deepstash

Beta

deepstash

Beta

Anika Dhar

@anikad

Think Improvement, Not Perfection

With the knowledge of how priming is influencing you, don't nitpick every detail of your environment. Pace yourself and tackle the most frequent influences first. 

For instance, prime the place where you spend most of your time. Clear out clutter or put up pictures you enjoy to ensure your office is relaxing and pleasurable.

107 SAVES

195 READS

IDEA EXTRACTED FROM:

Prime Your Brain for a Permanent Performance Gain (in a Few Minutes) - Steve Pavlina

Prime Your Brain for a Permanent Performance Gain (in a Few Minutes) - Steve Pavlina

https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2014/03/prime-your-brain-for-a-permanent-performance-gain-in-a-few-minutes/

stevepavlina.com

TOPICS IN THIS IDEA

Self Improvement

Self Improvement

RELATED ARTICLES & IDEAS

SeaElEl

@seaeiei

Five Ways to Prime Your Brain for Optimal Performance Each Day

Five Ways to Prime Your Brain for Optimal Performance Each Day

Simple Shifts to Become a Brain Boss. In our hyper-connected world we often find ourselves in a fight for our own attention. When we wake up first thing and the morning and plug in without intention or purposeful aim, the messages we receive can literally hijack our brains, shifting us into a state of chronic stress that clouds our ability to focus on what's most important.
https://medium.com/thrive-global/5-ways-to-prime-your-brain-for-optimal-performance-each-day-9e776d424ac9

medium.com

Movement

Movement

You don't have to do something too intense, just get moving to energize your brain and body.

A regular 20 - 45-minute high-intensity exercise will trigger positive endorphins, spark your meta...

Motivation

Start your day by thinking who you want to be and what impact you want to have on the world.

To help you reach that state of motivation, read or listen to something inspiring.

Meditation

Meditation is a way to focus your attention to your internal dialogue and moving it into the direction you desire.

The more you are able to focus your attention where you choose to, the stronger your mental muscle will become.

2 more ideas

Hamish Joy

@hjoy2020

How to Make Your Future Habits Easy

How to Make Your Future Habits Easy

This article is an excerpt from Atomic Habits, my New York Times bestselling book. While researching Atomic Habits, I came across a story that immediately struck me with its simplicity and power. It was the story of Oswald Nuckols, an IT developer from Natchez, Mississippi, and his simple strategy for making future habits easy.
https://jamesclear.com/reset-the-room

jamesclear.com

Priming the Environment

Priming the Environment
Whenever you organize a space for its intended purpose, you are priming it to make the next action easy. This is one of the most practical and simple ways to improve your habits.

Ideas to prime your environment

  • To draw more: Put your pencils, pens, notebooks, and drawing tools on top of your desk, within easy reach.
  • To exercise more: Set out your workout clothes, shoes, gym bag, and water bottle ahead of time.
  • To improve your diet: Chop up a ton of fruits and vegetables on weekends and pack them in containers, so you have easy access to healthy, ready-to-eat options during the week.

Make bad behaviors difficult

If you watch too much television, unplug it after each use. Only plug it back in if you can say out loud the name of the show you want to watch. (Which prevents you from turning on Netflix and “just finding something” to watch.) This setup creates just enough friction to prevent mindless viewing.

Holden Y.

@holyy23

Why Do People Procrastinate? 9 Reasons You Can't Help Procrastinating

Why Do People Procrastinate? 9 Reasons You Can't Help Procrastinating

Journaling is a powerful tool that can help sharpen your brain and mind so that you can become more successful, think more clearly, and reach their goals. Journaling is one of the top strategies that contribute to many entrepreneurs and high achievers's success inside and outside the workplace.
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/9-common-reasons-why-procrastinate.html

lifehack.org

Wanting to control everything

By procrastinating, you hold the most control over whatever task you’re working on. However, this also means, obviously, that that particular task isn’t being done.

Seeing a task as one big project

Almost everything we do can be broken down into little manageable parts.

Take, for instance, the laundry. If the laundry seems like a daunting task to you, break it down into steps. Collect all your dirty clothes. Separate colors and whites. Put your clothes on a wash cycle. Put them in the dryer. Fold them.

Being a perfectionist

It can be tempting to put things off or delay completing tasks simply because you’re worried about the outcome being less than perfect.

Just remember that it’s okay if things don’t turn out exactly how you had them in your head.

6 more ideas

deepstash

helps you become inspired, wiser and productive, through bite-sized ideas from the best articles, books and videos out there.

Download from Google PlayDownload from the App Store

Over 2M Installs

4.75 App Score

Deepstash is better on the app. Discover new ideas and get inspired daily.