Book Summary for DO IT TODAY by DARIUS FOROUX
Chapter 14 -Take A Vacation: It Boosts Your
Productivity And Reduces Stress
😂😁😁😁 The author just hit me on the head with this. As an advocate for mental health care, I usually use myself till I almost drop dead. Too bad!😔
However, since I started paying close attention to how overworking reduces my Productivity, I started cautioning myself concerning this.
Sometimes, in 2020, I took that break from the internet space to revive my waning energy and to do what I call hibernation. It worked and today, this book will also help you learn why vacation is important and how to do it the right way.
🛑 If you can remember to refill your tank when it’s empty or even recharge your call line, then it is compulsory for you to take care of your body and the brain in it.
🛑 Now, taking a vacation to recharge is not the same thing as your activities packed weekends. The author here points out the resting/vacation that you take for a purpose.
I mentioned earlier that in 2020, I took a break even when the pandemic was heavy on us, I still had to take the break. Why? I had a reason to break away from the virtual space for a specific one month and that was to revamp my brand, restrategise, reinvigorate and examine my lifestyle.
🛑 Why couldn’t I just do that while working?
Just as the author wrote, to me, life is about working hard and my focus is oy on that.
Voltaire said it best:
“The further I advance in age, the more I find work necessary. It becomes
in the long run the greatest of pleasures, and takes the place of the illusions
of life.”
🛑 I love what the author wrote about what rest will do for you and I’ll dub it into this article:
…Rest reduces stress. Improves creativity and productivity.
Scientific research shows that a vacation decreases perceived job stress and
burnout. Now, that’s a pretty solid benefit of taking a few days off. But
there’s more. As you may know, I’m always interested in productivity. In
the case of resting or a vacation, my question is:
Will I get more things done when I get back? The answer is yes, but there’s
one major thing to keep in mind.
But let’s back up a bit: What does it mean to get more done? Getting things
done has nothing to do with time—if you work more hours, you don’t
necessarily get more done.
In fact, research shows that working more hours general means less
productivity. Why? Well, we often waste time if we have more of it. It’s
simple: If I say to you, you have a year to write an article. What would you
do? Procrastinate, right?
But what if I tell you that you only have 2 hours? You immediately think,
how can I write this article ASAP! So in a way, having more days off, and
fewer days to work, forces you to be more effective with your time.
Research shows that a vacation in itself won’t make you more productive,
but when you have more days off, you have a strong desire to get more
things done in less time.
Here are tips that can help you have a Productive Vacation
🛑 Be flexible with your plan.
When you’re planning your vacation, don’t try to be someone else. Go flex with your vacation as long as you are getting quality rest time.
🛑 Make A daily Memory Caption.
This could be in photo album or in short clips during your holiday but don’t do that all day. This helps take your mind away from things you are vacating from and be in the present moment you are.
🛑 You can develop reading habit on vacation.
Yes! I tell you the truth, this works honestly. I’ve tried it and that’s why I’m saying this.
Reading books during your vacation help you think better, slows down time, put you into another world and help you do something other than think about the work you left at home.
🛑 Boredom can be your Leverage point.
Yeah! Easier said than done but wait! Getting bored out of your mind will help you realise new concept and you can even use it to your advantage.
So, yeah when you hit your end, just do nothing and see where that boredom takes you.
That being said, even though this book summary is set throughout this month. I’ll take a short break here and see you on Sunday.
Read A Book A Year
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Chapter 13 –
🛑Why read 100 books in a year?
You read because you
want to learn from other people’s experience and Otto von Bismarck put it best:
“Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of
others.”
🛑 To get anywhere, you need to educate yourself and how to educate self is to read… A lot!
How?
🛑 1. Buy books in bulk: when you buy more books, you have more choices to choose from. So, make an inventory, don’t plan it, just pick a choice and start reading.
Buying books is one of the best investment you can do for yourself. It’s never a waste of time to buy books and read them.
🛑 2. Always Be Reading: if you are familiar with me, you will testify that I am always with my phone while eating. You know why? Because I read at the most inauspicious and inconvenient time.
So for you;
Read on the train
Read while you’re breastfeeding your baby
Read while you’re eating
Read at the doctor’s office
Read at work
And most importantly — read while everyone else is wasting
their time watching the news or checking Facebook for the 113th
time that day.
