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7 Ways You Can Easily Increase Your Willpower

Eric Barker from Time Online Magazine and from the blog Barking Up The Wrong Tree suggests 7 ways to increase your willpower and live a better life:

  1. “Keystone Habits” Are A Magic Bullet
  2. Do Important Things Early
  3. Improve Willpower By Not Using Willpower
  4. Use Willpower To Build Willpower
  5. Fundamentals: Eat And Sleep
  6. Procrastinating Can Improve Willpower
  7. You’re Going To Screw Up… and That’s Okay!

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7 Tricks to Improve Your Memory

Jancee Dunn, from Time Online Magazine, suggests 7 useful techniques to improve our memory:

1. Play brain games

2. Eat the right foods

3. Quit multitasking

4. Master a new skill

5. Get more sleep

6. Use mnemonic devices

7. Hit the gym

Read more on: Times Online Magazine, 7 Tricks to Improve Your Memory

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