People believe that if they put in longer hours,they’ll be more productive and achieve better results. Some of the most successful entrepreneurs speak about working as much as 16 per day.But once you read this article, you may begin to understand that working longer hours doesn’t necessarily help you succeed, in fact it might make you lose.Working longer hours may increase stress and harm you emotionally, mentally, and physically. It may lead to reduced levels of concentration and a lesser quality of work.

How to Be More Productive: Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time

We will refer you to energy sources first;1. Body2. Emotions3. The Mind4. The Human Spirit

Sources of Energy

Our physical body is the primary storehouse ofenergy we have. We can increase physical energy in our body with: NutritionExerciseSleep

1. Body: Gives You Physical Energy 

It’s essential to feel good to do good. If you’re feeling negative, it’s hard to be effective. But if we work long hours and have to deliver on relentless demands from our job or business, we tend to slip into negative emotions multiple times a day.Falling into such emotional states drains our energy and not only hampers our progress at work but also affects our relationships. Three powerful rituals to defuse negative emotions. Deep Breathing Express appreciation Change the story running in your mind

2. Emotions: Determine The Quality of Energy

The mind is the source of everything you do. Positive thinking leads to positive outcomes like healthy relationships, successful career, good physical health, and negative thinking leads to negative results. So it’s important that you leverage the power of the mind to be more productive.

3. The Mind: Focus of Energy

1) Say NO to Distractions: The first thing to do is to cut out all distractions while you work. Do just one thing at a time. Don’t check your email when you’re making an important presentation. Multitasking is the enemy of quality work. 2) Choose High-Return Activities: Pick the tasks that will give you the highest returns in the long-term. This may include learning a particular skill or building your network. People have a tendency to think for the short-term and you can use it to your advantage.

Fucus Of Energy

It’s important to work hard but without selling your soul. Don’t settle for a career that doesn’t fulfill you. Of course, not hundred percent of your work can be fulfilling since in any job or business, you have to do your chores. But a significant part of it can indeed be fulfilling and help you be more productive. To draw energy from the human spirit, we need to know our priorities and integrate relevant activities in three categories: <ul><li>Doing the work you love and do best </li><li>Giving time to important areas of life: work, family, health, serving others </li><li>Living your values in daily life   </li> </ul>

4. The Human Spirit: Energy of Meaning and Purpose

In your work, find the experiences when you felt the happiest, the most fulfilled, inspired, and effortlessly absorbed. Remember at least two such experiences and then find out what made the experiences stand out and what talents you used. If creativity was the game-changer for you, then build a ritual where you do creative work every day. If leadership made you feel unstoppable, focus more on such activities on a daily basis.

a) Doing What You Love and Do Best

Work is important, but it is equally important to give time to family, exercise every day to be fit, and give back to society once in a while to be of service.

b) Giving Time to Important Life Areas

Tony Schwartz, the CEO of The Energy Project, says that “People tap into the energy of the human spirit when their everyday work and activities are consistent with what they value most and with what gives them a sense of meaning and purpose . If the work they’re doing really matters to them, they typically feel more positive energy, focus better, and demonstrate greater perseverance.”

c) Living Your Values in Daily Life

To know your values, identify the times in your life when you were the happiest. Then identify the times when you were most proud. Identify when you were most fulfilled. Then deconstruct these experiences to find which factors made them remarkable. These factors will point to your core values. But there’s a shortcut too. Ask yourself, “What are the qualities that I find most off-putting in others ? What you hate in others is what you love in yourself. So it is a great way to find what you Value. 🍻

Know Your Values

To be more productive, you should manage your energy, not your time. Know the four sources of energy we have and how to access them daily.

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upstream effort- effort exerted opposite to the flow of life.downstram effort- effort exerted in the flow of life.Top performers have a very clear idea of how they wanna feel everyday. They don't try harder when hit obstacle. They re-memorize. what are their core values. What are your core values what do you wanna feel.Now, It's time to bring these values and feelings/emotions to the outer world. Act according to these values and feelings. Sometimes the choices of the decision will be against. But you need to take them Ex- quitting a famous job if it doesn't align with your values and feelings

Efforts

Stop trying so hard at things that don't matter to you, and start trying at things that do.

Sometimes you'll take an authentic decision, and you wanna know if you've taken it right or wrong. Symptoms that you've take a downstream effort path are:- <ol><li>Time will start to become broken. You'll start to be in the ""flow" state. </li><li>synchronicity- right things/people will start to be at the right lace at the right time. Stay in this pah. authentic success may follow this path. But sometimes it is necessary to move upstram effort like doing a PhD etc. Ask yourself for the same.</li></ol>Don't try hard.

Bethany Butzer, Author, Speaker, Researcher & Lecturer at the University of New York in Prague explains the concept of "down stream effort" and how to live life and achieve goals effectively and efficiently without over exertion. The majority of Bethany’s professional work involves teaching, writing, and doing research in the field of positive psychology, which emphasizes the development of human strength and potential. She received her PhD in psychology from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Bethany has worked in the corporate world and in academia, and she has also spent several years as an entrepreneur. From 2013 to 2015 she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School, where she studied the effects of yoga in school settings. Bethany currently lives in Prague, where she is teaching an undergraduate positive psychology course at the University of New York in Prague and continuing to study yoga and mindfulness for youth. 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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Bethany Butzer, Author, Speaker, Researcher & Lecturer at the University of New York in Prague explains the concept of "down stream effort" and how to live life and achieve goals effectively and efficiently without over exertion.  The majority of Bethany’s professional work involves teaching, writing, and doing research in the field of positive psychology, which emphasizes the development of human strength and potential. She received her PhD in psychology from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Bethany has worked in the corporate world and in academia, and she has also spent several years as an entrepreneur. From 2013 to 2015 she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School, where she studied the effects of yoga in school settings.

