Why Is No One Talking About Sleep?Sleep is something we all do( unless you have Fatal Insomnia). And it’s arguably one of the most important processes in a 24-hour day.I mean sleep is what keeps us functioning! It allows the brain and the body to recharge, i.e. function better. Imagine a world where you can’t go to sleep after a tough day at work.I don’t think anyone needs to read these, they’re common sense. Yet people still have shitty sleep schedules. Either they don’t get enough sleep, oversleep, or stay awake until 3 a.m.

Get Your Sleep On Time

Here's how you are going to do it!Firstly, it’s important to know how long you’ll be sleeping. For this, we have to know that the body recharges in 90-minute cycles. We want to get at least 5 cycles. So, you’ll be sleeping for 7 hours and 30 minutes.

Improve Your Sleep Schedule

Secondly, we don’t want to be sleeping whenever. It’s important we sleep early and wake up early. This is very important( and we’ll get into the benefits in a minute). Ideally, you’d be sleeping at 10 p.m. and waking up at 5:30 a.m., but you can change this depending on your schedule.

Improve Sleep Schedule

Now for the benefits. Because why should you have a sleep schedule, if there are no benefits to it? Well, waking up early is proven to reduce stress, and give you peaceful mornings which will help you tremendously productivity-wise and mentally. Having a schedule also helps you get sick less( according to health.gov) and think more clearly.

Benefits Of Good Sleep

So: GET YOUR SLEEPMentally

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While it’s important to share your point of view in meetings, it’s critical to know when and how. You don’t want to monopolize the conversation. We provide some practical tips for sharing the floor so that you can get your message across more effectively. <ul><li>First, take time to reflect after meetings. If you feel like you have been sharing too much, look back and consider who else contributed. </li><li>Ask yourself honestly: “Did I talk over people?”</li><li> Estimate how much of the meeting you were speaking.</li><li> Also consider using other communication channels to share your ideas. </li></ul>

Rambling During Meetings: Key Points

If you suspect you may be monopolizing the conversation in meetings, experiment with these tactics to help get your message across.First, you need to measure exactly how much you’re talking.While you don’t want to limit your speaking time forever, adhering to the time rule in the beginning will help you build the habit of yielding the floor.

Only One Person Talking: You

<a href="https://hbr.org/2020/12/youre-between-assignments-at-work-what-do-you-do">If you excel at creativity</a>, you may come alive in a brainstorming session and quickly generate a wealth of ideas. However, if you tend to ramble when describing those ideas, you could come across as scattered and ill prepared. Consider other ways to organize your ideas and communicate them to audiences.Use whatever forms of communication are at your disposal to help organize your thoughts. You’ll then communicate well-thought-out concepts when you do share.

Consider Using Other Ways to Share Your Ideas

When speaking, make sure that what you’re saying is necessary and impactful. You can even think of your sentences in tweet form: How would I communicate this idea if I were tweeting and facing a character limit? How can I cut my message down to its essence?﻿Think of yourself as an editor eliminating words and ideas that don’t communicate the essence of what you want to share.

Use The Tweet Limit: Practice Compressing Your Thoughts

Are you giving your colleagues enough time to digest what you say and to ask questions? If not, give yourself a signal to pause.By slowing down and taking deliberate pauses, you’ll be able to regulate your impulse to overshare, and your message will have a better chance of landing.

Pause!

It may be hard to know in the moment if you’re oversharing. A fresh perspective can offer insight. Ask a trusted colleague or advisor to provide insights into how you’re meeting your goal of talking less and listening more.While it’s important to share your point of view, it’s critical to know when and how. Experiment with some or all of these tactics to make sure your input is being heard.

