Double Your Happiness and Productivity
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These 40 skills/techniques/tips will at least double your happiness and productivity with mastery, so try them today:
Why & How
Once you learn these skills/techniques/tips, then you can be happier and more productive, which means you can do everything in less time, therefore more time for you to have fun and live your dreams!! 😄
To get started, open your mind and heart, read everything from top to bottom, optionally click on links to get more info, and finally apply them in your daily routines. If you don't try, nothing will change. If you do, you will be amazed on what you can do and your own transformation as your brain and body becomes smarter and stronger each day.
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Memorizations
Did you know that you can easily remember vast amounts of information quickly and easily? It's just a matter of knowing how to do it. Your age or how well you can naturally remember things don't matter. Everyone can do it. Once you know the techniques, you could easily learn a new language in a day.
The memory techniques here can be combined together to remember massive and different kind of information easily. All you have to do is open your mind and give it a try.
#1 How Memory Works
Memory works by associating what you already know. Visual memory is magnitudes better than other types of memory -- 90% of information processed in the brain are visuals and done at 60,000 times faster than text. All memory techniques work based on those two facts to enable you to remember unlimited amount of information easily.
#2 Memory Framework
MOM by Jim Qwik will get you started on your memory journey:
#3 Memorize In Order
Story/Link System is easy and effective for remembering ordered list of items by creating a story with vivid images for each item.
Let's say we want to remember this list:
concentration, mindfulness, loving-kindness, prioritization, Pomodoro, Flow, FASTER, Tiny Habits.
You can easily do that by visualizing the following story in your mind:
In your room, imagine a con (concentration) man walks in to put a land mine (mindfulness) in the middle of the room. You say to him "can you kindly (loving-kindness) leave please?" So he looks at his watch and says "oh snap, I forgot about a prior (prioritization) engagement," and leaves while taking your Pomodoro timer. You tried to follow (Flow) him, but he is Faster with his tiny hobbit feets (Tiny Habits).
Now, close your eyes, and replay the story in your mind, and say the words from the list out loud as you do. Try to do it in reverse too. Congrats, you have just mastered the technique! The story can be as long as you need to remember an unlimited # of items. The beauty of this is that you will be able to remember the story for a long time with just one iteration. To make it more memorable, re-iterate with more vivid and wild images and make sure there is a strong link from one word to the next.
To learn a new language or any one-to-one mappings, you can simply use the link part without the story. The French word for chair is chaise. You can easily remember that by imagining a chair chasing (chaise) you.
#4 Memorize In Random Order
Loci Method uses locations to associate ordered or unordered information that you want to remember. Locations can be things in your room, your office, your body, your neighborhood, or anything else that you know intimately. The idea is to put what you want to remember to each location by doing a one-to-one mapping.
Let's try to remember a list of top 10 brain foods:
avocado, egg, walnut, blueberries, broccoli, coconut oil, leafy greens, turmeric, chocolate, fish
Map each of those items to our body by visualizing them in your mind:
Now, you can go to any place on your body to find the item or go from top to bottom to get the full list.
#5 Memorize In Numeric Order
Peg System can be used to map items to numbers, which can be useful for ordered or random retrieval. The idea is to map numbers to a word/image and then map that word/image to what you want to remember.
First, we need to map numbers to a word/image, let's use these -- but you should use whatever comes natural to you when you think of each number:
Then, remember the list of top brain foods in order like this by visualizing them in your mind:
Now, you can think of a number, which would map to the word/image, and from that, you can get the brain food. Randomly select a number and you would get random access to any item. This method can be used to remember people's phone number as well by making a story using those words starting with the person whose phone number you want to remember.
Executions
These techniques will help you learn and do everything in half the time and double the enjoyment, so that you can have more time to do anything else you like.
#1 Learn Faster
FASTER by Jim Qwik will help you learn anything faster and more effectively:
Apply FASTER to your reading, studying, or whenever you are learning to learn faster!
#2 Read Faster
The average reading speed is about 200 words per minute (WPM). Good readers double that to about 400 WPM. Great readers double again to 800 WPM. The best readers surpass 1000 WPM. That's at least 5 times as fast as average readers, which is a saving of 4 hours when reading a book that takes 5 hours!
Here are a couple of different ways to improve your reading speed:
If you are using a mobile app or electronic device, like Kindle, turn off smooth scrolling and flip to the next page instead so you can easily locate the next group of words to read.
