"The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own …"

Control and Choice

“How many have laid waste to your life when you weren’t aware of what you were losing , how much was wasted in pointless grief, foolish joy, greedy desire, and social amusements— how little of your own was left to you. You will realize you are dying before your time!”

From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a beautiful daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller. Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise. The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you'll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms. By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you'll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.

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From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a beautiful daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller. Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise. The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you'll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms. By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you'll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.

Ryan Holiday is media strategist for notorious clients like Tucker Max and Dov Charney. After dropping out of college at 19 to apprentice under the strategist Robert Greene, he went on to advise many bestselling authors and multi-platinum musicians. He is the Director of Marketing at American Apparel, where his work in advertising was internationally known. His strategies are used as case studies by Twitter, YouTube, and Google, and have been written about in AdAge, the New York Times, Gawker, and Fast Company. He is the author is *Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator*, which is due out in July. He currently lives in New Orleans, with his rebellious puppy, Hanno.

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A roadmap is a visualized plan of what you want to build overtime. A great product roadmap communicates the ‘why’ and the ‘what’, whereas a product backlog communicates the ‘how.’

What is a Product Roadmap? 

<ul><li>They provide vision and direction to your team</li><li>They ensure all teams are on the same page when it comes to product priorities and provides transparency to all stakeholders. </li><li>They allow for feedback and consensus so all team members and stakeholders can buy in to the proces</li></ul>

Why Are Product Roadmaps Important?

A roadmap is akin to using a compass to figure out which direction you need to travel. Roadmaps provide vision and clarity but by no means are they inflexible or the answer to everything. A great PM has the ability to adapt to and/or foresee market shifts happening and make changes to their roadmap and strategy accordingly.

Can Roadmaps Change/Evolve? 

<ol><li>Evolving customer, business or industry needs may require changing up your roadmap in order to address them in order to get the most impact.</li><li>Analytics Data - You may think that the feature you’re working on will revolutionize the customer experience, but if the metrics show otherwise, you have to evaluate whether or not to go back to the drawing board or to scrap the idea altogether. </li><li>Early Stage Product Idea - Similar to evolving needs, early stage products can sometimes change strategy and direction overnight due to unforeseen circumstances (similar to a startup).</li></ol>

Few Reasons Why Roadmaps Can Change... 

There are many different ways you and your team can build a product roadmap. Each type of product roadmap serves a specific purpose that should match the needs of your team, stakeholders, and customers.<ol><li>Status-Oriented</li><li>Theme-Oriented</li><li>Outcome-Oriented</li></ol>

Types Of Product Roadmaps

A status-oriented roadmap allows everyone to better understand where the team is currently at, without necessarily committing to any kind of time frame. It’s organized into three columns that are based around the status of each deliverable—now, next, and later. It helps with prioritization. It also gives room for the next and later columns to change. Each item (typically an epic) shown on this roadmap should align to a higher level organization goal or strategic objective (e.g. Increase ARR by 5%).

Status-Oriented Roadmap

Theme-oriented roadmaps are a way to communicate the value that will be delivered to the users, without describing exactly what the team will deliver within that theme.This keep the team focused on solving the larger problem at hand, and anytime something else is brought up, it’s easy to ask one another if it fits into the theme of the current time period. Theme-oriented product roadmaps are quarterly based.Once your stakeholders align on those themes, you can nest epics beneath those themes. This allows team to get a better understanding of how the work ties to the larger business goals.

Theme-Oriented Roadmaps

Where it differs to theme-oriented roadmaps is what’s at the highest level: an outcome. An outcome is defined as “something that follows as a result or consequence.” By agreeing on the outcomes you will be driving toward, it leaves full power to the team to define the solution. Most stakeholders don’t really care about a specific feature you are working on. But, what problems the team is working to solve. e.g., an outcome that a product team may be working to solve could be, “Improve our day-7 app retention rate by 10%.” Then, it’s up to the team to figure out how to make that happen.