🛑 Read Relevant Books:
Not all books are meant for you even when they are best-selling books. Read books related to your profession and hobbies. Read books about people you admire.
🛑 Try Read Multiple Books Simultaneously: there are no rules to reading books. I often read more than one book at a time. I might read a self-help in the morning, a novel in the afternoon and a motivational one in the evening. You can decide to read two or more books at the same time if that works for you.
🛑 Retain The Knowledge: I’ll just copy it straight from the book.
Knowledge is only good if you use it. To retain knowledge, you need a
system that helps you do that. This is how I do it:
When you read a book, use a pen to make notes in the margins
and highlight important text. If you’re reading digitally, be aware
of over-highlighting. Just because it’s so easy you shouldn’t
highlight everything you find slightly interesting. Keep the
highlighting for ‘aha’ things only.
If you read something you want to definitely remember, fold the
top or bottom corner of the page. For digital readers: take a
picture and store it in a notetaking app you prefer.
When you finish the book, go back to the pages with the folds
and skim your notes.
Write down (use your notetaking software or physical notebook)
in your own words what the book is about and what advice the
author is giving.
Copy the quotes that stand out the most to you.
The point is not to copy the book but to help you process the information so
you can use it later.
Read as much as you possibly can — but never forget to apply what you’ve
learned because that is what counts the most. You put in many hours to read
books, make sure you get something out of it.
WHY IS SUCCESS HARD TO ACHIEVE?
This is excerpt for discussion from my 2-in-1 book series on blueprint for success achievement.
From chapter one…
…The question that bugs me anytime I try to see how people perceive success or examine how they have sailed through the hurdles of hardship to success is; “what is the real definition of success; is success dependent on our perception of it?”…
This question I throw it right back at you:
What is your definition of success?
Many people can define it as achievement of goals while some give it more personal meaning but the decision to keep doing something, to keep learning or to keep pushing can mean you are succeeding at something that is not conventional.
…The word ACHIEVE is a strong word that indicates WILLPOWER. Achieve means to gain something with effort….
Three words so far has repeatedly occurred in the definitions of success I’ve come across and achieve has been the significant word that can act as a standalone definition of success.
Wishing is nothing if you don’t have intention to ACHEIVE your want. Before you can even achieve, you must have the right mindset or perception about success. If you see success as what celebrities only get, you might keep running in the puzzle box of not developing your own success. Hence, you need a restructuring of the mind.
…HOW DO I PLAN TO RESTRUCTURE YOUR PERCEPTION ABOUT SUCCESS?
Foremost, to restructure your perception, there’s a need for destruction of your preceding perception…
Read more on this from the book.
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My Author’s Aim for my readers:
1. I want my readers to see that success isn’t far fetched from them especially the hard working ones
2. Just like I’ve listed out the stages you go through before success on this book, my readers should be able to discern these stages and patiently wait on their time.
3. I also want to help my readers see that they can achieve success if they will it. All they have to do is – just do it! Doing everything that takes them to their peak.
Author’s Aim for this book is to see it help students struggling with academic affairs retain their stand and confidence.
1. I want this book to help business owners that are striving for excellence go for more and do more
2. I want this book to turn ordinary people to celebrities through the restructuring of their perception
3. This book will not just be a book on the shelf but a book that act as a guidebook to any holder.
The book is now available in ecopy on Amazon: preorder at a discount the two books Here. Link would be shared in the comment section. Thanks
Perfectionism Is Harmful! Here’s why you are not productive…
Book Summary for DO IT TODAY by DARIUS FOROUX
Chapter 12 – How Perfectionism is destroying your productivity
Do you also tell yourself you are not a perfectionist? Do you really believed you are not one? In this chapter, the author had tagged perfectionist as a masked procastinator. Why?
🛑 A perfectionist…
1. Always waits for the right moment.
2. Never makes mistakes.
3. Always needs more time.
Anyone that does any or all of the above will definitely procastinate a lot to accommodate that, don’t you think?
🛑 Perfectionism is another form of procastination because while you wait for the perfect time to act, life and success is about outcomes. In life, result matters and while you are being a perfectionist, do you know how long it will take you to get the result or even the cost you pay for being a perfectionist?
