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      "body": "If each day, for an entire year, you woke up an hour earlier than needed and invested that time in yourself, my experience shows your productivity would jump by 1,000 percent.\n\nIn that hour, you can do whatever you want, as long as it is self-focused and involves activities you wouldn't typically do during the workday. Each day's hour can also be different. It should just be working toward becoming a better-functioning, more thoughtful, livelier and more positive person.\n\n\nThe following are key themes of how you can spend that time to yield the best results.\n\nRelated: The 24-Minute Morning Routine That Will Make You an Entrepreneurial Rock Star\n\nPrepare for the day or week ahead.\nThis habit, by itself, can yield tremendous benefits. You will get each day or week off to a better start when you're prepared for what's coming. 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      "body": "“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”   -Samuel Johnson\n\nA lot of our daily actions are automatic. Your brain is like autopilot.\n\nThat’s how it conserves energy.\n\nFor better or for worse, our habits shape us.\n\nBreaking a bad habit ultimately is about rewiring your brain.\n\nHabits are found in an area of your brain called the basal ganglia.\n\nThe more often you perform an action or behave a certain way, the more it gets physically wired into your brain.\n\nThis amazing adaptive quality of your brain is known as neuroplasticity.\n\nYour brain forms neuronal connections based on what you do repeatedly in your life — both good and bad.\n\nEvery time you act in the same way, a specific neuronal pattern is stimulated and becomes strengthened in your brain.\n\nDavid Eagleman writes in Incognito: “Brains are in the business of gathering information and steering behavior appropriately. 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Elliott\n\nAccording to BJ Fogg, a psychologist and director of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford, sticking with good habits is not about trying to increase your motivation so much as taking advantage of motivation when you do have it. Jim Rohn once said \"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.\"\n\nIn a 2013 interview with Ramit Sethi, author of I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Fogg explained how to ride what he calls the “motivation wave,” or the fluctuations in our motivation levels.\n\n“Motivation only has one role in our lives and that’s to help us to do hard things,” Fogg said.\n“Motivational waves” are those moments where we feel really inspired to take action on a list of to-dos. However, when the Motivation Wave subsides, you will not respond to triggers for difficult tasks.\n\nSo when your motivation is high, take immediate action on all those hard things you find difficult to start and maintain. The motivation wave might help you create long-term good behaviors.\nBJ Fogg explained in the interview that he wanted to drink more tea. So when his motivation was at its peak, he bought a bunch of tea, an electric kettle to boil water, and set everything up in easy-to-reach places on his kitchen counter. He built a system so that it was a no-brainer to make tea whenever he was in the kitchen.\n\nIt’s all about predicting the obstacles you’ll face in changing your behavior and making it easier to overcome them.\n\nThe next time you’re feeling “motivated” — either right now or later this week to write a book, start a business, go to the gym, learn a language, or a skill — use the motivation wave to your advantage.\n\nGet better one percent at a time\n“Compounding is the greatest mathematical discovery of all time.” - Albert Einstein\n\nAs the saying goes, “getting started is the hardest part”. Don’t wear yourself out before you even get off the ground. Learning to practice consistently doesn’t have to be half as hard as we make it on ourselves.\n\nSo, in order for a good habit to become sustainable and enjoyable, that part — the getting started — must not be sudden. It should be made increasingly automatic. When consistency is the problem, it is far better to commit to practicing for just five minutes or less a day and succeed at it, and then slowly add to the habit.\n\nSuccess begets success!\n\nDr. BJ Fogg, at Stanford stresses the importance of starting small in his practical theory course \"Tiny Habits.\"\n\nTo make a habit like practice stick, he says, you must make it small enough for it to be unfailingly consistent from the very beginning. Floss just one tooth, he suggests, do just two pushups, walk for three minutes, drink just one glass of water each day, write a single paragraph, or perhaps, practice just one measure of music for five or ten minutes.\nThe goal at this point is not volume. The goal is to make the habit automatic. So start by setting yourself up to succeed by giving yourself goals that are easy to meet.\nWrite a little bit every day and at the end of the year you’ll end up with a book or two. Put some money aside regularly and after 12 months you’ll have enough to pursue something you deeply care about.\n\nA magic bullet cannot save you! You’ve got to embrace the process and enjoy it. You can’t escape the hard work it takes to get better.\n\nEvery incredibly successful person you know today has been through the boring, mundane, time-tested process that eventually brings success. So, stop looking for “quick hacks” that bring faster results.\n\nInstead of reading every self-improvement post for the one golden tip that will give you superhuman efficiency, focus on doing the actual work that needs to be done.