Outcome-Oriented Roadmaps

No matter the approach you choose for your roadmap, you’ll follow a general roadmapping process to get the ball rolling. <ol><li>Establish organizational and product goals with your team</li><li>Determine how your product can achieve said goals (this should be a group collaboration with your team)</li><li>Create a draft roadmap</li><li>Ask for feedback from your team</li><li>Get stakeholders’ buy-in to the roadmap</li></ol>

How to Build a Product Roadmap

A product roadmap is a visualized plan of what you want to build for your set of features over time.

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The secret to having a successful life is not a single habit. It's many habits that compound and create a system of living. One single habit may change your life by 1%-it's too small to notice. But what if you create one habit every day for 365 days? You will become 37x better.

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

<ul><li>“If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you'll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you're done.”</li><li>What people see is a breakthrough. What people don't see are all the small details that happened before it.</li><li>Small actions and habits one establishes are what drove one toward success every single day.</li></ul>

The Surprising Power of Atomic Habits

<ul><li>The foundation of every lasting change is identity.</li><li>Lasting change can only come through an identity change.</li><li>If good habits are in conflict with your identity, you will fail to establish them.</li><li>Actions prove your identity—changing your actions proves you are a writer.</li></ul>

How Your Habits Shape Your Identity (and Vice Versa)

<ul><li>Cue: the cue that triggers the brain to a certain behavior.</li><li>Craving: the motivation behind the habit</li><li>Response: the action to perform.</li><li>Reward: it has two purposes, to satisfy and to teach.</li></ul>

How to Build Better Habits in Four Simple Steps

<ul><li>When we do things automatically, we can make mistakes because we are not always conscious of what we are doing.</li><li>You can increase your awareness and find out about your habits by using the Habit Scoreboard method.</li></ul>

Until You Make the Unconscious Conscious, It Will Direct Your Life and You Will Call it Fate

<ul><li>Our environment is very important to follow good habits.</li><li>Electrical energy usage depends strongly on the position of the electrical meter.</li><li>Households that have the meter in the basement use more energy than those that have it in the hallway.</li></ul>

Motivation is Overrated; Environment Often Matters More

<ul><li>Our habits are strongly influenced by the people that surround us.</li><li>The people that influence us can be categorized into three groups: The close, the many, and the powerful.</li><li>We imitate the habits of people that are closest to us, especially close friends and family.</li></ul>

The Role of Family and Friends in Shape Your Habits

<ul><li>Reframe the associations you have about them.</li><li>All cravings come from our primary motives.</li><li>Conserve energy.</li><li>Obtain food and water.</li><li>Reduce uncertainty.</li><li>Achieve status and prestige.</li><li>Determine the underlying motive of a bad habit, so you can replace it with a better one.</li></ul>

How to Find and Fix the Causes of Your Bad Habits


<ul><li>It’s not enough that we think about action. The only way to get what you want is to take action.</li><li>People often ask how long it takes to form a new habit. There is no clear answer to the question because the more you repeat an action, the more automatic it is.</li></ul>

Walk Slowly, But Never Backward

<ul><li>Every big activity starts with something simple.</li><li>If you establish the ritual, over time you will be able to perform any activity you want.</li><li>The secret to establishing habits for difficult activities like going to the gym or studying hard is establishing simple habits that will get you to the more difficult activities.</li></ul>

How to Stop Procrastinating by Using the Two-Min Rule

<ul><li>In order to increase your number of good habits, you must remove the bad ones.</li><li>Remove bad habits by making them very difficult or impossible to do.</li><li>For example, unsubscribe yourself from all newsletters to stop wasting your time reading emails.</li><li>Ask your friend to change the passwords on your social media during the week, so you cannot use them until the weekend.</li></ul>

