The first thing I learnt from its blink apart from the fact that ninjas are ruthless, agile, and imperfect is that ninjas don't manage time, they manage attention. So, the first step is to know attention cycle. It refers to knowing when you are proactively attentive, when you are actively attentive and when inactively attentive. Some people have proactive attention in the morning and inactive attention after lunch while some have this swapped. But what matters is to do the right things at the right time. The ninja maps his attention levels, noting when he’s at his best and when he slumps.

Attend To Attention

First, stop checking your e-mails, and start processing them. You want to get emails out of your inbox qs soon as possible. To process emails efficiently, remember the three d’s: if you can deal with it, delete it, or delegate it in less than two minutes, then do it!  For Emails that demand more than two minutes, create designated folders- The first, the action folder, is for emails that require an action that will take more than two minutes. Next, the read folder is for emails you’d like to read. And finally, the waiting folder is for emails that need someone else’s attention.

Making Your E-Mail Inbox Zero

<ol><li>Jot down all your tasks, shower brilliant ideas, and repetitive thought at one place. </li><li>Then take some paper slips and write those tasks, ideas and thoughts in those paper slips. </li><li>Now place these paper slips at places like your mail box or office tray. By now, you should be staring down a small mountain of paper.</li><li>To attend to these tasks, we first need to organize them.</li></ol>

Capture And Collect

First, sort your tasks into two categories: Projects and Master Actions.<ol><li>Projects are your most involved tasks. E.g.-getting a wi-fi connection. This task contains a several tasks in itself. Hence, it comes under project.</li><li>Next, break your projects down into action items. This list of project-related actions forms part of your Master Action List.</li><li> Non-project related tasks – things like “renew driver’s license” or “book meeting room for Tuesday” – should be here, too. Basically, if it’s actionable, it goes on the Master Action List.</li><li>Group tasks into categories like “Office,” “Home,” etc.</li></ol>

Organize

World-leading productivity expert Graham Allcott's businessbible is given a complete update for 2019. Do you waste too much time on your phone? Scroll throughTwitter or Instagram when you should be getting down to your real tasks? Isyour attention easily distracted? We've got the solution: The Way of theProductivity Ninja. In the age of information overload, traditional timemanagement techniquessimply don't cut it anymore. Using techniques includingRuthlessness, Mindfulness, Zen-like Calm and Stealth & Camouflage, this fullyrevised new edition of How to be a Productivity Ninjaoffers a fun andaccessible guide to working smarter, getting more done and learning to love whatyou do again.

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Productivity

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Time Management

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Books

World-leading productivity expert Graham Allcott's business bible is given a complete update for 2019. Do you waste too much time on your phone? Scroll through Twitter or Instagram when you should be getting down to your real tasks? Is your attention easily distracted? We've got the solution: The Way of the Productivity Ninja. In the age of information overload, traditional time management techniques simply don't cut it anymore. Using techniques including Ruthlessness, Mindfulness, Zen-like Calm and Stealth & Camouflage, this fully revised new edition of How to be a Productivity Ninja offers a fun and accessible guide to working smarter, getting more done and learning to love what you do again.

Graham Allcott

How to Be a Productivity Ninja

✍️Writing is a way to pace our thoughts. It is the slowest form of expression.💪Challenge: Write for 90 days, every day. And at the end of the exercise, always conclude with: "This tells me that..."🌿Example: This tells me that I'm good at this or she felt that way or the world is whatever it is.

#1. 🧠Structured Thinking

💪Challenge: For the next 90 days, record a video of yourself on any topic. Do not share it.

#2. 🗣️Confident Speaking

You can use Water or Chewing gum when you crave sugar.💪Challenge: Stop consuming sugar and its by-product for the next 90 days.

