Setting goals is important because it help you know what to do with your time. Like if you set a goal to start a Youtube channel in a within a month you can slowly prep for it.

Set goals

The Pomodoro timer set time limits for you to work efficiently in a certain amount of time then you get a break. This is good for people who struggle to focus because it sets a specific amount of time for you to get things done.https://pomofocus.io

Pomodoro Timer

Let's say you have 20 tasks to accomplish today but you don't know how to do them. The easiest way to do it is by making the task smaller. For example you have a few pages of homework you can do one page in the morning, one in the afternoon and one after dinner.

Break tasks up

Set your own due dates. An example would be you have an essay due on February the 10th you should set a due date on your calendar for the 8th of February.

Due dates

Make a chart of what is urgent, can be done later and what can be done in spare time. This will help you know what needs to be done today..

Set priorities 

You might say that you are going to do something but in order to stop saying you'll do it you should take action and make a change.

Saying is not doing

I hope these help you like how they have helped me!

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Time management tips and tricks

According to a 2020 study published in Proceedings of the National Academic of Sciences , one attribute <a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/117/25/14066">specifically predicts how effective you will be at pursuing your goals </a>: possessing a strategic mindset.

Strategic Mindset

As the researchers write:[Success] requires less routine deployment of well-learned skills and more "thinking through" and "figuring out" of challenging new problems. Indeed, the pursuit of any challenging goal often involves actively analyzing tasks and then planning, self-monitoring, and revising strategies. Such strategic behaviors are typically referred to as "metacognitive strategies," because they require taking a perspective on oneself and one's tactics.Or in simple terms, constantly revising and adapting and refining your approach to achieving a goal.

Why Is A Strategic Mindset Important

The key is to regularly ask yourself 6 basic questions -- all focused on your emotions -- as you pursue a goal:1. Are you struggling more than you should? Ask yourself, "What are things I can do to help myself?"2. Feel like you've hit a plateau? "Is there a better way of doing this?"3. Feel frustrated with how difficult progress seems? "How can I do this better?"4. Feel challenged? "What are things I can do to make myself better at this?"5. Feel intimidated? "What can I do to help myself?"6. Feel like it's always going to be too hard? Ask yourself, "What can I do to get better at this?"

How To Develop A Strategic Mindset

This will help us stay focused on what we set put to do

When you're struggling, research shows responding to that emotion by asking yourself a few simple questions greatly increases the likelihood you will eventually succeed.

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6 Questions Emotionally Intelligent People Ask Themselves to Improve Their Chances of Success

The problem with “work-life balance” is that the forces of work and life don’t exist in equilibrium. 
At times, our careers will have an outsized influence on our decision-making. Other times, we’ll set work aside to enjoy life’s many pleasures or deal with its potential hardships. 
The two will never be in a state of equality. By seeking balance, we’ve propped ourselves up to fall.

The Key Issue With Work-Life Balance

<ul><li>There’s no such thing as achieving a perfect work-life balance. </li><li>If “balance” implies equilibrium, then “integration” implies combining various components or aspects into a unified whole.</li><li>Focus on being the same authentic person at work, at home, and in your community.</li><li>Avoid burnout by carving out time for all of the elements of your life.</li></ul>

Aim For Integration In Your Work-Life

<ul><li>It’s important to create space for family, friends, and fun. Put boundaries around your time.</li><li>Think consciously about where you want to focus your energy. Ask: Outside of work, what’s most important to me now? My community? My kids? Something else?</li><li>Remember: You can’t get back the time you sacrifice today.</li></ul>

Make Thoughtful Trade-Offs

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Make a little time for yourself (in a 24/7 world)

When communication technology makes a new thing (like responding on the go) possible, doing that thing can be a way for people to signal how dedicated they are as workers or family members—and, crucially, not doing that thing can suggest that they aren’t dedicated enough. Now when people feel they haven’t responded sufficiently quickly, they think they owe their correspondent an apology. Example: When Blackberry phones became popular, people thought it was a kind of superpower to respond to texts and email messages on the go.

The Spiral Of Expectations

With the mass adoption of email and smartphones, is that the “acceptable” window of response time has gotten much smaller. Someone could conceivably apologize for their delay when responding in the afternoon to an email sent that morning.All of these sorries raise the question of whether any harm is actually done when someone commits the sin of unavailability.

The Sin Of Not Being Available Right Away

Even if being responsive at all hours has no bearing on an employee’s actual productivity, many bosses lazily use it as a proxy for gauging workers’ value.

Wrong Expectations At Work

A delayed response can cause genuine problems too. If your partner texts you “I love you,” responding two days later is not a good idea. In personal communications, a lack of a speedy response risks signalling a lack of care. After all, your phone was right there.

