1. Seeing an old friend2. Hearing a song that reminds you of your past3. A bit of good news for a loved one/friend4. Getting a thank you from someone5. Doing something that makes someone else laugh/smile6. Eating comfort food7. Getting into bed with freshly washed sheets8. Finding a ten pound note in an old pair of jeans9. Looking back at old photographs10. Seeing a funny video online

REVEALED: The top 50 things most likely to make YOU smile

11. Winning a tenner on the lottery12. Walks in the country13. Getting a nice message from a loved one14. Waking up on a sunny day15. Sitting in the sun16. Cuddles17. Listening to your favourite song18. Booking a holiday19. Landing at the holiday airport20. Being surprised with flowers or chocolates

21. Someone offering an elderly person their seat on the bus/train22. Someone giving you their car parking ticket when you arrive in a car park23. Fitting in to a pair of jeans you thought were too small24. Finding a bargain in the sales25. Old people holding hands26. Someone telling you you’ve lost weight27. Bumping into someone you haven’t seen for ages28. Getting a quiet moment to myself29. Chocolate30. The smell of freshly baked bread

31. Sunday dinners32. Finding out your children have done well at school33. People carrying their babies34. Making a new friend35. Hearing your child say their first words/smile36. Waking up to find out it has snowed overnight37. Driving a car with the window down on a sunny day38. Finding out someone likes you39. Getting a new hair-do40. A good hair day

41. Passing a driving test42. Getting praise from your boss after working hard on something43. Getting spontaneous kiss or cuddle from your children44. Getting the answers right when watching a TV quiz45. Sleeping children46. Babies47. Swimming in the sea48. Waking up on a Saturday morning and realising it is the weekend49. Having a girlie/lads night out50. Being made a cup of tea

SEEING an old friend, hearing a song that reminds you of your past and getting into a pair of jeans you thought were too small are among the 50 things that make us smile, new research reveals.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

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Personal Development

𝚝𝚘𝚙 𝟻𝟶 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚎:)

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

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Motivation & Inspiration

Thought of the Day

<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">How Far You’ve Come</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Every Obstacle You’ve Overcome</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Every Time You’ve Failed</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Your Desire To Grow</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Every Choice You’ve Made</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Taking The First Step</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Every Time You’ve Helped Someone</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Every Time You’ve Taken Care Of Yourself</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Being Honest With Yourself And Others</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Accepting Others As They Are</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Being A Good Friend</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Every Time You’ve Made Someone Smile</li></ol>

Be proud of these things:

Let's stop for a moment and look around ourselves. Let's reflect on the life that we live. Reflect on our choices, our struggles, our achievements and what we have lost.

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Habits

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Communication

12 Things That You Should Be Truly Proud Of | Steven Webb

Friedrich Nietzsche is what comes to mind when we say "Nihilism". He's a German philosopher and the one who provided a detailed discretion and diagnosis of nihilism; that all values are baseless and so things are meaningless. It's an extremely pessimistic and full of radical skepticism philosophy that frequently gets criticism for condemning the purpose of existence. As its name says, "Nihilism" comes from the Latin word "Nihil", which means Nothing.

Nihilism Quotes: For knowing the meaning of nothing 

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering”

“Everything in the world displeases me; but, above all, my displeasures in everything displeases me”

“The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism”

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself”

“There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose”

“Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!”

“The problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.”

“what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There’s only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible and imaginable contingency and contradiction, Life. Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, piles of corpses. what can you do about it, my poor friend?”

“I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight – brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.”

“Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis represents a needed counterbalance to shallow optimism and arrogant confidence in human power. Nihilism reminds us that we are not gods, and that despite all of the accomplishments and wonders of civilization, humans cannot alter the fact that they possess only a finite amount of mastery and control over their own destinies.”

