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Stop Living In The Future

Stop Living In The Future

The future seldom turns out as we would like it to. Avoid overdoing your efforts into planning for a particular future if there are things he could do now to bring it closer.

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Fear Of Failure

Fear Of Failure

Many see failure as proof that our effort meant nothing. But failure is a feedback system and gives you the opportunity to fix things, reflect, and grow for the next time.

When you fail, take a step back, look at the events that led to it, try to find the lesson in the failure and ac...

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Negative People

Negative People

Negative people want to bring you down. They rarely contribute, cannot accept you, and consistently work to hurt, belittle or suck away your motivation.

Regardless of your accomplishments or recent achievements, they will try to not only make you feel bad so they can feel better but ...

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Inaction

Inaction

You have dreams, aspirations or goals. But they won’t become a reality if you don’t take action. Anything will do, no matter how small or big.

Inaction not only prevents you from progressing but it can set you back as some things are time sensitive in nature. Don’t overthink i...

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Negative News

Negative News

Negative news will slowly bring you down, eventually draining your energy and leaving you unmotivated.

Try to keep your distance from people who complain a lot and from media that promotes negative news.

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Don’t Overdo It

Don’t Overdo It

Be productive but don’t forget that sometimes you need a break. Taking a break has been proven to: relax, reduce stress, increase productivity and give you new perspectives.

Burning yourself out is only going to make you tired, kill your motivation and stop your momentum.

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Forget The Past

Forget The Past

We tend to bring past issues into the present even when it doesn’t help. But all it does is take your focus away from or complicated the issues at hand.

To bring yourself to the moment try to be conscious of your breathing: focus on your inhale, your exhale and the pause in-between.

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Care For Yourself

Care For Yourself

Find time for yourself, and make your schedule work for you, don’t work for your schedule. And don’t focus so much on the lives of others that you forget your own, most relationships are transient after all.

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We spend 30 to 50 percent or our self-generated thoughts (what we think about without trying to concentrate) thinking about the distant future. We feel happy to think of our future as full of possibilities for improvement, and that we have some control realizing those possibilities.

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Today Is The Future

Most people keep planning, visualizing and imagining their future life as if they are watching some other person live it. That person is you. If you intentionally live each day, perfecting and maximising your vision of the future, instead of killing time or just living a bread and butter, day-to-...

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We show optimism towards future time, when we are in a delusion of ‘planning fallacy’, believing we have more time in the future. Our current mindset is a forecast on how we would be doing in the coming days, and if we are busy, stressed out and confused now, that’s how the next few days will loo...

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