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Anika Dhar

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Dressing for Success

Some people recommend wearing nice clothes to prime thoughts like success, wealth, and professionalism.

Interestingly, wearing nice clothes also primes the thoughts of other people to respond to you in a certain way.

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

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Self Improvement

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.

jamesclear.com

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

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.

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.

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Nicholas J.

@nicij783

Does Your Brain have too many tabs open? Try Writing Morning Pages. -

We all have problems and challenges we have to deal with and, by thinking carefully about solutions, we can learn to overcome them and discover a positive outlook on life. When your brain is buzzing, it's hard to figure out which thoughts and ideas are more important.

finerminds.com

Morning pages

Morning pages are 3 pages that record stream of consciousness thoughts, to help you untangle your mind.

The process is simple: you just have to sit down in the morning with paper and pen a...

Prime your brain the night before

Identify your most challenging assignment
Get through the tough assignment. Start working on the project at the end of the workday. But don't finish.
Sleep. Let the brain do his thing.
Wake up and dump your thoughts onto paper.

Stick to it

Writing morning pages is supposed to be simple.

To make sure you stick to your writing ritual, wake up and don’t do anything else. Grab a notebook and write the pages.

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