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While it’s important to share your point of view in meetings, it’s critical to know when and how. You don’t want to monopolize the conversation. In this piece, the author offers practical tips for sharing the floor so that you can get your message across more effectively. First, take time to reflect after meetings. If you feel like you have been sharing too much, look back and consider who else contributed. Ask yourself honestly: “Did I talk over people?” Estimate how much of the meeting you were speaking. Also consider using other communication channels to share your ideas. For example, can you keep a running list of your brilliant insights on your computer so you’re better prepared to share them in the next meeting? Or, can you share ideas in a non-meeting setting — for example, in a follow-up email or an internal chat platform? It’s also helpful to give yourself a signal to pause and to practice compressing your thoughts. A trusted colleague or advisor can also provide insights into how you’re meeting your goal of talking less and listening more.

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Saying the word ‘like’ has long been seen as a sign of laziness and stupidity. But its use is actually richly nuanced, goes back to Shakespearean times, and is an indicator of, like, intelligence.<ul><li>People say language is random, but it's not.</li><li>There are patterns in language that you can't just stick a like in anywhere.</li><li>Research suggests that the discourse particle "like" is used more by men than women.</li><li>The word like adds nothing to the meaning of a sentence</li></ul>

We Say LIKE, A Lot

The word like helps with what we call focus. It can be for interpersonal connection, it's checking in that you and I are connecting. If it really were meaningless and had no purpose in a sentence, it would be much easier for us to leave it out.In 2019, one primary school head in Bradford banned the word like because, "When children are giving you an answer and they say, 'Is it, like, when you're, like...' they haven't actually made a sentence at all."Scores of recruitment specialists and public-speaking coaches have publicly bemoaned the rise of this word.

Like, Helping In Sentence Building

Saying the word ‘like’ has long been seen as a sign of laziness and stupidity. But its use is actually richly nuanced, goes back to Shakespearean times, and is an indicator of, like, intelligence

Why do people, like, say, ‘like’ so much?

Maintaining friendships may feel hard for you if you are juggling more than you have the capacity for in your life.Create a list of the prominent people in their lives with whom they want to spend the most time.When you've created that list, let those friends know how much it means to you that they've stuck by your side for so long.

The Friends You Don't Want To Lose

Create a standing time for socializing without the need to plan it.If you already have social infrastructure built into your calendar, it alleviates the burden and energy drain of constantly figuring out a time that works for everyone.It's very hard to reach out to people when you're lonely.

Create A Social Infrastructure

<ul><li>If a weekly meetup doesn't work for you or your friend, be prepared with another offer that allows you to meet in the middle.</li><li>Discuss why recurring hangouts are important.</li><li>You can spend less time with a friend and still feel close to them if you are both willing to get more vulnerable more quickly.</li><li>Find topics of interest you have in common that you can both continuously reach out about.</li></ul>

Recurring Meetings

If you cut others off at the slightest sign of an issue, many of your friendships won't last.When a friend continually does something that you don't like, instead of saying nothing, talk about it from a place of love and express that you're bringing it up because you want to stay close.

Don’t Avoid Conflict

<ul><li>Being there for your friends during theirs is something they won't forget.</li><li>If you don't give to other people, and if you're not nourishing the people in your life, who's to say you'll have people who are there for you when you're going through difficult times?</li></ul>

 Lean Into The Hard Times

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<ul><li>The optimal arrival time accounts for several different, sometimes competing considerations.</li><li>If you arrive at the stated start time, chances are that you will be the first one there.</li><li>You want to arrive just as the party’s gaining real momentum.</li><li>When we go to a party, we all run our own little calculations to try to identify this golden moment.</li></ul>

When to Arrive at A Party

The optimal arrival time accounts for several different, sometimes competing considerations: If you’re the first one there, it can be a little awkward.If you show up long after everyone else, you might miss the best parts or risk rudeness. <ul><li>Most likely, you want to arrive just as the party’s gaining real momentum, a Goldilocks window of time that’s neither early nor late.</li><li>For low-key parties with friends and food, the ideal time to show up can be 38 minutes after the start time.</li><li>30 minutes would be too early, and 45 minutes too late!</li></ul>

The 38 Minute Rule

Part of it has to do with a fundamental tension between what's called "clock time" and "event time"<ul><li>Clock Time: The specific time on the watch.</li><li>Event time: a more fluid framework that follows our social rhythms</li></ul>

Clock Time Vs Event Time

<ul><li>Parties are supposed to be conceptual and experiential opposites to business meetings or classes.</li><li>Unlike many other events, parties don't feel like they start at a single, clearly delineated moment-there's no starting gun or curtain-raising.</li><li>The real party doesn't begin until the number of guests crosses a certain threshold- this is subjective, hard to define and sometimes difficult to identify.</li></ul>

A Fluid Start

We made an interactive calculator—with help from a mathematician—that bypasses the confusion about what “fashionably late” means and tells you definitively when to arrive.

