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The balance between personal and professional effectiveness
Proactivity versus reactivity
The importance of defining your path in life
TAKE A PERFECT NAP
- Find your afternoon through time: Around 2-3 pm (after ~7 hours of waking up).
- Create a peaceful environment: Turn off notifications, dim the lights, etc.
- Down a cup of coffee: The most efficient nap is the nappuccino. The caffeine won’t fully engage in your bloodstream for about twenty-five minutes, so drink up right before you lie down.
- Set a timer on your phone for twenty-five minutes: Most important - not more than 25 minutes!
- Repeat consistently
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PAUSE LIKE A PRO
A psychologist who studies extraordinary performers, Ericsson found that elite performers have something in common: They’re really good at taking breaks.
In Ericsson’s study, one factor that distinguished the best from the rest is that they took complete breaks duri...
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FIGURE OUT YOUR DAILY WHEN
3 step process -
- Determine your chronotype: Lark( morning type), Owl (night type), or Third bird (in between)
- Determine what you need to do. Does it involve heads-down analysis or head-in-the-sky insight? Or are you trying to make a decision?
- Look at th...
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“I used to believe that timing was everything. Now I believe that everything is timing.”
DANIEL H. PINK
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Four Situations When You Should Go First
- If you’re on a ballot (county commissioner, prom queen, the Oscars)
- If you’re not the default choice
- If there are relatively few competitors (say, five or fewer) - for the advantage of the “primacy effect”
- If you’re interviewing for a job and you’re up against several...
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“The best endings don’t leave us happy. Instead, they produce something richer—a rush of unexpected insight, a fleeting moment of transcendence, the possibility that by discarding what we wanted we’ve gotten what we need.”
DANIEL H. PINK
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Four Situations When You Should Not Go First
- If you are the default choice, don’t go first.
- If there are many competitors (not necessarily strong ones, just a large number of them), going later can confer a small advantage, and going last can confer a huge one.
- If you’re operating in an...
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MAKE A BREAK LIST
Each day, alongside your list of tasks to complete, meetings to attend, and deadlines to hit, make a list of the breaks you’re going to take.
Start by trying three breaks per day. List when you’re going to take those breaks, how long they’re going to last, ...
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FOUR TIPS FOR A BETTER MORNING
- Drink a glass of water when you wake up.
- Don’t drink coffee immediately after you wake up.
- Soak up the morning sun.
- Schedule talk therapy, appointments for the morning.
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IF YOU DON’T HAVE CONTROL OVER YOUR DAILY SCHEDULE
- Be aware: Simply knowing that you’re operating at a suboptimal time can be helpful because you can correct for your chronotype in small but powerful ways.
- Work the margins: Even if you can’t control the big things, you might still be able to shape t...
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WHEN TO EXERCISE
- Lose weight: Morning exercise (after waking up) may burn 20 percent more fat than later, post-food workouts.
- Boost mood: Cardio workouts—swimming, running, even walking the dog— do it in the evening, you’ll end up sleeping through some of the good fe...
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