<a href="https://www.eatthis.com/plogging-exercise-outdoors/">Plogging </a>is when people are getting <a href="https://www.eatthis.com/news-running-hiit-burns-calories/">jogging </a>while picking up trash along the way. They are doing their part in helping keep the planet—our home—clean, while getting a solid workout in and getting social. Besides the altruism of celaning the planet, plogging can be a better exercise than simply running. Because you have to stop, squat 3tc you are involving more parts of the body. And doing it socially it helps produce more endorphins, making you feel happier.

Plogging

Mix running with ecological awareness. Win - win.

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"Plogging" - a new trendy workout 

Internal family systems (IFS) is a <a href="https://thehumancondition.com/psychotherapy-introduction-benefits/">psychotherapeutic model</a> through which people are viewed as having a core Self surrounded by multiple parts.1 IFS practitioners believe that by helping people learn to harness the power of their core Self, they can help their clients heal the wounded, inner parts of themselves and become more connected both inwardly and outwardly.

Internal Family Systems (IFS): What It Is, Background, and Benefits

Internal family systems (IFS) is a psychotherapeutic model through which people are viewed as having a core Self surrounded by multiple inner parts.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Internal Family Systems (IFS): What It Is, Background, and Benefits - The Human Condition

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense. Guide them far enough down the wrong path, envelope them in enough smoke, and by the time they realize your intentions, it will be too late.

Law 1: Conceal Your Intentions

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable. Always be alert to potential attacks and thwart them before they happen. Meanwhile, learn to destroy your enemies by opening holes in their own reputations. Then stand aside and let public opinion hang them.

Law 2: So Much Depends on Reputation

Everything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or buried in oblivion. Stand out. Be conspicuous, at all cost. Make yourself a magnet of attention by appearing larger, more colourful, more mysterious than the bland and timid masses.

Law 3:  Court Attention At All Costs

When you force the other person to act, you are the one in control. It is always better to make your opponent come to you, abandoning his own plans in the process. Lure him with fabulous gains — then attack. You hold the cards.

Law 4: Make Other People Come To You

Any momentary triumph you think you have gained through argument is really a Pyrrhic victory: the resentment and ill will you stir up is stronger and lasts longer than any momentary change of opinion. It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not explicate.

Law 5: Win Through Your Actions, Never Through Argument

5 Important laws of power told by Robert Greene

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.

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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum.   Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.

Robert Greene is an American author of books on strategy, power, and seduction. He has written six international bestsellers, including The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, Mastery, and The Laws of Human Nature.

Robert Greene

The 48 Laws of Power

The three decisions that control your destiny are:<ol><li>What to focus on?</li><li>What things mean to you?</li><li>What to do to create the results you desire?</li></ol>• By changing any one of these five elements ( a core belief or rule, a value, a reference, a question, or an emotional state ) you can immediately produce a powerful and measurable change in your life.

Short Summary

<ul><li>Everything you and I do, we do either out of our need to avoid pain or our desire to gain pleasure.</li><li> It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.</li><li>Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.</li></ul>

Beliefs

<ul><li>Raise your standards and believe you can meet them.</li><li>Develop a sense of certainty that we can and will meet the new standards before we actually do.</li><li>In life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.</li><li>In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. </li><li>It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.</li></ul>

Change

1. Decide what you want2. Take action3. Notice what’s working or not4. Change your approach until you achieve what you want

The Ultimate Success Formula

<ol><li>What to focus on?</li><li>What things mean to you?</li><li>What to do to create the results you desire?</li></ol>

The Three Decisions That Control Your Destiny Are:

1. Your core beliefs and unconscious rules2. Your life values3. Your references4. The habitual questions that you ask yourself5. The emotional states you experience in each moment

Master System:

<ul><li>Success is the result of good judgment. </li><li>Good judgment is the result of experience.</li><li>Experience is often the result of bad judgment.</li><li> In order to succeed, you must have a longterm focus.</li><li>Often, what seems impossible in the short term becomes very possible in the long term if you persist.</li><li>Realize that the hardest step in achieving anything is making a true commitment-a true decision.</li></ul>

Long Term

<ul><li>Make decisions often and learn from them.</li><li>When experiencing a problem, ask yourself, “What’s good about this? What can I learn from this?”</li><li>Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.</li><li>Know that it’s your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.</li><li> For most people, the fear of loss is much greater than the desire for gain.</li></ul>

Decisions

<ul><li> It’s not actual pain that drives us, but our fear that something will lead to pain. </li><li>And it’s not actual pleasure that drives us, but our belief—our sense of certainty—that somehow taking a certain action will lead to pleasure.</li><li>We’re not driven by the reality, but by our perception of reality.</li><li> Break through some short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.</li></ul>

