<ul><li>The Tao Te Ching, written in China around 600 BC, first articulated the idea of wu wei. ”Do that which consists in taking no action and order will prevail,” the book 📒explains.</li><li> The idea is that we should stop trying to force action and get comfortable 😌doing less. </li><li>Then, when we do move, our actions are natural, energetic, and accomplish the desired results.⚡</li></ul>

The Wu Wei  ✨

<ul><li>The Tao Te Ching recommends cultivating non-action by observing the natural world. 💫</li><li>The skies don’t always storm; nor are birds always in flight. Stillness preserves us for action when necessary. </li></ul>

Stillness Is An Action Too.🧘

<ul><li>The Taoist storyteller Chuang Tzu explains the idea further around 350 BC: “From the sage’s emptiness, stillness arises; From stillness, action. From action, attainment.”⏲️</li><li> Wu wei is also an essential element of the influential strategy guide The Art of War.</li></ul>

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The idea of wu Wei helps in avoiding messy circumstances and approach work with focus and energy .

Learn to conserve energy so that you can expend it when the moment is right.

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Mindfulness 

An ancient Chinese principle can help you get comfortable with doing less—and make you happier, too

<ul><li>This question helps you uncover that unique talent that sets you apart from others. Perhaps you’re good at public speaking or motivating others.</li><li> Or maybe you’re good at finding computer bugs or supporting your friends through tough times. </li><li>Whether you have a hard or soft skill, knowing what you do well will put you on your way to using your talent in your purpose</li></ul>

1. What do you do well?

<ul><li>Unfortunately, it can be hard to recognize your own talent. When something comes naturally, it doesn’t always seem special. </li><li>To get some help, ask your family or friends what they think you’re good at doing.</li><li> This question gets to the heart of recognition “Most of us are not self-aware,” says Maxwell. “We all have blind spots, but you can ask others to help you identify your talents.”</li><li>Ask several people, suggests Maxwell. When you start to hear certain talents over again, you’ve identified an area of strength.</li></ul>

2.What do your friends say you do well?

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">This question taps into your internal desires, and can help you identify your purpose. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">A good way to answer this question is to consider those things you like to do in your free time or the projects at work you volunteer for or seek out.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">These things should also align with your talent, and it’s important to not confuse purpose with passion, says Maxwell. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">“Sometimes your passion is something you’re not any good at,” he says. “If you’re passionate about something you’re not good at, you can make it a hobby, not a career.”</li></ul>

 3.If you could do or be anything, what would you do or be?

<ul><li>Your purpose will give you a return, and this question helps you identify the things you do that generate results. For example, if your talent is sales, you likely hit your goals every month.</li><li> Or if you are good at innovative thinking, you might share ideas at work that prompt new projects. Pay attention to the tasks you do that get you accolades and awards.</li><li>Strengths and purpose are more than knowledge, says Maxwell. “Knowledge is overrated,” he says. “I can ask Siri, and she’ll tell me what I need to know. But what value is something if you know it but don’t use it?</li></ul>

4. What gives you results when you do something?

<ul><li>Once you identify your uniqueness, you need to fine-tune and work harder at it to set yourself apart.</li><li> While having talent helps make you special, developing it further can make you strong. </li></ul>“Your growth potential is connected to your strengths,” says Maxwell. “In your weak areas, your growth potential is low, but when you’re working to improve your strength, you have a higher capacity.”

5. How can you get better?

It's quite often when we lack purpose & just go through life instead of growing . This stash contains questions you should consider while finding your PURPOSE.

If you’re feeling stuck, these questions can help.

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Self Improvement

Five Questions to Ask When You Need Help Finding Your Purpose

<ul><li>The Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias in which people believe that they are smarter and more capable than they really are.</li><li>The combination of poor self-awareness and low cognitive ability leads them to overestimate their own capabilities.</li><li>The term lends a scientific name and explanation to a problem that many people immediately recognize—that fools are blind to their own foolishness. </li></ul>

Overview 

<ul><li> Overestimate their own skill levels.</li><li> Fail to recognize the genuine skill and expertise of other people.</li><li> Fail to recognize their own mistakes and lack of skill.</li></ul>

Causes 

<ul><li>EVERYONE.Everyone has areas in which they are uninformed and incompetent.</li><li>The reality is that everyone is susceptible to this phenomenon, and in fact, most of us probably experience it with surprising regularity.</li><li>The dose is a bit higher in some cases though :)</li><li>Note ;The Dunning-Kruger effect is not synonymous with low IQ.</li></ul>

Affected People

<ul><li>Keep learning and practicing. </li><li>Ask other people how you're doing.</li><li>Question what you know.</li></ul>

Overcoming The Bias

THE DUNNING KRUGER EFFECT IS A type of cognitive bias you would not like to have .