🛑 You often say to yourself, I don’t want to make mistake or what if I am rejected?
How about this;
You doing that thing regardless of your mistakes. Going for that thing even when you don’t know if you would be rejected or not?
The difference between this is, in the first one you keep posting until you don’t do it or miss opportunity. While the second one have you corrected when you make mistake and even when you are rejected you get to meet another chance.
The author mentioned in this chapter that there are two types of perfectionists:
🛑1. The one that never starts. You want to achieve something, but
you immediately start doubting yourself. You think: “I don’t
think I can do it.” So you never start.
🛑2. The one that starts but has too high standards. You set a goal.
You work hard (maybe too hard). But you’ve set your goals so
high, that you’re always failing yourself.
🛑 Though, perfectionism is relatively not bad as research has suggested it to help achieved better yet every good thing when done in the extreme manner has its side effects.
So, to neither be a slacker or a perfectionist, you need to find a balance between the two. The author mentioned that the connection between these two is;
🛑 Learned resourcefulness: from an article by Michael
Rosenbaum:
“Learned resourcefulness refers to the behavioral repertoire necessary for
both regressive self-control and reformative self-control. This repertoire
includes self-regulating one’s emotional and cognitive responses during stressful situations, using problem-solving skills, and delaying immediate
gratification for the sake of more meaningful rewards in the future.”
Learned resourcefulness is the skill that you need to stop sabotaging
yourself.
Finding a balance.
🛑Resourcefulness — Goals can work well, but they can also be
counterproductive. That’s why you want to rely on systems. And
when shit hits the fan; use your problem-solving skills to figure
things out.
To me, that’s the sweet spot: Instead of beating yourself up when you make
a mistake or if you fail yourself, you just adjust or solve the problem.
Avoid the perfectionist’s favorite sentence: “OMG, this is the
worst thing ever!”
Also avoid the slacker’s favorite sentence: “I don’t care.”
But instead, you say: “I’ve got this.”
So what’s your current challenge? Actually, I don’t even have to ask:
You’ve got this.
Change Your Smartphone Behaviour To Improve Your Productivity
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*Part II: Improving Productivity*
*Chapter 11*
Smartphones Harm Your Productivity More Than You Think
“It’s like a lot of things, said the smith. Do the least part of it wrong and
ye’d just as well to do it all wrong.”
– Cormac McCarthy
🛑 I am even more shocked to know that the author was shocked when he read a weird statistic a while back. An experiment,
which was conducted by the universities of Würzburg and Nottingham
Trent, revealed that 37.4% of the participants rated their phone as more or
equally important in relation to their close friends.
🛑 In this dispensation, it doesn’t seem like an unusual thing as almost everything has gone virtual. Internet usage has even increased by presumably 80% as NFT and crypto currency seem to be the new way.
I do believe that our smartphone has caused even more behavioural change than any psychological phenomena I’ve encountered.
This is not to water down the usefulness of the phone but to let you know you can control how your smartphone change you.
🛑 Change these smartphone behaviour:
1. Turn off ALL my notifications except messages and
calls
2. Remove yourself from all Whatsapp groups except for one
with importance and close friends
3. Remove all news apps (if something important happens,
you’ll hear it from the people around you)
4. Consume less things like; music, paid journalism, articles from specific
authors you follow, podcasts, YouTube videos (mostly to learn, but
also for entertainment because I’m not a robot), books, and
audiobooks on it
5.For the rest, you can use your phone to call, text, and to take notes,
photos and videos.
🛑 Respond to only important notification with urgency. Doing this does not mean you don’t value others but it means you don’t want to be a slave to your phone.
🛑 How you want to spend your time is your business. How you wa ti to be productive is your business. You may want to improve your effectiveness by a little percent yet you must know how to sacrifice some trivia things.
However, the difference between all users of time is how you spend those 24 hours (1440 minutes) each day.
To be
honest, just like the author I still have much to improve about my effectiveness. No one
reaches peak productivity. Nor is it important to be the most productive
person in the world.
🛑 I don’t dispute the fact that smartphone can increase productivity when used moderately.
To conclude on this note:
It’s time to reclaim your attention.
And thereby, reclaim your life. It’s worth it.
