I am putting forth my quick analysis of what COVID-19 pandemic gave to the world and more or less, to all earthlings.. I hope it strikes a cord with you too..

It has made us consciously decide to be clean, neat and hygienic..

It has made us unrealizingly reach for the newspaper every day without fail..

It has made us understand the value of honestly devoted professionals in Healthcare sector..

It has made us feel more comfortable and cosy than ever inside our homes..

It has made us understand the crucial difference between essential products/services and low-stake streams of work, thus improved our prioritisation skills..

It has given us avenues to have more meals with the entire family than we ever managed to do, earlier..

It has made most of us comprehend the ultimate truth, we are mortal humans and tomorrow is not exactly guaranteed..

It has made us more aware of the importance of purchasing life insurance and medical/health insurance..

It has made a sizeable proportion of the affluent class accustomed to and adept at cleaning, washing and sanitizing by themselves on a regular basis..

It has made human relationships land on the honest, realistic ground of what works (and what does not)..

It has made us more connected to our family members, friends, followers and fellow-residents, even if out of health-concerns..

It has made children better communicators as they got the time, energy and willingness to interact more effectively with parents and siblings..

It has undoubtedly made us more techno-savvy and digitally-oriented..

It has instilled a new sense of confidence, pride in the government and system W.R.T. their capability and readiness to deal with untoward turn of events..

It has made eating-out a rare privilege, just exactly how it should be perceived and observed..

It has helped people upskill in professional life, whether the reason is lay-offs, pay-cuts or any other unfavourable situation..

It has taught us restraint (regardless of how much) in bed, and why we should not take love-making or the partner for granted..

It has led us to believe in enhancing our leadership skills, at any and every level, given the more precarious, vulnerable nature of the world of today..

It has given us the time for catching up on our hobbies, favourite pastimes and areas of interest..

It has made us reminisce of God more, and this has worked in our favour, because we have experienced and practiced faith, hope and providence (divine intervention)..

#COVID19 #Pandemic #HealthEmergency #TakeawaysFromPandemic

20 Important Things We Could Learn From COVID-19 Pandemic.. I am putting forth my quick analysis of what COVID-19 pandemic gave to the world and more or less, to all earthlings.. I hope it strikes a...

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20 Important Things We Could Learn From COVID-19 Pandemic..

We think we have time but in reality we never have it. Time is running at it's speed from the beginning of universe. It never stops. Ticking right now...tick tick...every minute every second is passing. It does not care about our problems, our worries, our intention, our goals, our ambitions....it will always moves forwards following the second law of thermodynamics.So what we can do here ?We can't manage time. It's not in our hands.We can only manage our life energies. We should work towards making our life energies more directed, control, sharp, enjoyable.

TIME : A Stubborn Illusion

Time is a interesting thing. Always moving forward. Never stops. Not even for second. Years had passed.. Billion of years but still moving forward. History has written. People came and gone but arrow of time never changes.Universe is unfolding in every moment, in every second following the second law of thermodynamics. The law which governs the Arrow of time. The law which gives Time it's direction.History of time is much older. Older than you and me, older than earth, older than our universe and your and my life is nothing compared to history of time....just a little drop in the ocean of Time

Arrow of Time

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A Warp Drive, simply defined, is a theoretical device that distorts the shape of the space-time continuum in order to propel itself and speeds faster than light. In a nutshell, the fabric of spacetime is bent to the point where it refracts objects at incredibly high speeds. Again, hard to conceptualize, but very cool indeed. By understanding how spacetime warps, understanding a warp drive is very simple. So give it some thought! Come up with your own theories as to how it works and who knows? You might even win a Nobel peace prize for it!

What is a Warp Drive?

Although it might be hard to understand, it is still one of the most unknown and fascinating imaginary creations of our time!

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“Find something more important than you are,” philosopher Dan Dennett once said in discussing <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2010/12/01/tedify-happiness/">the secret of happiness</a>, “and dedicate your life to it.”But how, exactly, do we find that?Gathered here are insights from seven thinkers who have contemplated the art-science of making your life’s calling a living.

