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Creating a productive schedule
Avoiding procrastination
Prioritizing tasks effectively
High-Intensity Interval Training
This method is where you exercise very intensely for short amounts of time. For example, 3 - 4 intense 30-minute workouts per week.
Regular exercise is one of the best ways to stay mentally healthy. High-Intensity Interval Training is logistically convenient and has beneficial effects from sleep to depression.
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Never worry in your head
When you feel stressed or anxious, never worry in your head.
If you must worry, write out how you think and feel rather than just letting it loop over in your head. Putting it on paper forces you to slow your thoughts down.
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Assertiveness
The ability to directly and respectfully ask for what you want, and setting boundaries on what you don't want, is key to building self-confidence and living according to your values.
Being assertive is not being rude or demanding, but a way to respect ourselves enough to a...
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Getting comfortable with asking for feedback
We all have shortcomings and blindspots. Try to take active steps to counteract them by regularly asking for feedback from people you trust.
This is often uncomfortable but almost always productive as it forces us to stay self-aware and keep working on ourselves.
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Predictably and consistently good sleep
Getting consistently good rest will benefit everything from your immune system to your emotions.
Do just these two things:
- Be consistent with your evening routine each night. Get up at the same time every day, even on weekends. This will train...
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Good ways to get started in mindfulness
Mindfulness is a great way to train and control your attention - what you choose to focus on. Mindfulness can help you stop worrying and instead focus on the positives in your life; it can help you stop criticizing yourself and prevent you from procrastinating.
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Intermittent fasting
Intermittent Fasting means that you restrict your eating to a certain window of time. For example, start eating at noon and eat the last meal at 7:00.
Intermittent Fasting is the simplest framework for eating well. Cultivating an effective and reliable intermittent fasting...
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Notes on mental health habits
- Not all mental health habits and routines should apply to everyone, but most are universally applicable.
- Not all mental health habits are mentioned, nor are they gospel.
- Many of the mental health habits are not psychological in nature. Mental health is built on top of a fo...
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Staying mentally strong and healthy
Prevention is the best medicine. It is really difficult to pull out of negative spirals once we've fallen into them.
- It's hard to pull out of a major depressive episode once we're in the habit of beating ourselves up.
- It's hard to stop worrying ...
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The 4:55 drill
Staying organized and on track with all your responsibilities is a big part of not getting stressed out.
An effective technique for staying focused and productive is the 4:55 drill. At 4:55 ( or five minutes before you leave your office), jot down the
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High-intensity interval training (HIIT)
Is involves repeated short sessions, from 6 seconds to 4 minutes, with rests from 30 seconds to 4 minutes in between.
Any type of high-intensity interval training, irrespective of the number of repetitions, boosts fitness rapidly, and improves cardiovascular health and fitness.
HIIT: high-intensity interval training
HIIT workouts generally combine short bursts of intense heart-pounding exercise (during which a person’s heart rate reaches at least 80 percent of its maximum capacity, usually for 1 to 5 minutes) with periods of rest or lower-intensity exercise.
High-intensity interval training (HIIT)
Any exercise can be a form of HIIT, if it follows a specific regimen where you vary your speeds and intensity when doing it.
Example:
- Jogging lightly for three minutes.
- Pushing yourself harder for a minute (run or sprin...
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