If you think your smartphone does affect you in a negative way, I would like to hear about it.
Why Is Success Hard To Achieve?
WHY IS SUCCESS HARD TO ACHIEVE?
This is excerpt for discussion from my 2-in-1 book series on blueprint for success achievement.
From chapter one…
…The question that bugs me anytime I try to see how people perceive success or examine how they have sailed through the hurdles of hardship to success is; “what is the real definition of success; is success dependent on our perception of it?”…
This question I throw it right back at you:
What is your definition of success?
Many people can define it as achievement of goals while some give it more personal meaning but the decision to keep doing something, to keep learning or to keep pushing can mean you are succeeding at something that is not conventional.
…The word ACHIEVE is a strong word that indicates WILLPOWER. Achieve means to gain something with effort….
Three words so far has repeatedly occurred in the definitions of success I’ve come across and achieve has been the significant word that can act as a standalone definition of success.
Wishing is nothing if you don’t have intention to ACHEIVE your want. Before you can even achieve, you must have the right mindset or perception about success. If you see success as what celebrities only get, you might keep running in the puzzle box of not developing your own success. Hence, you need a restructuring of the mind.
…HOW DO I PLAN TO RESTRUCTURE YOUR PERCEPTION ABOUT SUCCESS?
Foremost, to restructure your perception, there’s a need for destruction of your preceding perception…
Read more on this from the book.
.
.
.
.
#####
My Author’s Aim for my readers:
1. I want my readers to see that success isn’t far fetched from them especially the hard working ones
2. Just like I’ve listed out the stages you go through before success on this book, my readers should be able to discern these stages and patiently wait on their time.
3. I also want to help my readers see that they can achieve success if they will it. All they have to do is – just do it! Doing everything that takes them to their peak.
Author’s Aim for this book is to see it help students struggling with academic affairs retain their stand and confidence.
1. I want this book to help business owners that are striving for excellence go for more and do more
2. I want this book to turn ordinary people to celebrities through the restructuring of their perception
3. This book will not just be a book on the shelf but a book that act as a guidebook to any holder.
The book is now available in ecopy on Amazon
Is Perfectionism a Bad Thing or a Good Thing?
Book Summary for DO IT TODAY by DARIUS FOROUX
Chapter 12 – How Perfectionism is destroying your productivity
Do you also tell yourself you are not a perfectionist? Do you really believed you are not one? In this chapter, the author had tagged perfectionist as a masked procastinator. Why?
🛑 A perfectionist…
1. Always waits for the right moment.
2. Never makes mistakes.
3. Always needs more time.
Anyone that does any or all of the above will definitely procastinate a lot to accommodate that, don’t you think?
🛑 Perfectionism is another form of procastination because while you wait for the perfect time to act, life and success is about outcomes. In life, result matters and while you are being a perfectionist, do you know how long it will take you to get the result or even the cost you pay for being a perfectionist?
🛑 You often say to yourself, I don’t want to make mistake or what if I am rejected?
How about this;
You doing that thing regardless of your mistakes. Going for that thing even when you don’t know if you would be rejected or not?
The difference between this is, in the first one you keep posting until you don’t do it or miss opportunity. While the second one have you corrected when you make mistake and even when you are rejected you get to meet another chance.
The author mentioned in this chapter that there are two types of perfectionists:
🛑1. The one that never starts. You want to achieve something, but
you immediately start doubting yourself. You think: “I don’t
think I can do it.” So you never start.
🛑2. The one that starts but has too high standards. You set a goal.
You work hard (maybe too hard). But you’ve set your goals so
high, that you’re always failing yourself.
🛑 Though, perfectionism is relatively not bad as research has suggested it to help achieved better yet every good thing when done in the extreme manner has its side effects.
So, to neither be a slacker or a perfectionist, you need to find a balance between the two. The author mentioned that the connection between these two is;
🛑 Learner resourcefulness: from an article by Michael
Rosenbaum:
“Learned resourcefulness refers to the behavioral repertoire necessary for
both regressive self-control and reformative self-control. This repertoire
includes self-regulating one’s emotional and cognitive responses during stressful situations, using problem-solving skills, and delaying immediate
gratification for the sake of more meaningful rewards in the future.”
