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Avoid Multitasking

Avoid Multitasking

There’s no harm in occasional multitasking, but constantly doing so limits your attention span, increases stress and makes it difficult for your brain to filter out irrelevant information. To make the most out of your time:

  • Single-task as much as possible.
  • List the things you need to accomplish that day.
  • Start with what’s most important and make your way down the list, one task at a time.

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Keep a Journal

Keep a Journal

Journaling eliminates intrusive thoughts about negative events and improves working memory. This leads to more energy for other mental activities, better stress, anxiety, and depression management.

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Declutter Your Workspace

Declutter Your Workspace

A messy workplace can lead to inefficiency and frustration.

Declutter your workspace ASAP. Start by getting rid of all non-essential items and assigning a proper place to everything.

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Limit Media Consumption

Limit Media Consumption

Excess of information can clog your brain, causing stress and anxiety. You can prevent that by:

  • Limiting the amount of time you spend on social media.
  • Being selective about your media consumption (avoid negative content, follow only reliable media outlets for news updates,...

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Set Priorities

Set Priorities

List your top priorities and ensure that your goals, actions and decisions reflect them. Then, create an action plan to meet those set goals and divide your time to focus on each item on that list.

Your list of priorities is likely to change over time, just be sure to regul...

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Breathe

Breathe

Deep breathing is an effective technique to clear your mind, induce tranquillity and elevate your mood instantly. It lowers the heart rate and blood pressure, helps your body relax, promotes concentration and strengthens your immunity system.

Take a deep breath. Pause. Exha...

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Be Decisive

Be Decisive

Put off making decisions often, and your brain becomes overwhelmed by the clutter created by those pending decisions. So stop procrastinating and decide.

For simple decisions, evaluate the pros and cons and don’t look back once you decide. For more important decisions, you can...

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Take a Break

Take a Break

Your brain needs to rest and recharge in order to perform smoothly. So switch off your phones and laptops and do something that makes you feel happy. 

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Learn To Let Go

Learn To Let Go

Eliminating unnecessary thoughts, fears and concerns helps to reduce stress, boost self-esteem and free up mental space.

Let go of all the negative thoughts and emotions that make you feel bogged down. Monitor your thoughts regularly and try to replace your negative thoughts w...

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Share Your Thoughts

Share Your Thoughts

Talking to a loved one about how you feel is a great way to release pent-up emotions. Sharing your thoughts with others can also give you new perspectives, which can help you think clearer and make better decisions.

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Avoid multitasking

Avoid multitasking

Multitasking has been proven to reduce our cognitive abillities due to the fact that the brain can only fully focus on one task at a time. Even though multitasking can be beneficial in various situations, you should avoid it as much as you can whenever you deal with important tasks.

Multitasking and decision making

Multitasking slows us down as the brain is optimized to focus on one task at a time. Spreading our attention across multiple tasks becomes draining and leaves little energy for those tasks that matter most.

Pay attention to what you're doing. Turn off any distracti...

Multi-tasking and efficiency

Multi-tasking and efficiency

Multitasking adds stress and draws out the time needed to complete individual items on your to-do list. Instead, finish one task at a time.

Prioritize and concentrate on what’s most important first. Working your way through the list will motivate you and give you a sense of accomplis...

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