Nihilism is not a friendly philosophy; it exploits humanity's bad side, and it may irritate you. Except for what we give it, there is no objective order or structure in the world. The nihilist realizes that all values are baseless and that reason is powerless after penetrating the facades that support convictions. But even in Nihilism you can still find something. Active nihilists have a great deal of autonomy in deciding how to conduct their life. It's not easy to figure out what your life's purpose is. It necessitates a delicate balance of stiffness and flexibility.

Nihilism Philosophy - How to live in nihilism 

These ideas of philosophy are profoundly great for people who doubt out existence. 

These nihilism quotes offer insight into what a nihilist is (and is not) and what they believe. What do you think of nihilism?

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Philosophy

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Religion & Spirituality

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Problem Solving

50 Nihilism Quotes About The Implications of Nothingness

Habit is the foundation of the routines that comprise the vast bulk of our everyday lives. When we are not disturbed, we live our practical lives without engaging in anything like a cautious assessment of what it is we are doing at any given moment. No conscious deliberation or reflection is required to brew morning coffee, or to catch the morning train to work. As the late philosopher Hubert Dreyfus said, habits are a part of our “everyday coping practices”.

Habits: Everyday Coping Practices?

In tune with this characterisation, philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists alike often conceive of habits as highly mechanistic and near-automatic responses to environmental cues that unfold outside of our deliberative control. This conception of habits as mindless and reflexive might seem intuitive when we recognise that they are often counterproductive to our capacity to pursue our goals and desires. For example, many of us may have recently found ourselves habitually reaching over to shake hands with people even though we know we should refrain from doing so in light of the pandemic.

… Or Mindless Reflexes?

However, even our most mundane habitual routines actually display a great deal of intelligence. Indeed, they are often intelligently context-sensitive and flexible in such a way as can support and structure our goals and projects.

The Intelligent Dimension Of Habits

Consider the example of driving the same route to work every morning. You might often find yourself wrapped up in thoughts about how your day will unfold, or how you might explain to your boss why you failed to complete some task, and yet you still easily navigate the roads that lead you to your destination.However, despite completing this task on something like autopilot, your drive will still be intelligently adjusted to situational intricacies, such as how fast or slow the driver in front of you is going, or when the traffic lights change.

Habits: An Intelligent Autopilot

In attempting to account for the intelligent dimension of habit, researchers have moved away from construing habits as unintelligent mechanisms and towards modelling them as a species of belief. The puzzle we face in clarifying the character of habits is to explain their intelligent dimension while also acknowledging that they can often work against our intelligence and lead us astray.

The Puzzle In Defining Habits

Great thinkers since before Aristotle have overwhelmingly tended to characterise humans as rational animals in virtue of our capacity to form and intelligently adjust our beliefs. On this view, constructing good habits is vital – but, once a habitual routine is established, it is not itself intelligent. However, if we are serious about attributing intelligence to our embodied interactions with the world, then our notion of how to construe human rationality will need to be revised, and profound questions will need to be raised as to our conceptions of nonhuman animal intelligence.

Who And What Is Intelligent?

Gilbert Ryle, in his seminal work The Concept of Mind (1949), emphatically denied that habits were intelligent. For him, habits are mere mindless mechanisms. Indeed, he explicitly contrasts habitual doings with intelligent and skilful behaviours, claiming that it “is of the essence of merely habitual practices that one performance is a replica of its predecessors”. A habit is simply an unintelligent and stupefied way of reacting to the world.

A Habit Is A Replication

In On Habit (2014), Clare Carlisle notes that this sort of characterisation of habit – as unintelligent and “a degradation of life, reducing spontaneity and vitality to mechanical routine” – has been held by many influential philosophers of the mind throughout history, including Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant and Henri Bergson. Even today, the researchers Susana Ramírez-Vizcaya and Tom Froese identify a prevalent notion of habit across several domains of the contemporary cognitive sciences that conceives of them as “rigid patterns of behaviour that are automatically activated by context cues”.

