Entries from March 2008 ↓

ionushi

Time is a valuable thing. Idling is a waste of time, it kills productivity (everybody knows that). But have we done enough to fix it!

Question is why do we get idle and how to fix it? Grossly because its human nature! Most of us love to sit thinking about this and that, maybe sleep, or do nothing at all. Anyone can become idle; most of us have the tendency. Family, friends, internet, TV anything can be a distraction.

Tackling idleness is easy; just make sure you keep your mind focused. In the last few months, I came over few interesting things that led to idleness and how did I overcome it.

Here they are:

1. Reduce your idle time. Easiest way to minimizing idling is not letting you to get idle. If you find yourself engaged with something then your idleness decreases thus you are more productive. But don’t overwork! Give your mind and body some rest once in a while.

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m.j.b.

Saving money is everyone’s dream. Who doesn’t like saving? The easiest and quickest way to start saving money is to curb your spending. It may sound like easy but how many of us really do try to limit our spending. Of course you don’t need stop eating, cut off phone lines, electricity. But few interesting simple things can easily bring back your balance sheet to green. Remember, start saving today to make your future bright.

Eat Out Less: Most of us love to eat out, but eating out seriously lightens your pocket. At an average you’ll atleast gobble up $30-50 an outing, multiply that with your wife, two kids that’s more then $150. If your family goes out atleast twice a week, the annual cost of eating out 52×300$ = $10000+! assuming you go out each week twice. Besides saving money, making your own food can often be healthier too.

celticblade

Laziness = lack of desire = no productivity. Laziness is a perfectly natural thing. For some reason if we weren’t had to do offices, meet deadlines, we could have dozed the whole day, watch TV or just do nothing.

Laziness is the lack of desire to perform work or expend effort. What behavior is considered laziness varies according to personal and societal standards.

We need to overcome laziness. Hmm… I can’t say that I’ve been completely successful in overcoming it. But still enough to get the job done. So, what to do to beat laziness and reclaim the lost inspiration?

Have a good rest

In the previous post on getting up early, I wrote if we don’t get enough rest we could easily feel lazy. Don’t waste your time with those late night shows, hurry up to bed and have a good rest. During daytime you can take a nap for say half an hour or 20 minutes, enough to get back some lost energy.

Eating healthy food doesn’t necessary means you have a healthy living. One of problems of today’s lifestyle is that many of us we rush to almost anything. We don’t seem to have any time for the little things that matters the most, especially during the lunch or dinner time when we end-up gobbling just like monkeys.

Eating slow = healthier lifestyle. Its really simple method to do drastic improvements to your life. You may have already heard of the Slow Food Movement in Italy to combat the evils of fast food, started way back in the 80’s.

Just spare a few extra minutes on each meal, enjoy eating. There are numerous benefits of eating slowly is reduced intake of food and, therefore, weight loss, which has its own health benefits, eating slow is a must GTD for people suffering with diabetes, arthritis, low blood pressure and hundreds of other diseases related to food and stress.

Everyone has this problem even myself was once a late riser. Getting up early and starting the day at or before the sunrise is the desire of most people. But hardly 3 out of 10 people can’t do it. The world’s most successful businessman, entrepreneurs attribute their success partly due to rising early.

Waking up at 6.30 or 7 in the morning didn’t did any good to my studies or work. Things had to change, I decided on working on some of the ideas I found out from some of my favorite productivity blogs. Now lets break up our “sleeping in” routine.

Here are 9 tips for becoming an early riser:

• One step at a time. You don’t need to jump straight to 4am wakening up routine. Start slowly, 15 to 30 minutes then usual. Now gradually after one or two day cut back your sleeping time. Do this gradually until you find your goal.

We can’t anticipate when an idea will come to our minds. It may come while you are on the road to your work, in office, baby-sitting etc. At the same time we forget the ideas as quickly as they come. Most occasions we find ourselves out of tools to capture those imaginations.

From my personal experience, good ideas never come at a convenient time. These ideas pop up when you are in the shower, mowing the lawn,

No matter how small is the idea, “an idea can change your life”. Now the question is! How to not miss out those important ideas and tasks.

Here are five simple ways:

1. Paper and a pen.

Pen and paper are the pioneers; hundreds of ideas were first penned down on a piece of paper. It’s still the most used. I love to write up my ideas when ever come to my mind and stick them up on the monitor.