Learned resourcefulness is the skill that you need to stop sabotaging
yourself.
Finding a balance.
🛑Resourcefulness — Goals can work well, but they can also be
counterproductive. That’s why you want to rely on systems. And
when shit hits the fan; use your problem-solving skills to figure
things out.
To me, that’s the sweet spot: Instead of beating yourself up when you make
a mistake or if you fail yourself, you just adjust or solve the problem.
Avoid the perfectionist’s favorite sentence: “OMG, this is the
worst thing ever!”
Also avoid the slacker’s favorite sentence: “I don’t care.”
But instead, you say: “I’ve got this.”
So what’s your current challenge? Actually, I don’t even have to ask:
You’ve got this.
Manage Your Attention. Not Your Time
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Chapter 10 – How To Focus Better. (Manage Your Attention. Not Your Time.)
I have always wondered on how long I could stay focused on a work before I get distracted. The truth is that human beings are wired in the tapestry of connections to things that always contend for their attention. From family to online notifications to friend’s need. We are social beings for a reason. So this chapter wants to examine how even amidst these connections, we can focus better and do a considerable amount of work in the stipulated time.
🛑 Distraction is a part of human nature. Naturally, we humans love to be busy.
However, busyness is not a good thing as it go hand-in-hand with distractions.
🛑 Why do you think some people go AWOL and come back with better plans and ideas. It’s because to avoid distractions is to delay the gratification to be in social company offline and online.
🛑 According to the author, the biggest mistake people make is believing we can manage time. It’s a surprise I’m knowing this for the first time too.
🛑 The author further buttress this point, he wrote; Seneca, one of the most famous
Stoic philosophers, said this in Letters From A Stoic:
“There is never a time when new distraction will not show up.”
There are always distractions. So you better train yourself to manage your
attention. Not your time.
🛑 Now I know that to focus better, I have to grab my attention and control it to focus on what I want, this way I can better manage time.
🛑 To conclude this, I’ll draw exact words from the book:
Focus determines the quality of your life.
No focus means
no control of your attention. And no control means frustration.
We all know
what frustration leads to. Start managing your attention. Not your time.
You know I always love to hear your view about this chapters, do tell me below
Is Reading A Hard Task?
A little deviation from the book review we are doing. It’s important I do this discussion on my book even though the schedules have crossed each other.
Goldmine of Wealth is a 2-in-1 series on blueprint to great wealth and success. It’s an inspiring book that helps you not only discover other types of wealth but also help you solve your reading problems with book recommendations in it.
Let’s start shall we?
Book Discussion
Excerpt from my 2-in-1 book on success and wealth.
This is an part of the first chapter – READING IS NOT A HARD TASK.
Hello, welcome to my book discussion. My name is Comfort Ogunfalu and I’ve authored a memoir about a journey through life struggle with depression, abuse and aggression.
My first question is
🛑 Do you find reading a hard task?
While waiting for your answers in the comment section, I remember telling myself before the start of this discussion that I will not talk about how I started having fun while reading but now I want to share it:
Before I started my book club, I use to join Facebook groups that shares stories and books. I only enjoyed reading novels on Wattpad and it was addicting.
I couldn’t even read books without pictures at one time because I had short span of attention and you will agree with me when I say reading a novel is not the same as reading an academic book or motivational.
I remember then back in the college, I joined group discussion because I know I love to talk and talking about a concept helps stick the concept in my mind for long time.
So, how did I discover that reading can be fun?
I applied what I called profiling:
I didn’t use the te profiling in my book incase you go looking for the exact word but what profiling entails has be simplified 8n their basic steps in this first chapter.
You can always get the book to discover how profiling a book before reading or profiling your reading helps you view reading as fun task.
Reading for me helps reduce stress as it takes my mind off worries and put my mind on action terms. So, I’ve made sure this chapter is adequate for you on the subject matter.
So, look for your own profile and you will find that reading is not a hard task.
Thank you for doing this with me.
❤️ I await your responses on the first question.
Let’s meet here together tomorrow, same time again for the next thing on the agenda.
Does Disconnecting The Internet Improve Your Focus?
PS: I’m not a perfectionist for that reason, this question is one I never thought I will be writing an article on. However, this is a book summary that I’m reviewing. Nothing more.