A Habit Is A Robotization

One inclined to agree with this mechanistic conception of habit as inherently unintelligent might argue that the puzzle referred above is simply ill-posed. On this analysis, any attempt to construe habits as intelligence-involving straightforwardly confuses habit and skill. An implication would be that our above purported examples of intelligent habits (such as the habit of driving the same route to the office every morning, which allows us to effectively reach our workplace, even when we are lost in irrelevant thoughts), insofar as they are intelligent, are not habits – they’re skills.

The Problem With The Mechanistic Conception

The mechanistic view of habits is misguided. Habits are not, despite what Ryle says, simply stupefied and rigid reactions to environmental triggers, or ‘single-track dispositions’ to respond to the world with highly stereotyped reflexes. To see this, we need only note that forging any clear-cut distinction between habit and skill is not even remotely intuitive or feasible. On one hand, many of our skills consist of habits. Skill acquisition in sports, for example, is often nothing but the process of cultivating a new motor habit through repetitive practice.

Skills Aren’t Habits. But Skills Often Consist Of Habits. 

On the other hand, habits often comprise skills. Consider the habit of whistling when you are bored. This is a considerably skilful act, which can in some cases constitute genuine musical expertise. For just these reasons, introducing a clear-cut distinction between skill and habit, such that habitual doings cannot, by definition, be skilled or intelligent, is wrongheaded.

Habits Aren’t Skills. But Habits Often Comprise Skills. 

In opposition to the mechanistic conception of habits, some, such as the philosopher Jason Stanley, advocate for an intellectualist conception, on which habits are intelligent because they are really a kind of ‘settled belief’ about ways of achieving certain goals.

The Mechanistic Conception Vs The Intellectualist Conception

An example: in my initial weeks at a new workplace, I will have developed a belief about how I could successfully get to the office. Through my daily commute, this belief gradually becomes entirely automatic and unconscious. At this stage, I do not need to consciously consider what route I should take to the office but am instead guided by an unconscious belief about how to successfully get there.

“The Best Way To Work”

As this unconscious belief becomes entrenched, it might also become recalcitrant to counterevidence. I might, for instance, accidentally take this route to the office even after I am informed and sincerely convinced that there is a more efficient route. According to intellectualists, a habit is nothing but a deeply entrenched belief of this form. Holding this view, we could preserve the traditional view of human rationality as dependent on belief.

“The Only Way To Work”

This intellectualist view of habits as a form of belief, however, also has serious problems in accounting for their intelligent aspect. Habits are, as our above examples show, often exquisitely context-sensitive. But if Stanley takes habitual doings to be intelligent only in virtue of being guided by unconscious beliefs, then he relies on the idea that the intelligent flexibility of habits depends on the flexibility and rapid updating of unconscious beliefs. Emphasising this flexibility conflicts with his claim that habits themselves are guided by stubborn and recalcitrant unconscious beliefs.

The Problem With The Intellectualist Conception

It is also unclear how unconscious neural processes can even involve beliefs (philosophers have tried in vain for decades to provide a satisfactory account of how they might). As such, if an alternative notion of habits can successfully explain their context-sensitivity without requiring a commitment to positing hidden, unconscious beliefs, then such an account would be more theoretically attractive.

The Need For An Alternative Conception

Both mechanical and intellectual conceptions of habit encounter significant difficulties in explaining how habits sustain intelligent behaviour. These conceptions have a common root problem, which is a failure to appreciate the pivotal role of perception that philosophers working in the phenomenological and pragmatist traditions have recognised. When we follow them in recognising the crucial role of perception in guiding our habitual doings, we can explain the intelligent aspect of habits while obviating any need to identify them as beliefs.

The Root Problem Of Both Conceptions

For Dreyfus, we are no less experts at our everyday habitual routines than Serena Williams is an expert at tennis (albeit what we accomplish might be substantially less impressive). The consequence of this, for him, is that our everyday habits will be guided by expert-level perception and intuition. For instance, many of us have now cultivated social distancing practices. By that measure, as we incorporate these practices into our everyday lives, we are able to proficiently maintain an appropriate distance automatically.