#3. 🍩Sugar Craving

Reading books will completely change how you think, act, and respond to situations and problems.💪Challenge: Read 30 Min daily for the next 90 days. (Keep doing it)"Start reading books, until you start loving them"

#4. 📖Reading

<ul><li>Don't try to stop any thought🚫</li><li>Don't try to record any thoughts 📝</li><li>Don't try to go deep into any thought💭</li></ul>Just Observe your thoughts.💪Challenge: Meditate for the next 90 days(and keep going)

#5. 🧘Meditation

Rejection is a muscle. Build it to get comfortable with it.The small harmless task with a higher chance of rejection.🌿Example: Asking a stranger for a favor.Cold EmailsSay Hi to a random person.💪Challenge: Get rejected for the next 90 days.🪞Reflect on 3 things:<ol><li>How did I feel?</li><li>Why did I feel the way that I felt?</li><li>What could I have done to be accepted?</li></ol>

#6. 🙅‍♀️Getting Rejected

If we do what everyone else does, we will end up more or less where everyone else is.If you want to be dramatically different from what everyone else is doing, you've to look beyond what's obvious.💪Challenge: For 90 days if faced with any decision ask yourself: What would most people in my situation do?Then for some time ignore that most probable option. Assume it's not even an option. And force yourself to consider other alternatives.❓Ask yourself two questions:<ol><li>What's the worst thing that can happen?</li><li>What's the best thing that can happen?</li></ol>Do it if you afford the worst for the sake of the Best.

#7. 💭Resisting The Obvious

💪Challenge: Set up an alarm for 10 min earlier than you wake up and try to decrease it to 10 min every day until the time you wanted to wake up comfortably.

#8. ⏰Waking Up On Time

Our mind by design focuses on Possibilities, not Probabilities.💪Challenge: Assign probabilities to every possibility that comes to mind. Physically write down on the paper Probability of that happening. (Trust me it helped me a lot).

#9. 🤔Overthinking

The simple reason we think we procrastinate is that we think we still have a lot of time.The way to deal with procrastination is to realize that we do not in fact have time.💪Challenge: Break down every task into smaller tasks. Estimate the time it would take to accomplish that small task and add up time for all the tasks and now we realize we don't have time.

#10. 🙈Procrastination

We are the outcomes of the habits that we keep, thoughts we store, and the lesson that we choose to learn.And most importantly we are the outcome of the pain that we endure.

I would highly recommend you guys to listen to this podcast and every other podcast. You'll love them😍. They are short and full of insights. And let me know what you think of the use of emojis🙈 in the ideas.

This episode is an audio version of a Twitter thread I wrote with ten ninety day challenges for your mind, your body and soul. These will help you become better in all aspects of your life. 

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Personal Development

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Communication

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Ten Challenges for Your Mind, Body and Soul

Ten Challenges for Your Mind🧠, Body👨‍🍼 and Soul🧘

Goal Planning is something that's tough but can be done with a little effort. As a fixed <a href="https://inspirationalblogs45.blogspot.com/2021/07/Why-mindset-is-key%20to-success-%20.html">mindset </a> person we believe that  planning must be done for big projects or when you are planning to do something big. But is that true? A big no planning is a must to do things while doing anything because having a plan increases the success rates. Here's a fact from psychology that says  most of us feel bored to make a plan and some are perfect in building a plan but can't execute it properly.

Top 4 Ways To Plan Your Goals 

Goal Planning is basically the roadmap of what you are actually going to do with your goals.  It is basically a set of protocols and instructions that you will follow while working for your goals and ambitions in life.  It's just a list of tasks that you are going to do in order to <a href="https://inspirationalblogs45.blogspot.com/2021/05/How-to-set-goals-and-achieve-them.html">achieve that ultimate goal. </a>

What does goal planning actually mean?

The goals that one has set for himself , it can be the short term goals or the long term depending how one set them. Ex:- Buying a car, Buying a house, building your own empire and much more. Planning requires a reason and that's the first need to build a plan.  Search for a reason for what you are trying to put all your effort into.

What are Personal goals ?

Have a knowledge of a specific goal that you want to accomplish in your life. It is said that half knowledge is dangerous and yes it is correct, in order to plan your success stories you must have a good knowledge about your goals and what you are actually going to work upon . Being a beginner that's the first and basic step that you have to take.  Look out for a reason it can be a massive success, buying a new car, creating a luxury lifestyle or anything.