A Genuine Problem

The most common way for people to resolve the tension between the pressure of speediness and the reality of busyness is to start messages with four words: Sorry for my delay. It is an innocuous, polite gesture. But, having multiple obligations and priorities means that we are, all of us, in a perpetual state of delay on something, and apologizing for that fact feels like having to apologize for your standard mode of being.

Apologizing For Everything

Even if “Sorry for my delay” is a social nicety, performing remorse can have real effects. Repeating it can make us feel like we’re perpetually behind, and worse, it models an unreasonable standard of responsiveness for the person we’re (allegedly) slow in writing back to.

Repeated Mistakes Out Of Nothing

Instead of 'Sorry for the Delay' or 'Thank you for your patience', there is another alternative.If a message will take you a while to respond to, you could first reply with a quick note saying when you plan to respond fully. This can reduce uncertainty and stress on the part of the sender, but the downside is that … well, you’d still have to respond relatively quickly to tell them you’ll respond more thoroughly later.

The Right Approach

More than a graceful email response, is a more humane culture of work and communication. Technology, for instance, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/economist-email-less-painful/518934/">could be designed</a> to that end. Apple’s latest mobile operating system is a start: When people turn on “Focus” mode, others can see in the Messages app that they aren’t receiving notifications. The law can help too. In France, a legal “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/world/europe/france-work-email.html">right to disconnect</a>” cuts down on after-hours work emails.

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Psychology

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What If We Just Stopped Being So Available?

Any decision to change one’s life, in such a complex context, needs to be extremely simple and easy to follow.Luckily, Zen Buddhism is predicated on principles of simplicity. Leo Babauta, founder of Zen Habits and author of several courses and e-books on habit-changing, explains it with characteristic minimalism in <a href="https://zenhabits.net/4/">this blogpost </a>.In order to make any change in one’s life—start with a single change. It should be small; not a goal, but a tiny first step.

Change Your Life

Babauta advises that to turn changes into habits, it’s important to make the change tiny, and let it embed: he suggests making one change every four to six weeks. He’s boiled down all his teachings into what he calls one “algorithm…a series of steps that you can apply to make any change, no matter what your situation”:

One Algorithm

<ul><li>Start very small.</li><li>Do only one change at a time.</li><li>Be present and enjoy the activity (don’t focus on results).</li><li> Be grateful for every step you take.</li></ul>

The Algorithm: Series Of Steps

The beauty of the method is that its smallness removes the problems that result from many self-help recommendations and resolutions: too often they leave people quickly overwhelmed by the task in hand, or swamped by a sense of failure. The change should be so small it’s not hard to do. What takes rigor, for people drenched in stimuli and commitments, is identifying something that is truly small enough.

Beauty Of The Method

Slow down and take things one tiny step at a time.

The Zen Rule for Becoming Happier: Change One Thing

You are more likely to procrastinate if you don’t have a set plan or idea for completing your work. Investing in a planner is a good idea. Start keeping track of all your assignments and their due dates. When you're organized, it gives you a more orderly and measured framework within which to work.

1. GET ORGANIZED.

Getting rid of distractions is another tip to avoid procrastination. By limiting the number of distractions around you, you're more likely to get done what you need to do. Shut your phone off, retreat to a quiet place and listen to classical music or white noise to drown out any noise.

2. ELIMINATE DISTRACTIONS .

Prioritizing your work and assignments is another way to help you avoid procrastination. Every week or so, make a list of what needs to be completed. Make sure you address the most critical or time-sensitive assignments first. Then work your way down the list. Get the hard stuff out of the way first, so that everything that comes after it will seem more manageable.

3. PRIORITIZE.

Part of the reason you might procrastinate is that what you have to do seems overwhelming. It’s a lot easier to get started on a project when you establish simple, reachable goals rather than face a big, vague plan. Instead of telling yourself, “I’ll study chemistry tonight,” you might instead say, "I’ll study chapter six tonight." This makes your goals less intimidating and more attainable.

4. SET GOALS.

Another tip to avoid procrastination is to set deadlines. Many students get stuck in the “I'll do it tomorrow or eventually” cycle when in truth that day or eventually never comes. It's important to set a specific date for when you want a project or assignment to be completed. Aim to have your projects and assignments completed one or two days in advance. That way, if something unexpected happens, you still have extra time to complete them.

5. SET DEADLINES.

Another tip to avoid procrastination is to take a break from your schoolwork every now and then. Take a 10-15 minute break. Listen to music, take a walk or scream into a pillow — anything that takes your mind off of your school work and allows you to relax. An Oregon State University study shows that taking a break can increase focus, reduce stress, and help you better retain information.