#3 Prioritization
Prioritize work based on their value and work on the most valuable things first as time is limited, so you get the most bang for your time.
For projects, use TBD to enable prioritization to maximize business impact:
For meetings, attend only if you are providing/getting value and there is no way to do the same offline.
#4 Optimal Concentration
Pomodoro can be used to ensure concentration is at max when doing work. Your ability to concentrate wanes after 30 minutes, so the idea is to take a break after 25 minutes of concentrated work to reset using a timer. Instead of a timer, use mindfulness to check your concentration and mental/body energy once awhile and take a break/refuel when it is not 100%.
Be sure to drink plenty of water and snack on some brain foods. And walking during the break will do wonders to your butt, memory, and creativity.
#5 Optimal Experience
Flow can be used to fully immerse yourself in your work with absolute passion and concentration, the work becomes so fun that time simply flies as your productivity sky rockets to new heights!! This is the pinnacle of productivity and the final state that you want to achieve to get things done fast with high quality.
To get into the state, these conditions must be met (PCCC):
Listening to your favorite music can help too.
#6 Behavior Design
Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg, PhD can be used to build good habits to automate your life, which can be used to improve your health and learning.
Easily create new habits using ABC:
For example, to build a habit of doing exercise in the morning after you get a drink of water (something you already do), then immediately do something small towards your exercise goals (such as putting on shoes or taking one step), and finally make yourself feel good and praise yourself for completing the small step. Repeat the same process several times, and it will become a tiny habit. Repeat it to do more exercise each time, then it can become a big habit.
Use B=MAP (Behavior = Motivation * Ability * Prompt) to easily change an existing one. Want to reduce picking up your phone to check messages? Make it harder to access your phone (reduce ability).
Additional Resources: YouTube Video, Kwik Brain Podcast
#7 Public Speaking
3 golden rules from Jeff Weiner:
Speak using HAIL (by Julian Treasure) so people will listen:
#8 Hacking Motivation
When you feel motivated, that is actually dopamine being released, which makes you feel really good and happy. In order to hack it to your advantage, there are a couple of things to keep in mind:
Your brain naturally trains you to do things that it thinks will help you live a better life by releasing dopamine, such as making friends. But now you know how you can train your brain to do what you want!
#9 Effective Communication
The most effective communication should convey emotions.
I believe emotion is our first/native language before we learned to speak. Other languages / forms of communication need to be translated by our brains to native forms, such as emotions or memories, before we can understand and respond. Therefore, the best way to communicate is by using our first/native language as it is the most direct. Unfortunately, there is no way to do it directly, so we must use intermediate forms, such as speech, writing, or gesturing. However, the idea is to make sure emotions are being conveyed thru those means to improve the effectiveness of the communication. Logical reasoning, pretty words, and any other form of communications falter in the face of emotions.
Here are a few tips on how to convey emotions, and therefore communicate effectively (UMGGG):
If the goal is to get your audience to act, then apply behavior design using Tiny Habits's B=MAP: Behavior = Motivation * Ability * Prompt.
You must listen to others first with empathy if you want them to listen to you. Listen to their needs, values, desires, pains, joys, feedbacks, or anything else on their mind. After you have listened, acknowledged, then you can respond with content that is relevant and valuable to them.
#10 Teach Love, Not How
Most of the time, we focus on teaching others and kids on how to do something, or even worse, telling them exactly what to do -- sometimes, ending up yelling at them as they either are taking too long or don't want to do it. Neither is effective in the long run. To ensure they will thrive for a lifetime and learn by themselves, we must teach them to love what they do. It is harder and takes more time initially, but it will pay off in multitudes later -- you won't even need to lift a finger and they will just do everything by themselves driven by their passion.
When people love what they do, they will naturally explore and learn as much as they can without anyone telling them to -- that's a beautiful thing for everyone involved. When you tell people what to do, well, you will need to do the same thing over and over again as they haven't learned how. If you teach people how to do something, well, they don't need to bother you until they hit something new. Since they don't love it, they would just take the easiest route, which is to ask whoever is next to them, and if there is no one, they would just give up or Google it to figure out the cheapest way to finish it. That all results in the need to micromanage, poor results, negative emotions, and lots of time wasted on both sides. Now if they love what they do, they won't wait until there is a request. They will talk or do research to understand everything before that happens without being asked. Since they understand so much, when asked to do something (this might not even be necessary), the result is better output with higher quality, minimal time spent on both sides, and lots of positivity. That's win/win!