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which the incompetent lack the skills and cognitive abilities to recognize their own inability.

Dunning-Kruger Effect: Why Incompetent People Think They Are Superior

<ul><li>Fruits, vegetables and grains labeled organic are grown without the use of most synthetic pesticides or artificial fertilizers. </li><li>While such chemicals have been deemed safe in the quantities used for conventional farming, health experts still warn about the potential harms of repeated exposure.</li><li>Organic farming has an added benefit of being hygenic & planned growth.</li></ul>

Fewer pesticides and heavy metals

<ul><li>When it comes to meat and milk, organic products can have about 50% more omega-3 fatty acids, a type of unsaturated healthy fat, than conventionally produced products.</li><li>It is believed that that switching from conventional to organic products would raise consumers’ omega-3 intake without increasing overall calories or saturated fats.</li></ul>

More healthy fats

<ul><li>Conventional livestock can be fed antibiotics to protect against illness, making it easier for farmers to raise animals in crowded or unsanitary conditions. </li><li>traces of these substances can make their way to consumers.</li><li>organic foods—which are produced without antibiotics—“are intrinsically safer in this respect.” </li><li>Organic meat and dairy also cannot contain synthetic hormones, which have been linked to an increased risk of cancer. </li></ul>

No antibiotics or synthetic hormones

<ul><li>In a recent six-year study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, researchers found that organic onions had about a 20% higher antioxidant content than conventionally grown onions. </li><li>They also theorized that previous analyses—several of which have found no difference in conventional versus organic antioxidant levels—may have been thwarted by too-short study periods and confounding variables like weather.</li></ul>

More antioxidants, in some cases.

The health benefits of organic food include fewer pesticides and heavy metals, more healthy fats, and possibly more antioxidants, as well.

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Health

4 Science-Backed Health Benefits of Eating Organic

<ul><li>Regardless of where and how you fall into the trap of half-work, the result is always the same: you're never fully engaged in the task at hand, you rarely commit to a task for extended periods of time, and it takes you twice as long to accomplish half as much.</li><li>pick one exercise and make it your only focus for the entire workout. </li><li>carve out a few hours (or even an entire work day) to deep dive on an important project. </li></ul>

Eliminate half-work at all costs.

<ul><li>the decisions and choices that you make throughout the day tend to drain your willpower. You're less likely to make a good decision at the end of the day than you are at the beginning.</li><li>do your best to make sure that if there is something important that you need to do, then you do it first.</li><li>If you do the most important thing first, then you’ll never have a day when you didn’t get something important done.</li></ul>

Do the most important thing first.

<ul><li>goal is to put the schedule first and not the scope, which is the opposite of how we usually approach our goals.</li><li>when it comes to doing important work over the long–term, following a schedule is much more effective.</li></ul>

Reduce the scope, but stick to the schedule.

These time management tips are practical suggestions that will help you take control of your life, improve your productivity, and live healthy.

3 Time Management Tips That Actually Work

<ul><li>Those who become true masters at their craft start out as students, researching, reading and learning, especially from those who have already established themselves in the field. </li><li>Research will help you to better understand the ecosystem you’re working in, including what your customers, employees and shareholders actually need. </li><li>Another key to fostering a healthy culture is understanding that change is inevitable</li></ul>

Research

<ul><li>Learnings are theoretical until you put them into practice. </li><li>in business, your company becomes the lab where you can put all the knowledge you’ve learned into practice to establish a thriving and healthy culture. </li><li>It also serves as a strong continued source of learning as you keep amassing and applying your learnings and knowledge to making improvements. </li></ul>

Replicate

<ul><li>In the pursuit of establishing solid practices that enrich your culture and increase the productivity of your team, you will inevitably run into roadblocks and experience outcomes that underperform against your expectations. </li><li>The work of tweaking, iterating and re-working those things which you’ve put into practice will aid in the learnings and optimization of the practices that will help your company thrive and produce healthy harvests. </li></ul>

Re-work. 

<ul><li>true masters of leadership will constantly re-imagine how to foster a more meaningful culture that elevates the performance and execution of those within the company. </li><li>Everything about a business is ever evolving — the competition, the customer and the people. </li><li>This will open up divergent thought to form solutions that have the potential to unlock untold success.</li></ul>

Re-imagine

Creating a positive company culture that involves research, replication, re-working and re-imagining will lead to success. 