How to Make Good Habits Inevitable and Remove Bad Habits

<ul><li>A habit needs to be enjoyable for it to last.</li><li>Make it satisfying.</li><li>Only instant satisfaction matters here.</li><li>Eating healthy will benefit us in the future, but we will get more instant satisfaction if we eat tasty food now.</li><li>Smoking is similar—instant satisfaction is much stronger than thoughts of the future.</li><li>You can't change bad habits, but you can change a little bit of immediate pleasure.</li></ul>

The Cardinal Rule of Behavior Change

<ul><li>If we promise someone else that we are going to do something, then our pride is at stake. If we break our promise, we will look unreliable, and we will feel bad about ourselves.</li><li>Having an accountable friend is powerful, even if it is just a verbal agreement.</li></ul>

How an Accountability Partner Can Change Everything

<ul><li>Genes are responsible for the shape of our bodies, and also for our ability to work on different types of habits.</li><li>Not all habits will work for you. It's important to find things you are good at and work on habits that will make you great in these areas.</li></ul>

The Truth About Talent

<ul><li>For something to be challenging, it cannot be too easy or too difficult.</li><li>We are at the peak of our motivation when we are working on a task that is not too difficult and not too easy.</li><li>The biggest difference between professionals and amateurs is that professionals always stick to the schedule, while amateurs let life get in the way.</li></ul>

The Goldilocks Rule: How to Stay Motivated in Your Life and Work

<ul><li>Once we automate a habit, we stop thinking about it, and as a result, we do not improve any further.</li><li>Habits let us do things automatically, without thinking.</li><li>To really master anything, you need reflection time.</li></ul>

The Downside of Creating Good Habits

The secret to having a successful life is not a single habit. It's many habits that compound and create a system of living. One single habit may change your life by 1%-it's too small to notice. But what if you create one habit every day for 365 days? You will become 37x better.

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 4 million copies sold! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: • make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy); • overcome a lack of motivation and willpower; • design your environment to make success easier; • get back on track when you fall off course; ...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 10 million copies sold! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: <ul><li>make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);</li></ul><ul><li>overcome a lack of motivation and willpower;</li></ul><ul><li>design your environment to make success easier;</li></ul><ul><li>get back on track when you fall off course;</li></ul>...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

James Clear is the author of "Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones" He writes about habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement at jamesclear.com. His website receives millions of visitors each month and hundreds of thousands subscribe to his popular email newsletter.His work has appeared in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, Time, and on CBS This Morning. He is a regular speaker at Fortune 500 companies and his work is used by teams in the NFL, NBA, and MLB. Learn more at jamesclear.com

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We often use the phrase “Time is Money” to depict the importance of time in our life. But, is it an accurate analogy? Because, unlike money, the time once spent can never be earned back. It is like a one-way road with no U-turn.

Time Is Money 

After a Life itself, time is the second most precious thing in the world. The best thing about time is that it is unbiased. You’ve got the same 24 hours in your day like any other living being. It changes for no one. And the worst thing about time is that it isn’t your friend. It doesn’t stop or slow down for anyone.

An average human life expectancy is around 75 years. This is the total amount of time you have which includes your schooling, higher studies, job, sleep, and all other daily chores. Though you can skip some of these activities, others can’t be skipped at all.Going to work is necessary to earn money and have food and shelter for your family. Sleeping is mandatory to stay healthy. Similarly, eating, cleaning, grooming, and parenting are also essential for a balanced life. All these tasks consume time. So, the question arises, <a href="https://link.medium.com/VaLGvvZIvpb">“How much time do you really have?” </a>

Oxford conducted a <a href="https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article-pdf/41/12/zsy182/27090248/zsy182.pdf">study </a>that shows that sleeping for 8 hours a day results in better cognitive abilities. That’s 25 years straight out of your total lifespan of 75 years. Now you’re left with only 50 years.

Working 8 hours a day for 45 years (from age of 20 till 65) costs 10 years in total. Watching television daily for an hour, using social media for 2 hours, and watching a movie twice a month combined together consume another 9 years of your life. You spend 6 years doing daily household work like cooking, cleaning, etc. Around 4 years are spent eating and drinking. Similarly, 3.5 years on education, 2.5 years on grooming, another 2.5 years on shopping, 2 years on daily travel, and 1.5 years on childcare. Sighs!