To teach love, here are a couple of suggestions, but generally it's about associating positive emotions to the work:
Here are some things to NOT do, as it will have the opposite effect (they will hate it and stop doing it when you are not there):
Once they learn to love what they do, your job is done -- forever! 😉
#11 Powerfully Serve Your Customers
While The Prosperous Coach is for teaching others to be successful coaches, it has a few key takeaways that would help you serve your customers so powerfully and transformatively that they would gladly pay a premium for your service. A customer can be internal/external, an employer/employee, a family/friend, or just anyone that you provide service to.
Powerfully serve and transform your customers to be the most successful, then you will too.
#12 Every Conflict is Negotiation
Conflict is natural and healthy as long as it is properly negotiated, therefore embrace it and master your negotiation skills to ensure successful outcomes for all parties involved. As long as you are well intentioned and see the situation as the problem, and not your counterpart, then everything is game and aim nothing less than the desired outcome for yourself.
In Chris Voss's book Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It, he provides the following tools to get the job done:
To negotiate for a good price, the Ackerman bargaining method can't be beat:
Here are some interesting facts about human psychology that can be leveraged:
With the above tools and knowledge, it is easy to abuse the power, so please do use them compassionately, especially to the uninitiated.
Thinkings
Schools teach logical thinking mostly and other forms indirectly and insignificantly, despite the fact that thinking is one of the most critical skills to be successful. Lateral thinking is a famous one for generating ideas. Another example is exploratory thinking for finding better solutions and dealing with conflicts together instead of arguments. Perceptional thinking can be used to better understand the values of what you see. And many more that are created by Edward de Bono
Many successful global companies, like IBM, have adopted Edward's thinking methods to improve innovation and collaboration. All schools in Venezuela are required to teach his thinking methods. Research has shown that students that use his thinking methods perform 30% to 100% better in all other subjects.
#1 Parallel Thinking
Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono will help you or your team solve problems using parallel thinking from six perspectives, thereby increasing the number of solutions and consensus in half the time or less:
For your team, each person should put on each hat in the same sequence to brainstorm so the collective brain power of the team can be used to solve the problem rather than arguing about who is right / better.
#2 Lateral Thinking
Thinking logically is called vertical thinking as you are focused in a single subject and is great for tactical work. For strategic and new ideas, it is better to think from diffused, eagle-in-the-sky, different, and untrod perspectives, and let your brain come up with a novel solution for you. That is called lateral thinking, which is defined and written in the book Lateral Thinking by Edward De Bono.
In the book, he described the following scenario to demonstrate lateral thinking:
A merchant owes a banker a lot of money and the banker fancies the merchant's daughter, and so the banker offered them a deal using a game of chance. The banker will put a black and white pebble into a box and if the daughter picks the white pebble, then the debt is cleared. If she picks the black one, then the daughter will be traded for the debt. And if they don't play the game, then the merchant will go to jail for not being able to pay the debt. After they decided to play, the sly banker puts in two black pebbles into the box instead of one each, and the daughter saw it.
Logically, she has 3 options:
None of them are good choices. Can you think of a better option? It will be hard using vertical thinking. Pause here and try to think about a solution before reading further so that you can better appreciate lateral thinking.
Edward suggests there are 4 things to improve lateral thinking:
Now that you know how to be a better lateral thinker, can you think of a solution? Hint: Try to think backward and what's left in the box rather than what to take and a solution might just come to you. 😉
To be the next Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, or the big ideas guy in your team, become a lateral thinker!
#3 Perceptional Thinking
Study has shown that 90% of errors in thinking are due to perception with the remaining due to logic. Perception, not logic, drives emotions, therefore it is utmost important that we are able to think well perceptually to better understand the truth, make sound decisions, and improve our persuasion. To gain complete perception, we need to look at things from all perspectives.
In Think! Before It's Too Late, Edward de Bono showed perception can be improved using:
Trainings
Use these techniques/tips to improve your body, concentration, awareness, compassion, gratitude, and reduce negativities (e.g. stress, anger), which will greatly improve your physical/mental health, memorization, execution, relationships, leadership, happiness, and productivity!