\n\nYou can inspire yourself to take action. The hard, long process is the only way though. You can’t achieve tremendous life success with a quick fix. Nobody gets it that easy.\n\nBecoming 1% better every day is a simple, practical way to achieve big goals.1% seems like a small amount. Yes, it is. It’s tiny. It’s easy. It’s doable. And it’s applicable in most things you want to do or accomplish.\n\nIt feels less intimidating and is more manageable. It might feel less exciting than chasing a huge win, but its results will be stronger and more sustainable.\n\nFind an accountability partner\n“When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.”  -Thomas S. Monson\n\nA recent study looked at health behaviors among couples in the UK found that one partner’s habits have a big influence on the other’s. Consider making a pact with your partner or find an accountability partner.\n\nThe American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) did a study on accountability and found that you have a 65% of completing a goal if you commit to someone. And if you have a specific accountability appointment with a person you’ve committed to, you will increase your chance of success by up to 95%.\n\nGoals take time, hard work, perseverance and commitment to achieve.\n\nAnd results often do not come as quickly as you hope. You can easily lose the motivation in the process and give up.\n\nBut everything changes when you leverage an accountability system.\n\nTo “be accountable,” all you need is a clear goal and a willingness to let others help you achieve it.\n\nAccording to research, the two factors that effectively help people achieve the behavior change they desire are incentives and accountability.\n\n“Changing deeply entrenched habits invariably requires help, information, and real support from others,” say the authors of Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success.\n\nAchieving anything in life takes practice.\n\nWriting every day, working out, eating healthy, etc. are practices that get better with time. 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      "body": "“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”   -Samuel Johnson\n\nA lot of our daily actions are automatic. Your brain is like autopilot.\n\nThat’s how it conserves energy.\n\nFor better or for worse, our habits shape us.\n\nBreaking a bad habit ultimately is about rewiring your brain.\n\nHabits are found in an area of your brain called the basal ganglia.\n\nThe more often you perform an action or behave a certain way, the more it gets physically wired into your brain.\n\nThis amazing adaptive quality of your brain is known as neuroplasticity.\n\nYour brain forms neuronal connections based on what you do repeatedly in your life — both good and bad.\n\nEvery time you act in the same way, a specific neuronal pattern is stimulated and becomes strengthened in your brain.\n\nDavid Eagleman writes in Incognito: “Brains are in the business of gathering information and steering behavior appropriately. 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Commitment is rare!\n\nIn research in the Journal of Clinical Psychology, approximately 54% of people who resolved to change their ways failed to make the transformation last beyond six months, and the average person made the same life resolution 10 times over without success.\n\nKnowing what to do is not an issue, COMMITTING to it is the problem! Many of us lack the proper structures to support the behavioral changes our life goals require.\nCommitment, consistency and patience. Those are the hardest skills I have had to learn to use to be better and improve daily.\n\nIn his brief 1890 work, Habit, William James, a writer, philosopher and physician considered to be one of the fathers of modern psychology laid out observations on forming new and lasting behaviors:\n\n“Put yourself assiduously in conditions that encourage the new way,” he wrote. “Make engagements incompatible with the old; take a public pledge, if the case allows; in short, envelop your resolution with every aid you know. This will give your new beginning such a momentum that the temptation to break down will not occur as soon as it otherwise might; and every day during which a breakdown is postponed adds to the chances of its not occurring at all.”\nMaking meaningful and long-lasting changes in life depends on your ability to form and execute new goal-achieving activities consistently enough that they become habitual.\n\nStart a new habit by riding the \"motivation wave\"\n“The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends upon how much you want it, how much you are willing to work and plan and cooperate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong!” — L.G. 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The motivation wave might help you create long-term good behaviors.\nBJ Fogg explained in the interview that he wanted to drink more tea. So when his motivation was at its peak, he bought a bunch of tea, an electric kettle to boil water, and set everything up in easy-to-reach places on his kitchen counter. He built a system so that it was a no-brainer to make tea whenever he was in the kitchen.\n\nIt’s all about predicting the obstacles you’ll face in changing your behavior and making it easier to overcome them.\n\nThe next time you’re feeling “motivated” — either right now or later this week to write a book, start a business, go to the gym, learn a language, or a skill — use the motivation wave to your advantage.\n\nGet better one percent at a time\n“Compounding is the greatest mathematical discovery of all time.” - Albert Einstein\n\nAs the saying goes, “getting started is the hardest part”. Don’t wear yourself out before you even get off the ground. Learning to practice consistently doesn’t have to be half as hard as we make it on ourselves.