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Addictions & Distractions: Feel the Discomfort & Uncertainty

Addictions & Distractions: Feel the Discomfort & Uncertainty

Written By Leo Babauta, and originally published on Zen Habits Our lives are pervaded with addictions and distractions. Social media, shopping, favorite websites and video services, biting nails, sweets, fried foods, soda, coffee, gaming, workaholism, complaining, avoiding, procrastinating, perfectionism, fantasizing, rationalizing. These addictions are some of the most common ways we have of soothing ourselves […]

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How to Have More Focused Hours in Your Day

How to Have More Focused Hours in Your Day

Contributed by: Leo Babauta I was talking to someone today and he said that with all the time he spends putzing around on the internet, he gets maybe 2 hours of focused time a day. I actually think that’s higher than average! But if he does incredible work in those 2 hours a day, think […]

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You Don’t Need to Clear the Decks to Focus on Important Work

You Don’t Need to Clear the Decks to Focus on Important Work

Contributed by: Leo Babauta We’ve all done it: we have an important task to do, and yet we have to do a thousand other things before we can start such as process email and reply to messages, make sure we’re up-to-date with the latest news, pay bills and check on our bank accounts, make sure […]

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Single-Minded Devotion to a Task

Single-Minded Devotion to a Task

Contributed by: Leo Babauta I’m going to share a secret to productivity, happiness and mindfulness that you can practice right now, and every day: Devote yourself single-mindedly to anything you do. And by that, I mean anything. For example, you can single-mindedly focus on: Writing, Washing a dish, Talking to someone, Reading an online article, […]

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3 Simple Mindset Shifts to Transform Your Work Tasks

3 Simple Mindset Shifts to Transform Your Work Tasks

Contributed by: Leo Babuta The two biggest obstacles to doing meaningful work are familiar to many of us: Burden & complaint : The work feels like a burden (difficult, overwhelming, annoying) … you might do the task but you rush through it or mentally complain about it, not wanting to do it. Unimportant & putting it […]

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