6. TAKE A BREAK.

Rewarding yourself may create an incentive to complete a task and help avoid procrastination. After studying for a test or completing an assignment, consider giving yourself a reward. It could be as simple as, "Once I finish this assignment, I can watch an episode of my favorite show."

7. REWARD YOURSELF.

Holding yourself accountable for completing your assignments on time, studying for tests, and getting good grades is another tip to avoid procrastination. While it is easy to find reasons not to study and take unnecessary or extra-long breaks, catch yourself before this happens. Remember that you are responsible for the assignments you complete or don’t complete, the tests you ace or don’t do so well on, and your grades. If you need help in holding yourself accountable, tell a friend or family member and ask them to check up on your goals, deadlines, and accomplishments.

8. HOLD YOURSELF ACCOUNTABLE.

In this idea, we get to know how we can manage our time & stop procrastination. this article is very important for those who procrastinate their work.

8 TIPS TO AVOID PROCRASTINATION

It seems that we are pulled from extreme to extreme in our culture. Should we not be striving for balance? I feel that we all know that balance is key, yet that new diet will be better for me to get there faster. If I work an extra 20 hours a week, then I will push ahead of my peers. These thoughts and actions can be dangerous

Keeping Balance

Organic is ALL THE RAGE 🥑! Yet I am talking about the fundamentals of what say, a vine would do. Sometimes the vine will grow straight up, if there is a blockade, it does not stop the growth of that vine, it just goes around, or finds another way. It adapts. In our life, sometimes being flexible and knowing when to push harder and when to back off because of a busy week is necessary. Finding the balance.

Be Organic (Not like fruit 😆)

<ul><li>Family Life Needs Balance</li><li>Career</li><li>Friendships</li><li>Physical Health</li><li>Mental Health</li><li>Personal Growth (Reading books, Education)</li></ul>

What areas of my life do I strive to keep in balance?

Finding balance is difficult, it is not an easy task to say the least. There is a reason we struggle with it from our day to day. There are seasons where there will be a greater need to spend more time doing one activity over another etc. Just make sure you are hitting that need and not pushing beyond what is required!

Remember...balance is hard

If you do your job right, EVERY time you go to the gym it is hard. EVERY run is difficult to go on. Yet when you look back after a few months, you realize you are lifting more. Running Farther. Improving.

You got this! 👏

Balance is not easy to find, but the pursuit is worth it!

It feels like everywhere I look there is an opinion, a podcast, a blog post. Coffee is good for you...no wait, coffee is bad for you! Exercise 4 hours a day, no you only need 20 minutes. It seems that we are pulled from extreme to extreme in our culture. Should we not be striving for balance? I feel that we all know that balance is key, yet that new diet will be better for me to get there faster. If I work an extra 20 hours a week, then I will push ahead of my peers. These thoughts and actions c

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Finding Balance in a Polarized World

The equation really bothered me. The middle-school math checks out: 0.8 multiplied by 0.2 in fact equals 0.16. What bothered me was the underlying implication: The product of two numbers could be less than each number (0.16 is less than both 0.8 and 0.2).And then the message hit me. When we operate at a fraction, we compromise the output.

0.8 * 0.2 = 0.16

This isn’t just about being mindful of what you’re doing. It’s choosing one activity over others. It’s approaching everything you do with intention. Often, we’re operating impulsively, moving from one notification to the next, one email to the next, living our lives in a frantic blur.

Deep everything.

Rocket scientist turned bestselling author Ozan Varol shares a story about a dream, an equation, and a new take on productivity.

How a Simple Math Equation Can Transform Your Productivity

Today more than ever, there’s no reason to assume any fit between the demands on your time, all the things you want to do, or feel you ought to do, and the amount of time available. Thanks to capitalism, technology and human ambition, these demands keep increasing, while your capacities remain largely fixed. The attempt to “get on top of everything” is doomed.The only viable solution is to make a shift: from a life spent trying not to neglect anything, to one spent proactively and consciously choosing what to neglect, in favour of what matters most.

There will always be too much to do

I’m indebted to the Jungian therapist James Hollis for the insight that major personal decisions should be made not by asking, “Will this make me happy?”, but “Will this choice enlarge me or diminish me?” We’re terrible at predicting what will make us happy: the question swiftly gets bogged down in our narrow preferences for security and control. But the enlargement question elicits a deeper, intuitive response. You tend to just know whether, say, leaving or remaining in a relationship or a job, though it might bring short-term comfort, would mean cheating yourself of growth.