1. Look for a reason

Set a time table, avoiding unnecessary activities and prioritising your work.  Once you set a goal for yourself the first and most important step is giving time to that particular goal. Success requires engagement and a lot of effort. The more you will work for it, the greater you will receive. <a href="https://inspirationalblogs45.blogspot.com/2021/07/Time-management-and-its-Importance%20.html">Save your time </a> , don't waste it because time is very important and investing your today in hardwork will surely make your future bright.

2. Set a time table

In order to plan your goals, create a to-do list or an action plan that will give you a detailed idea of what you actually want to do throughout your whole day.  To do list is the best way to make your day <a href="https://inspirationalblogs45.blogspot.com/2021/08/Best-way-to-improve-your-productivity%20.html">more productive </a> . It's the most efficient way to manage your work.  To do list is important and you must try it out once in a life and it's the first choice of every successful person.  To do list is an  important factor in planning your goals.

3. Create a to do list

Lastly, in order to plan your goals, think about each and every perspective and keep your goals ahead while planning. This will help you have a crystal image about what you are actually doing and will make you work more productively.  While planning for your goals it's important to keep a long term thinking about everything from the pros to the cons. One who builds a plan while keeping eyes for a better future always succeeds, so your plan must be capable enough for a long term fight.

4. Look for everything

Those were the 4 ways to build a great plan.  Lastly nothing can beat hard work, so set goals, plan for them, work hard and achieve what you want. That's all Good day:)

Conclusion

Planning your goals is the first step to achieving them. Here are the top 4 ways to plan your goals and make them happen.

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Top 4 ways to plan your goals

<ul><li>Take time to help another person.</li><li>Laugh for no reason.</li><li>Choose to be happy.</li><li>Spend time getting to know yourself.</li><li>Learn from other’s mistakes as well. </li><li>Don't allow others to force their expectations on you.</li></ul>

Laugh Out Loud 😂

<ul><li>Accept your mistakes and learn from them.</li><li>Nothing happens overnight.</li><li>Try to avoid making dumb mistakes.</li><li>Think before you act.</li><li>The things you choose to do today really matters.</li><li>Take the time to develop good habits.</li><li>Don't live in denial, take action.</li></ul>

Mitsakes

<ul><li>Focus on the vital few.</li><li>Say ‘no’ to a lot of things.</li><li>Focus on one task at a time.</li><li>Invest the time to think.</li></ul>

Vital Few

“You may delay, but time will not.”

<ul><li>Show me your company, and I'll tell you who you are.</li><li>Be open and honest in your communication.</li><li>Be true to your passions.</li><li>Take time to exercise.</li><li>Take responsibility for your life.</li></ul>

Passion 

<ul><li>It's never too late to reinvent yourself.</li><li>Don't live your life backwards.</li><li>Learn to embrace change.</li><li>The little steps, over a long time, enable you to cover a great distance.</li></ul>

Tiny Steps

“Greediness is a hole that makes you more and more shallow every passing day.”

<ol><li>Do what you think is right.</li><li>Don't follow others blindly.</li><li>Be honest and impeccable with your word.</li><li>Admit your mistakes.</li></ol>

4 Principles That Build Character

“Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

<ol><li>They're masters of their fields because of deliberate practice. They're well-prepared.</li><li>They spend time deeply focused on solving problems that matter.</li><li>They step away from the problem, creating space for insights and solutions to come.</li></ol>

3 Common Traits of Successful People

<ol><li>Have a clear stretch goal.</li><li>Love what you do.</li><li>Work hard, usually over a long time.</li><li>Be realistic and know your limitations.</li><li>Be flexible and persevere.</li><li>Luck goes a long way.</li></ol>

Elements Critical for Success

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”

“There are but three events in a man’s life: birth, life and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.”