A Mathematical Formula for the Right Time to Show Up at a Party

One of the most integral parts of a manager’s job is providing performance feedback and holding people accountable. So much so that it can’t be abdicated or delegated to someone else. And yet, managers often avoid these types of conversations. Just the prospect of giving feedback on another person’s performance <a href="https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Using-Neuroscience-to-Make-Feedback-Work-and-Feel-Better">triggers an immediate increase in heart rate</a>—a sign the body is going into “fight-or-flight” mode.The resulting anxiety can be especially stressful when the intended recipient of feedback is more knowledgeable and experienced than the person giving it.

The Anxiety In Giving Feedback

To avoid the emotional buildup to delivering feedback in situations where you’re leading a team of experts, it helps to address the elephant in the room from the moment you join the team. Rather than letting your insecurities lead you to pretend to have more knowledge than you do, acknowledge your senior team members’ experience and expertise upfront and ask for their help in bringing you up to speed.

Set Expectations from The Start

Create clarity around your expectations and check on your individual team members’ capabilities to meet them, before agreeing on milestones and what success on a given project or initiative looks like. Let them know that you’ll be providing regular feedback along the way so people know where they stand in terms of their performance, and that you’ll be asking for theirs as well, to learn how you can be more helpful in supporting them.

Clarity Of Expectations

We can reduce the intensity of negative emotions by using science-backed emotion regulation strategies to intervene in the four-step process that generally gives rise to emotions such as fear, anger, and sadness.  The process starts with a situation—real or imagined. One strategy to keep your anxiety in check at this stage of the emotion generation process would be situation avoidance.

Short-Circuit Your Emotions: 1. Situation Avoidance

The second step is the attention paid to a particular, often threatening aspect of a situation. The intervention strategy in this step of the emotion generation process would involve intentionally changing your focus, and instead of ruminating about something negative that might happen, focusing instead on positive aspects, such as a feedback recipient’s leadership potential or the value they contribute to the team and the organization.

2. Changing Your Focus

The third step is what called appraisal. So when we would think of providing negative feedback (the situation), and focused (attention) on what we expected would be strongly negative reactions by our team, the meaning (appraisal) we assigned to providing feedback was that our team would resent our “incompetence” and hate working for us.

3. Appraisal

Our appraisal of a situation then leads to the fourth step in the emotion-generation process, the emotional response.After gaining insight into the neurological process by which our anxieties were generated, We learned We could take control and change the meaning We assigned to the act of providing feedback, rather than defaulting to the automatic assumption our brain made that our team would resent us.

4. The Emotional Response

Just the prospect of giving feedback on another person’s performance can set your heart racing, especially when the intended recipient is more knowledgeable and experienced than the person giving it.  


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When you immediately try and get rid of your anxiety by applying coping skills to make it go away, you teach your brain to view anxiety as dangerous. So stop coping with your anxiety and learn to accept it.

Stop trying to cope with anxiety

If you always outsource your emotional struggles to others, you deprive yourself of the opportunity to be confident.A big part of emotional maturity—and the confidence that results from—comes from taking responsibility for your own feelings.

Avoid reassurance-seeking

3. Put the breaks on catastrophizingEven if you know intellectually that the worst case isn’t likely to happen, if you constantly tell yourself it is, that’s how you’ll feel.﻿It’s difficult to feel confident if you’re constantly worrying and anxious. And catastrophizing is like turbo-charged worry, which means it’s even harder for your confidence to shine through.