Yep, meditation and exercise can do miracles for your body and mind! So don't underestimate their benefits and start doing them today.
#1 Concentration Meditation
Concentration Meditation will improve your concentration and reduce stress, therefore improving your memory, execution, and health.
Here's how to do it:
It takes time to master this skill so be patient.
#2 Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness Meditation will improve your awareness, concentration, and reduce stress, therefore improving your ability to perceive, understand, and enjoy life.
Here's how to do it:
This can be done while you exercise, sitting in front of your desk while working, walking to the bathroom, etc. You will start to see the world anew and notice things that was once ignored.
#3 Loving-Kindness Meditation
Loving-Kindess Meditation will improve your compassion, gratitude, concentration, and reduce negativities, therefore improve your relationships, leadership, and happiness.
Here's how to do it:
#4 Exercise Daily
Do cardio exercises for at least 30 minutes a day to boost your happiness, mental and physical health, improve brain functions and memory, sleep, energy levels, and many more, therefore productivity too. Just walking can improve working memory and increase creativity by 60%!
As you age, you naturally become less active and many parts of your body start to degrade, hence it becomes more critical to do exercise. When you exercise, it increases the amount of blood and oxygen to your brain to boost its energy and function, and at the same time, remove toxins that damages your body and brain. It can slow down and even reverse some effects of aging!
Don't like to exercise? No problem. Easily make it into a habit using Tiny Habits.
#5 Sleep Well
Sleeping well is the most important step to live a happy and productive life. Nothing works without it. It builds long-term memory, promotes health and growth of your body and mind, clears out toxins / stress, and many other important functions to keep you running at your optimal state.
In order to get the best sleep, do Emc²:
#6 Daily Routine
It's good to have a routine to ensure all the important things are done regularly, nothing is dropped on the floor, and you are steadily getting closer to your goals.
Experiment to figure out what works best for you, but feel free to use mine as a starting point to get an idea:
What's your daily routine for success?
#7 Skill Development
The Talent Code, by Daniel Coyle, breaks talent development into 3 components: ignition, master coaching, and deep practice. They apply to any skill that you want to develop, and not just for something that you are naturally good at.
Ignition is the motivation. This can be triggered by several factors, such as passion, the need to belong to a group, curiosity, reward. This must be strong and self-sustaining in order to endure the strenuous coaching and deep practice.
The quickest and best way to learn something is by learning from someone that has already done it with exceptional coaching skills, a master coach. It would take too long to re-learn everything from scratch and some things are not easily visible from your perspective. It might cost a pretty penny, but it's worth every cent as time is more precious.
With everything, practice is key. To learn fast, deep practice is necessary where you can iterate and fail fast so there is sufficient feedbacks to strengthen the skill. To become a world-class expert, it will take many hours of deep practice. Depending on the type of skill, a liberal or strict approach might be better. E.g. To reproduce a piano piece, strict is necessary.
With each deep practice, the brain wraps more myelin around relevant nerve cells to provide insulation for electrical signals that is sent, therefore improving the speed and quality of the transmission by hundreds of folds, which is essentially what expert skill is at a biological level. The more myelin wrapped around nerve cells used by a skill, the more skillful you are. Myelin wraps but never unwraps, that means once you have learned a skill, you will have it for life. A gap does start to form between myelin and the nerves at around age 50 and therefore skills will start to deteriorate.
#8 Brain Programming
Based on Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), your brain stores information based on your five senses -- mostly visual, auditory, and kinesthetic where one of them dominates (modalities). As it is stored as a picture or movie, you can easily change them to re-program how you feel to empower you. E.g. You can use it to easily get over traumatic events, phobias, addictions, or become more motivated about doing chores.
To reduce the emotional effect of a memory, as you recall the memory, change it from a movie to a still picture, reduce the size, put yourself into it to disassociate, change it to black and white, erase it with an eraser, play it backward, make changes to empower you (e.g. make it funny by adding a clown nose to someone that makes you scared or change the voice to be cartoonish). Repeat it a few times to complete the re-programming or whenever you need to re-enforce the effect.
To boost the emotional effect, do the opposite of the previous step or recall a memory where you feel a certain way and try to copy the vividness and other submodalities onto something that you want to feel the same way. E.g. If you want to feel motivated to study, remember a moment when you are very motivated and then notice how the memory is stored and how you feel, and copy as much as you can from that memory to your study.