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<ul><li>Once you’ve taken a moment to slow down the negative momentum of your thoughts, you will be more rational and clear-headed in evaluating their veracity. </li><li>Evaluate your thoughts &amp; statements to see if they’re factual. </li><li>Identifying and labeling your thoughts as thoughts by separating them from the facts will help you escape the cycle of negativity and move toward a positive new outlook.</li></ul>

Separate Fact From Fiction

<ul><li>think about your day and identify one positive thing that happened, no matter how small.</li><li>Once you have identified a positive thought, draw your attention to that thought each time you find yourself dwelling on the negative.</li><li>This will come naturally after some practice, but first you have to give your wandering brain a little help by consciously selecting something positive to think about.</li></ul>

Identify A Positive

<ul><li>Above techniques have tremendous power because they train your brain to have a positive focus. </li><li>They break old habits, if you force yourself to use them. </li><li>Given the mind’s natural tendency to wander toward negative thoughts, we can all use a little help with staying positive.</li></ul>

Bringing It All Together

Sometimes staying positive is easier said than done. Here’s 3 powerful ways to reap the health and performance benefits of a positive attitude.

3 Powerful Ways To Stay Positive

<ul><li>The Muladhara, or root chakra, represents our foundation.</li><li> On the human body, it sits at the base of the spine and gives us the feeling of being grounded.</li><li> When the root chakra is open, we feel confident in our ability to withstand challenges and stand on our own two feet. </li><li> Location: Base of spine, in tailbone area</li><li> What it controls: Survival issues such as financial independence, money, and food</li><li> Mantra: "I can't grow from an unsteady foundation."</li><li> Color: Red</li><li> Element: Earth</li><li> Stone: Hematite</li><li> Yoga pose: Warrior I</li><li>Solar Plexus Chakra When it develops: 1-7 years old. </li></ul>

Root Chakra. 

<ul><li>The Swadhisthana, or sacral chakra, helps inform how we relate to our emotions and the emotions of others.</li><li> It also governs creativity and sexual energy. Those with a blocked sacral chakra could feel a lack of control in their lives.</li><li> Location: Lower abdomen, about 2 inches below the navel</li><li> What it controls: Your sense of abundance, well-being, pleasure, and sexuality</li><li> Mantra: "I always honor others but not before myself."</li><li> Color: Orange</li><li> Element: Water</li><li> Stone: Tiger's Eye</li><li> Yoga pose: Bound Angle Pose</li><li> When it develops: 8-14 years old</li></ul>

Sacral Chakra

<ul><li>The third chakra, the solar plexus chakra, speaks to your ability to be confident and in control of your life.</li><li> Think back to the last time you had butterflies or felt a pit in the stomach: That's the Manipura chakra at work. </li><li> Location: Upper abdomen in the stomach area</li><li> What it controls: Self-worth, self-confidence, and self-esteem</li><li> Mantra: "Self-love starts when I accept all parts of myself."</li><li> Color: Yellow</li><li> Element: Fire</li><li> Stone: Amber</li><li> Yoga pose: Boat Pose</li><li> When it develops: 15-21 years old</li></ul>

Solar Plexus Chakra

<ul><li>The Anahata, or heart chakra, is the bridge between the lower chakras (associated with materiality) and the upper chakras (associated with spirituality). </li><li>As the name suggests, this chakra can influence our ability to give and receive love—from others and ourselves. </li><li> Location: Center of chest, just above the heart</li><li> What it controls: Love, joy, and inner peace</li><li> Mantra: "When I love myself, loving others comes easily."</li><li> Color: Green</li><li> Element: Air</li><li> Stone: Rose Quartz</li><li> Yoga pose: Camel Pose</li><li> When it develops: 21-28 years old</li></ul>

Heart Chakra

<ul><li>The Vishuddha, or throat chakra, gives voice to the heart chakra and controls our ability to communicate our personal power.</li><li> When it's functioning at full capacity, it allows us to express ourselves truly and clearly. </li><li> Location: Throat</li><li> What it controls: Communication, self-expression, and truth</li><li> Mantra: "I speak my truth, always."</li><li> Color: Light Blue/Turquoise</li><li> Element: Sound/Music</li><li> Stone: Aquamarine</li><li> Yoga pose: Fish Pose</li><li> When it develops: 29-35 years old</li></ul>

Throat Chakra 

<ul><li>As we move up the body, we're getting closer to communion with the divine. The Anja, or third-eye chakra, controls our ability to see the big picture and connect to intuition.</li><li> Think of it as the eye of the soul: It registers information beyond the surface level. </li><li> Location: Forehead between the eyes (also called the Brow Chakra)</li><li> What it controls: Intuition, imagination, and wisdom</li><li> Mantra: "I am open to exploring what cannot be seen."</li><li> Color: Dark Blue/Purple</li><li> Element: Light</li><li> Stone: Amethyst</li><li> Yoga pose: Child's Pose</li><li> When it develops: 36-42 years old</li></ul>

