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How to set achievable goals
How to manage time for personal and professional life
How to avoid distractions
Focus your Energy on Less
In the countless decisions we make, it is a good idea to focus your energy on less, considering the tradeoffs.
This makes us eventually make satisfying choices, that we can prioritize.
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Tradeoffs
Every decision we take, has a tradeoff, an opportunity cost. Instinctively we try the all-out approach, resulting in failure.
The real problem lies in our judgment of the opportunity cost.
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Striving for Everything
A tradeoff is inevitable in almost every decision we take, as we usually forego some opportunity or benefit in our choices.
Many people strive for everything and believe there are no tradeoffs.
Focussing on less can get you something but focusing on everything may get you nothin...
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Balancing Everything is Impossible
It becomes impossibly hard to completely fine-tune and balance your work, family, health, relationships, friends and hobbies.
We may have to let go of one of the areas to be able to fulfill the others.
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The necessity of making trade-offs alters how we feel about the decisions we face; more important, it affects the level of satisfaction we experience from the decisions we ultimately make.
BARRY SCHWARTZ
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Time is a Tradeoff
Big decisions involve opportunity costs. Time is the price we pay for the choice we make.
Time is always a constraint as if we spend time doing something, we are not doing something else at that time. We can spend time in cultivating bette...
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Having "Everything"
We seem to think that the people around us have everything in life.
Tradeoffs in others take time to become apparent. Everyone lets go of something, making a sacrifice, to be able to focus, investing time and energy in what is important to them.
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Spending a large amount of time with someone literally causes you to pick up their habits. Choose your friends wisely.
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Eliminate as Many Choices as Possible
The more decisions you make (small or big) the less mental energy you have. Eventually, you'll lose your focus and you'll end up susceptible to bad habits.
If you limit the amount of decisions you need to make throughout the day, you can save some of that energy to make smarter choices.
How to Focus Your Energy
In today's hectic world, adding more to your plate is rarely effective. For this reason, you need to prioritize what you want to accomplish and then focus on achieving those goals throughout the year.
Ideally, you should pick one or two things to focus your energy on.
Focusing on Meaningful Work
- When the focus is on the essential, we start to work on what matters to us the most. It makes us avoid the urgent work shoved in our faces which may not be important at all.
- Focusing on meaningful work helps us prioritize our day in the order that aligns wi...
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