Choose “enlargement” over happiness

It’s shocking to realise how readily we set aside even our greatest ambitions in life, merely to avoid easily tolerable levels of unpleasantness. You already know it won’t kill you to endure the mild agitation of getting back to work on an important creative project; initiating a difficult conversation with a colleague; asking someone out; or checking your bank balance – but you can waste years in avoidance nonetheless. (This is how social media platforms flourish: by providing an instantly available, compelling place to go at the first hint of unease.)

The capacity to tolerate minor discomfort is a superpower

It’s possible, instead, to make a game of gradually increasing your capacity for discomfort, like weight training at the gym. When you expect that an action will be accompanied by feelings of irritability, anxiety or boredom, it’s usually possible to let that feeling arise and fade, while doing the action anyway. The rewards come so quickly, in terms of what you’ll accomplish, that it soon becomes the more appealing way to live.

Choose Disco

I spent a long time fixated on becoming hyper-productive before I finally started wondering why I was staking so much of my self-worth on my productivity levels. What I needed wasn’t another exciting productivity book, but to ask more uncomfortable questions instead.The broader point here is that it isn’t fun to confront whatever emotional experiences you’re avoiding – if it were, you wouldn’t avoid them – so the advice that could really help is likely to make you uncomfortable.

The advice you don’t want to hear is usually the advice you need

It’s wrong to say we live in especially uncertain times. The future is always uncertain

One good question to ask is what kind of practices strike you as intolerably cheesy or self-indulgent: gratitude journals, mindfulness meditation, seeing a therapist? That might mean they are worth pursuing. (I can say from personal experience that all three are worth it.) Oh, and be especially wary of celebrities offering advice in public forums: they probably pursued fame in an effort to fill an inner void, which tends not to work – so they are likely to be more troubled than you are.

One Good Question

As the ancient Greek and Roman Stoics understood, much of our suffering arises from attempting to control what is not in our control. And the main thing we try but fail to control is the future. We want to know, from our vantage point in the present, that things will be OK later on. But we never can.It’s freeing to grasp that no amount of fretting will ever alter this truth. It’s still useful to make plans. But do that with the awareness that a plan is only ever a present-moment statement of intent, not a lasso thrown around the future to bring it under control.

The future will never provide the reassurance you seek from it

You – unconfident, self-conscious, all-too-aware-of-your-flaws – potentially have as much to contribute to your field, or the world, as anyone else.Humanity is divided into two: on the one hand, those who are improvising their way through life, patching solutions together and putting out fires as they go, but deluding themselves otherwise; and on the other, those doing exactly the same, except that they know it. It’s infinitely better to be the latter (although too much “assertiveness training” consists of techniques for turning yourself into the former).

The solution to imposter syndrome is to see that you are one

If you’re prone to thinking you should be helping more, that’s probably a sign that you could afford to direct more energy to your idiosyncratic ambitions and enthusiasms. As the Buddhist teacher Susan Piver observes, it’s radical, at least for some of us, to ask how we’d enjoy spending an hour or day of discretionary time. And the irony is that you don’t actually serve anyone else by suppressing your true passions anyway. More often than not, by doing your thing – as opposed to what you think you ought to be doing – you kindle a fire that helps keep the rest of us warm.

Selflessness is overrated

And then, finally, there’s the one about knowing when something that’s meant a great deal to you – like writing this column – has reached its natural endpoint, and that the most creative choice would be to turn to what’s next. This is where you find me. Thank you for reading.

Know when to move on.

The writer and journalist Oliver Burkeman shares a few lessons from his time writing his "This column will change your life" for the Guardian.

After more than a decade of writing life-changing advice, I know when to move on. Here’s what else I learned

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Mental Health

Oliver Burkeman's last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life

When you meet someone for the first time, you probably ask, “What do you do?” Everyone assumes the question is about your career, but who you are and what you do should be more than just your working hours. In fact, having too great a focus on your professional life can be a factor that leads to burnout.One of the reasons our jobs become an obsession is because we have a greater sense of control over it.  Work is hard, but it still is far more likely to yield reliable gratifications in response to our efforts to control than either the relationships with others or with ourselves.

Too focused on work

<ul><li>Think about the “should” statements you tell yourself when it comes to work. For example, “I should always be accessible” or “I should be able to do it all.” Then ask yourself if that’s really reasonable.</li><li>Your workday is approximately one-third of your day, and you should strive to maintain a sense of balance by rethinking your priorities.</li><li>If your organization doesn’t support striving for balance, don’t be afraid to talk to your supervisor. Leaders should lead by example. Even taking simple measures like blocking out time for a quick walk will demonstrate the importance of unplugging.</li></ul>

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Having too great a focus on your professional life can lead to burnout. It can also mean you miss out on a lot.


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