Long Term Pleasure

<ul><li>If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything.</li><li>The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief.</li><li> New experiences trigger change only if they cause us to question our beliefs.</li><li> Remember, whenever we believe something, we no longer question it in any way.</li></ul>

Sense Of Certainty

<ol><li>First, we must believe, “Something must change”.</li><li>Second, we must believe, “I must change it”.</li><li>Third, we have to believe, “I can change it”.</li></ol>

Specific Beliefs 

‘Tony’s incredible understanding of the world, people and human nature make him the ultimate like coach. He knows what it takes to make people excel… and win!’ – Andre Agassi ‘Robbins is a mass of walking energy and passion.’ – Time Out Are you in charge of your life? Or are you being swept away by things that are seemingly out of your control? In AWAKEN THE GIANT WITHIN, Anthony Robbins, the bestselling author of UNLIMITED POWER, shows the reader how to take immediate control of their mental, emotional, physical and financial destiny. Further praise for Tony Robbins:- ‘A fascinating, intriguing presentation of cutting-edge findings and insights… including the growing consciousness that true success is anchored in enduring values and service to other.’ – Stephen R. Covey, Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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Mindfulness

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Motivation & Inspiration

‘Tony’s incredible understanding of the world, people and human nature make him the ultimate like coach. He knows what it takes to make people excel… and win!’  – Andre Agassi ‘Robbins is a mass of walking energy and passion.’ – Time Out Are you in charge of your life? Or are you being swept away by things that are seemingly out of your control? In AWAKEN THE GIANT WITHIN, Anthony Robbins, the bestselling author of UNLIMITED POWER, shows the reader how to take immediate control of their mental, emotional, physical and financial destiny. Further praise for Tony Robbins:- ‘A fascinating, intriguing presentation of cutting-edge findings and insights…  including the growing consciousness that true success is anchored in enduring values and service to other.’  – Stephen R. Covey, Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Anthony Jay Robbins is an American author, coach, speaker, and philanthropist. He is known for his infomercials, seminars, and self-help books including the books Unlimited Power and Awaken the Giant Within.

Tony Robbins

Awaken The Giant Within

“The trick to learning more and having more success is finding the right way to frame the learning process.”

It describes the process of focusing on the princess and not the pits, to stick with a task and learn more.
The focus is about beating the game, not about how dumb you might look. And as a direct result of that attitude—of learning from but not being focused on the failures—we got really good and we learned a ton in a really short amount of time.
When you frame a challenge or a learning process in this way, you actually want to do it. It feels natural to ignore the failures and try again.

The Super Mario Effect

When 50,000 of Mark Rober's 3 million YouTube subscribers participated in a basic coding challenge, the data all pointed to what Rober has dubbed the Super Mario Effect. The YouTube star and former NASA engineer describes how this data-backed mindset for life gamification has stuck with him along his journey, and how it impacts the ways he helps (or tricks) his viewers into learning science, engineering, and design. Mark Rober has made a career out of engineering, entertainment, and education. After completing degrees in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University and the University of Southern California, Rober joined NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2004. In his nine years as a NASA engineer, seven of which were on the Mars rover Curiosity team, Rober worked on both the Descent Stage (the jet pack that lowered the Rover to the surface) and some hardware on the Rover top deck for collecting samples. In 2011, Rober’s iPad-based Halloween costume helped launch both his creative costume company, Digital Dudz, and his YouTube channel, which now boasts 3 million subscribers and 400 million views. His videos focus on creative ideas and science- and engineering-based pranks and activities. Rober is a regular guest on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!". Today, he does research and development work for a large technology company in Northern California, where he lives with his wife and son. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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"We know that prolonged social isolation leads to memory loss, and that loneliness is a risk factor for cognitive decline, dementia and even death....Fight back against loneliness and remain socially engaged." - <a href="https://www.aarp.org/health/brain-health/info-2020/brain-health-risks-covid19.html">Dr. Sanjay Gupta </a>, CNN's chief medical correspondent.

Stay Socially Engaged

Consistently consuming a healthy diet which includes plenty of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, fish, and healthy fats like olive oil and nuts, can benefit your heart and brain. "These items aren't only linked to boosting the brain power of elderly people, but they've also been shown to be even more beneficial to your health than a low-fat diet by protecting against type 2 diabetes, preventing heart disease and stroke and reducing muscle weakness and frailty in aging bones," - Dr. Douglas Scharre, a neurologist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center .