We Are Habit Experts

Dreyfus is correct to highlight the important role of perceptual skill in guiding our habitual doings, but his account should be revised in one crucial respect. For him, as we become experts at completing some everyday routine, the world increasingly draws us to act in one optimal, appropriate way. In other words, we will, as our everyday routines become engrained, come to perceive nothing other than the possibility of pursuing a singular optimal course of action for each situation. This renders Dreyfus’s view of habits too close to the mechanistic conception of habit that we rejected above.

(As) Experts, (We) Suffer From Narrow Expertise

The pragmatist philosopher John Dewey is instructive here. Dewey, like Dreyfus, construes habits as facilitating intelligent behaviour by shaping perception. However, he denies that, as we become experts at carrying out everyday routines, our habitual responses always become entirely automatic response patterns. Instead, for Dewey, the “more numerous our habits the wider the field of possible observation and foretelling. The more flexible they are, the more refined is perception in its discrimination and the more delicate the presentation evoked by imagination…”

Habits Are Extra Sense Organs

In other words, our habitual doings are intelligently adjusted to context precisely because we perceive the environment in which they have been cultivated in terms of the vast and discriminating habitual responses we might make to it. Habits, seen through this pragmatist lens, then, far from being blunt reflexes, amount to a treasure trove of possible responses to our situated environment, highly constrained by circumstance, but genuinely open to the world. Nor does Dewey deny that our thoughts will almost always be suffused by habit.

Habits Are Omni-Sacks

Contemporary philosophy of mind is positively replete with warnings that we ought not to fall into easy dichotomies between intelligent and voluntary processes on the one hand, and unintelligent and automatic processes on the other. Indeed, even psychologists such as Daniel Kahneman who have influentially advocated for dual-processing views on which the brain comprises two distinct ‘systems’ – one habitual, unconscious, and quick, and another slow, conscious, and reflective – have for years conceded that such a picture is far too simplistic.

We Ought Not To Fall Into Easy Dichotomies

One sure-fire way to cut right through this dichotomy is to note that, while habits can distort our goals, they can also be exquisitely context-sensitive. Accounting for this context-sensitivity will require acknowledging the pivotal role perceptual skills play in guiding our habitual doings. By recognising the flexible aspects of habits, we further distance ourselves from an outmoded view of intelligent action as one that’s always guided by appropriate intellectual apprehension of knowledgeable beliefs.

Habit And Intelligence Are Not Mutually Exclusive

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

“Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.” - Blaise Pascal

Rather than mindless mechanisms for routines, habits are a species of belief that display a great deal of intelligence

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Mindfulness

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Science & Nature

In Praise Of Habits – So Much More Than Mindless Reflexes

The business world is built so that there is an insane abundance of deals, businesses, opinions, ways, suppliers and customers. This abundance is sometimes very confusing, and in times of crisis or financial distress, we are sometimes tempted to do things we would not choose to do on a normal day.Without a doubt, my biggest mistakes boil down to one thing: I did not listen to my intuition.

The biggest business mistake I made and what I learned from it.


The most important thing to understand as a business owner, is that everyone has the customers, the suppliers and the deals that are right for them and they are different from a colleague who deals with exactly the same thing.That’s why by the way why there’s no such thing as real competitors but that's for another post. The abilities of each of us to give service to a customer or work with a supplier, are different, hence the right choice is important even when it is very financially tempting, or there is someone who convinces us that it is a great deal.

Over the years, I have sharpened my intuitive abilities, and they have always proven themselves in my favor. These capabilities serve as a very strong internal compass spring, which if given the right place, one can easily identify whether we are dealing with a good or bad deal.Despite all this, it happened more than once that I turned off this important capability and chose to work with clients who from the beginning turned out to be a huge mistake for me and the explosion that followed was inevitable.

