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We all know what procrastination is. Personally, I’ve been fighting it ever since primary (grade) school. And till today, I’m still not entirely free from its lock, succumbing to it every once so often.

I know that I should not procrastinate. I know I should strive to be conscious about what I do with my time. And I know delaying one thing for any period of time takes out the emotional equivalence of doing it for that duration.

Procrastination is a formidable opponent. It is as smart as you are. There is no ‘one way’ to beat it all the time. You need to arm up many different strategies to beat it in the long run.

This article gives you 8 more ways to beat procrastination with. [Read more]

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I recently rebooted this blog and made a commitment to write a post everyday. I needed the initial momentum because I am someone who loses interest easily. After 12 straight days, I finally met with my first bloggers’ block. All of a sudden, I was totally void of ideas. Zilch. Nada.

Today, I am glad to announce that after a 3-day hiatus, I am shifting back into 5th gear again. And, the thing that kept me going is Seinfeld’s Calendar.
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All promise outruns performance. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all know instinctively that small efforts, accumulated long enough, will produce great results.

Yet, one of the hardest things to do is to stay committed to a plan for a long period of time - be it going to the gym, sticking to a diet, spending quality time with family, quitting smoking, or separating your garbage.

Taken individually, each of these activities are a cinch. What seem to be missing is our daily resolve to go about doing them. The ‘pigs’ in our minds are consistently outsmarting our better judgement and winning the war.

In this post, I will list 3 online tools that I’ve used to turn the tables against this ‘pig’. [Read more]

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The average person today are bombarded by hundreds and thousands of distractions every day as they live their lives. I know it because I’m a self-proclaimed high-productive multi-tasking over-achiever - or, not. We all know this - there’s no such thing as true multitasking, just half-hearted work passing off as ‘my best effort’.

Distractions have plagued me for years. This article proposes a technique that I am using to overcome them.

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