Eventually, you’ll be left with only 9 years ! That’s the total amount of time you have. No matter what you do, the time keeps on moving and you have to race against the clock to get things done. Those who do not understand the importance of time can easily be found wasting their time by doing things like <ul><li>Complaining about everyone and everything. </li><li>Repeating the same mistakes. </li><li>Comparing themselves with others. </li><li>Waiting for the right time. </li><li>Talking without taking any action. </li><li>Having fear of failure. </li><li>Lack of priorities. </li><li>Trying to please others and worry about their opinions. </li> </ul>

If you’re doing any of the above things, you need to stop doing it NOW. Time is limited. The days you’re living will never come back. Every second you’re spending is part of those limited years you’ve left. So, you need to optimize it in order to make the best out of each and every moment of your life. Time is precious; more precious than money. And that is why Time Management should be your topmost priority.

There are many ways to manage your time while increasing your efficiency. You can change your sleeping patterns, create a to-do list, set up reminders, or download time management apps. But if you do not understand the importance of time, all those things will be of no use.Time is the only thing you cannot buy or barter. No matter how much you’re willing to spend or what you have to offer in exchange. You can save yourself from the guilt of wasting it if you can learn to manage it now. It will not only help with a disciplined and successful career, but it’ll also help you to stay ahead in life

Time management starts with fast thinking and faster decision-making abilities. If you can think fast, you take lesser time to decide, and then you will have extra time in stock for yourself. Below are some basic things you need to remember to be a fast thinker: <ul><li>Always prefer time over money. </li><li>Narrow down your options. </li><li>Listen to your gut feeling. </li><li>Be prepared for the unexpected. </li><li>Differentiate between good and bad choices. </li><li>Remember indecision is the worst decision. </li> </ul>

Time Management 

We all want to make the best out of the 24 hours we get each day. Some people manage to be successful, happy, and contained in the same time period, while others struggle to find their aim and are unable to stay focused. This results in the wastage of the most precious thing that we have i.e. Time. Time management is a process of organizing and utilizing the available time in order to maximize productivity. Though time is limited, there’s no such thing as a shortage of time. In order to make the best out of the available time, you’ll need to manage it properly.

Benjamin Franklin said, “For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.” With distractions all around, it is now more important than ever to manage your time. Using 10 quick time management tips below, you can easily organize your time to achieve success in life.

<ol><li>Complete the most important task first thing in the morning </li><li>Use a calendar and add a “To-do” list to it. </li><li>Do not multitask. </li><li>Do not stick to small things. Move on. </li><li>Learn to say NO. </li><li>Do not answer each and every unnecessary call or text. </li><li>Track the time you spend on each activity. </li><li>Instead of waiting for inspiration, do it NOW. </li><li>Outsource unimportant things as much as you can. </li><li>Set up a time limit for everything you do. </li> </ol>

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We often use the phrase “Time is Money” to depict the importance of time in our life. But, is it an accurate analogy? Because, unlike money, the time once spent can never be earned back. It is like a…

How Much Time Do You Really Have?

Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 34तद्विद्धि प्रणिपातेन परिप्रश्नेन सेवया |उपदेक्ष्यन्ति ते ज्ञानं ज्ञानिनस्तत्त्वदर्शिन: || ﻿﻿tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśhnena sevayāupadekṣhyanti te jñānaṁ jñāninas tattva-darśhinaḥ﻿

Relationship between Mentor - Student, Bhagwad Geeta.

There are 3 qualities a student must have during his learning phase in this Verse1. प्रणिपातेन (surrender) You have to surrender yourself to your Guru/Mentor. You have to give up your ego/attitude to learn. Be transparent. In a perticular topic, you dont have any knowledge, and there's someone who know it all. so you have accept that and open yourself to your mentor to gain that knowledge.