\n\nSo, in order for a good habit to become sustainable and enjoyable, that part — the getting started — must not be sudden. It should be made increasingly automatic. When consistency is the problem, it is far better to commit to practicing for just five minutes or less a day and succeed at it, and then slowly add to the habit.\n\nSuccess begets success!\n\nDr. BJ Fogg, at Stanford stresses the importance of starting small in his practical theory course \"Tiny Habits.\"\n\nTo make a habit like practice stick, he says, you must make it small enough for it to be unfailingly consistent from the very beginning. Floss just one tooth, he suggests, do just two pushups, walk for three minutes, drink just one glass of water each day, write a single paragraph, or perhaps, practice just one measure of music for five or ten minutes.\nThe goal at this point is not volume. The goal is to make the habit automatic. So start by setting yourself up to succeed by giving yourself goals that are easy to meet.\nWrite a little bit every day and at the end of the year you’ll end up with a book or two. Put some money aside regularly and after 12 months you’ll have enough to pursue something you deeply care about.\n\nA magic bullet cannot save you! You’ve got to embrace the process and enjoy it. You can’t escape the hard work it takes to get better.\n\nEvery incredibly successful person you know today has been through the boring, mundane, time-tested process that eventually brings success. So, stop looking for “quick hacks” that bring faster results.\n\nInstead of reading every self-improvement post for the one golden tip that will give you superhuman efficiency, focus on doing the actual work that needs to be done.\n\nYou can inspire yourself to take action. The hard, long process is the only way though. You can’t achieve tremendous life success with a quick fix. Nobody gets it that easy.\n\nBecoming 1% better every day is a simple, practical way to achieve big goals.1% seems like a small amount. Yes, it is. It’s tiny. It’s easy. It’s doable. And it’s applicable in most things you want to do or accomplish.\n\nIt feels less intimidating and is more manageable. It might feel less exciting than chasing a huge win, but its results will be stronger and more sustainable.\n\nFind an accountability partner\n“When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.”  -Thomas S. Monson\n\nA recent study looked at health behaviors among couples in the UK found that one partner’s habits have a big influence on the other’s. Consider making a pact with your partner or find an accountability partner.\n\nThe American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) did a study on accountability and found that you have a 65% of completing a goal if you commit to someone. And if you have a specific accountability appointment with a person you’ve committed to, you will increase your chance of success by up to 95%.\n\nGoals take time, hard work, perseverance and commitment to achieve.\n\nAnd results often do not come as quickly as you hope. You can easily lose the motivation in the process and give up.\n\nBut everything changes when you leverage an accountability system.\n\nTo “be accountable,” all you need is a clear goal and a willingness to let others help you achieve it.\n\nAccording to research, the two factors that effectively help people achieve the behavior change they desire are incentives and accountability.\n\n“Changing deeply entrenched habits invariably requires help, information, and real support from others,” say the authors of Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success.\n\nAchieving anything in life takes practice.\n\nWriting every day, working out, eating healthy, etc. are practices that get better with time. 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      "body": "Reading is telepathy, and a book is the most powerful technology invented.\n\nHomer, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Woolf, Hemingway—these are names without a living body. We can’t talk to them, nor touch them, but their thoughts are immortalized through the written word.\n\nAristotle’s logic, Kepler’s astronomy, Newton’s physics, Darwin’s biology, Wittgenstein’s philosophy—these are memes without living originators. They no longer champion their ideas, and yet, we still talk about them.\n\nWithout books, humans would never have escaped the boundaries of space and time. Each new generation would have had to learn the realities of life for themselves rather than having the luxury to build on the past; knowledge accumulation would have quickly dimmed towards an asymptote.\n\nEverything that we value in the modern world has its root in invention of writing. Everything that we have accomplished has come from reading.\n\nEven on an individual level, one of the most effective ways to learn about the world is to dip your toes into the wisdom of the past. Instead of spending your life figuring out how the mind works, you can just seek out the experience of someone who already knows. Rather deducing the laws of nature yourself, you can simply refer to an existing body of work.\n\nEven beyond that, reading is a joy. It’s a touch of growth, it’s a beacon of inspiration, and it’s source of connection. We are how we spend our time, and we become what we consume. It only makes sense, then, that what we read informs how we see the world.\n\nThat said, there is more to reading than just whispering words in our mind. It’s about mindset, too. The way you read plays a major role in what you take away. It shapes what you pay attention to and how you evolve.