Put the breaks on catastrophizing

It’s hard to feel confident in yourself when you’re constantly denying yourself.Some self-denial is perfectly healthy. But if you’ve gotten into the habit of always denying your own wants and needs, it shouldn’t be a surprise that you don’t feel very confident asking for what you want, going after what you want, or even knowing what you want in the first place.

Quit hiding from what you really want

A good way to never feel confident is to always be failing. And a good way to always be failing is to always be trying to control the uncontrollable.Of course, it’s often hard to distinguish what we can control from what we can’t—especially if we really want to be able to control it…

Let go of things you can’t control

<ul><li>Low confidence leads to second-guessing, but second-guessing also leads to low confidence. </li><li>Stop second-guessing yourself in the moment and schedule time to do it deliberately. </li><li>Confidence and humility are not mutually exclusive. </li></ul>

Second-guessing yourself

When you respect yourself enough to maintain good boundaries, confidence is the natural result. Confidence rests on the foundation of self-respect. And self-respect comes from setting (and enforcing!) healthy boundaries that protect your wants, needs, and values. But enforcing your boundaries requires that you tolerate difficult emotions like anxiety rather than making decisions designed to avoid them.So if you want to feel more confident, start setting and protecting healthy boundaries, which means being willing to be with rather than avoid tough emotions.

Compromising on your boundaries

You can be critical without criticizing. When you criticize yourself in response to a mistake, you create an unrealistic view of yourself that’s almost always too negative. And, unsurprisingly, this isn’t great for your confidence.

If you’re constantly reliving past mistakes in your head, it’s going to be tough to feel confident about yourself in the present.Give yourself permission to let it go. And then work like hell to keep letting it go, each time it comes up. Forgiveness is a commitment, not a decision.

Dwelling on past mistakes

Your feelings will lead you in the wrong direction at least as often as the right one. Listen to your emotions, but don’t trust them blindly. Treat your emotions like a friend. When they give you advice, listen to it. But be prepared to reject it or ignore it if it’s not good advice.Like a friend, emotions are close to you and worthy of your respect and attention. But that doesn’t mean they’re infallible and that you just follow them blindly.

Trusting your feelings

If you want to feel more confident, start thinking about what habits you have that are interfering with your confidence, then work to remove them.<ul><li>Coping with anxiety</li><li>Reassurance-seeking</li><li>Catastrophizing</li><li>Not asking for what you really want</li><li>Trying to control things you can’t control</li><li>Second-guessing yourself</li><li>Compromising on your boundaries</li><li>Criticizing yourself after mistakes</li><li>Dwelling on past mistakes</li><li>Trusting your feelings</li></ul>Don’t try and do all of these at once. Pick one that applies to you and your life especially well and focus on making small improvements there first.

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Self-confidence is a feeling of trust in your abilities, qualities, and judgment. Research suggests that confidence is important to health and psychological well-being. Learn how to be more confident and some of the benefits of increasing your trust and belief in yourself.

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The first step toward becoming more assertive is taking inventory of how you voice your thoughts and feelings. Do you use a passive or aggressive communication style?

Assess your communication style

Find yourself automatically saying yes to things without thinking about it? If you tend to do this, Phelan recommends having some go-to phrases when you’re faced with a request or invitation you aren’t that into.

Plan your response ahead of time

If you find yourself feeling guilty when you try to assert yourself, keep in mind that saying no to a request doesn’t mean you’re rejecting the person .

Don’t let guilt get in the way

It’s hard to practice being assertive when you’re in the moment. That’s why Rose recommends mentally pumping up yourself with <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/self-talk">positive self-talk </a>.It might sound corny, but if you’re about to have a conversation where you know you’ll have to put your foot down, hype yourself up with positive thoughts of “I’ve got this” or “My time is important.”

Use positive self-talk

If your heart starts racing at the mere thought of placing a boundary, take a moment to breathe deeply, especially if you feel aggression starting to take over.“Breathing will calm the brain and the body and help ground yourself, making it easier to come back to your intentions,” Rose adds.

