There are a ton of ways to contribute to meetings that don’t involve having knowledge on the subject. Some strategies to make valuable contributions in meetings in ways you might not have thought were valuable:<ul><li>Redefine “value.” It isn’t always about expertise.</li><li>Take on the recorder role. It shows that you are a competent and attentive listener who knows how to connect the dots between ideas being discussed.</li><li>Own the follow-ups.  </li><li>State the obvious. Your colleagues in the meeting may have different backgrounds and experiences than yourself, so things that may seem obvious to you may not be for them.</li></ul>

Key Takeaways

You don’t have to speak up in every single meeting to contribute to your team. Sometimes, active listening is necessary to give you the context you need to reflect and provide input in the future. Often, however, people equate value with “speaking up,” and if you struggle to do so, you may feel like you’re failing. This is especially common for people who are new to a team, or early in their careers, and are still building the confidence to match their enthusiasm.

People Equate Speaking Up With Value

Traditionally, there are four major roles that can be filled in a meeting and each contributes value in an integral way:The leader: This person convenes the meeting and leads the discussion on all major agenda items.The timekeeper: This person keeps the meeting on track by allocating time to each agenda item.The facilitator: This person keeps the discussion going by encouraging attendees to contribute and ensuring all items on the agenda are covered.The recorder (scribe): This person takes notes on the items discussed as the meeting progresses and on the solutions reached.

The Meeting: Four Major Roles

To successfully fill this role, you need to be able to quickly process information and record key insights from the meeting discussion in real-time. Young professionals, or employees who are new to a team, can develop this skill innately without necessarily having the same “insider” knowledge as their more seasoned team members.During the meeting, taking on this responsibility will give you the chance to show that you are a competent and attentive listener who knows how to connect the dots between ideas being discussed.

Take The Role Of The Recorder

To give your notes more context, you might ask:<ul><li>What is most important to our key customers in this market segment?</li><li>Are there any unmet needs in this market segment that we can fill?</li><li>How do our current strategies need to evolve to prepare for new market entrants?</li></ul>

Giving Context To Your Notes

<ul><li>Write a succinct summary: Key points from the meeting structured in a way that allows others to forward your message to anyone who missed the meeting or cares to know about what occurred.</li><li>Keep a key decisions registry. Create a table that lists which decisions were made in the meeting and with whose input, what the outcome of each decision was, and when that decision was made.</li><li>Record action items and next steps. Summarize actions items and clearly describe what the action item is, who owns it, and when it’s due.</li></ul>

Own The Follow-Ups

The seemingly “obvious” points are “easy-win” contributions. They can be points said at the beginning of the conversation or a topic that help set the stage for further discussion and debate. They are points that leverage facts and data to help paint the current state of affairs. These points may seem “obvious” to you because they focus on what is known.Your “obvious” point might actually be incredibly helpful in filling in gaps of knowledge across roles, teams, or departments.

State the Obvious

There are many other ways to bring value.

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You Don’t Have to “Speak Up” to Contribute to Meetings

This is a question that many people wonder about. The desire for self-development is already a good thing, but only if the desire does not go away after a day or two. This often happens when one doesn't know where to start. There are 5 Steps to begin self-development- 1. Goal setting2. Self-organisation and a positive attitude3. A proper distribution of energy4. Networking5. Constant learning new things In the following stashes, we will deal with each point separately 🙂

How to start the self-development programme?

If a person is standing in the middle of a forest and doesn't know where to go, the first thing to do is to identify exactly where they are. It is the same here. Once you realise that you need to develop, you need to understand from where this development will start and what specific efforts you need to make to achieve a certain result. A series of questions will do the trick. Ask yourself questions:🔺 What doesn't suit me?🔺 What doesn't suit the people whose opinions are important to me?🔺 What would I like to achieve?🔺 What would make me a better person?

Goal setting 🎯

It should be clear from the outset that self-development is easy enough to begin with. Don't be late, don't be lazy, don't complain, use every minute to your advantage. If you have taken a job or a course that should bring you closer to your goal, do it diligently and qualitatively. If you receive a refusal, a bad evaluation, a negative result, it is not a reason to admit worthlessness and fall into despondency. Learned bad experience will eventually give a positive result. Try again, knock on another door, adopt experiences, observe, learn, seek help. Try to find the positive in everything.

Self-organisation and a positive attitude

You want to know how to start a new life and change yourself, then start storing energy. You will need it for the new challenges in your personal development plan.  Don't waste energy on negative emotions, don't get angry, don't discuss others and don't get jealous. Start the day with the exercise, eat right, do not abuse alcohol and nicotine, give enough time to sleep. A great source of positive energy is exercising, which develops willpower, perseverance and endurance.

