Polyprax - Scholar of Wellbeing
Tips & quotes to make your life better
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Spend some time in solitude to think about and create ideas, make plans or goals, and solve your problems.
Nikola Tesla's Best Productivity Tricks - Lifehacker
Like many inventors and creative types, Nikola Tesla was an advocate for solitude when creating and working. Most famously, he's quoted as saying "The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born." The idea that you need to work in solitude to get things done is by no means new. We've talked before about how it can boost creativity, and how setting aside some alone time is a great way to recharge to boost productivity. In the end, it's all about productive introspection and using your alone time well.
Two things are infinite, the Universe and human stupidity...But that just might be me being stupid. - Albert Einstein
"Don't criticize, condemn, or complain." - Dale Carnegie
How To Win Friends And Influence People - Goodreads
Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment...Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness. "To know all is to forgive all."
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. - Lao Tzu
If you don't build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs. - Tony Gaskins
- The Alchemist - Paul Coelho
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
- Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
- Anthem - Ayn Rand
- Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. - Thomas Edison
- Think And Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
- The Magic Of Thinking Big - David Schwartz
- Don't Sweat The Small Stuff - Richard Carlson
- How To Win Friends And Influence People - Dale Carnegie
- The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
- Getting Things Done - David Allen
Simplify the amount of folders you use by organizing your documents into folders by type, and only creating albums, groupings, or project folders when necessary.
Geek To Live: Organizing my documents - Lifehacker
There are a million and one ways to arrange files and folders on disk. Some might argue that spending a moment even thinking about it in the age of desktop search is unnecessary. That may be true, but some semblance of order will clear your desktop and your mind and make you "ready for anything." Over the years I've come up with a six folder structure for "My Documents" which I create on every computer I use without fail. This scheme accommodates every file I might come across, keeps my desktop clear, smoothly fits in with an automated backup system and also makes command line file wrangling a breeze.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt
Everybody wants happiness, nobody wants pain. But you can't have a rainbow, without a little rain. - Anonymous
What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. - Jane Goodall
Remember that 80% of the result comes from 20% of your time, work, or activities, and that 80% could be good enough for many tasks by focusing on the essential 20% of your efforts and activities.
16 Things I wish they had taught me in school - Positivity Blog
This is one of the best ways to make better use of your time. The 80/20 rule - also known as The Pareto Principle - basically says that 80 percent of the value you will receive will come from 20 percent of your activities. So a lot of what you do is probably not as useful or even necessary to do as you may think. You can just drop - or vastly decrease the time you spend on - a whole bunch of things.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin
Always do what you are afraid to do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. - Italian Proverb
Write down a list of your goals and dreams, because writing thoughts and ideas down is the first step to making them come to life.
12 Lists that help you get things done - Lifehack.org
A list of your short- and long-term goals can be a great motivator, as well as a trigger list to help generate new projects. I also like to have a list of areas of focus, the different roles that I play, each of which comes with a different set of tasks and goals.
Remember that you can improve your life and the world for the better by turning your thoughts and dreams into action and reality.
Thinkist - Munro Stewart
- A person who uses their thinking and thoughts to transform their life and the world around them for the better. Their thoughts propel them to ultimately take action towards making their vision come true.
- A person who thinks that you can turn thoughts and ideas into reality.
- A person who understands that action, work, habits, and routines are also needed to make changes, complete tasks and projects, and achieve goals and dreams.
- A person who thinks that action and results begin with ideas, thinking, and believing.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. - William Ralph Inge
