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"Towards A Super Productive Life" Article Series: How To Become Super Productive In Life And At Work Most of us have distractions in life. We all want to do many things in life, and we even have everything planned very well in our calender. Yet, when we actually sit to do the tasks, we are "over whelmed" with all the distractions around you, and it just pulls you away from giving your 100% effort to the task at hand. The result : You ... Read More

He stood to speak at the funeral of his friend. He referred to the dates on his tombstone. From the beginning to the end. He noted that first came the date of his birth, and spoke of the following date with tears, and he said what matters the most was the dash between those dates. And that friend is you. That dash represents all the time - that you spent alive on earth and now when your Eulogy is being read, all those who ... Read More

Why do so many New Year’s resolutions and other self-improvement programs so quickly fade and end in defeat.  To understand this, we need to first know the difference between : Fantasy, Desire and Goal. Fantasy : This is the realm in which most of the New Year's resolutions and "new-me" programs actually dwell. I have a fantasy to buy - say a Jaquar automobile, and I fantasize it. But when it actually comes to me to buy the vehicle, I back off. I back ... Read More

You feel stuck in your life. You see yourself as a lonely kid no one cares. No one seem to give any interest in your dream and what you want in your life. You feel only you are interested in your what you want in your life. At this point, you feel sad. Unhappy. You say to yourself - why in the world no one is interested in my dream. Then you remember : You are climbing a mountain and this makes you special. But, ... Read More

Here is a very inspiring story I read today. Laura Shultz from Florida, who was 63 at the time, picked up the back end of a Buick car to get it off her grandson's arm. Before that time, she had never lifted anything heavier than a 50-pound bag of pet food. Dr. Charles Garfield, author of Peak Performance and Peak Performers, interviewed her after reading about her in National Enquirer. When he got to her house, she kept resisting any attempts to talk about ... Read More

"Behind every olympic success, there is a story of commitment and discipline. This I call Olympic Commitment. To strike gold in our goal, we need to have a commitment - An Olympic Commitment" Every athlete has a life time dream. To participate in an olympics and represent their country. Out of millions of athletes, few get the chance to be selected for the olympics, and these people who got selected never stay idle. They know this is their life time opportunity and ... Read More

Imagine sometimes you put yourself a goal, and then have a really tough time following through it. You might be really good at goal setting and have set the best goals for our life. But some how, we have a big problem in following it up. You can call it "Laziness", "Procastination", or "I will do it tomorrow" problem. The real problem is that we somehow don't do our task. That is it. All if we could do is "just do our task", things ... Read More

Since this is a very important topic and I like to cover it in detail, I will be spliting the topic into various parts.  Each part will be released at regular interval and will be a sequence to the previous part.  Here is the part 1 of the topic. ************************************************************************************************************************** "You work late every night. You came back burnt out at night, and too tired to spent time with your kid or wife. And one day, you came to your house to see a slip ... Read More

You might be preparing for a job interview, trying finish off your school assignment or office task, or working on a big project of yours. You find it very difficult to sit and complete your tasks. You are looking for some technique you can apply to help you focus and complete your tasks. "Slot-Split Technique" is an amazing technique to get you complete your tasks at hand. You can use the "Slot-Technique" whenever you are working to do something big and need some technique to ... Read More

We all have a goal to follow or have some thing which you want to achieve. But sometimes, we really get stopped on the way.  Might be because of our procrastination habit, or we really don't know how to achieve it. In this "stuck" scenario, how about defining one applicable action step, and just follow through that. This step might be so tiny one or a big one.  It really depend on your goal and personal motivation level. If our goal is to prepare ... Read More