The Secret of Happiness

"What you should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond your friends. You shouldn’t worry about prestige. Prestige is the opinion of the rest of the world.Prestige is especially dangerous to the ambitious. If you want to make ambitious people waste their time on errands, the way to do it is to bait the hook with prestige. That’s the recipe for getting people to give talks, write forewords, serve on committees, be department heads, and so on. It might be a good rule simply to avoid any prestigious task. If it didn’t suck, they wouldn’t have had to make it prestigious."

Paul Graham on How to Do What You Love

"What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along."

"The most important thing a creative per­son can learn professionally is where to draw the red line that separates what you are willing to do, and what you are not.Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly."

"Work is what we do by the hour. It begins and, if possible, we do it for money. Welding car bodies on an assembly line is work; washing dishes, computing taxes, walking the rounds in a psychiatric ward, picking asparagus — these are work. Labor, on the other hand, sets its own pace. We may get paid for it, but it’s harder to quantify… Writing a poem, raising a child, developing a new calculus, resolving a neurosis, invention in all forms — these are labors."

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle."

"You will build a body of work, but you will also build a body of affection, with the people you’ve helped who’ve helped you back. This is the era of Friends in Low Places. If you can… fall in love, with the work, with people you work with, with your dreams and their dreams. Whatever it was that got you to this school, don’t let it go. Whatever kept you here, don’t let that go. Believe in your friends. Believe that what you and your friends have to say… that the way you’re saying it — is something new in the world."

<a href="https://www.holstee.com/pages/manifesto?utm_source=brainpickings&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=bp_sidebar">This is your life.</a> Do what you love, and do it often. If you don’t like something, change it. If you don’t like your job, quit. If you don’t have enough time, stop watching TV. If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love.

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Timeless wisdom collated by the brilliant Maria Popova

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How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love

<ul><li>Be willing to learn to overcome laziness</li><li>Make a plan to overcome laziness</li><li>Reward yourself</li><li>Make good friends</li><li>Commit yourself</li><li><a href="https://megabloginfo.com/top-10-clean-eating-diet/">Eat good food to stay healthy</a></li><li>Don’t excuse just do it!</li><li>Keep expectation limited</li></ul>

How to overcome laziness?

The main cause of laziness, and how to <a href="https://megabloginfo.com/how-to-overcome-laziness-and-procrastinating-top-11-ways/">overcome laziness. </a><ul><li>Laziness due to fear of responsibility</li><li>Fear of risk and failures</li><li>Laziness lack of motivation or depression</li><li><a href="https://megabloginfo.com/how-to-get-rid-of-extreme-laziness-lack-of-motivation-quotes/">Lack of motivation</a></li><li>Laziness due to addiction to pleasure</li><li>Dependency can be a cause of laziness</li><li>Parental Negligence</li><li>Peer or friends influences</li><li>Social media can cause laziness?</li><li>Emotion state</li><li>Action illusions</li></ul>

Major Cause of laziness

#Laziness #main #cause #stopBeingLazyAndUnmtivated 

the main cause of laziness how to overcome: fear of responsibility, risk, failures, lack of motivation, depression, addiction to pleasure

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Every next level of your life will demand a different you.

Always have a growth mindset and keep redefining your self because...

Every next level of your life...

<ul><li>Good time management requires competence in four key areas. </li><li>Don't underestimate the toll that poor time management can take on one's career and personal relationships. </li><li>Understanding the cause of one's poor time management can help identify the tips most likely to improve it. </li> </ul>

Significance of managing time effectively

A Harvard Business Review <a href="http://hbr.org/2020/01/time-management-is-about-more-than-life-hacks">summary of the literature </a>on <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/time-management">time management </a>describes three components of the good time manager:<ul><li>Awareness: reasonably estimating how long something will take</li><li>Arrangement: listing, prioritizing, and tracking <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/motivation">goals </a>and specific tasks</li><li>Adaptation: adjusting to interruptions and changing priorities</li><li>Respect: care for the people who will be affected by yourtime management.</li></ul>

Components of good time manager

The Short-Time Guessing Game: Set the timer for two minutes. Check it when you think it’s been 30 seconds and again at 90 seconds. Repeat that until you can always get fairly close. The Longer-Time Guessing Game: For your next few activities, write your estimate of how long you think each task will take. For example: <ul><li>Drive to work: 45 minutes </li><li>Get ready to begin the first task: 15 minutes </li><li>Answer email: 20 minutes </li><li>Write the first draft of the report: 90 minutes </li> </ul>Now, log how long the tasks actually took. Keep playing that guessing game until your estimates are usually within 10 to 20 percent.

