Category: Personal Development
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0026 – Getting Motivated to Follow Your Passion
Visualisation First, start by visualising yourself being in that position that you want to be in and write down an ideal day of how that may look in a diary. Just add bullet points or go in-depth but make sure you cover the full day. The power is visualisation is truly remarkable. It will take…
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0024 – Writing is a Medium for Thinking
Writing is an incredible medium for thoughts. It’s what I’m doing now. I am thinking as I pen my thoughts onto the note-taking app I’m using. One of the incredible assets we have is the ability to ‘write’ everywhere. We have a selection of paper, sticky notes, diaries and hundreds of note-taking apps. These forms…
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0023 – You’re Not Busy, You’re Just Dedicating Time
This phrase is one of the best personal reminders I use to avoid the mindset of finding excuses and more importantly ‘pretending to be busy’. I discovered this around 1 year ago and since then, I have never used the word ‘busy’. If you actually think about how many times you say ‘busy’ in a…
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0022 – Maximising Idea Generation
In the previous post, I briefly mentioned a method of maximising idea generation through keeping a notebook in the proximity. There is a particular system that I use which I call the Spark File having been inspired by some Internet friends. It doesn’t deserve the title ‘system’ as that just makes it seem like a…
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0018 – The ‘Perfect’ Note Taking System (1)
Introduction We all know that the title is debatable. Nothing can truly be perfect. And I am basically contradicting myself by saying that. But, most of us use perfection interchangeably with something that is mastered at its application. Hence, I chose this particular word. I’m going to be writing a series on what I think…
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0017 – FOMO
Introduction to the idea FOMO is an interesting topic. It has both advantages and disadvantages(like anything else I guess) and there are techniques for both. Similar to anything else with a grand spectrum from good to bad, friendly to evil etc, this also has its own scale. And it’s important to sit nicely in the…
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0015 – Make Time
Today has been a busy day with the celebration of Vinayaka Chathruthi (a famous Indian festival), so I have decided to post a blog from the past which is my notes from a discussion I tuned in to on YouTube. Books Mentioned: 1) Make Time – John Zeratsky2) Getting Things Done – David Allen3) The…
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0013 – Inside Out
Intro Our minds are fascinating chemical factories. They are the result of many millennia of evolution, millions of tiny living parts and billions of neurons. We don’t actually think about it much but who we are is a topic of great importance and invaluable knowledge. Our bodies and minds are such extraordinary creations and they…