pessimism or Negativity Vs. Positivity? And aren’t optimism and positivity the same thing? No, and no. It’s really hard to realize that, because usually optimism and positivity are used as synonyms. Conversely, pessimism and negativity also aren’t the same. Let’s start with some…
The following aren’t common definitions of the following terms, but I think they are rather useful and enlightening:
Imagine you were much older and at the end of your life. You only have about half an hour left to live. You reflect on how you lived your life and ask yourself what you could have done better or just differently.
Would you regret how you live your current life? Would you even regret living your future life the way you currently plan ...
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Recently, Steve Pavila released another monumental article: Waking Up (which has around 6700 words). In that article he describes the alignment with some kind of holistic consciousness. His post is so impressive that I felt the urge to comment it here.
Because the article is just too long to comment on it extensively, I will just take the most important passages and ...
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Perhaps you want to know what makes this new personal development / productivity blog different from other blogs in the same niche. After all, there are lots of them, and there are surely very good ones out there. So, what’s this blog good for? Does it just add more shallow noise to the web?
No!
Never would I have expected that getting organized could be so much fun! And never would I have imagined that the final key to solving my biggest problems was applying the scientific method to my own life! And yet, that really happened. I used science to quantify my life, turn it into a game, and reach levels of performance that I once deemed illusionary.
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