Awareness

Some of my clients have adopted my system for keeping track of to-dos. My time-sensitive to-dos (for example, client appointments) go in my week-at-a-glance calendar. Anything I want to do in the next day or two but needn’t be done at a specific time goes on a 3x3 memo cube. Both sit on my desk, and I check them often during the day. If I didn’t work at home, I’d use my phone’s Google Calendar for the time-delimited to-dos and Apple Notes for my not-time-delimited to-dos. Of course, you have to get in the habit of both writing all your to-dos and checking that list throughout the day.

Arrangement

Often, we become aware of a task that’s a higher priority than the task we’re doing. Too often, we reflexively decide to defer the higher-priority task because we want closure on the task we’re working on. Or we defer the more important task because the current one is more pleasurable. Or we get distracted by a thought or by someone. That can tempt us to take a minute to indulge the distraction. Alas, too often, the distraction lasts far longer than we realize. The goal is to consciously, not reflexively, decide whether it’s <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/wisdom">wise </a>to complete your current task before reprioritizing.

Adaptation

Time-management problems might derive from insufficient respect for the victims of their poor time management. Most people don’t intentionally disrespect their victims. Usually, they just haven’t written it on their to-do list or don’t check the list often enough. Or they enjoy trying to cram in so much before their appointments that they’re late.What helps is to put yourself in the victims’ shoes.From a pragmatic perspective, it may also help to remember that disrespect may take a toll on one’s <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/career">career </a>and personal life.

Respect

Found some great insight on time-management, something that I really struggled with. 

...and suggestions for how to deal with each.

4 Causes of Poor Time Management

Minimalism forces you to live in the present. Removing items associated with past memories frees you and allows you to stop living in the past. Once the past no longer has power, you can begin to live in the moment.

1. Remove unneeded possessions

Each day is full of endless possibilities! Start it with a smile. You are in control of your attitude every morning, <a href="https://www.becomingminimalist.com/focus-on-the-reasons-you-can/">keep it optimistic </a>and expectant. Be intentional about it and you’ll find yourself doing it every day without even realizing it.

2. Smile

Soak in as much of <a href="https://www.becomingminimalist.com/moments/">today </a>as you possibly can – the sights, the sounds, the smells, the emotions, the triumph, and the sorrow. These are in our daily lives but we often forget to take them in and truly appreciate them.

3. Fully appreciate the moments of today 

If you are harboring resentment towards another human being because of past hurts, choose to forgive and <a href="https://www.becomingminimalist.com/make-space/">move on </a>. The harm was their fault, but allowing it to impact your mood today is yours. Let go and choose to be present in the moment instead..

4. Forgive past hurts 

If you just “survive” the workweek constantly waiting for the next weekend “to get here,” you are wasting 71% of your life (5/7 days.) There are two solutions: find a new job that you actually enjoy, or find something that you appreciate about your current career

5. Find Job That Excites You

Dream big. Set goals and plans for the future. But <a href="https://www.becomingminimalist.com/work-hard/">working hard today </a>is always the first step towards realizing your dreams tomorrow. Don’t allow dreaming about tomorrow to replace living in the moment. Dreaming about the future is only productive when combined with action taken today.

6. Dream about the future, but work hard today 

If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven’t done much today. There is still plenty of time to build upon past successes and create more memories and achievements for future-you. In the future, you’ll be cherishing the memories of today.

7. Don’t dwell on past accomplishments

You can’t fully appreciate today <a href="https://www.becomingminimalist.com/declutter-your-mind/">if you worry too much </a>about tomorrow. Realize that tomorrow is going to happen whether you worry about it or not. And since worry has never accomplished anything for anybody, redirect your mental energy elsewhere.