There’s a very big place for your intuition in business! This is your way of understanding the situation despite all the subjective noise of the environment. One can easily understand whether your feeling is fear or intuition so it is important to develop and use this skill as much as possible.

First, that I am human. No one is free from mistakes and whoever does not try is not failing, and therefore does not progress.I also learned how much I know, even when I do not really know all the details. I definitely understand that contacting a customer or supplier, right from the start, can give me a lot of valuable information, that if I choose to see, I can navigate my way as I choose.The most important thing I learned, is that even when you make a mistake, you can learn and correct it. In such a valuable lesson, it is important to understand what we have learned from what has happened.

What did I learn from this mistake?


Everybody makes mistakes, especially when starting something new. But when you’re starting your own business, big mistakes can be very costly — in money, time, and energy.

The business world is built so that there is an insane abundance of deals, businesses, opinions, ways, suppliers and customers. This abundance is sometimes very confusing, and in times of crisis or…

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Entrepreneurship

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Business

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Startups

The biggest business mistake I made and what I learned from it.

“For those who expect everything, there are many curses.For those who appreciate everything, there are many blessings.”

“Money is not the only way to improve life. Instead of widening your margin of profit, widen your margin of leisure. Instead of optimizing for money, optimize for time. Instead of seeking efficiency, seek recovery.”

“Many good opportunities are ruined for the dream of slightly better ones.Would you be 10% happier in a different relationship? Maybe. Maybe not. But you'll definitely be unhappy in the one you have if you spend all day thinking about what else is out there.The surefire way to end up worse off is to agonize over unchosen options and fail to make the most of the one you selected. Every minute spent yearning for your unlived lives is a moment you can't invest in the one you actually have.Choices matter, but so does your level of commitment.”

“Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.”

“I strongly believe that the only way to encourage innovation is to give it to the young. The young have a great advantage in that they are ignorant. Because I think ignorance in science is very important. If you’re like me and you know too much you can’t try new things. I always work in fields of which I’m totally ignorant.”

When was the last time you felt a sense of wonder and awe? What can that experience teach you about how to spend your time?

​  1 QUESTION FOR YOU

3-2-1:  Innovative thinking, the trap of self-pity, and how to spend your time

When you want your everyday life to improve, don't just simply search for new things to buy or new experiences to enjoy--work instead to cultivate gratitude.The benefits of gratitude are endlessand although becoming a happy, healthy human takes a lot of work, gratitude makes the journey to happiness a whole lot easier to endure.Here are some motivating reasons to be grateful and spread the gratitude to others.

Cultivate gratitude

1. Improved sleep. Gratitude reduces the time required to fall asleep, increases sleep duration, and improves sleep quality. 2. Increases your social capital . Gratitude makes us nicer and more trusting, which can help foster or deepen strong relationships. 3. Strengthens your immune system. Feelings of gratitude and appreciation have been shown to result in a significant increase in levels of immunoglobulin A, which serves as the body's first line of defense against viruses.

4. Lowers stress levels. Gratitude activates the parasympathetic nervous system, which reduces your stress levels.5. Makes you more likable. Being likable isn't all there is to life, but being grateful can certainly lead to happier and more pleasant relationships with friends, family, and partners.6. Makes you look better to others. Gratitude is a virtue in many cultures and can lead to an increase in respect from others.

7. Improves decision making. One study concluded that grateful physicians make better diagnoses: "Doctors who were given a piece of candy prior to this task, thereby inducing a feeling of gratitude, made the right diagnosis more often than doctors in the control group."8. Raises creativity. Positive emotions can broaden our minds, resulting in more ideas.9. Exercise more . Are you grateful for your health? If so, you'll want to protect it by exercising more.

10. Makes you more humble. Expressing gratitude can induce humility, which also ends up increasing your capacity for conveying gratitude.11. Increases productivity. Gratitude can boost your confidence, meaning less of your mental resources are used on worries or insecurities. This in turn improves your focus towards your work.12. Gratitude helps you make new friends. Expressing gratitude for something is a great conversation starter.