Take time to breathe

Communication isn’t just verbal. Before going into a stressful situation or a difficult conversation, Rose recommends adopting an assertive body stance that makes you feel more confident and powerful.What does that look like? Stand up straight, rolling your shoulders back. Maintain regular eye contact and a neutral facial expression.

Embody an assertive stance

If you have a big issue you’re trying to address, consider role-playing with a trusted friend by practicing different conversation styles. Write it down, then say what you want to say aloud.Remember to ask for feedback about how clear you’re coming across, and how the other person might see the situation.Pay attention to how they respond to your tone of voice and body language. Are you communicating without becoming shy or hostile? Evaluate yourself afterward. Tweak your approach according to their input.

Rehearse with someone you know and trust

Without a healthy and balanced sense of self-worth, you’ll likely keep accepting less from others, or end up giving more than you receive.“If you don’t believe in yourself, it’ll be hard for someone else to believe in you or give you want you want,” Rose says.

Believe in your worth

If putting down boundaries feels aggressive or uncomfortable for you, consider this scenario: Your boss is constantly piling work on your desk without checking in on whether you can take more projects.An aggressive response would be blowing up at your boss in a meeting or demanding that someone else do the work.An assertive response, on the other hand, would be scheduling a meeting with your boss to discuss a new system for assigning work, or coming up with ways to better delegate responsibilities.

Set actionable boundaries

If all of this sounds a bit daunting, consider starting with some small exercises to help you practice being more assertive in low-risk situations.

Start small

If you’re finding it hard to practice being more assertive, consider talking things out with a <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/therapy-for-every-budget">qualified therapist </a>for additional support. Underlying factors, including stress and anxiety, can make it particularly hard to ask for what you need.A therapist can help you identify roadblocks and come up with new tools for navigating around them.

Get outside help

Assertiveness can help you control stress and anger and improve coping skills. Recognize and learn assertive behavior and communication. Being assertive is a core communication skill. Assertiveness can help you express yourself effectively and stand up for your point of view.

Have a hard time putting your foot down and asking for what you need? These 11 tips can help you be more assertive in any situation.

11 Ways To Be More Assertive

If you want to become a great leader or make a lot of money you absolutely need to learn how to communicate more efficiently.<ul><li>You need Energy</li><li>You Clarity </li><li>You need Empathy</li></ul>

Communication is Very Important

<ol><li>We spend more time alone, on our sofas watching tv or scrolling through social media</li><li>We are becoming more impatient</li></ol>

The Digital World Is Decreasing Our Ability to Communicate

One thing that helps me communicate better is to just imagine that everyone is your friend. We communicate with our friends with excitement and want to learn more. Have that same energy with strangers

Everything about you communicates the clothes that you wear and the way that you look communicatesEven when you are not saying anything, you are still communicating. That is the fact of life.

Lesson #1 You Cannot Not Communicate

Everyone interprets your words in a different way based on past experiences and how you come across to them.Also the way that you think of a phrase is not exactly what you will say outloud.

Lesson #2 You Cannot Say What you Mean

We have the power to control people's emotions through our body language and words. If you set out a goal before communicating with someone you are more likely to accomplish that goal.

Lesson #3 You can Make people Fel what you want them to feel

<ul><li>Because of the Cognitive Dissonance Theory humans don't like to change or be wrong so when they make a first impression it almost always lasts make sure the first impression they make of you is a good one.</li></ul>

Lesson #4 First Impressions Last

It is a well-known fact that people like ones who listen more than they like the ones who talk a lot about themselves.Listen in a way to understand not to reply

Lesson #5 It Is Better To Be Interested than Intresting

If someone said your so right while crossing their arms and smiling which one would you believe?Body language is a way we tell if someone truly means what they say.