Student Must Learn These Qualities From Bhagwad Geeta 🙏

2. प्रश्नेन (to Question) Your surrender should not be blind faith.However right the guru/Mentor maybe, you can't live somebody else's conviction. Conviction has to be your own. You have to think and develop your own conviction and question your Guru humbly if necessary.

3. सेवया (by rendering service) You have to repay your mentor in some sort of भेट or दक्षिणा. There's no need of materialistic भेट. The best form of दक्षिणा is that whatever you have learned from your mentor, you always keep passing that knowledge to someone else and continue गुरू-शिष्य परंपरा .

तद्विद्धि प्रणिपातेन परिप्रश्नेन सेवया |उपदेक्ष्यन्ति ते ज्ञानं ज्ञानिनस्तत्त्वदर्शिन: || Glossary :tat—the truth; viddhi—try to learn;praṇipātena—by approaching a spiritual master;paripraśhnena—by humble inquiries;sevayā—by rendering service;upadekṣhyanti—can impart;te—unto you;jñānam—knowledge;jñāninaḥ—the enlightened;tattva-darśhinaḥ—those who have realized the truthTranslation :Learn the Truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him with reverence and render service unto him. Such an enlightened Saint can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the Truth.

Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 34

Whether personal or professional, mentors can play a crucial role in helping us achieve our life goals. This episode has advice on where we can find mentors who will guide us, and how we must not blindly believe everything they say. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Spending time with family especially face-to-face communication, as opposed to digitalsignificantly reduces the occurrence of depression, anxiety, and other mental illness. Being physically present with loved ones creates a strong emotional support to buoy you up through life’s challenges.

Improves Mental Health

On average, kids who are spending time with family, tend to do better in school. They learn communication skills and the importance of education. When needed, assisting with assignments or new concepts reinforces the fact that their success is important to you. Even just asking about their day and what they’re learning will show your children how much you care.

Helps Children Perform Well Academically

Children who are spending time with their family have shown less risk of behavioral issues, such as violence and substance abuse. When they receive positive attention for positive behaviors, it increases their desire to continue those healthy patterns.Family is so important when it comes to a child (or teenager) bringing problems to you, because your advice can allow them to become better equipped to cope with problems and make positive choices.

Lowers Risk Of Behavioral Problems

Spending time with family builds confidence for all of its members. Parents can teach children to build self-esteem through specific skills such as problem solving and communication. They can also model the ability to love oneself without degrading others. For parents and children, confidence grows simply with the knowledge that they are valued and appreciated by their loved ones.

Boosts Self-Confidence

The memories you create together will instill in children a desire to foster that same loving atmosphere in their own future homes. Family is so important because, through your example, your kids learn important caregiving skills that they can use one day. They may even practice now by copying your behaviors when they interact with siblings.

Helps Kids Learn Future Parenting Skills

Being with family is fun, but it can be difficult, too. When conflicts arise, you can’t just walk away for good. You’re in this together, so you have to work together to solve the issues that come up. Spending time with family teaches interpersonal communication skills including healthy, constructive ways to discuss, debate, and solve problems.

Teaches Effective Conflict Resolution

Those with strong family healthy relationships tend to seek out healthier coping mechanisms for stress—such as confiding in friends and family—instead of other unhealthy outlets. This establishes a habit of talking through problems together to relieve stress and find effective solutions.

Reduces Stress 

Your ability to face life’s changes and challenges is greatly improved by a strong family bond. Being with family gives you the feeling of knowing that you belong, you are cared for, and you are needed, which gives a sense of meaning and purpose. This assurance gives motivation to push forward, grow, and succeed.

Promotes Adaptability And Resilience

With the right kind of activities, spending time with family can positively impact physical well-being. For instance, families who eat home-cooked meals together tend to have a better diet than those who don’t. Participating in outdoor activities like sports games, hikes, or gardening together helps to improve fitness. It improves heart, brain, hormonal, and immune health. Being with family can also encourage one another to maintain healthy lifestyles.

