About gratitude

gratitude

According to Wikipedia gratitude is defined as “thankfulness, or gratefulness, from the Latin word gratus ‘pleasing, thankful’ and is a feeling of appreciation felt by and/or similar positive response shown by the recipient of kindness, gifts, help, favors, or other types of generosity, towards the giver of such gifts.”

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What are your mental habits?

mental habits

Why are mental habits important in order to be successful? Habits help our brain to work more efficiently

When we repeat day by day the same kind of actions after a period of 90 days our brain will consider them as habits and will not use supplementary energy when effectuating them. These actions work as habits under autopilot. The brain capacity is open to new challenges. 

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How to stop losing time

stop losing time

 

Lost time is never found again. – Benjamin Franklin

Time is our most valuable resource, but only a few of us know how to make use of the 24 hours of the day. This makes finally the difference – to know how to make use of your time most efficiently and to stop losing your most precious resource. For this post, I selected a couple of time-management strategies in order to organize yourself better. 

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13 Methods that will make you more intelligent

methods intelligent

According to Wikipedia “Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving. More generally, it can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.”

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30 days challenge: Wake up early in the morning

challenge wake up morning

As far as I know myself I enjoyed sleeping out long in the morning. In my childhood, I expected vacation time eagerly to be able to sleep until 11 a.m. or even until noon.  The years have gone and when I wake up nowadays it is up to 8-8.30 a.m. I step out of bed. Still, I am not content with that score (even if it is a change from 11 a.m. to 8 a.m.), because I want to use more time of the day for doing activities productively. So I set myself a 30 days challenge to wake up at least 30 minutes earlier in the morning and to add to this time progressively in the next period of time. This is one of the challenges I proposed to myself for the close future. 

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