Book Summary for DO IT TODAY by DARIUS FOROUX
Chapter 7 – Why Disconnecting with the Internet helps improve your focus
Heads up guys! Honestly I didn’t write this neither do I think staying away from the internet when the world revolves around it now is possible 🙄
However we can only know why the author feels that way if we read past the title. Shall we?😁
🛑 A quote in this chapter caught my attention and is this; “To be everywhere is to be nowhere” _ Seneca.
It’s true that we have the whole world at the tips of our finger which is the smartphone that we carry. We don’t seem to escape that cell, right? No but it’s sad how we are meant to use the internet not the other way round.
Our phones keep us away and put out attention everywhere rather on the important thing. But is that true?
You and I might change our mind and view about always sticking our nose in our phone after reading this next sentence.
🛑 Too much of anything is bad thing and even the good things as it stands.
Too much exercise? You will get over trained.
Too much love? You will smother people.
Too much work? You will burn out.
Too much food? You will get fat.
Too much water? You will die.
So why would you consider consuming the internet a good thing?
The internet is like an all-you-can-eat buffet; while you are full, you can’t just stop taking in more!
It’s so tempting and satisfying, and
available EVERYWHERE. So you go all out with it. YouTube, Whatsapp,
Facebook, Tik Tik, etc.
Though I wouldn’t advice to eliminate all out because I see only good reason to eliminate distractions. Don’t become a recluse in your attempt to remove them all. Find a middle ground.
🛑 Finding a middle ground is like in any argument you seem not to be winning neither loosing.
❗Go from “Always Connected” to “Always Disconnected.”
Practically, it works like this:
On your phone, wifi and mobile data should be standard off. Turn
on when you need it.
Also, on your laptop, you can use an app called SelfControl during the times you
work (try FocusMe for Windows).
The app blocks distracting
sites. The advantage is that your apps like Evernote, DayOne,
Office 365 remain connected so you can save your work in the cloud.
“Always connected,” isn’t a good thing for your focus and productivity
Cutting back on internet brings the calmness that staying on the internet all time doesn’t bring.
Just as much as you don’t gym everyday every minute or go on a date every minute every day, you shouldn’t go on the internet too, every minute every day.
To the conclusion, I’m an online business owner and teacher, how could I have copied with not checking the internet every minute every day.
Here’s what I do: I dedicate time to things. I have time I must stay off the internet between my nap to my next online task.
Once I’m done, I turn off my data and put my phone sideway for an hour.
How was it easy? I know the time to do certain things that are online and I make sure to get them done before leaving because I know I’m not going to allow myself come back in the next hour I’m not supposed to be online.
My question to you is; do you think this method can work for you?
Your answer, Why do you think so?
Would you ever try implementing this step into your life?
I’ll be waiting for your response. ThanksBook Summary for DO IT TODAY by DARIUS FOROUX
Chapter 7 – Why Disconnecting with the Internet helps improve your focus
Heads up guys! Honestly I didn’t write this neither do I think staying away from the internet when the world revolves around it now is possible 🙄
However we can only know why the author feels that way if we read past the title. Shall we?😁
🛑 A quote in this chapter caught my attention and is this; “To be everywhere is to be nowhere” _ Seneca.
It’s true that we have the whole world at the tips of our finger which is the smartphone that we carry. We don’t seem to escape that cell, right? No but it’s sad how we are meant to use the internet not the other way round.
Our phones keep us away and put out attention everywhere rather on the important thing. But is that true?
You and I might change our mind and view about always sticking our nose in our phone after reading this next sentence.
🛑 Too much of anything is bad thing and even the good things as it stands.
Too much exercise? You will get over trained.
Too much love? You will smother people.
Too much work? You will burn out.
Too much food? You will get fat.
Too much water? You will die.
So why would you consider consuming the internet a good thing?
The internet is like an all-you-can-eat buffet; while you are full, you can’t just stop taking in more!
It’s so tempting and satisfying, and
available EVERYWHERE. So you go all out with it. YouTube, Whatsapp,
Facebook, Tik Tik, etc.
Though I wouldn’t advice to eliminate all out because I see only good reason to eliminate distractions. Don’t become a recluse in your attempt to remove them all. Find a middle ground.