Bethany currently lives in Prague, where she is teaching an undergraduate positive psychology course at the University of New York in Prague and continuing to study yoga and mindfulness for youth. 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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<ul><li>Intensity - Going through an enlightenment experience regardless of belief makes people experience intensity through feelings of love, joy, or awe. These intense experiences is likely associated with increased activity in the limbic system which is the brain's primary emotional centre.</li><li>Unity - When we feel a profound sense of connectedness with the rest of humanity, God, or the Universe it is associated with a decrease of activity in the parietal lobe of the brain that stores sensory information.</li></ul>

The Five Elements of Enlightenment Experiences
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<ul><li>Clarity - Our sense of clarity is related to the thalamus that is the central structure that connects various parts of the brain to each other and it is what establishes our consciousness.</li><li>A Sense of Surrender - With a decreased activity in the frontal lobes during intense enlightenment experiences we lose the sense of purposeful control.</li><li>Transformation - The feeling of transformation comes from the increased activity and thickness of the frontal lobes. This area regulates our emotional responses and our overall cognition. Therefore continuous usage of this area solidifies the aspect.</li></ul>

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<ul><li>They can become more sensitised to the effects of serotonin and dopamine </li><li>The brains become more functionally connected, most especially the frontal and parietal lobes.</li></ul>

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Whether through daily meditation or on a week-long retreat, the experience of spiritual enlightenment transforms the brain

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Mindfulness is all the rage for multiple reasons. This practice helps you halt future fears and ruminations about an immutable past and live in the present moment.Mindfulness can help you find inner peace with the transient nature of life. You might develop an unshakable spiritual belief system fueled by wisdom arising from deep within your soul. Conversely, you might make peace with the idea that this life is all there is and decide to make the most of it. By coming to terms with the reality of the limited human lifespan, you can spend more of it living and less of it worrying.

Mindfulness Can Help To Overcome Deepest Of Fears.

Mindfulness can benefit you in multiple ways. Why not use it to help you overcome your deepest fears using the techniques described above?

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Mindfulness Can Help Us Overcome Our Deepest Fears

Sit alone for 10 min , do nothing, no mobile, no books, no thinking of past/ future.... You will be amazed to see the result... Try it!

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"Experienced dancers have gentle footwork. Experienced yogis have gentle breathwork. Our end goal is to be gentle in our life's work."

🌼Gentle🌼

Mindfulness has various mental and psychological benefits like increased concentration, better memory, better self-control and a decrease in emotional reactiveness, allowing us to handle our problems in a calm manner.
However, the focus of a mindful person is inward, and that can translate into increased egotism and selfishness in some people.

Mindfulness And Selfishness

Broadly speaking, eastern cultures(India and China) which gave birth to Hinduism and Buddhism, have more independent-minded people.Western cultures, on the other hand, are more interdependent. A series of experiments involving mindfulness exercises showed that self-perception and self-concern were heightened among the participants.

The ‘ME’ in Meditation

The original Mindfulness practices from the east might have been corrupted, diluted or taught incorrectly by western teachers, morphing it into yet another technique to boost productivity and performance. The original practice of mindfulness does not focus on doing or performing but simply being. The concept of non-doing is alien to most people in the western part of the world.

Mindfulness Or Mindlessness

Mindfulness, which has now gone mainstream courtesy of the various apps, books and online courses, may be increasing selfish behaviour and triggering anxiety attacks, stuff that is never mentioned anywhere. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

The Risks Of Mindfulness

Instead of practising the broken Americanized versions of ancient practices of the east, one can start with:<ul><li>Basic breathing exercises to improve clarity, and allow us to live in the present.</li><li>Increasing our love, compassion and kindness with everyone around us, including strangers.</li><li>Practising mindful listening with attentiveness and care.</li></ul>

The Way To Start Mindfulness

Mindfulness may have many benefits – but the latest research shows it can also make some people more selfish.

How mindfulness could make you selfish

The enthusiasm for mindfulness makes sense: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2015.01.006">Research </a>shows mindfulness can reduce stress, increase self-esteem, and decrease symptoms of mental illness.<h3><img src="https://ggsc.s3.amazonaws.com/images/made/images/uploads/Common_Humanity_Meditation_260_180_s_c1.jpg">Common Humanity Meditation</h3><ul><li>Build compassion and interconnection by seeing your similarities with others</li></ul>The effects of mindfulness can be different for people depending on the way they think about themselves. This figurative “water” can really change the recipe of mindfulness.Of course, water can be filtered, and, likewise, how people think about themselves is fluid: We’re all independent to decide how we think.

Be Generous In Practising Mindfulness.

Mindfulness developed in a communal culture—so it might not have the same benefits for people who are more independent.

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