Life is short. You can, if you work hard and are lucky, get more of almost anything, but you can't get more time. Time only goes one way. The average American has a lifespan of less than 30,000 days. So how you choose to live matters. That's the topic of this book. I don't pretend to have all the answers. I'm still learning every day, and many of the good ideas here I've picked up from other people either directly or by reading. But this is what's worked for me. Like life, this book is short. Many books I read could communicate their ideas in fewer pages. So I've tried to be brief in line with the wise person who noted: "If I'd had more time I would have written a shorter letter". I don't think brevity implies lack of content. The concepts here have improved the quality of my life, and I hope they're useful to you as well. Using these concepts, I have created a life I love. My job doesn't feel like work. I love and respect the people with whom I spend time. And I'm also passionate about my life outside work. I've learned how to create a balance that makes me happy between work and other interests, including my family, friends and exercise. Sadly I think that's rare. And yet, while I know I'm lucky, most people can work towards those goals in their own lives. My interest in making the most of my life began when I was just starting college, but when I was in my mid-thirties a boss I admired died of cancer. He was young. He had a great wife; he had three young children; he had a fantastic career -- he had everything in life. He just didn't have enough time. So, while I'd often thought about how to get the most out of life, the death of someone so young and vital increased my sense of urgency to act on it. One of the things I've always wanted to do was to work for myself. As a result, I left an exciting job at Microsoft in 2001 amidst the Internet bust to found the investing firm I now run. It was hard to do, both financially and emotionally. When I left Microsoft, many people - friends, family, and even some of the press - thought I was deluding myself to start a fund focused on Internet-related companies during a market crash. A press quote from the time said: "Call him a little crazy. Call him a little nuts." I'd never seen that type of coverage before. And, in a sense, the press was right; the business wasn't easy to start. Fortunately, from a vantage point of ten years down the road, it's worked out quite well. A key part of my job is reading and thinking about a broad variety of topics. So writing this book was relatively easy. It's even easier to read. But, like many things in life, actually executing each day on these concepts is extremely difficult. With thanks to Thomas Edison, life is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Even so, I hope you have fun perspiring. Peter Atkins Seattle, WA December, 2010

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Problem Solving

Life Is Short And So Is This Book

a) Digital: If you prefer a digital system, do some research on to-do list apps and digital calendars. You will surely land on a reasonable app from App Store/ Play Store.My personal recommendation is Microsoft To Do(Simple and free).b) Pen and Paper: If you like going old-schools, get a notebook. A simple notebook will do the trick. However, some specialized notebooks (e.g. bullet journals) are also available in the market.c) Hybrid: If you want to harness the benefits of both the above-mentioned systems, a hybrid system is the viable solution.

1. Pick a Planning tool

2. PrioritizePrioritize your activities in the order of their importance. Schedule your most important tasks first, then do the second most important one, and so on.The most common technique to prioritize is to write down the three most important things that you want to accomplish by the end of the day.Another way is to write the one most important task which you must complete on that day. Start the remaining tasks once you complete this task.

2. Prioritize

Task batching is a planning technique to combine similar activities. Simply put tasks that are similar can be scheduled together, like texting a friend, emailing a client, or replying social media comments, which can all be planned to be held, say from 12:30 to 1:30.Without Batching technique, you would be spreading them throughout the day (say texting a friend at 10:30, emailing the client at 12:00, and replying to social media comments at 2:00). This way of planning doesn’t look so bad on the surface, but switching between tasks offers considerable friction and therefore wastes your time.

3. Task Batching

4. Use Mornings for difficult TasksMorning is the most productive time of the day. You are naturally most active, energized, and focused at the start of the day. This means, your ability to learn and process new information is maximum during this time. So, it is best if you start the most difficult tasks in the morning.For example, for me, writing an article is a much more difficult task than sorting out icons on my desktop. Therefore, I will prefer to write the article in the morning.You may have heard the expression Eat the frog, which simply means you should start the most difficult task fi<warningtag>rst.</warningtag>

4. Use Mornings for Difficult Tasks

5. Use Afternoons for Mundane TasksThe afternoon is the time when your energy is depleting hence, it’s best to schedule simple and managing-type tasks in the afternoon.A quote I read somewhere:Use morning for making, and the afternoon for managingTasks like editing your selfies or reading social media comments don’t require much energy and therefore, can be scheduled for the afternoon.

5. Use Afternoons for Easy Tasks

6. Keep your Schedule Flexible.When we sit to plan, we generally underestimate the amount of time certain tasks will take. That’s why it is important that you don’t fill each second of your day.Keeping it flexible allows you to carter for uncertainties, like a traffic jam, slow internet connection, etc.