Accumulate Energy

To start self-development and self-improvement, you need to be able to adapt in society. After all, it is impossible to develop in a closed space. By communicating we gain knowledge, acquire skills, get emotions and impressions, life experience. Observe different people, listen to how and what they say, how others react to it.  Learn communication skills and behaviours that provoke positive reactions, help to avoid conflict, help to incline the other person to your point of view. Be able to listen to other people's opinions, try to understand what they are saying, put yourself in their shoes.

Social skills development (Networking)

Not sure how to start a new life and change yourself? Do things you haven't done before. Learn to drive, go swimming, learn a new profession, take a foreign language course or go to yoga.  Act differently from what you did before. Socialise with people, attend cultural or educational events, travel in your country or abroad, do volunteer work or social activities. New experiences will help you discover hidden talents, broaden your world view and make you free and liberated.

Learning new things all the time 📖

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Where to start personal development?

1. Exercise2. Read a book3. Meditate4. Go for a run5. No phone for about an hour after waking up

Productive Morning Routine

For about 20 minutes do some basic exercise like push ups, burpees, jumping jacks and plank. It will help you feel refreshed early in the morning.

Exercise 

Yes, reading a book for just 15 minutes early in the morning will help you to increase your focus and attention. Also, you'll get to learn something new which you can apply later in your day.

Read a book

Mediation helps you feel more relaxed and reduce stress. It helps you declutter your mind and plan your tasks accordingly for the day.

Mediate

Going outside to get some fresh air and morning sunlight will benifit your body in many ways. Running will help you get more oxygen in your body and will give you the energy required throughout the day.

Go for a run

Looking at your phone early in the morning can be frustrating. You might come across certain tasks or thing which you're not yet ready for. So it's better to give yourself some time to get prepared.

No phone for about an hour after waking up

It's good to have a productive morning routine. It helps us get prepared for the day ahead

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Friedrich Nietzsche — ‘It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.’

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Cambridge English Dictionary: cognitive bias as the way a particular person understands events, facts, and other people, which is based on their own particular set of beliefs and experiences and may not be reasonable or accurate.PositivePsychology.com: “We are often presented with situations in life when we need to make a decision with imperfect information, and we unknowingly rely on prejudices or biases.”

What Are Cognitive Biases?

Confirmation Bias: Making decisions based on media and information sources that are in alignment with your current beliefs.Anchoring Bias: Becoming committed or attached to the first thing you learn about a particular subject. Similar to the halo effect , which is when you assume that a person’s positive or negative traits in one area will be the same in some other aspect of their personality.Hindsight Bias: Inclination to see some events as more predictable than they are; also known as the “I knew it all along" reaction.

Common Types Of Bias 

Misinformation effect: Memories of an event can become affected or influenced by information you received after the event occurred. Researchers have proven that memory is inaccurate because it is vulnerable to revision when you receive new information.Actor-observer bias: You attribute your actions to external influences and other people's actions to internal ones.False consensus effect: Assuming more people agree with your opinions and share your values than actually do. This happens because you tend to spend most of your time with family and friends, who share beliefs similar to yours.

Availability bias occurs when you believe the information you possess is more important than it actually is. This happens when you watch or listen to media sources that tend to run dramatic stories without sharing any balancing statistics on how rare such events may be.Bandwagon effect, also known as herd mentality or groupthink: Te propensity to accept beliefs or values because many other people hold them as well. This is a conformity bias as most people desire acceptance, fearing rejection if they hold opposing beliefs. People assume an opinion is correct because many others agree with it.

Authority bias is when you accept the opinion of an authority figure because you believe they know more than you. You might assume that they have already thought through an issue and made the right conclusion. And, because they are an authority in their field, you grant more credibility to their viewpoint than you would for anyone else.Negativity bias: Paying more attention to bad news than good. This is a natural bias that dates back to prehistoric days when noticing threats, risks, and other lethal dangers could save your life. In today’s civilized world, this bias is not as necessary.

Illusion of control is the belief that you have more control over a situation than you actually do.

Exposing yourself to new information and different viewpoints helps open up new neural pathways in your brain.Understanding these bias and being alert for them will help improve critical thinking.Communicate better to understand the source of the information

Knowledge And Communication

Cognitive bias can impact critical thinking

Recognizing your biases enhances understanding and communication.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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The most important part of building a new habit is staying consistent. It doesn’t matter how well you perform on any individual day. Sustained effort is what makes the real difference.For that reason, when you start a new habit it should be so easy that you can’t say no to it. In fact,when starting a new behavior is should be so easy that it's almost laughable.<ul><li>Want to build an exercise habit?Your goal is to exercise for 1 minute today.</li><li>Want to start a writing habit? Your goal is to write three sentences today.</li><li>Want to create a healthy eating habit? Your goal is to eat one healthy meal this week.</li></ul>

1. Start with a habit that is so easy you can't say no.

It's easy to compare yourself to what others are doing or to feel the urge to optimize your performance and do more. Don't let those feelings pull you off course. Prove to yourself that you can stick to something small for 30 days. Then, once you are on a roll and remaining consistent, you can worry about increasing the difficulty.In the beginning, performance is irrelevant. Doing something impressive once or twice isn’t going to matter if you never stick with it for the long-run. Make your new habit so easy that you can't say no.

