How many directions is your brain going right now? In positive psychology, a “flow state” is where you’re “in the zone,” fully absorbed in whatever activity you’re in. You lose track of time and you’re fully present. Being in “flow” is crucial to high-performance and creativity. It’s crucial to being
Your first three hours will make or break you. The traditional 9–5 workday is poorly structured for high productivity. Perhaps when most work was physical labor, but not in the knowledge working world we now live in. Although this may be obvious based on people’s mediocre performance, addiction to stimulants,
Singleness of purpose. “Success demands singleness of purpose. You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects. It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.” — Gary Keller, Billionaire If you want
Who you are right now isn’t who you must be. You have a great deal of choice in the person you become. The results you’re getting in your life right now can change. The person you are in 3 months from now could be completely different. You could have different
Personality isn’t fixed — we just let ourselves get predictable People tend to default to the roles imposed by social environments. Putting yourself in new environments, around new people, and taking on new roles are the quickest ways to access different facets of your personality, for better or worse. Fully
Viktor Frankl survived the Holocaust. From his perspective, there was one reason why: He was able to maintain a sense of purpose. As he wrote in his vital memoir Man’s Search for Meaning, those in the concentration camps who lost a sense of hope quickly decayed, while those who saw
Organizational psychologist Benjamin Hardy puts a spin on Parkinson’s Law Parkinson’s Law is the adage that “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” The notion is simple: If you give yourself a year to do something, it will take a year. If you give
“Your subconscious mind works continuously, while you are awake, and while you sleep.” — Napoleon Hill Your subconscious never rests and is always on duty because it controls your heartbeat, blood circulation, and digestion. It controls all the vital processes and functions of your body and knows the answers to
Very few people grasp these simple principles. When you “get” these ideas, they open you to a whole new world of possibility and potential. You get these ideas on a deeper and deeper level with experience and success. The more successful you become, the more these ideas become real
#1: Luck shouldn’t be a factor in your mind The first of the three exciting facts is that “Luck” shouldn’t be part of the equation in your mind when setting a goal. When you’re thinking about something big you want to pursue, it can almost feel impossible from where you’re