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13. Makes you more helpful. Grateful and humble people are more inclined to lend a helping hand.14. Helps you accomplish more goals. In one study it was revealed that study participants who kept gratitude journals reported more progress on their goals than the people in the control group.15. Improves psychological health. Gratitude increases happiness and reduces depression according to leading research.

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16. Helps you tap into your compassion. Writer Robert Emmons in his book Thanks! said, "...people who kept gratitude journals reported feeling closer and more connected to others, were more likely to help others, and were actually seen as more helpful by significant others in their social networks."17. Lowers your blood pressure. Negative emotions put a strain on your heart and other organs. Gratitude injects more positivity and health into your life as a result.18. Fewer aches and pains. Grateful people can have greater pain tolerance, since gratitude has analgesic effects.

19. Extends your lifespan. Live your life with positive emotions and you have a great shot at getting an extended lifespan.20. Helps you become a more effective leader. When you become better at practicing gratitude, you become better at giving praise and driving enhanced performance.21. Motivates others. A strong sense of gratitude also affects how well you can boost others.

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22. Heals and relaxes. The parasympathetic, rest-and-digest, relaxing part of the nervous system is activated by gratitude.23. Reduces aggression. According to a 2012 study by the University of Kentucky, those who rank higher on gratitude scales are less likely to retaliate against others when given negative feedback.24. Makes you more resilient. Research has shown gratitude can also play a major role in overcoming trauma.25. Helps you feel better about yourself. Gratitude can increase your self-esteem, and, in other cases, can also reduce social comparisons.

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Gratitude is the gift that keeps on giving--and giving and giving.

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Health

25 Top Benefits of Gratitude You Need to Know

The KonMari Method is about realigning yourself with your goals and purpose in life. When you follow the steps, your tidy work area will represent the place where your goals and aspirations come to life. This is why people who follow the method will continue to maintain a clutter-free environment long after they made their first changes.

Create The Place Where Your Dreams Will Come To Life

The goal of the method shared in this book is not just to have a nice neat desk but to begin a dialogue with yourself through tidying—to discover what you value by exploring why you are working in the first place and what kind of working style you want. This process will help you see how each task you do is linked to a joyful future. In the end, the real goal is to discover what brings you joy in your work so that you can give it your best. We invite you to experience for yourself how tidying up can spark joy in your career.

The trick is to imagine in vivid, motion-picture detail what your whole day will look like after you finish tidying up. That image should include three elements: the physical environment, your behavior, and your feelings. Visualize what your workspace looks like, what you do there, including such things as enjoying a cup of coffee or refreshing aromas; and what you feel when you do that: for example, excited, fulfilled, or content.Reexamine these ideals from different perspectives, such as productivity, efficiency, and your relationships with the members of your team.

Visualize Your Ideal Work Life

Tidy up properly, all in one go, then designate a place for every single item. Once you know where everything in your workspace is stored, you can keep track of your things even when they start to multiply. Whether tidying your workspace or tidying your home, this is the essence of the Kon-Mari Method. Tidying up a desk takes an average of five hours and, depending on the type of work, can take as little as three. If finding time it’s a problem split into multiple sessions. The important thing is to give yourself a deadline.

Tidy your entire workspace by category, all in one go.

There are three types of things that you should keep: <ul><li>things that directly spark joy to you personally, </li><li>those that provide functional joy, and </li><li>those that lead to future joy. </li></ul>These are your criteria for choosing what to keep in your workspace.If the words spark joy just don’t seem to click in your work setting, feel free to substitute something else that does. E.g. Will this help my company prosper?Always keep in mind that the reason you are tidying is not to throw things away and declutter your desk but to realize your ideal work life, the one that sparks joy for you.