The people who stick with good habits understand exactly what is holding them back.Instead of making a blanket statement about your habits, break them down into smaller pieces and think about which areas are preventing you from becoming consistent.Once you know the specific parts of the process that hold you back, you can begin to develop a solution to solve that problem.

2. Take some time to understand exactly what is holding you back

You have to learn to not judge yourself or feel guilty when you make a mistake, and instead focus on developing a plan to get back on track as quickly as possible.Here are three strategies that might help…<ol><li>Set schedules rather than a deadlines.</li><li>Forget about performance and focus on building a new identity.</li><li>Make this your new motto: “Never miss twice.”</li></ol>Slipping up on your habits doesn't make you a failure. It makes you normal. What separates top performers from everyone else is that they get back on track quickly. Make sure you have a plan for when you fail.

3. Develop a plan for when you fail

Want to learn how to build good habits? Read this article to discover 3 simple strategies that you can put to use right now.

3 Simple Things You Can Do Right Now to Build Better Habits

ʻOumuamua' is the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.It was about 33 million km from Earth and estimated to be between 100 and 1,000 metres long, with its width and thickness both between 35 and 167 metres.

Oumuamua : Interstellar Asteroid Or Alien Ship? 

Oumuamua : Interstellar Asteroid Or Alien ship?

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ʻOumuamua' is the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.
It was about 33 million km from Earth and estimated to be between 100 and 1,000 metres long, with its width and thickness both between 35 and 167 metres.
In July 2019, astronomers concluded that ʻOumuamua is most likely a natural object. A small number of astronomers suggested that ʻOumuamua could be a product of alien technology.
In March 2021, scientists presented a theory based on nitrogen ice that ʻOumuamua' may be a piece of an exoplanet similar to Pluto, from beyond our solar system.
In January 2022, researchers proposed Project Lyra, which presented the notion that a spacecraft launched from Earth could catch up in 26 years for further close-up studies.

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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.

Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.

You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.

When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.

Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 3 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.

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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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If you’re a procrastinator, then you’ve probably asked yourself at some point “why do I procrastinate so much?” or “why do I keep procrastinating even though I know that it’s bad for me?”. These are important questions, since understanding why you procrastinate is crucial if you want to figure out how to stop doing it . The following article will give you the answers to those questions.

Why People Procrastinate: The Psychology and Causes it .

Procrastination is the act of unnecessarily postponing decisions or actions. For example, if you need to write an essay, but end up wasting time on the internet even though you know you should be working, that means that you’re procrastinating. Procrastination is often detrimental to people’s ability to successfully pursue their goals. They will be face problems in every work they do .

What is procrastination

People often assume that procrastination is simply a matter of willpower, but in reality, the situation is far more complex than that. However, there are also various demotivating factors that we can experience , For example, anxiety, fear of failure, and other negative emotions can cause us to delay unnecessarily, as can being given a task that is unpleasant.This causes us to fail to self-regulate our behavior, which means that we postpone things unnecessarily, even when we know we should be doing them, which is why procrastination often leads to a gap between how we intend to act.

Why people procrastinate.

People are more likely to procrastinate when their goals are vague or abstract, compared to when their goals are concrete and clearly defined. For example, goals such as “get fit” or “start exercising” are relatively vague, and are therefore likely to lead to procrastination. Conversely, a goal such as “go to the gym on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday right after work, and spend at least 30 minutes on the treadmill, running at high speed” is concrete, and is therefore much more likely to lead you to take actions. Lack of clear definition is the problem behind Procrastination.

Must Have Clear Vision  Of Our Goals

People sometimes procrastinate because they view their future self as being disconnected from their present-self we can take example of our deit only if we have proper diet schedule we will be having proper health so there will be no problem in future but we don't do that . And also we don't start the work when it's comes to our mind we postpone it fore future time so this leads to Procrastination . Also when we start any work we just think about the negative aspects of it this demotivates our moral.

Reasons for procrastination

We must not demotivate ourselves everyday every time we need to motivate ourselves .2. We must not delay our works we need to complete them before hand .3. We must have vision for our future plans.4. We must have clear goals.5.In some cases, we might also be driven to procrastination by other factors, such as self-sabotage, sensation-seeking, or rebelliousness. We must overcome this .Understanding why people procrastinate is beneficial, since it can help you figure out why you yourself procrastinate, which in turn can help you figure out how to solve your procrastination problem.

Summary and main takeaways 

Why People Procrastinate: The  Causes of Procrastination. How to overcome these ?

