Get your brain in motion
The Diplo calendar 2018 realized by Stefano Baldi presents a selection of quotes for better living and better working.
Here is the selected quotation for the month of June
Success is to have what you desire
Happiness is to desire what you have
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Positive thinking can lead to a lot of positive change in your life. Developing an optimistic outlook can be good for both your physical and mental health.
This article provides 10 tips to make positive thinking easy:
1. Spend Time with Positive People
2. Take Responsibility for Your Behavior
3. Contribute to the Community
4. Read Positive and Inspirational Material
5. Recognize and Replace Negative Thoughts
6. Establish and Work Toward Goals
7. Consider the Consequences of Negativity
8. Offer Compliments to Others
9. Create a Daily Gratitude List
10. Practice Self-Care
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It’s easy to think that people blessed with brains are inevitably going to leave the rest of us in the dust. However, the latest studies from Stanford University, summarised in this article, show that your attitude is a better predictor of your success than your IQ.
In particular, people’s core attitudes fall into one of two categories: a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. Those with a growth mindset believe that they can improve with effort. They outperform those with a fixed mindset, even when they have a lower IQ, because they embrace challenges, treating them as opportunities to learn something new.
There are some strategies that will fine-tune your mindset and help you make certain it’s as growth oriented as possible:
If you’re happy and you know it… you also know how to count your blessings. Noticing what you have – and learning to appreciate it – is the first step towards being happy, says Stefano Baldi, the Italian Ambassador to Bulgaria, in this TED talk.
And luckily, you don’t HAVE to have Italian food or clothes to be happy. Though it certainly won’t hurt.
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Most guides for travel preparations focus on the equipment and necessary documents. But how do you prepare your mind for travel?
In this article, a professional traveller gives 6 advices to prepare for travelling:
Image source: Travel – Hamza Butt (CC BY 2.0)
The Diplo calendar 2018 realized by Stefano Baldi presents a selection of quotes for better living and better working.
Here is the selected quotation for the month of May:
Behind every able man, there are always other able men
Chinese Proverb
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“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
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What do tomatoes have to do with management? Everything according to Francesco Cirillo, the man who invented this time management technique in the late 1980s.
The method is named after the kitchen timer shaped like a tomato some of you might have already seen.
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This method consists in maximising your attention for short periods of time by taking frequent breaks to refresh your mind. By splitting a large task into many smaller tasks, you are able to keep up your motivation and enhance creativity.
The method is extremely easy to implement by following a few simple steps:
The actions of recording pomodoros adds a sense of accomplishment to our work and helps us give our undivided attention to the task during the 25 minutes of work.
The times indicated are those suggested by the pomodoro technique, but we can adjust them to our needs, keeping in mind always to keep a short break and a long break every 4 short breaks.
Though the method was traditionally conceived using a mechanical timer, today there are many apps that can help us in using this technique.
I recommend the app “Clear Focus” – simple and effective!
If you want to read more about the pomodoro technique and its history, you can head over to the official website:
https://francescocirillo.com/pages/pomodoro-technique
In this TED talk, psychologist Susan David introduces the concept of emotional agility: the ability to recognise and manage our thoughts and feelings for what they are, without judging them through the veil of preconceptions. Susan reminds us of the importance of detaching ourselves from our emotions so that they do not own us, but at the same time allowing ourselves to feel them. In fact, keeping emotions bottled up inside is one of the elements which can lead to depression in the longterm.
Being hooked to our emotions can cause distress and make us take irrational decisions. On the other hand, emotional agility can help people alleviate stress, reduce errors, tap into their creativity and improve their overall job performance.
If you wish to learn more about emotional agility I suggest reading the following article on the HBR or picking up a copy of Susan David’s book “Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, embrace change and thrive in work and life.”
HBR article: https://hbr.org/2013/11/emotional-agility
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
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