Eat A Brain-healthy Diet

A study published recently in the journal <a href="https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alz.12530">Alzheimer's & Dementia </a>found that exercise seems to boost levels of a protein that facilitates communication between brain cells, potentially preventing dementia. Good news is: only 5-10 minutes of burst exercise (30 seconds high effort movement, 90 seconds recovery) or moderate running boosts both mood and brain function, increasing blood flow to the prefrontal cortex—which regulates mood and "executive processing"—even after the activity was finished - A <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-01654-z">study </a>published in Scientific Reports in Nov 2021

Exercise (10 Minutes Can Make A Big Difference

Other simple tips include:<ul><li>walking around when speaking on the phone</li><li>taking the stairs instead of the elevator</li><li>parking a bit further from the entrance of your destination.</li></ul>

Sleep is "your (free) secret weapon to refresh and replenish tissues and cells — among them, those of the brain and immune system.... It also rinses away waste and debris in the brain that can otherwise foment disease, and it strengthens your memories. After a good night's sleep, you wake up with a smarter body and a sharper mind, better able to deal with the day's stressors." - Dr. GuptaEveryone should get 7-9 hrs of quality sleep each night; "the bare minimum if you want to have normal, healthy functioning physiology from your brain on down." -Dr. Gupta

Get 7 To 9 Hours Of Quality Sleep Each Night

"Just as physical activity helps keep your body in shape, mentally stimulating activities help keep your brain in shape—and might keep memory loss at bay," - Mayo Clinic. Play board games/word games; work puzzles or crosswords; read or listen to podcasts—anything to keep your brain stimulated. Even better: Learn a new skill, like a foreign language. The brain craves variety, and learning new things actually expands the network of blood vessels that nourishes it with oxygen and nutrients.

Exercise Your Brain

The human body is built to thrive in a series of short sprints. Studies show that rest and relaxation promote mental health, boost creativity, increase productivity, promote well-being, reduce stress, improve mood, and strengthen relationships. "Relaxing is not solely a physical thing for the body," writes Gupta. "Your brain needs to chill out, too." - Dr. Gupta

Get Some R and R

Finally tailor these tips to your own personality and schedule. Focus on doing one simple thing at a time.You might be surprised at how much you can accomplish in just a short period."Never forget that the brain is exceptionally plastic... It can rewire and reshape itself through your experiences and habits, and a lot of this remolding can be achieved in a mere twelve weeks...It's like buulding any other muscle" -Dr. Gupta

Know What Works Best For You

Because in this fast-paced world we're constantly pressured to keep up:so much to do, so much to think about; which leads to mental congestion and for many of us memory loss .

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Super Easy Proven Ways to Prevent Memory Loss

Are you having trouble in speaking out your idea/points to others? Do you get confused while presenting? Did you wind up being unclear exactly what you hope other people will do?If yes, then the habit of brevity can help you

The Habit Of Brevity

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

The average leader -- even the above-average one -- might gather the team and explain why it's such a great opportunity for the company/organisationThe emotionally intelligent leader, however, frames everything from the point of view of his or her teams

To Effectively Communicate..

<ul><li>think about different angles to craft the right message.</li><li>segment things better, so that you don't try to communicate everything to everyone at once.</li><li>Try to be brief </li><li>Take time to weed out the many things you might want to say in order to make the ones that you truly need to say more memorable, makes the difference between confusion and clarity.</li></ul>

Crafting Your Message In A Emotionally Intelligent Rute

How to be emotionally intelligent while conveying your message

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Communication

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How Emotionally Intelligent People Use the 'Mark Twain Rule' to Become Exceptionally Persuasive

If you don't produce, you won't thrive - no matter how skilled or talented you are.

Deep work is the act of performing thoughtfully and with focus, concentration, and intent. It's the opposite of multi-tasking.<ol><li> Work Deeply</li><li>Embrace Boredom</li><li>Quit Social Media</li><li>Drain the Shallows”</li></ol>The deep work rules are designed to help you make the most of your time and attention, to better achieve your goals.

The Four Rules of Deep Work

It’s not enough to have the intention to work more deeply. We need to systematically install new routines and rituals to create the new habits that will lead to more and more deep work. This is a hallmark of great humans.

Rule#1 - Work Deeply

For some reason these days, the MOMENT we have a lull in our lives—whether that’s a few minutes before a friend arrives for lunch or in line at the grocery store or whatever—most of us *immediately* grab our smart phone and compulsively check out whatever we think we need to see right this second. We have about a hundredth of a second of tolerance for boredom.Cal tells us that rather than immediately flail around in the shallow end of the distraction pool, we need to EMBRACE BOREDOM. Use those moments to think or breathe deeply.