🛑 Finding a middle ground is like in any argument you seem not to be winning neither loosing.
❗Go from “Always Connected” to “Always Disconnected.”
Practically, it works like this:
On your phone, wifi and mobile data should be standard off. Turn
on when you need it.
Also, on your laptop, you can use an app called SelfControl during the times you
work (try FocusMe for Windows).
The app blocks distracting
sites. The advantage is that your apps like Evernote, DayOne,
Office 365 remain connected so you can save your work in the cloud.
“Always connected,” isn’t a good thing for your focus and productivity
Cutting back on internet brings the calmness that staying on the internet all time doesn’t bring.
Just as much as you don’t gym everyday every minute or go on a date every minute every day, you shouldn’t go on the internet too, every minute every day.
To the conclusion, I’m an online business owner and teacher, how could I have copied with not checking the internet every minute every day.
Here’s what I do: I dedicate time to things. I have time I must stay off the internet between my nap to my next online task.
Once I’m done, I turn off my data and put my phone sideway for an hour.
How was it easy? I know the time to do certain things that are online and I make sure to get them done before leaving because I know I’m not going to allow myself come back in the next hour I’m not supposed to be online.
My question to you is; do you think this method can work for you?
Your answer, Why do you think so?
Would you ever try implementing this step into your life?
I’ll be waiting for your response. Thanks
30-Minute Evening Ritual To Kick Life In The A**
Book Summary for DO IT TODAY by DARIUS FOROUX
Chapter 6 – This 30-Minute Evening Ritual Will Help
You To Kick Life In The Ass.
To say the least, after a long day, all you have at the forefront of your mind is rest.
I don’t know about you but for me, I don’t even want to have my brain racking about what’s done and not done!
However that’s not the case almost everyday as I found myself working late into the night, most nights I don’t catch a wink of sleep until the early hour of the morning. During these days, my day was always affected by this lack of sleep as I become touchy, sluggish and slurry. The author was right about that.
🛑 Just as the morning is important, the evening has similar significance too. It’s the time preceding the next day and actions taken at this time can make or mar the next day.
🛑 Follow through with this evening rituals just as much as you do in the morning;
❗ From 0 to 10 minutes, close the day.
This is similar to what my mom does after closing the store each and everyday. She takes 10 minutes to account what was sold, the debts taken and other stuffs before leaving for the house. I should have probably apply this before now to my life.
The author took time to explain how to close the day in these two steps;
1. Write what you have accomplished, learned or do that day.
2. Review your progress to your written task, goals or habit.
It’s that simple: Close your day before you start a new one
🛑 From minute 10 to minute 20: Review Tomorrow’s Calendar
Most anxiety comes from problem that are not real. This exercise is important and should be done before the next day also. Besides that it keeps you from guessing what to do first in the morning, it also helps you not to miss any important schedule.
In these steps, you can review your tomorrow’s calendar;
1. When you wake up, you want to know exactly what your
day is about?
2. Do you have any important meetings or calls?
3. Do you have any Deadlines?
4. What do you have to get done?
5. When are you working out?
6. Do you
have any pressing items on your agenda?
7. When are you dealing with them?
🛑 From minute 20 to minute 25: Prepare your outfit
I needed not to tell you this but I will anyway, picking your outfit in the morning can rather be a hasty decision or a patched up work.
Take for instance, in your head you already picked that blue shirt over that denim jean and a jacket to go. So, you went to bed and the next day, while you are making sure you keep on time you discovered few buttons are loose on the shirt or there’s an almighty stain on the jacket. How do you feel?
I would feel disorganised at this junction because I already prepared how I will look but altering it now wouldn’t just go down well with me. So, I tend to avoid stressing my brain by picking the outfit and checking them the night before.
🛑From minute 25 till minute 30: Visualize
This works for me more than I can tell. It’s just with the outfit something, you know what you’re doing at so so so time and so. It’s easier for you to ignore distractions the next day as you have put it in a pictorial way how your day will go and be spent.
Left to some impromptu, this knowledge alone kicks you out of the bed the next day before you even think on hitting the snooze button.
😁 That’s all for this chapter and I’m sure you also have one or two experience of each rituals.
Maybe you have been using these exercises or you are about to and you have lot of questions; Go on and ask me below.
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