Enhances Physical Health

Healthy relationships could increase your lifespan up to 50%. Combine all the physical and mental health benefits discussed above, and you can see why family time has been linked to living a longer, healthier, happier life. Even those with unhealthy physical habits, but a strong social network live longer than those without these relationships.

Lengthens Life Expectancy

The benefits of spending time with family are such a critical component of a full, meaningful life. Learn more about why spending time with family is important!

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Social anxiety is the fear of social interaction or criticism from others, so if you're noticing yourself feeling anxious before, during, and after work and are struggling to keep up with your daily tasks, it's important to put your mental health at the top of your list.Everyone suffers from anxiety from time to time, but for some those feelings can persist outside the home and into the workplace.

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If you're feeling burdened by your workload and forgetting to put time into your self-care routine, there is an app to help.Finch<a href="http://www.finchcare.com/"> </a>is a pet widget app that tracks your daily moods, asks you questions about your day, lets you journal your thoughts, encourages breathing exercises, monitors you over time, and even gives you daily words of affirmation.

1) Self Care

Physical exercise makes you feel good about yourself and can distract you from negative thinking or self-talk in the workplace. Not only will you release a lot of tension, but establishing a workout routine is a great balance with work activities.Review your hourly activity, resting heart rate, steps taken throughout the day, and keep an eye on your sleep score. Not only it is good for your mental health but you'll feel confident going back to work too.

2) Physical Exercise

Chaotic bedtimes will contribute to anxiety in the working environment, so sleeping schedule needs to be kept in check especially if you work longer than 8 hours a day. Lack of sleep can lead to frustration and being unable to focus. There are various apps that guarantees to relax your body as you close your eyes, such as the Calm<a href="http://www.calm.com/"> </a>app. Calm includes dozens of soothing bedtime stories and guided meditations to help you with achieving relaxation.

3) Better Sleep

Nowadays, the online space is part of people's lives more than ever before, and joining an online community of like-minded people on the internet can help with those feelings of self-criticism and doubt at work. Having discussions with people who have similar struggles in the workplace can help you to fight with your anxieties.By participating in these kinds of communities will encourage you to socialize with more and more people and ultimately reduce your anxiety.

4) Join a Community

Decide on what tasks you need to be complete each week, then create a series of blocks throughout the day to divide them.Having a clear idea of when you should complete things will give you that sense of clarity, lessening your feelings of anxiety.

5) Schedule your Week

Write down your thoughts throughout the day, ideally the way you're feeling at work, and keep track of your behavioral patterns.What are your triggers? What negative thoughts are contributing to your anxiety? Who is part of your support network at work? and so on. Asking yourself these type of questions will help you to understand the reasons behind your anxiousness, giving you a clear view of how to find the best strategies for lessening your anxieties.

6) Putting thoughts on paper

Anxiousness about work may lead you to doubt your abilities, but there are many ways for you to polish your existing skills and overcome that. Focus on confidence and self-improvement with the help of various courses available online<a href="https://www.udemy.com/"> </a>. This way, you won't be feeling anxious about your abilities at work. No matter what your occupation, there is a course to grow your confidence.

7) Focus on Passion

Anxiety can make some people worry about the way they sound to others, and if you're a fresh university graduate with a job, you might be feeling anxious about the way you communicate at work. When you communicate effectively, the other person understands the message completely, avoiding making any misinterpretations. This reduces the chance of making mistakes and you feel confident which ultimately reduces stress and anxiety.

8) Communication Strategies

Anxiety needs to be talked about in any field of work you're involved in. Always try to communicate your concerns with your manager, assistant manager, or somebody you trust, especially if it impacts your overall ability to work.No matter what you're feeling, there is always support available to you.

Seizing Social Anxiety

Anxiety is upcoming as a major problem now a days. Every second person is facing such anxiety issues. So here are some steps to conquer your anxiety issues.

Social anxiety can certainly be challenging at work, but there are many things you can do to overcome it. Find out how!