6. Keep your Schedule Flexible

In today’s fast-paced world, everybody has a lot of plates spinning. Planning your day in advance gives you better control over your day-to-day activities. A daily plan enables you to focus on your most important task while keeping the distractions to a minimum,

In today’s fast-paced world, everybody has a lot of plates spinning. Planning your day in advance gives you better control over your day-to-day activities. A daily plan enables you to focus on your…

How to Plan Your Day for Maximum Productivity

A recent study found that toiling outside of regular -to- hours undermines people's intrinsic motivation for their professional and academic pursuits. This spells trouble for companies considering that (a) people do their best work and are happier when they're fueled by an inner drive (b) surveys show that employees especially working parents want to work for companies that allow as much flexibility as possible.

Flexible Working: The Cons

Longstanding conventions about when we should or shouldn’t be working are not easily cast aside Working nonstandard hours often means that you’re working alone and research from the University of Chicago has shown that people are more intrinsically motivated to work when they have the sense that other people are working even if those people are not in the same room.

Social Cues About when To Work Are Hard to Ignore

Researchers surveyed participants to determine how people felt about working on the Monday of a long weekend versus a normal Monday, to see how motivated people felt working a holiday versus a regular day, and to figure out what was generally on people's minds while working holidays.On holidays, it turned out that people were "almost automatically," thinking about all the places they could be instead, which helped researchers see the connection to the psychology of regret.

Make Non-Standard Work Hours More Tolerable

<ul><li>Studies have shown that people are happiest when they can share time off with people they're closest to.</li><li>Sometimes it's better to have more constraints, not fewer.</li><li>Managers should consider giving everyone the same day off if that's a reasonable option.</li></ul>

Protect Time Off to Be with Friends and Family

Breaking free of the nine-to-five sounds like freedom, but it comes with a surprising cost.

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Career

Working flexible hours can make you feel less motivated

<a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90696814/4-signs-youre-experiencing-burnout-according-to-a-cognitive-scientist">Many factors</a> contribute to burnout, the perpetual weariness along with a disinterest in work. Here are five bad habits that could be barreling you toward burnout and what you can do to turn your situation around.

Burnout

A common burnout reason is that you could have too many responsibilities. This could happen because you say, “Yes,” too often or volunteer for tasks—even though you don’t have the time.To remedy this situation, you’ll need to get clear on how much you can actually handle. Do this through daily and weekly planning where you decide on your priorities and place them in open times in your calendar.

Reasons For Burnout: Saying Yes in Every Circumstance

But sometimes—or in the case of burnt-out people a lot of times—you’re working a second shift in the evening.If you fall into that category, set a cut-off point for when you get off of your computer. That way you have enough time between when you stop working and when you lay down in bed for your mind to calm and unwind.

Working Right until To Bedtime

Longer periods of time off for vacation can definitely help to reduce feelings of fatigue, especially if it’s a <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90664370/us-workers-are-burned-out-could-company-wide-vacations-help">company-wide vacation</a>. Many workers are not even taking any days off on the weekend: They’re literally attempting to work seven days a week. Or if they don’t actually pull out their laptops, they’re at least mentally carrying the load of thinking about work all the time.Take at least one day a week where you don’t allow yourself to work at all: no meetings, no project work, no email checking, no messaging, no nothing related to your job.

No Off Days

There are some activities that you can truly only do for yourself like sleep, exercise, or making important decisions for which you’re directly responsible. But there are many tasks where you could ask others to do them or at least get some support on the overall goal.You don’t have to do everything by yourself. Asking others for support not only saves you time but also leads to a positive emotional state that can elevate you out of the cynicism associated with burnout.

Doing Everything Yourself

When you skip out on what you find really fun—whether it’s time with friends, exercising, playing with your dog, spending time with your kids, doing a craft, or simply being outside in nature—you end up taking breaks anyway but on activities that aren’t nearly as refreshing, such as scrolling on your phone.Fun isn’t the thing that you do once you get 100% done with work—which is unlikely to happen because it keeps coming. Fun is what you do that helps fuel you to have the energy to get all the work done.

No Fun!