\n\nUnfortunately, I think this part of the equation is often neglected.\n\nIs it about right or wrong?\nMost of us learn to read in school, and when we do, it’s for one of two reasons: to memorize or to critique—both with the intent of choosing right or wrong.\n\nWhen we memorize out of a textbook, the goal is essentially to score well on tests. Even if we don’t directly memorize word for word, the aim is still to absorb all the details in one defined area so that we can write an exam. Anything outside of that matters very little for the end result.\n\nSimilarly, when we critique something, say, like a piece of literature or a historical decision, our goal is to establish distinctions between what is right and what is wrong, and we have to ensure that everything we read fits into a predefined box so that we can make a strong case.\n\nThis works in school, and it teaches in its own way, but unfortunately, when reading in the real world, this kind of mindset cheats us out of knowledge.\n\nI know people who have gone through this process, been seduced by it, and then feel that if they can’t remember or memorize all they read, they are wasting their time, hence discouraging them from further reading.\n\nI also know people—and these people are abundant on the internet—that can’t help but read everything with a critical lens. They’re so intent on finding every little fault in something that they always miss the larger point. They dismiss anything that doesn’t align with their existing model of reality, and they forget to pay attention to what lies beyond black and white.\n\nNow, having the focus to absorb what you need is critical and so is having a filter in place to detect if what you’re reading is factually wrong.\n\nThat said, anytime you read something with the mindset that you are there to extract what is right and what is wrong, you are by default limiting how much you can get out of a particular piece of writing. You’re boxing an experience that has many dimensions into just two.\n\nOne of things that becomes increasingly clear to anybody that reads a lot is that, if you were to only read books that you agree with a 100% or those that are worth memorizing in full, you would soon run out of options.\n\n\nReading isn’t about jumping at details. It’s about incorporating a perspective.\n\nThe real joy of reading\nWhere, then, is perspective? If we shouldn’t recall all we consume, nor wear a lens of criticism, where exactly does the value in reading lie?\n\nTo answer that, we have to dissect why we read in the first place, and that reason is actually relatively simple—we read to understand.\n\nYou might be reading a modern-day comedy, or a Russian classic. You could be going through the latest pop-psychology volume, or an old Roman emperor’s notebook. Either way, you’re trying to put yourself in a different mode of reality so that you can absorb some of what the writing is telling you.\n\nIn this case, the only filter worth having is the one that distinguishes between what is relevant and what is not; what matters and what doesn’t.\n\nWhen you filter by right or wrong, not only are trying to paint a whole with the smaller component of its parts, but you’re also limiting what you understand. Who is to say that there isn’t a lesson in what is wrong? Or more importantly, who is to say that what you assume to be right or wrong is just a current bias that, one day, you will come to readjust?\n\nAny time I reread a book that has been important to me in the past, I always come back with new lessons. Most books contain more than one idea, and they say different things in different places.\n\nI can count many instances where I have arrogantly dismissed something that I thought I knew, or that didn’t make sense to me, or that I judged prematurely—assuming knowledge of right and wrong—only to learn that with a new mindset and a sharper and more nuanced point of view, that something contained profound wisdom.\n\nThe better questions to ask are always: What is right about this? Even if this isn’t what I believe or value or see as true, why does someone else believe it?\n\nThe point of reading isn’t to memorize, and it’s certainly not to critique. It’s to absorb and filter with an open mind—to find the right thing at the right time so that you can improve and update your existing model of reality rather than mold whatever you’re reading to fit into it as it is.\n\nThe beauty of this mindset is that you don’t actually need to filter this consciously. You just need to decide that it’s okay not to agree, and it’s fine to overlook what doesn’t make sense. From there, your mind will automatically filter for what is relevant and what is not.\n\nWhen it does, you’ll know—it’ll change you in a way memorization can’t.\n\nThe takeaway\nReading isn’t just a delightful hobby. If done well, it’s also a virtue. It teaches you more than just how to live and what to do; it teaches you how to see.\n\nBy diving into the minds of some of the greatest thinkers and storytellers, it moves us into realms of reality that would otherwise stay unknown to us. We often finish a good book with a new pair of eyes, and we can then use these eyes to create a better world around us, if we so choose.\n\nThat said, in order for a book to have this effect, we do also have to do our part. We have come in with the correct mindset, and we have to put ourselves in a perceptual state that is okay with fine-tuning itself.\n\nContrary to how most of us learn to read, the process isn’t limited to the two simple dimensions of extracting right and wrong. And every time we approach it with this mentality, we cheat ourselves out of a more nuanced lens of understanding; we limit retention.