To take a one step further, you can simply recall or create the emotion that you want and then think of anything that you want to associate the emotion to. Repeat the process until the emotion is attached to the memory or action.
Use this to change how you feel about anything in the past, present, or future, so you are empowered to take actions to help you succeed rather than being held back due to bad programming.
Leaderships
There is only so much you can do by yourself. With leadership, you can easily multiple your impact by 10 to billions of times by inspiring others to join your mission.
#1 Transcendence
There are many leadership styles, but the best one is transcendent leadership where you instill meaning and purpose to your employees based on the company's mission with compassion so they will care about you, the company, the company's mission, and therefore do amazing things.
Fred Kofman's book The Meaning Revolution details how transcendent leadership can be used to manage these 4 key issues in an organization:
All organizations have those problems and there is no way to fix them completely, but you just need to manage them better than your competitors using a well designed culture, compassion, and transcendent leadership.
If you feel the need to micromanage, that means you haven't put transcendent leadership to good use yet!
This is practiced by Jeff Weiner, one of the world's best CEOs, leaders at LinkedIn and Google as Fred Kofman was the VP of Leadership Development at both companies.
#2 Network
Does a tree make a sound when it falls in the forest when no one is there? Technically, yes, but the idea is that if no one is there, then it doesn't matter. Same applies to your career or personal mission. If no one is there to see what you do, then nothing really happened from other people's perspective even if something did. Therefore, the more people that can see and help you, the larger your impact. So go out and build your professional and personal network! The bigger the better -- just make sure there's value on both sides for a long lasting relationship.
Your network can provide you with new opportunities -- my last 3 jobs were based on my connections' recommendations. It can provide you with professional/personal development and knowledge sharing -- this is highly under valued. As others are happy to share and there are no limits, it is the best and largest economy of value exchange where you can take as much as you want without a need to give back -- you should be thankful, of course. However, if you do want to give back, it is definitely appreciated. Everyone wins no matter what!
As LinkedIn's cofounder Reid Hoffman always say, relationships matter.
#3 Compassion for Everyone
All great leaders lead with compassion. It's not easy, but worth it.
Jeff Weiner, one of the world's best CEOs, taught me compassion in his article Managing Compassionately. My life was forever changed from that moment on. I began to feel the pains of others and truly feel connected to everyone. I was able to understand others better and truly want to help them whenever they need. And the relationships that I build have substance, endurance, and are mutually beneficial.
But that didn't happen overnight, but in three phases over a span of 3 years:
Therefore, to bring out the best of people, you must manage compassionately. The greater the number of people that you extend your compassion to, the greater your leadership. The greatest leadership extends compassion to everyone. ❤️
Listen with empathy. Act with compassion.
A word of caution, as Fred Kofman told Jeff once:
Compassion without wisdom is foolish. Wisdom without compassion is ruthless.
Empowerments
You can achieve your dreams -- the only requirement is that you have to believe in and apply yourself!
#1 Believe In Yourself
If you don't believe yourself, how do you expect others to do that? While it might seem insignificant, but it has massive impact on what you can accomplish as your brain will wire itself based on what you believe. If you believe it is not possible to remember massive amount of information or become a genius, then you won't. If you believe the world is flat, then it is. If you don't believe it is possible to fly into space, then you won't. But if you believe you can do anything by applying yourself using the right skills/techniques/tips, then you will! Believe is even scientifically proven to alter the effects of medication, diet, exercise, and even stress in your body and mind. So believe in yourself and positivity.
Limitless by Jim Qwik is the best book ever written and is also the mindset that you want to have when it comes to what you can do. There is essentially no limit to your brain's ability to abstract, process, and remember information. While your body has physical limits, but it is amazingly adaptive. Both your body and mind can be trained and it will adapt to all your needs, known as neutroplasticity.
The only differences between an average person and a genius are:
Steve Jobs started out as an ordinary guy, but he believed in and applied himself, then he became a genius. So you can too!
To ensure that you keep believing in yourself, never do any negative self-talk, even if you are joking, and enchant positivity daily. Once you say anything negative, it will affect you subconsciously. When others do it, it's easy to let go, but not so when you do. To further protect yourself, enchant daily by saying this internally with excitement:
Today is going to be a great day! I am awesome, smart, and fun. I can do anything when I apply myself. I will realize my dreams!