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Mental Health

5 habits that are barreling you towards burnout

First identify the people, tasks and contexts that traditionally try to intrude on your schedule. In a work-from-home context, that might be family, neighbors, pets or household chores, just as much as it might be work colleagues or team members.An intrusive distraction can also be your own impulses. Writers often joke that their homes are never cleaner than when a deadline approaches. For all of us, the constant siren call of social media and gaming apps lure us from more high-worth activities.Once you’ve done this, you can create strategies targeted to keep them at bay.

 Identify the intruders

Remember, your time and energy are finite resources. Every time you give yours away to someone else, those resources are no longer available to you for your own work.Instead, show your colleagues the courtesy of letting them process and resolve their own problems and obstacles. That helps you focus on your own work, but it also might make you a more valuable team player, somewhat paradoxically. That's because you have more time and energy to dive into deep work, exercise your creativity and solve bigger problems for the team or company as a whole.

Stop being overly helpful

Chunking your schedule by context is a well-known method to help you “get into a groove” with tasks sorted by context. For example, set aside one hour for processing all your email, then don’t look at your email again until the next email chunk. Or set aside two hours after lunch for reading or ideation work.Make sure your schedule and its chunks of time are visible to your team, so they know when they can and cannot intrude. Then commit yourself to staying on task during those time chunks, and respond to any messages or requests at a free time in your calendar.

Chunk your daily time into context-driven slots

Setting a schedule isn’t enough. To really help yourself adhere to it and enforce your time boundaries, get in the habit of previewing the day’s schedule the night before or first thing in the morning.You can also preview on a weekly basis to get a better sense of what lies ahead for you. Previewing your schedule psychologically reinforces the choices you’ve made as commitments, not just “stuff that has to get done some time — whenever no one else needs me.”

Get into the habit of previewing your schedule

Regularly scheduled meetings are the most effective way to keep up with every team member’s workload and process, but they also help avoid smaller disruptions during the remainder of work time.Use the regular meeting time to help each team member overcome sticking points and identify potential future stumbling blocks. Respect everyone’s time by keeping to a strict agenda and rigidly enforcing time limits for each agenda item.

Check in with your team regularly with better meetings

Commit to leaving work behind at the set time and then embrace personal activities such as family time, exercise, pursuing hobbies and creative rest. This is especially important during our new WFH reality when those work/life boundaries get all too blurred, if not erased entirely.Communicate your “on and off” hours to your team members and employees so they’ll know this is a priority for you. Bonus: It’ll likely become a bonus for them as well, and when they follow your lead, you’ll wind up with a happier, healthier, and more productive team.

Draw a firm line between work and personal life activities

Feeling burned out isn't just for founders who work absurdly long hours. It can also happen to other company leaders and managers whose attention and energy get pulled in every direction. 

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

Feeling Burned Out? Maybe You're Not Being Selfish Enough With Your Time

In an economy, Pareto Optimal state when no further changes in the economy can make one person better off without at the same time making another worse off. Named after Italian economist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto">Vilfredo Pareto</a> , the idea simply refers to situations where you can (or can’t) improve something without trade-offs.Consider designing a car where you care about speed and safety.<ol><li>You have one design that’s fast but dangerous.</li><li>Another that is slow and safe.</li><li>A third that both moves like a tortoise and has the tendency to spontaneously catch fire.</li></ol>

Getting Better Without Getting Worse

How should you compare these three designs? The third option is obviously worse than the first two - it's slow and dangerous. But between the other two is a question of values. Maybe a race car driver would prefer faster at the cost of some safety. Maybe the soccer mom wants safety over speed.This is the idea of Pareto efficiency in a nutshell. A car design would be Pareto efficient if there’s no other design that allows you to get more speed or safety without getting less of the other.

Comparing Trades

What if there are more designs than the presented three? Such possibilities exist in some situations, surely with habits and situations. Here, putting them all on a graph, we can see that any of the ones on the inside of the frontier are bad choices. Why? Because there’s always a car that’s somewhat faster or safer without making sacrifices. There must always be something better, an ideal possibility, regardless of it's application in reality.