8. Stop worrying

Our world is changing so fast that most of yesterday’s solutions are no longer the right answers today. Don’t get locked into a “but that’s how we’ve always done it” mentality. Yesterday’s solutions are not today’s solutions and they are certainly not tomorrow’s solutions.

9. Think beyond old solutions to problems

Addictions in your life hold you hostage. They keep you from living a completely free life and removes your focus from the moment. Find some help. Take the steps. And remove their influence over your life. Allow yourself to live in the moment addiction-free.

10. Conquer addictions

Do you tend to live in the past and the future, struggling with staying present? Here are 10 tips that will help you live in the moment.

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10 Tips to Start Living in the Present Moment

This does not mean to literally press the Ctrl+Alt+Delete buttons on your keyboard but instead:
Control the in-the-moment stress that is spiraling out of control and making you feel stressed
_Alt_ernatively, do something that will engage your focus better like meditating or breathing exercises
Delete the thoughts that are distracting you find your workspace and avoid the urge to let your mind wander.

Control, Alt, Delete

The general rule to beat the stress out of you is to not keep looking at future deadlines or to-dos. It's important to focus only on the list that you've curated for that day.
This is why we have a 'dump.' It is the area in your workspace where you store yet-to-be sorted to-dos. If something is urgent, we slot them into our schedule and put a task back in the dump.
At the end of the day, we need to review our dump to set up tomorrow's task list. As long as you're reviewing your done tasks, they won't fall through the cracks.

Have a 'dump'

I've been reading Eckhart Tolle lately in order to soothe my need for guidance and I've stumbled across this article. Here are the two things to do in order for us to beat the stress away. 

December 31 looms large, and pressures to wrap up key projects are ever-present. Fortunately, there's a way to avoid anxiety attacks and stress-induced burnouts. It starts with a simple focus exercise.

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2 Easy Ways to Beat the Stress of Ridiculous End-of-Year Deadlines and Improve Your Focus

Many people struggle with saying, "No." If someone asks you for a favor or a commitment, you may feel obligated to say "Yes." Remember, just because you can do something does not mean it is required. Work on considering the best ways to say "No." Think about things like your personal boundaries and the situation at hand. When saying "No," do so in a polite manner that makes your boundaries clear. Work on avoiding guilt after saying "No." Understand you always have a right to turn down an invitation or refuse a favor. It's okay to make yourself and your mental health a priority.

Why It Is Necessary?

Part-1

Considering How to Say No

Many people have a knee-jerk reaction to say "Yes" when they're asked to do someone a favor. Keep in mind, you are never required to say "Yes." It's actually okay to say "No" sometimes. Accept this as you prepare to say "No" to someone. This will help you say "No" with ease.If you never say "No," this can have negative consequences. You can enable someone who relies too much on you for favors. You can also burn out on your own end and lose focus.

Give yourself permission to say no

It's always easier to say "No" if you have a reason.However, that reason does not have to be concrete. Many people think if they can do something, they should. Your reason for saying "No" can be a simple matter of your own personal boundaries. Think about what boundaries you have, and embrace the fact you're allowed to stay true to them.Consider what you are reasonably able to do, and what you actually enjoy doing. You can say "No" to things that drain you or distract you. You can set specific boundaries regarding what you will and will not agree to do.

Establish your personal boundaries.

People often won't take "No" for an answer. If you say "No" to someone, they may use persuasion techniques to try and change your mind. Be aware of potential persuasion techniques so you can establish a firm offense.People may try to guilt you into doing something to reciprocate a favor. Remember, just because someone did you a favor does not mean you owe them. Friends do not keep score.A person may also try to get you to do something by comparing you to other people. They may say another person agreed to help. You are not another person. You don't have to repay everytime.

Be aware of potential persuasion techniques

t may sound silly, but you can actually practice saying "No" alone. Try standing before a mirror and looking at yourself. Practice giving a firm, "No" to someone so you get comfortable with the words. Many people are nervous about saying "No" and may say "Yes" due to anxiety. Practicing can help quell some of this anxiety.

Practice saying "No"

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