Procrastination can damage your potential, your career, and your mood. Use these strategies to overcome it and take back control of your day!

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How Can I Stop Procrastinating?: Overcoming the Habit of Delaying Important Tasks

Feeling overwhelmed at work or at any point in your busy life is not something to be ashamed of. Not having enough time to get things done is a common complaint that many people can relate to. In this article, I’ll provide a few coping mechanisms to deal with the stress that lacking time inflicts upon us all.Time traps, time famine, and time confetti are each phenomena that we have to deal with every so often but we hardly have the time to think, let alone give a name to them. Today, society throws at us countless distractions

Time Traps, Time Famine, Time Confetti, and 5 Ways to Cope

As briefly described in the previous paragraph, time traps may be subtle but are dangerous and detrimental to your well-being. While the connotation for the term time trap sounds negative, Persico adds that “many of us like to find some type of activity to spend our time on and for us, it is not a time trap… One person’s trap is another person’s passion.”Some obvious examples of time traps include mindlessly scrolling on social media sites, obsessively checking and refreshing your email inbox, and hopping from one video to another while on YouTube.

What are Time Traps?

Bryan Robinson, Ph.D., seems to be the online expert on the phenomenon of time famine, or what he describes as “starving for more time to do everything we need to do.” I’ve been poring over some online references for time famine, but it didn’t take me too long to come across two distinct, magnificently written articles on the subject by Dr. Robinson.The way he describes time famine is more like describing today’s individual as someone driven to eat time up as if he were in an all-you-can-eat buffet when the option to be a connoisseur has always been available.

What is Time Famine?

The term time confetti was coined by Brigid Schulte, but Ashley Whillans describes it as “little bits of seconds and minutes lost to unproductive multitasking.”Every few seconds or minutes don’t seem too bad, but collectively, that confetti adds up to something more pernicious than you might expect. A straightforward example is the whole duration of a work break, which, these days aren’t very wisely utilized by people. Someone who doesn’t fall into the trap of turning that 1-hour time off into time confetti would wisely remove himself from his workspace and get a breather fresh air.

What is Time Confetti?

Whenever you feel overwhelmed due to lack of time, remember this – each person has 24 hours in a day, no more, no less. Appreciate every second, minute, and hour. Productivity is great, and it might help you advance your career but it can also come at the expense of living a good life or failing to appreciate the mundane things that you pass by along the way.

1. Stop worrying too much about productivity.

Software engineers turn to playing music, mathematicians to stand-up-comedy, doctors to painting. When you remove yourself from what you do for a living (even if you enjoy it a lot, or even if you do it very well), you should do so while turning towards something almost completely unrelated to it. The effect becomes all too refreshing, and at the same time you are also taken from the environment that caused you to overload your schedule.

2. Adopt a hobby that is almost the exact opposite of what you spend the most time on.

Usually, the most difficult things to learn take a lot of patience. Take for example the sport tennis. Learning how to serve, do a forehand stroke, a backhand, footwork, learning how to toss the ball – each of these individual tennis skills takes a lot of practice for you to even be considered a beginner in the sport and start playing with others.The goal is not to become very good at the skill – instead, it is going through the process of learning the skill that’s valuable here. When you learn to be patient about acquiring each of the individual skills that make. up the general skill

3. Try learning a very challenging skill.

When you surround yourself with people who are obsessed about moving up in life or doing so much in their free time that doesn’t constitute leisure, you can’t avoid looking yourself in the mirror and asking, “What should I be doing? Shouldn’t I be doing more with all the free time I have?” This mentality will put you in a cyclic trap, always looking at social media posts to see what your friends have been up to and you either feel anxious or deal with the anxiety by keeping busy.The solution? Simple. Find friends who don’t put that kind of pressure on themselves.

4. Find friends who take it easy and who are not obsessed about ‘making it.’

This is said too much, too often in every time management course, book, article, and whatnot. But as you progress in whatever pursuit, you’ll eventually appreciate the power of ‘saying no’ And it’s just not saying no to others when they coerce or trick you into a commitment – you have to learn to say no to your own wants or wishes that seem too impractical.Learning how to prioritize is the most basic skill when it comes to managing time and overcoming time traps, time famine, and time confetti. Prioritizing includes giving up on things that matter less than the things that are important.

5. Appreciate the power of saying no.

Each of us only has 24 hours in a day. Distractions are here to stay, but these can be managed. Being overly obsessed with productivity will easily lead to anxiety, disappointment, and emptiness. Therefore, if you were to take something out of this article, let it be this – learn how to take care of your mental health.

⌛  each of us only has 24 hours in a day. Distractions are here to stay, but these can be managed. Being overly obsessed about productivity will easily lead to anxiety, disappointment, and emptiness. It's a reality where you control your time, and not letting it control you.

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