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8 Ways to Conquer Social Anxiety at Work

<ul><li>Love, at first sight, is never love, it’s mere attraction towards physical appearance, which is Lust.</li><li>Lust will eventually fade away once the physical needs are satisfied.</li><li>Aren't we all walking on the thin line between Love & Lust?</li></ul>

Love vs. Lust

<ul><li>Love takes time to grow on someone, it's more like planting a tree.</li><li>Every relationship requires a strong root of emotional bonding.</li><li>Honesty, Looking out for each other, Valuable Sacrifices, fuel the tree to grow strong and spread its roots deeper & stronger.</li></ul>

The Seed of Love

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I'm afraid to love again, will I lose again if I love.?It's not traumatic, it's not depression (I believe it is not).But throughout my life, I have knocked on the wrong door seeking love, made bad decisions thinking of imaginary narratives. I always thought of happy endings and created a storyline in my mind where…

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Why Relationship Fail? What are you doing wrong in Love?

Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble and resasonable confidence in your own peers you cannot be successful or happy.

Believe In Yourself

A primary method of gaining a mind full of peace is to practice emptying the mind. Empty your mind of fears, hates, insecurities, regrets and guilt feelings. You will feel more light hearted when you will let go of things.

Peaceful Mind Generates Power

Whenever you try to empty your mind, old thoughts will come running to you again to gain their living place. So it will be better if you give the valuable place of your mind to creative and healthy thoughts. They may struggle, fight but be resilient. They will leave sooner. Then you can enjoy a mind full of peace.

Creative Thoughts

I can feel a change in myself as I am reading through this wonderful book which teaches the power of positive thinking. I faced a lot of challenges due to negative thinking and people. As of now, I try to control my mind as said in the book.

This is a reprint of Norman Vincent Peale's classic self-help tract, read by millions in the last half century who were inspired by Peale's belief that faith in yourself makes good things happen to you. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

This is a reprint of Norman Vincent Peale's classic self-help tract, read by millions in the last half century who were inspired by Peale's belief that faith in yourself makes good things happen to you. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Norman Vincent Peale

The Power of Positive Thinking

Most people believe that we learn by rereading passages until we can say them with our eyes closed. Or that we are born with a certain set of skills and must utilize those skills in life but that is false. With the right practice and tools anyone can learn anything. Retrieval is the better way of learning the act of retrieval helps strengthen it.

Rethinking How We Learn 

The biggest myth about learning is that learning happens with you consistently do the same action or read the same passage over and over again. Science on the other hand states that learning happens when we try to get new knowledge out of our head

Biggest Myth About Learning 

Learning is not as quick as many people believe to learn something new you must go through a series of steps including<ol><li>Storing: This is the art of storing information in your short term memory</li><li>Consolidation: learning over a long period of time typically overnight</li></ol>

Learning Takes More Time Than Most People Think 

<ul><li>Do some of your work consciously</li><li>Think about how it relates to other things</li><li>Wrestle with the idea in your mind</li><li>Explain it to someone</li><li>Take notes on it or connect it to other maps</li><li>Do anything to make that new idea connect with other ideas in your brain</li></ul>

How You Help New Knowledge Go Into Long Term Memory

If you want to learn Retrival is keyThe act of retrieving information especially when it is difficult to do increases the change that it sticks in your brain Retrival is the most effective way to learn <ul><li>Use Quizzes </li><li>Searching for the answer in your brain</li><li>Making mistakes and then correcting them</li></ul>When it’s hard to Retrival information it increases retention

Retrieval Is The Key To Learning 

Spaced practice doesn't mean doing it over and over again it means doing it now once and let time go by and then do it again

Big Idea From The Book

We all want to be sucessful in our lives. Learning is the single most important way to get ahead in life. This book helped me seeing learning in a whole new light.

Discusses the best methods of learning, describing how rereading and rote repetition are counterproductive and how such techniques as self-testing, spaced retrieval, and finding additional layers of information in new material can enhance learning.

Make It Stick

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