Why you should prioritise important tasks over urgent ones.
How often have you had little time to finish an important project? Whether it’s a deadline for work, an assignment or a personal goal, we are all victims of bad time management at some stage.
Some days we feel we have an abundance of time. But it’s not long until that time diminishes and we find ourselves carelessly rushing towards the end of a project.
Likewise, we all have those small but important tasks we keep telling ourselves to do but are consistently postponed.
These painful scenarios are a common trait of task handling that are challenging to overcome. But…
Discovering the magic in being uncertain of your future plans.
‘What are you going to be when you grow up?’
I, like many other children, used to think this question had only one answer.
The stress of choosing one set career path is not uncommon; many of us are tricked into this false belief from an early age.
Today’s education system neatly sets up this illusion. We begin school by having a palate of classroom subjects to experiment with. …
Discover the hidden benefits of optimising your attention.
Attention is a limited resource. Unfortunately, many of us choose to use up this resource in unhelpful ways. But learning to tailor your attention to your best advantage will open up a life of peace, progress and more opportunities.
Controlling Your Attention
Whatever we assign our attention to becomes our reality. This is an obvious but powerful statement. Two people can simultaneously experience the same event yet have their attention focussed on entirely different matters. In this way, what we call ‘experiences’ become malleable objects shaped by our conscious responses and attitudes. In the words of Marcus Aurelius:
“External things are not the…
Reminding yourself of your goals is difficult in today’s world.
The Information Age we live in provides a perfect opportunity for distraction. Since the rise of computers, we have become multi-tasking machines — our days becoming a complex web of tasks, ideas and to-dos.
Keeping in touch with ourselves on the other hand means consistently reviewing our goals and interests, sustaining purpose, meaning and direction through our lives.
Rather than being caught up on the treadmill of modern life, the following concepts can help add ease into your day, keeping you focussed on what truly matters the most.
Tidy Up
Tidying your physical and digital space correlates with tidying your mind space.
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So stop living as though you do.
We each live in our own interpretation of the world. We all have different opinions, preferences and behaviours that define the world we live in. Despite seeming obvious, we often forget that our viewpoints of things are uniquely ours in that they may not necessarily comply with everyone else.
This is why it can be difficult to understand the differing views of others: in our reality, the only viewpoints that are ‘right’ are our own. Unfortunately, a racist will believe they are morally right — if they didn’t think they were right, they wouldn’t be who they were.
The world…
Two competing giants, fat and sugar, in the greatest battle the food industry has foreseen.
The debate over fat, sugar and their health effects has been an ongoing battle for decades. But little was the public aware that one of them had an unfair advantage over the other after a series of events that would completely transform the American diet in the years to come.
A Fat Lie
A pinnacle moment in the fat vs sugar debate was during the 1960s when Harvard scientists were paid to downplay the links between sugar and heart disease, shifting the blame to fat instead. …
Learn how to mould these two concepts to your lifestyle.
I’ve always had quite a perfectionist attitude towards things. Whilst striving for the absolute best can be beneficial, it also has some major drawbacks. This trait demonstrates one of two polarising concepts: a lifestyle of depth and a lifestyle of breadth. You can probably figure out which being a perfectionist corresponds to.
It’s fascinating how understanding these two different approaches can change the ways you live your life. …
And easy ways to incorporate them into your life.
If you’re fresh out of the education path finishing College or University, you may find yourself presented with the daunting thought: ‘Now what?’
This isn’t anything out of the ordinary — not everyone has a set career path. You may wish to and are entitled to change your mind at any point. I myself have had a recent shift in mindset about my future work-life intentions.
Despite this, there are several skills anyone can learn that are advantageous for almost any job in the 21st century. …
Exploring concepts to change the gear of your mindset and live a meaningful, purposeful life
Living the modern Western lifestyle means we rarely have the chance to appreciate the absurdity but simultaneous beauty of life. We can become so tied down with doing task after tedious task or working through endless to-do lists that we forget to live the authentic experience of life.
The most valuable experiences are the days where we feel we have wings — days where we feel we have complete freedom and retain purpose. Purpose can even be achieved on bad days — the times we feel we are given a healing hug or see a positive light shining towards the…
Discover the multitude of health benefits from these three quick and easy food options.
In the current health awareness age, it’s easy to see how one can be misguided by advice telling us to fill our cupboards with various fancy foods or to go hunt for some rare, expensive, one-of-a-kind product. Take this, on top of the idea of preparing complex, time-consuming dishes, and the healthy-eating lifestyle does not seem a very persuasive choice.
The good news: it doesn’t have to be so hard. …
