Want to respond to letters - complete the report - read a book - spend quality time with family?

Try turning off the router for an hour. Handling impulsiveness is easy, you just have to:

Throw away the key: Close off tempting alternatives.

Setup a couple of Pomodoros to complete the job; or talk the matters with your complete presence. Don’t let your impulsiveness distract you! Your job will end up better and your clients will be happier.

Similar “tempting alternatives” might include: phone, television, tickers, IMs etc. When work starts expanding, turn …

tvthomson:

Magical Circle.

Look at the red dot carefully. just keep looking at it. The blue circle will disappear and then reappear

You can stay afraid forever of:

- a subject (taxation, particular disease, English grammar, politics),

- a term (SQL joints, standard deviation, VLOOKUP, Piotroski score),

- a method/framework (organisation manuals, guidance notes, new technology, Gmail, Linux), or

- an activity (swimming, public speaking, driving)

or get into its depth, learn about it, practice it and become its master. It might take some time and patience to learn something new (especially when you fear it), but you will soon realize that you have removed a bottleneck.

So start taming your fears!

Both, a new favorable idea as well as an opposing thought should be noted down.

You think of a new feature for your application; a more usable design for your website; a new investment idea; a new blog post; a seminar that your read about…the key to their execution lies in making a note of them.

Darwin wrote in his autobiography:

“I had … during many years, followed a golden rule, namely, that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed by my general results, to make a memorandum …

WOW!!! This is fantastic.

Link: http://www.drawastickman.com/index.htm?o=66-69-32-67-82-69-65-84-73-86-69s69-86-69-82-89-32-68-65-89

Inspiration Squared

Nice backgrounds + awesome typography + amazing quotes = Perfect inspirational slideshow

[Have set some of the graphics from above as wallpaper :D].

P.S. The “Top Presentations” page on SlideShare is addictive.

Seth Godin’s post yesterday on Talker’s Block motivates me to give it a try. I haven’t been very good at writing and thus sometimes end up procrastinating jobs. Such as, after reading a good article, have often thought about writing an email to the author, but ended up procrastinating it to infinity.

This will be an interesting challenge to take-up and I will try to write some analysis, everyday single day, on the blog - beginning with this post!

Rules are simple:

Just write poorly. Continue to write poorly, in public, until you can write better.

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