Third-Eye Chakra

<ul><li>The Sahasrara, or crown chakra, the highest chakra, sits at the crown of the head and represents our ability to be fully connected spiritually.</li><li> When you fully open your crown chakra—something very few people ever do!—you're able to access a higher consciousness.</li><li> Location: The very top of the head</li><li> What it controls: Inner and outer beauty, spiritual connection</li><li> Lesson: "I am a vessel for love and light."</li><li> Color: Violet/White</li><li> Element: Divine Consciousness</li><li> Stone: Clear quartz</li><li> Yoga pose: Headstand</li><li> When it develops: 43-49 years old</li></ul>

Crown Chakra

The 7 chakras are the energy centers of the body. Here, we introduce each one—where it is on the body, what it stands for, and what it means to open it.

A Beginner's Guide To The 7 Chakras

Create a cozy nap environment without the expectation of falling asleep.Taking that pressure off of ourselves goes a long way toward relaxation and leads to increased productivity.Consider playing some soothing music to help drown out any distracting noises.Allow your eyelids to gently close, and notice any thoughts that arise.

Close your eyes

<ul><li>Choose a photo or work of art that feels relaxing to look at, perhaps a calm ocean scene or some flowers against a bright blue sky. </li><li>(Note: Blue is calming; orange stimulates creativity.) Set a timer for five minutes. </li><li>Sit comfortably and gaze at the picture. </li><li>Allow your mind to wander while keeping the focus on the feeling you get from the image, and keep a pen and notepad nearby to jot down any flashes of inspiration. </li></ul>

Daydream

<ul><li>First, practice diaphragmatic breathing — drawing the air into your belly instead of your upper chest.</li><li> Place one hand over your heart and the other over your abdomen while inhaling. </li><li>When your lower hand rises during inhalation and your upper hand does not, you know you’re bringing the air fully into your diaphragm.</li><li>Repeat this sequence for anywhere from two to 10 minutes. </li></ul>

Breathe

Using these techniques, our brains are able to pick apart information and reassemble it, like pieces of a puzzle, in a way that our conscious mind alone cannot.

Access intuitive solutions via the subconscious mind

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The 5-Minute Habit (Based on Neuroscience) That Will Change Your Life

Productivity metrics are a means of tracking and measuring how quickly and efficiently employees are completing assignments. These metrics are also helpful insights to track, manage, and improve employee performance. As you would expect, there are various types of employee productivity metrics, including quantitative and qualitative measurements.

What are productivity metrics?

<ul><li>The 360-degree feedback method is a qualitative productivity metric. It uses feedback from colleagues and co-workers to gauge employee performance. </li><li>You can only use this performance metric if people are working closely with one another, as this type of feedback is very straightforward. </li><li>Respondents are asked to give feedback on how an employee has fulfilled their duties. They are also asked how the employee has contributed to achieving company goalscompany goals.</li></ul>

1. 360 Degree Feedback.

<ul><li>Management by objectives is a method of measuring how employee output contributes to the achievement of company goals.</li><li> To apply the management by objectives approach at your organization, you need to have company and departmental SMART goals in place. </li><li>Assuming you have five employees in your sales department, the goal of each employee would be to secure two sales per quarter. </li><li>With those targets in hand, you can check the productivity of each member of your sales team.</li></ul>

Management by Objectives.

<ul><li>The planned to done ratio allows you to measure how much work assigned to an individual was completed. </li><li>To get the planned to done ratio, you divide the number of tasks that should have been completed against what was accomplished. You then turn that figure into a percentage.</li><li>you can use this measurement to assess employee performance. If one employee has a 50% planned to done ratio and everyone else in the department has over 90%, you know there’s a problem. </li></ul>

Planned to Done Ratio. 

<ul><li>Time management productivity is a means of evaluating and assessing what people do with their time.</li><li> In a hybrid, remote, or even in the office, time management productivity is generally assessed using time tracking software.</li><li> The way time management productivity is tracked using these tools usually straightforward. </li></ul>

Time Management Productivity  

<ul><li>The final performance productivity metric you might want to use is productivity by profit.</li><li> The productivity by profit metric involves measuring how much money the tasks you do generate for the business. </li><li>Productivity by profit is a useful metric to measure for companies that are looking to grow fast.</li><li> If you know what tasks are making the most money, you can get people to focus more on the tasks that make the most money and less on tasks that have a limited positive impact on finances.</li></ul>

Productivity by Profit. 

Many people are now working from home, the office, and everywhere in between. But is it more productive? Here are 5 hybrid work productivity metrics to help.

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