Lesson #6 Your Body Speaks Louder Than Words

Communication is very important if you want to be a world class designer or to excel in this world in general. This ted talks gives 6 key steps

TEDxVasa 22.09.2017 Antoni Lacinai - 6 communication truths that everyone should know To master the art of communicating with energy, clarity and empathy requires effort and willpower. But it’s so tempting today, to spend time on digital tools and digital toys instead, scanning for likes, one-liners and nuggets of information. And as we wander deeper and deeper into the digital landscape; Are we at risk of losing our analog communication skills? Antoni Lacinai – Communication Expert Antoni Lacinai’s focus the last 25 years has been to study human communication and psychology in various forms. He is a communication skills trainer, author and speaker, helping his clients achieve results when leading, selling and cooperating. Antoni’s mission is to reclaim and enhance our analog communication skills in an ever more digital world. Digitalization, Automation, Artificial intelligence, and of course Social media. All mega trends. All great – from a technology and efficiency perspective. But does our obsession in technology come with a prize? Are we losing our ability to lead and inspire? What happens to our social skills at work or home? Even though he has a background in the IT and telecom sector, Antoni Lacinai’s focus the last 25 years has been to study communication and psychology in various form. His mission is to reclaim and enhance our analog communication skills in an ever more digital world, Antoni will give you a variety of truths, or success factors, that will make you better communicators and better leaders. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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Antoni Lacinai - 6 communication truths that everyone should know

To master the art of communicating with energy, clarity and empathy requires effort and willpower. 
But it’s so tempting today, to spend time on digital tools and digital toys instead, scanning for likes, one-liners and nuggets of information.
And as we wander deeper and deeper into the digital landscape; Are we at risk of losing our analog communication skills?
Antoni Lacinai – Communication Expert
Antoni Lacinai’s focus the last 25 years has been to study human communication and psychology in various forms. 
He is a communication skills trainer, author and speaker, helping his clients achieve results when leading, selling and cooperating.
Antoni’s mission is to reclaim and enhance our analog communication skills in an ever more digital world. 
 Digitalization, Automation, Artificial intelligence, and of course Social media. All mega trends. All great – from a technology and efficiency perspective. But does our obsession in technology come with a prize? Are we losing our ability to lead and inspire? What happens to our social skills at work or home? 

Even though he has a background in the IT and telecom sector, Antoni Lacinai’s focus the last 25 years has been to study communication and psychology in various form. His mission is to reclaim and enhance our analog communication skills in an ever more digital world, Antoni will give you a variety of truths, or success factors, that will make you better communicators and better leaders.
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How often did you not say what you needed to, only to replay the conversation that could’ve been? The love you could’ve shown. The bold conversation you could’ve had. And all you’re left with is the agony of “if only.”“If only I’d spoken up.”“If only I’d stayed quiet.”“If only I had said it differently.”There was an underlying shame that accompanied my “mistakes,” real or perceived, and the only way out was to raise the bar even higher for myself. Desperate attempts to please or prove myself in other ways. Constant vigilance for criticism or disapproval.Isn't it?

It Feels Worse Isn't It?

When you speak to yourself with kindness and understanding, you actually build the courage and conscious awareness to take corrective action where needed.﻿Practice: Breathe into the emotions with understanding and talk to yourself with kindness. It may not feel authentic initially, but practice is key!

Meet The Emotion With Compassion

The way we show up as our best selves is to listen to the message the emotion is trying to convey. Practice: Create distance from your emotion and listen to the message it’s trying to convey. Say: “I see you, Shame. How can I help you?”

Listen To An Emotion's Message With Curiosity

Now that you’ve navigated the emotion(s) with compassion and curiosity, you’re ready to decide on the right thing to do. Unlike action that’s underpinned by fear or shame, conscious action is pro-social by nature because it’s aligned with your values and leads to feelings of goodness and mastery, both essential for authentic self-worth. You may realize that you can safely let go of the thought and move on. You may realize that you need to meet the other person to clarify what you said—or to apologize.

Decide On The Right Action

Practice: Ask yourself, “What would the best version of me do right now?” Check in with yourself whether the action is aligned with who you want to be. And then act on it!Have an awesome day!😊

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When interactions don’t go our way, we often get stuck in an inner commentary of “if only.” Here’s a three-step process to help you get past it.

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