Keep What Sparks Joy

Let’s start by collecting all of the books in your workspace and piling them in front of you. One by one, hold each book and ask: Does it spark joy? Does it make me happy to know that it’s nearby? Does it provide important information that helps me do my job better? If the answer is no to all of these questions, show your gratitude by thanking the item for serving you well up to this point. Then let it go. In the end, the books you’re left with should clearly speak to your values and what you find important

Start With Books And Discover Your Values

With paperwork, the process will be slightly different. You should still gather all of your paperwork in one place and go through it piece by piece. But this time, you’ll want to divide your papers into three categories: pending (documents that relate to ongoing matters), save because you must (documents that your job requires you to hold on to), and save because you want to (documents that help you perform your job).Once you’ve sorted the papers and discarded those that don’t fit into these categories, put them all in vertical hanging files to keep papers easily accessible and retrievable.

Paperwork: Discard Everything 

Komono (miscellaneous) includes supplies, gadgets, snacks, and other materials you have around to help you work. So, when deciding which komono to keep, it can be helpful to put them into subcategories like office supplies, personal care products, food, and electronic devices.Remember. Keep only those items that will help make your ideal workplace a reality. If you struggle to let go of a sentimental item snap a photo.At this stage of the process, you should have only the most essential items with everything in its own designated place. Use dividers and small boxes to keep everything organized

Categorize Miscellaneous And Sentimental Items

By constantly repeating the mental process of identifying what we truly want and deciding what to do on the basis of what brings us joy, we acquire a positive perspective that affirms every choice we make.﻿

Desktop: To tidy this space up, create a couple of folders, such as “Storage” and “Current Projects,” to get these files organized and off the desktop. Ideally, this space should be used to display an inspirational wallpaper photo and to provide temporary access to the few files that you are working on at the moment.Hard Drive: you shouldn’t need more than a few main folders like:<ol><li>Current Projects then divided into a few subfolders—one per project;</li><li>Records including contracts, policies, etc; </li><li>Saved Work represents an archive of past projects and research.</li></ol>Only keep what is useful or inspiring.

From Tidying the Physical Aspects to Tidying the Nonphysical Asp

Your email is a place for dealing with current work. Create folders, ideally no more than ten, to allow you to start organizing emails by category and the project they’re related to.If you have thousands of uncategorized emails in your inbox, put them all into an archive folder. When you get a new email, either delete it or categorize it into a folder.It takes around 26 minutes to return to the level of concentration preceding an interruption. Turn off all the obtrusive notifications and set aside blocks of time, at the beginning and end of the workday, to deal with email in a focused manner.

Tame Your Inbox

Unsubscribe from all of your current newsletters. Then, just resubscribe to the ones that truly spark joy.Delete all your apps and only reinstall the ones that matter to you.

Curate The Content You Consume

Finding joy and harmony in what you do also requires a schedule that’s free of clutter and wasted time. Once again, the first step here is to visualize your ideal schedule. What would your perfect day look like? The things you say “yes” to and the events you write into your calendar should bring you closer to this vision, not further away from it.You can do a similar tidy-up around the time you spend making decisions. Is someone else better-suited to make these decisions? Can someone else be trusted to decide for me? Can this task be automated, or done less frequently?

Reconsider your schedule and which Tasks You Focus On

Visualize your perfect meeting and then write down your regularly scheduled ones onto index cards. As you go through them ask the following questions: Is it required for my job? Does it bring me closer to my ideal work life? Does it bring me joy?Improve your meetings. If you can’t cancel or avoid an unproductive meeting, there are still ways to make it better. You can start by getting people to be better prepared. Make sure there’s an agenda that includes a strong purpose for the meeting, and that this agenda is shared with everyone beforehand so that the participants can come with some ideas.

Make Meetings More Joyful

Interior Design your workspace Use photos and decorations that spark joy. Use a beautiful notebooks so that even writing notes becomes a joyful experience. Use aromatics to calm or energize your mind. Self-reflection helps maintain Joy at work. Put aside some time every couple of weeks to consider the work you’ve done and how it aligns with your goals. Without self-reflection, small problems can fester, grow, and become harder to deal with. But if you’re diligent, you can keep that ideal workplace fresh in your mind’s eye and stay on the right path.