Rule#2 - Embrace Boredom

If there’s a poster child for shallow living, it’s social media. Cal walks us through a logical analysis of the fact that just because there’s a little benefit to things like social media (e.g., staying connected to old friends, etc.), doesn’t mean it’s actually worth the time we give it.If we REALLY want to live deeply—working and loving—we can do better than fritter away our time on social media. The bold among us shall quit it!

Rule#3 - Quit Social Media

One of Cal’s big tips here? SCHEDULE EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY. Not to drive yourself crazy, but to bring more mindfulness to your day.

Rule#4 - Drain the Shallows

Deep Work is a book about the skills we need in the age of Google. To thrive in the modern world, you have to have the skills of the masters: concentration, focus, the ability to work deeply, the talent to produce high-quality work without getting distracted. This breakthrough guide to focus and productivity is the most talked-about business book of the year.

One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world. 'Cal Newport is exceptional in the realm of self-help authors' New York Times 'Deep work' is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. Coined by author and professor Cal Newport on his popular blog Study Hacks, deep work will make you better at what you do, let you achieve more in less time and provide the sense of true fulfilment that comes from the mastery of a skill. In short, deep work is like a superpower in our increasingly competitive economy. And yet most people, whether knowledge workers in noisy open-plan offices or creatives struggling to sharpen their vision, have lost the ability to go deep - spending their days instead in a frantic blur of email and social media, not even realising there's a better way. A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, DEEP WORK takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories -- from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air -- and surprising suggestions, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Put simply: developing and cultivating a deep work practice is one of the best decisions you can make in an increasingly distracted world and this book will point the way.

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Productivity

Master one of our economy’s most rare skills and achieve groundbreaking results with this “exciting” book (Daniel H. Pink) from an “exceptional” author (New York Times Book Review). Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep Work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way. In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill. 1. Work Deeply 2. Embrace Boredom 3. Quit Social Media 4. Drain the Shallows A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world. An Amazon Best Book of 2016 Pick in Business & Leadership Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller A Business Book of the Week at 800-CEO-READ

Cal Newport is Provost’s Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, and the author of seven books. His ideas and writing are frequently featured in major publications and on TV and radio.From his website: "I write about the intersection of digital technology and culture. I’m particularly interested in our struggle to deploy these tools in ways that support instead of subvert the things we care about in both our personal and professional lives."

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Deep Work

"Ah yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.”

"Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more of who you are."

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”

“One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.”

<ul><li>A mistake is an error in judgment, misunderstanding, or misguided action. You won’t always have poor intentions when making mistakes — in fact, many mistakes are accidents.</li><li>Alternatively, failure usually comes from a lack of success, or an inability to meet expectations. Everyone’s definition of failure is different. </li></ul>Several consecutive mistakes could lead to failure, but the terms aren’t synonymous.

Mistakes and failures

<ol><li>The first step to achieving growth is admitting when you’ve done wrong.</li><li>Changing your perspective is the second step to the learning process.</li><li>Take the time to consider what led up to the mistake, including errors you made along the way. </li><li>Put the lessons you've learned into practice.</li><li>Review your progress. </li><li>Recognize that it's okay to feel vulnerable.</li><li>Remember that we can't avoid making mistakes. It’s impossible to anticipate everything that will happen; all we can do is try our best, ask for help, and support others.</li></ol>

The art of making mistakes

How you see yourself and view your actions is a significant aspect of handling any errors you make. Your mindset is everything. It may seem small, but showing compassion toward yourself does wonders for your self-esteem.

Be compassionate toward yourself

A brief guide to the benefits of making and learning from your mistakes. Plus, take a look at inspirational quotes to help you bounce back when those mistakes happen.

Learn From Your Mistakes: Master This Art to Achieve More

The mere exposure effect is defined as "the finding that individuals show an increased preference (or liking) for a stimulus as a consequence of repeated exposure to that stimulus."How can you use the mere exposure effect to get people to like you? By letting them see you often. Turn your camera on during Zoom meetings. Comment on your friends' social media posts. Go to the gym at the same time every day to increase the odds of bumping into the same people.

Be seen often

Asking questions puts the focus on the other person, and lets them know you value their opinions and experiences. Research shows that people who ask more questions during conversations are perceived as more responsive and are better liked by conversation partners.Asking someone follow-up questions about something they told you is particularly effective because it shows that you are listening and interesting in what they have to say.

Ask questions

People who smile are perceived as more competent and more attractive. And people are more apt to like someone they consider attractive.

Smile

Making a great first impression isn't as hard as you might think.

3 Easy Ways to Make People Like You That Are Backed by Science

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