"My anti-bucket list is a list of my top fears, discomforts, and dislikes that I would rather avoid, but am willing to face up to in order to conquer them and become a better person for the challenge."

What is an anti-bucket list?

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

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Career

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Mindfulness

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Mental Health

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Creativity

“What on earth is an ANTI-bucket list (and why should I create one)?”

Every team needs to use a defined digital toolset and every individual needs to have a strong internet connection. For example, we use <a href="https://blog.trello.com/trello-app-for-slack">Slack </a>for chat, <a href="https://trello.com/home">Trello </a>for managing projects, <a href="https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence">Confluence </a>for collaboration, <a href="https://blog.trello.com/trello-and-google-drive-an-integration-made-in-office-heaven">Google Docs </a>for sharing docs, and <a href="https://blog.trello.com/team-building-activities-video-meetings">Zoom </a>for all video meetings. Your toolset may be different, but defining it as a team is important for developing that shared context.

Tools for Digital Teams

Whether you've been working remotely for a decade (like me!) or are just getting started on your remote working journey, there are ways of making sure it's a delight instead of a total drag. In a recent survey, 77% of respondents reported greater productivity when working remotely compared to working in an office setting.

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Remote Work

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Time Management

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Human Resources

How To Be A Happy And Productive Remote Worker

Distractions, other ideas, other opportunities, failure, negative self-talk, etc, would get in the way. And the results are always the same: You never get anything done. To me, the key finding from the study by Dianne Tice and Roy Baumeister is this: "The present evidence suggests that procrastinators enjoy themselves rather than working at assigned tasks, until the rising pressure of imminent deadlines forces them to get to work. In this view, procrastination may derive from a lack of self-regulation and hence a dependency on externally imposed forces to motivate work."

Procrastination is the destroyer of our dreams. Every time we don't do the things we should or want, we're putting off our lives. It's not innocent behavior. In this article, I'll show you how to beat procrastination so you can live the life you desire.

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Motivation & Inspiration

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Habits

How To Beat Procrastination (backed by science)

You do something from your list which aligns with your goals. I don't care what it is, but you do something. I also don't care how small that something is. Remember the example above? A written novel was one of those goals. Let's say 10 PM hits, you're about to jump in bed, and you haven't done anything. What do you do? You write one sentence, at the least. Maybe you can eke out a paragraph, or even a page.

Avoid Do-Nothing Days

We like games. Video games, board games, cell phone games, and unfortunately relationship games. There's a really popular mental game we play with ourselves, too. It goes something like this: let's see how much we can put off in the shortest amount of time.

The "No Zero" Day - One Simple Way To Never Have An Unproductive Day

Impostor syndrome is about your lack of belief in your skill at something. Having self-efficacy is a healthy amount of belief in your skill at something. If we increase the latter, we get rid of the former. We need to get you to believe that your ability - not luck or mere hard work - is the primary active ingredient in your success.

Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here. *** Impostor Syndrome is like being a secret agent - in the most depressing way imaginable.

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Problem Solving

This Is How To Overcome Impostor Syndrome: 4 Secrets From Research - Barking Up The Wrong Tree

The idea is that the things that you really like a lot, stop. Stop it. So, if you love, every day, having the same coffee, don't have it for a few days and, when you wait, and then you have it again, it's going to be way more amazing than all of the ones that you would have had in the meantime.

Interrupt Pleasure

Kevan Lee, the director of marketing for Buffer, also writes a lot about happiness. So I wondered: Are there unexpected ways to be happy? I pulled together research about the many unexpected and counterintuitive ways to find happiness: 1. Learn something new, even if it's stressful: Mastering a new skill means more stress now but more happiness later.

“What on earth is an ANTI-bucket list (and why should I create one)?”

How To Be A Happy And Productive Remote Worker

How To Beat Procrastination (backed by science)

The "No Zero" Day - One Simple Way To Never Have An Unproductive Day

This Is How To Overcome Impostor Syndrome: 4 Secrets From Research - Barking Up The Wrong Tree

Rachana Esha