It's a great way to start your day as it will make you feel good and enforce your beliefs and dreams, so they won't ever get lost.
#2 Happiness Intelligence
Happiness intelligence is the ability to be happy. With mastery, you will have unlimited energy to be productive. If you are not happy at all, productivity goes to zero, therefore it is the single most significant factor to productivity. To achieve 100% happiness intelligence and productivity, follow the steps in A Great Life Guide.
Happiness enables productivity. Productivity elevates happiness.
#3 Biggest Impact & Growth
Don't take the easiest job, nor the hardest, as neither is good for you. Too easy, and you won't grow. Too hard, there is no chance to grow. Pick one that is challenging with the highest impact and growth potential, but still doable, and you will be rewarded handsomely in both monetary and non-monetary rewards. And don't be afraid to fail -- that's one of the best ways to grow!!
#4 Be a Player, Not a Victim
The idea comes from Fred Kofman's book The Meaning Revolution where he states that a victim mindset always blame others and external forces for his misfortune, on a contrary, a player places himself as part of the problem and puts everything under his control so he decides what to do and outcome.
For example, if you are late for a meeting, do you say "sorry, the meeting ran over?" Well, that's a victim's mindset as you are blaming the meeting for making you late. A player would say "sorry, I need to stay longer in the meeting, so I will be late" before he's late or "sorry, I missed the meeting alert, but won't happen again." as he will make changes needed to ensure he doesn't miss the alert again. Do you see the stark differences the approaches that were taken between the two mindsets? A victim simply blames others without fixing the problem, however a player always takes responsibility and fixes the problem so it doesn't happen again as everything is under his control.
Problems have a negative connotation and generally people steer away from them, but it's actually better to think of them as challenges that reward us. For each challenge, while it might not be fun sometimes, the key outcome is that you become stronger at the end -- either you learned something new or become more resilient, so you can take on bigger challenges in the future. Therefore, don't run away from them, but accept and complete them with excitement and be thankful for the experience and the reward!
A player's mindset is what you want to be have for your life -- everything is always under your control and it is always your responsibility and never others. Blaming others is just an excuse for poor planning and gives up responsibility and control of your life to others. You don't want to do that. It's your life, so be the player and accept all the challenges that will make you stronger and take full responsibility and control of the outcome -- your outcome!
#5 Leverage What Others Have Learned
If you try to figure out everything yourself, it would take you millions of years as that's how much knowledge has accumulated since the dawn of humanity. And that continues to grow each day as human knowledge is doubling every year. How do you obtain millions of years of wisdom while it doubles every year? Easy, as you may have guessed, that's by reading what they have written and listening to what they say using all the techniques that you have learned in this guide. By doing that, you can leverage all they have learned and use that to do your bidding -- that's smart, not hard!
Bill Gates and many other successful CEOs read daily and often. Bill reads 50 books a year. Elon Musk learned to build rockets by reading books. Warren Buffet reads 500 pages every day. In the book Change Your Habits, Change Your Life, which has strategies that transformed 177 average people into self-made millionaires, it found that 88% of financially successful people read at least 30 mins per day.
Of course, it's impossible to read everything and listen to everyone, so you do need to focus on some based on your interests. If you are short on time, try out Blinkist where they provide a summary of key points in many books. I prefer to read the original as it provides more context. In Amazon's Kindle app, the Send a Free Sample option is a great way to preview before you buy!
#6 Love Yourself
Love your fears, flaws, and failures as they are a part of you! Most people have strong negative feelings toward them and hence shy away and do everything they can to avoid them. But the right approach to overcome them is actually by loving them just like your own kids, then you will become stronger and they will naturally disappear.
But how do you love them, you ask? Easy, whenever you feel, see, or experience them, instead of feeling bad about it, replace it with love immediately:
But does it really work? Yes! This is based on personal experience. I used to shy away from public speaking, but after replacing the fear with love a few times, right now I am excited about it and do it whenever I can -- watch me show you or see testimonial. 😁 This is also based on behavior design from Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg, PhD.
70% of people experience impostor syndrome at least once in their lives, so it's not something that you should worry about. That basically means almost everyone feels like he/she is an impostor, 😂, hence it's better to just drop the facade, love yourself, and your imposter will naturally disappear.
Just love everything about yourself, and all the negativity inside and outside of you will naturally disappear, and you will be stronger and become unstoppable!