Efficiency Frontier

Efficient frontiers reveal a general pattern. When you’re below the frontier, you can always improve simply by optimizing your choice. You can make a better choice by just pick an option that has more of what you want.When you’re on the frontier, however, the only way to make the situation better is by deliberately making something else worse.

Patterns Of Trade

Let's say you plot all your schedules and leisures in a graph, it shows all your productive possibilities, time allotment, and situations of good work and sudden work.Now, is your situation is Pareto efficient? If we’re below the frontier, improvements is needed. We might choose to get more done without increasing our hours. The focus should be on trying to shift to a less wasteful situation.But if you're on the frontier, the way to improve is by accepting trade-offs. While pursuing an ambitious career move, accept that this has working nights and weekends.

Productivity Frontier

In engineering, new inventions promise faster and safer cars than what exist today. The frontier can shift.In your work, there’s always the possibility of radical changes that might break the current frontier. Maybe you find a technique that lets you get much more done in less time than usual.Innovating to push the frontier forward is good. But such radical improvements are much harder to come by than simply reorganizing among known alternatives.

Innovating Changes

If you're on the frontier, here are a few guidelines<ul><li>You’ve read and applied a lot of productivity advice, yoyre closer to the frontier and one who doesn’t even keep a to-do list is probably far from it.</li><li>When you look in your schedule, there aren’t a lot of things you could easily cut . If your day is full of activities you'd do more of, you’re on a frontier. If you find it with a lot of waste, there may be potential for easy wins.</li><li>Do efforts cause setbacks in other areas of life? When you pursued new ambitions and they came at a cost of important things, you’re closer to the frontier.</li></ul>

Are You On The Edge?

If you're far from edge, optimize. Treat each element in isolation and improve it.Want to improve your work? Just reorganize and get more done!If you're on the productive frontier, improvement comes from trade-offs. Would you rather have a clean house or more time to work on your project? Like whack-a-mole, investing more time in one thing, and losing time for another. You switch trying to get it all done.Be explicit about trade-offs. Stop and think about what you really care about and what you’re not willing to sacrifice. And it releases you from the guilt of trying to do everything.

Optimize Options

We all want to do everything, and feel guilty when we miss out on some. But.. 

Striving to eliminate waste is good. But eventually you'll reach a point where hard choices are needed to do better.

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Can You Get More Done Without Making Sacrifices?

To answer a question, more questions must be asked.

Well, the simple answer is most of us feel stuck in the past and can’t get over it and keep dwelling upon it which worsens the condition as if the Past happens to us and we can’t do anything but think more of it.

Why should we even bother about the Past?

Past is not some random place but the memory of some events.If you get a bit deeper into the concepts like Quantum Physics, Time Traveling, and even spirituality you’ll get to know that time and space have a memory. It’s been said that every human has a certain level of energy with a different form of aura, so if I sit on a chair and get away after some time that chair will store a buffer of memory that temporarily filled with my energy prints until unless some other energy source doesn’t alter my energy in that particular memory.

What Is Past?

Past is not about the event itself which causes the suffering but the Effect and the Meaning we derive from that event.

It’s not what happens to us but how we respond to the situation that matters.

Every time you go back to your past you change it. The past is just the raw material to work with. It’s entirely malleable and flexible. You get to take the pieces and choose which ones to discard and how you are going to frame them.

You Can Change Your Past!

As the neuroscientist, Dr. Donna Bridge said, “A memory is not simply an image produced by time-traveling back to the original event — it can be an image that is somewhat distorted because of the prior times you remembered it… Your memory of an event can grow the less precise event to the point of being totally false with each retrieval.”

Yes! You Can Change Your Past!

In physics, there’s a concept known as the observer effect, which shows that the mere observation of a phenomenon inevitably changes the phenomenon.So every time you look at your past it will change because it is just a memory.

Change Your Memory!

“Regardless of what happened to you in the past, no matter how unique, terrible (or wonderful) it was, you have the same ability to shape who you were and who you will become.”Quite literally, you are the Designer of your Past. So create your story which upgrades your present based on your future identity not on the past.

This is the best method I used for getting out of traumatic memory.

Past Is Nothing But A Fiction

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