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Declutter your desk and brighten up your business with this transformative guide from an organizational psychologist and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. The workplace is a magnet for clutter and mess. Who hasn't felt drained by wasteful meetings, disorganized papers, endless emails, and unnecessary tasks? These are the modern-day hazards of working, and they can slowly drain the joy from work, limit our chances of career progress, and undermine our well-being. There is another way. In Joy at Work, bestselling author and Netflix star Marie Kondo and Rice University business professor Scott Sonenshein offer stories, studies, and strategies to help you eliminate clutter and make space for work that really matters. Using the world-renowned KonMari Method and cutting-edge research, Joy at Work will help you overcome the challenges of workplace mess and enjoy the productivity, success, and happiness that come with a tidy desk and mind.

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Declutter your desk and brighten up your business with this transformative guide from an organizational psychologist and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. The workplace is a magnet for clutter and mess. Who hasn't felt drained by wasteful meetings, disorganized papers, endless emails, and unnecessary tasks? These are the modern-day hazards of working, and they can slowly drain the joy from work, limit our chances of career progress, and undermine our well-being. There is another way. In Joy at Work, bestselling author and Netflix star Marie Kondo and Rice University business professor Scott Sonenshein offer stories, studies, and strategies to help you eliminate clutter and make space for work that really matters. Using the world-renowned KonMari Method and cutting-edge research, Joy at Work will help you overcome the challenges of workplace mess and enjoy the productivity, success, and happiness that come with a tidy desk and mind.

Marie Kondo is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Marie Kondo has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Marie Kondo's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

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Scott Sonenshein is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Scott Sonenshein has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Scott Sonenshein's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

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Every day, a new video goes “viral”, and an “infectious” idea starts spreading. Mental immunity is a psychological theory that is also known as cognitive immunology. With origins dating back 70 years, this field of research is based on the premise that not only is there an immune system for the body, but an immune system for the mind as well.People with a healthy mental immune system are more likely to detect misinformation. A strong cognitive immune system can also help spot bad ideas at an earlier stage, so you may avoid wasting time, energy or money.

 Protect Ourselves from Bad Ideas

Let’s explore the concept of cognitive immunology, together with a list of strategies you can employ to help strengthen your mental immune system.The concept of mental immunity was formulated by Professor Andy Norman, director of the Humanism Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University. Despite the field of cognitive immunology being in its infancy, mental immunity research has deep roots dating back to the 1950s. The mental immune system is believed to function in a similar way to the body’s physical immune system.

Cognitive Immunology

The purpose of the physical system of immune cells is to detect pathogens including bacteria and viruses, so that they can be eradicated from our blood stream and organ systems before they have a chance to cause damage. Similarly, a healthy mental immune system will detect harmful or incorrect information that enters our mind, so that it can be recognised as such and then promptly rejected.

The Process

In a paper about immunology’s theories of cognition, philosopher Alfred Tauber explained that developing an “immune self” requires us to actively distinguish between the self and the foreign, so that foreign information can be interrogated and potentially defended against.This way, the mental immune system sifts through ideas, information and other forms of external stimuli to identify, and therefore protect us from, the adverse outcomes associated with misinformation.

Developing an "Immune Self"

Both factual information and misinformation have the potential to spread through the population far faster than ever before. We have access to constant, real-time updates from online news platforms, as well as information shared via online magazines, social media, and unregulated websites. While factual information is a great asset, unreliable information and the inability to spot bad ideas may lead to poor decision making.

Information and Misinformation

Professor Sander van der Linden from the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge published a study which showed that the public could be inoculated against misinformation regarding climate change. In the study, the publics’ cognitive immunity to misinformation was reinforced when they were given a pre-emptive warning about politically motivated attempts to spread misinformation on the human causes of global warming. The results showed that this was an effective way to strengthen their immunity to false information.

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