Productivity Keyed

This article covers a phenomenon named "Synaptic Pruning" which might have helped you a lot in the past when you did not realize it then,The Psychology of How it works & How to make that phenomenon work for you.You'll know why people say practice makes perfect and you'll start preaching it too ! You have used Synaptic Pruning..(or..We have.) In the good old days of our school life,we had the habit of taking bath after coming back to freshen up the evening.However,when we feel deprived of a benefit of something that we used to get before,We say."I used to do this after i do this and felt more happy" now that I am no longer doing that,I feel I need to figure out a way to do it again. If you are somewhere between the ages of a late teenager who has a change of environment from school to college or college to work,you can pretty much relate to something or the other right now.  If you weren't able to relate to that,think if you can relate to this.If you ...

This article covers the stuff from the meaning of cue to how they have experienced it and how they can use it to their advantage. If you suffered from any addiction in the past or if you are suffering from one right now and had tried researching on how to get rid of it,by far the most recommended suggestion you might have got would talk about eliminating the cue.So, What is Cue ? Cue can be defined as something that reminds you or motivates you to do something.For the most part,A cue is the object or information regarding the addictive habit. For example,if you are a smoker, talking about smoking,getting angry or some thoughts that lead you to smoking are the cues to smoking.(I'm sorry if you happened to be a smoker and reading this reminded you of it.but,read it fully as you might discover a phenomenon to use cues to your advantage). For every action,there is a cue which initiates the process.This is why for most people feel a lot of time in their hands when they quit social media...

There are a lot of ways to fight the smartphone addiction.Stuff like get a real alarm clock, replacing the original item which the smartphone replaced with the original item itself like calendar,wrist watch and other stuff are quite effective. I've tried them and really loved it. But this is about a different experience I stumbled upon accidentally but couldn't help not sharing it. This may sound dumb to some people out there but this is for the people who identify themselves as someone who wouldn't hesitate to try out the experience. Honestly I wouldn't have tried that out and keep repeating the stuff if not by discovering it by accident. Why am I writing This ? So to be brutally honest here I was a smartphone addict.The person who'd just keep using the phone for no valid reason at all,mindlessly scrolling,playing games or binge watching only to regret it later after seeing my friend's talk about how they spent time learning something new or hitting a fitness g...

After completing a free Linkedin Learning , I was motivated to try out other online learning websites which offer free trials so that I can decide upon which to invest on while learning stuff in the future. Seeing many YouTubers like Nathaniel Drew , Matt D'Avella and other people I've subscribed promoting a Free trial of Skillshare premium free for two months, I was very much tempted to try it to learn creative stuff from there. But Udemy was in a corner of my mind as I've recently recieved a coupon code for a particular course to be availed for free.So I did what everyone does.Googled Skillshare vs Udemy and came across the review by another YouTuber who claims Skillshare isn't worth the hype due to the zombie effect which he claims to have experienced. Zombie Effect ? Yep.you heard that right.No,You won't starve for human brains!Can you recollect that moment where the teacher is almost done taking a unit and you understood almost nothing? That...

Deep work In the 2016 book "Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World" and in his 2012 blog post , Author and Professor Cal Newport describes Deep work as “Professional activity performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.” The definition may sound intimidating with words like distraction free concentration,pushing cognitive capabilities,hard to replicate and so on.Looks like you have to do more to get started right ?  Nope,you have to do less of stuff to get there.Keep reading and you'll know why I am talking this way.Before that,what if I told you, You have Deep worked before. If you've ever worked on a passion project of your own,you must have come across the moments where you poured yourself into loads of work not getting distracted at all by anything and when anything like your notification pops up,you e...

As I have mentioned in an earlier post, checklists have a lot to do with productivity as it facilitates efficient planning and basically buys into the dopamine effect in a very constructive manner.If you haven't used a checklist by will so far.. I suggest you  read this post.  Moreover,this article talks about why use a checklist,types of checklist, lives saved in hospitals due to the implementation of checklists,Tips on how to build your own checklist and a checklist of checklists to enhance the checklist productivity experience. Why is this written ? Being obsessed with productivity, I wanted to optimize my checklist to reap the best benefits out of it. But what's on my check list necessarily need not be on yours right? Obviously. We've got different stuff to do. But there can be one way or one effective suggestion on how the structure of a checklist can go about so that anyone can follow it. Sounds too good to be true? We'll it is.. True.and I badly wanted to share ...

This article explains about how theaters use small unnoticed techniques to give you that "want to see it in a theater first" experience again & again.This is also the reason why good movies are delivered well  feel worth it and movies that are not up to the mark feel like a huge waste of time and money.   So if you are someone like me,you always have questions for everything around,but would hesitate a lot to ask around.Back in the days where everyone wasn't carrying smartphones around, You couldn't google stuff right way like you'd do it today as internet wasn't so easily accessible.One among them is the headline you read. My first movie watching experience. For the first time I went to a movie, I was having early stages of myopia.So after watching the movie for around 2.5 hours and when the lights were turned on,I felt a lot uncomfortable and asked my friend,"Why turn OFF the screen in the first place when you have a big screen?".he was like...

Do you feel inefficient in spite of managing your time?Like,Scheduling the tasks for calculated number of hours even with tolerances still seem like you have underestimated the time you've allocated?This happens to the vast majority of anyone who are completely new to time management and that is okay. In this article we'll see what does attention management mean,How it is different from time management and some easy tips on how to get started practicing attention management which will help increase productivity exponentially. The Basic rule of thumb. We all have the same 24 hours everyday.No matter how we use it or not use it,it passes.We can't control the flow,but what we can control and optimize,is the way we spend it. What is Attention Management? Attention Management can be defined as an effective way of prioritizing where the attention goes for the selected allocated time for the task,where everything else is treated like a distraction.(I kinda came up with this defini...

Have you ever been in that state where you are pretty much self aware that you are you aren't able to put your mind into the stuff you must be doing because you constantly get lost in your world of thoughts and not be able to do anything about it at the same time? If you are someone who does not meditate on a regular routine,you are more likely to face it and also more often.Anyways,this article isn't about meditation on its entirety, (I have a different one for that)  but these are like small versions of it which work in a very similar way helping you to get back to the focus you'd need to get back to work. The techniques however work on the same way meditation does and it can also be called micro meditation techniques for the similarity as meditation is better known as the activity that is done on a routine manner. Belly Breathing. This is also known as diaphragmatic breathing in more correct terms.When we breathe as adults,we breathe in and breathe out using the lungs. B...