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How to create a productive environment
The importance of self-care in productivity
How to avoid distractions
Work
- You self-generate stress . For example, you start more projects than you have time to finish.
- You work on low priority tasks, but leave high priority tasks undone.
- You overwork when what you really need is to step back and see the big picture.
- You’re self-critical when self-acceptance and compassion would have a more positive impact on your behavior and emotions.
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Overcoming Self-Sabotage
1. Consider addressing any habit you’ve rated a 5 or above.
2. Once you see your patterns, make specific behavioral plans of what you’ll start doing instead.
3. Any behavior change plan you come up with needs a contextual trigger.
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Hidden Drains on Your Time and Energy
- Wasting time and emotional energy reinventing the wheel
- Needing better routines that work for you.
- People defer all decision-making to you even though you can empower them to make decisions.
- Choo...
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How You Approach Change
- You expect yourself to succeed in making life changes without designating any time or mental space to accomplish them.
- You see your capacity to change as being dependent on other people’s behavior.
- You’re a pe...
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Relationships
- Over-focus on decreasing negative interactions, but under-focus on increasing positive interactions and shared experiences.
- Complain about other people’s behavior when yo...
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Pleasure and Self-Care
- Your approach to pleasure is a denial -binge cycle. You deny yourself simple pleasures and relaxation, and then stay up watching Netflix until 3 a.m.
- You ignore the warning signs that you need a break.
- You don’t s...
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Self sabotaging patterns to be rated on a scale of 1 (not a problem) to 7 (big problem)
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