#7 Die Before You Die
I hope you "die before you die" is a concept from Fred Kofman's book The Meaning Revolution that is similar in spirit as "live your life to the fullest" or "live today like it is your last day." Steve Jobs lived by a similar principle where if he answers "no" a few days in a row to the question "Is this what I want to do on my last day?" then he would stop and find something else to do. You never know, today may be your last day.
That's the mentality that you need to have in order to live your life to the fullest. I am doing that right now by executing on my personal mission of enabling everyone to be happy and productive -- even though no one seems to want it and it feels like I am going against everyone in the world to help them become truly happy and productive, 😆.
If you don't do that, then you might end up with regrets on your deathbed. You are definitely not enjoying everything that life has to offer by limiting yourself. Most people work about 40 hours a week, often unwillingly and performing at minimal as they don't enjoy the work, so they can use the income to do what they want to do. And that will continue until they retire. That's a significant portion of their lives doing something that they might not enjoy and it is one reason that I lost motivation to live 10 years ago. It's a waste of life and intelligence. We shouldn't do that. It might seem hard to do better sometimes, especially if you need the income for your family to live, but if you push yourself a little bit each day, then it's just a matter of when and not if. And you will be amazed at what you can accomplish later as you start to get everything you want in life, realize your dreams, and fully enjoy everything that life has to offer. You are just as amazing as everyone and can have everything you want -- nothing less. Don't sell yourself short!
But why bother if we are all just going to die anyway and turn into worm food? From a technical perspective, you are right. But you are living right now and still here, and so you should make the most of it. Reality doesn't really matter when it comes to meaning and purpose in life, but you do. As you are intelligent, you get the privilege of defining your own meaning and purpose, and as long as you believe it deeply, then that becomes reality.
If today is your last day, will you still be doing what you plan to do? If not, you should consider doing something else.
#8 Embrace Neurodiversity
Judy Singer coined the word neurodiversity, which means everyone's brain is just different in mental functions, to more correctly describe development disorders like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, etc. It should be embraced as it expands our collective capabilities rather than treated as a disorder that must be "fixed" and frowned upon by others.
Many great minds of our time, such as Albert Einstein, Mozart, had neurodiverse symptoms. Many international companies, such as SAP, Microsoft, have started to recognize the talents of neurodiverse employees as studies have shown they outperform their neurotypical peers in specialized fields using their neurodivergent skills, therefore neurodiversity is becoming a competitor advantage.
Neurodivergent people see the world differently than neurotypical, so it is important that we be more mindful and supportive towards them. They may see the world in a scary way and simply don't know how to deal with it. Always listen with empathy and act with compassion so they can be happier and thrive instead of go into withdrawal.
If you are neurodivergent, believe in yourself as you are simply differently abled, and not disabled. While you may have some deficits, it comes with some exceptional skills that others don't have, so take advantage of them to excel and be proud. To ensure negative feelings don't hold you back, simply love your flaws, fears, and failures. With love, they will naturally disappear quickly, and then you will only be left with exceptional skills. 😄
Embrace diversity to obtain prosperity!
#9 Live Your Dream Life
A dream is a reality that you want where you have everything that you desire. It's not necessary, but so much better with it. 😄
If you don't have a dream (life goal), chances are you won't ever get there.
It's sad, but most people don't think about living their dream life. Some did when they were little, but they get crushed by various current reality of life, and then eventually gave up. Some simply don't have the opportunities due to a lack of resources, either naturally or artificially. I didn't think about it until recently because I didn't care. We can do better.
I believe everyone can live their dream life -- no matter their current environment, resources, etc. It can be accomplished in two steps. First, it is critical to achieve 100% happiness inside of you by following the happiness steps in A Great Life Guide, otherwise you can be easily crushed by the harsh reality outside. Once you have attained true happiness, you will be fine no matter what you have, what happens to you, or what others do, and then you will have unlimited energy to realize your dream by changing reality to your needs -- not the other way around.
Your dream can be anything you want -- something that moves your heart and you would gladly do for free. Want a big family? Travel the world? Build a multi-national corporation? Go to Mars? Build a planet? Travel to the end of the universe? There is no limits to what you can do if you believe in and apply yourself by following this guide, so don't sell yourself short, and dream big! My dream is human prosperity by enabling everyone to be happy and productive.
What is your biggest dream?
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