\n\nEvery word, every sentence, and every paragraph of a good piece of writing has the potential to teach you something. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t be selective about what you read or that you can’t give up on something that isn’t speaking to you. 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      "body": "Your smallest habits can have a significant impact on how your day unfolds.\n\nImagine getting out of bed after noon, choosing only to fill your cup with soft drinks, and spending your entire day parked in front of trashy TV.\n\nAt what point does your day turn productive and uplifting?\n\nIt probably won’t.\n\nAt the very least, you’re going to have an unproductive day. At the worst, you will end up having a dreadful day, especially if these activities are habitual.\n\nYour life can be a never-ending cycle of feeling confident, motivated, productive and amazing. You merely have to make small changes, consistently.\n\nYou can consciously create a set of habits that will ensure that you consistently experience great days. Some of the most effective practices to get there might surprise you with how comfortable they are!\n\nHere are 11 habits you can practice to shape the quality of your day:\n\n1. 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      "body": "Believe Me! You will learn something new at the end of this article!\n\nHere are some really mind-blowing facts about the English Language :\n\n“Go!” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.\nA pangram sentence is one that contains every letter in the language.\nThere are “ghost words” that mean nothing.\nThere are some words that appeared in the dictionary because of printing errors. The nonexistent word “dord” appeared in the dictionary for eight years in the mid-20th century. It became known as a “ghost word.”\n\nThe shortest, oldest, and most commonly used word is “I.”\nA new word is added to the dictionary every two hours.\nThere’s a name for words that we repeat often.\nWords we always use even though they add no meaning or value to a sentence are called crutch words.\n\nSwims will be swims even when turned upside down.\nSuch words are called ambigrams.\n\nEnglish is the language of the air.\nThis means that all pilots have to identify themselves and speak in English while flying, regardless of their origin.\n\nGirl used to mean small boy or girl.\nThe word “girl” was not initially used to refer to a specific gender. It used to mean “child” or “young person” regardless of the gender.\n\n‘E’ is the most commonly used letter in the English language.\nErnest Vincent Wright's book \"Gadsby: A Lipogram Novel\" is roughly 50,000 words long. None of them contain the letter \"e\".\nMore English words begin with the letter ‘S’ than any other letter of the alphabet.\nThe longest English word that can be spelled without repeating any letters is ‘uncopyrightable’.\nThe longest word in English has 45 letters: ‘pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’! It is a type of lung disease caused by inhaling ash and sand dust.\n‘Queueing’ is the only word with five consecutive vowels.\n‘Pronunciation’ is the word which is most mispronounced in the English language!\nThe most difficult tongue twister in the English language is “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick”.\nThe original name for butterfly was flutterby.\nThe most common adjective used in English is ‘good’.\nThe most commonly used noun is ‘time’.\nThe word ‘set’ has the highest number of definitions in dictionaries.\nThe word ‘lol’ was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2011.\nThe word ‘Goodbye’ originally comes from an Old English phrase meaning ‘God be with you’.\nThe part of a wall between two windows is called the interfenestration.\nThe part of your back that you can’t quite reach to scratch is called the acnestis. It’s derived from the Greek word for “cheese-grater.”\nThe infinity sign, ∞, is called a lemniscate. Its name means “decorated with ribbons” in Latin.\nSchoolmaster is an anagram of “the classroom.”\nFunk was originally a Tudor word for the stale smell of tobacco smoke.\nTo jirble means “to spill a liquid while pouring it because your hands are shaking.”\nScarecrows were once known as hobidy-boobies.\nThe longest English word with its letters in reverse alphabetical order is spoonfeed.\nFlabellation is the use of a fan to cool something down.\nThe shortest -ology is oology, the scientific study of eggs.\nThe bowl formed by cupping your hands together is called a gowpen.\nMochas are named after a port in Yemen, from where coffee was exported to Europe in the 18th century.\nIn mediaeval Europe, a moment was precisely 1/40th of an hour, or 90 seconds.\n\"Typewriter\" is one of the longest common words you can type on the top row of a typewriter.\nThe dot above the letters \"i\" and \"j\" is called a superscript dot or simply, tittle.\nThe longest English word without a true vowel is \"rhythm\".\nThank You!",
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      "body": "The Benefits of Saying No\nSecretly, you know that you must turn down ‘favors’ people ask of you. You know that you must take care of yourself and your work before you use your energy to help others. You must say no more often.\n\nBut if you do, the other person might feel bad. She could change her opinion of you. You could also lose your feeling of connectedness in the relation.\n\nRight?\n\nNot so, according to Vanessa Bohns, associate professor at Cornell University. She said,\n\n“People don’t take no as badly as we think they will. Chances are, the consequences of saying ‘no’ are much worse in our heads than in reality.”\nThink about it.\n\nWhen was the last time you ended a friendship because someone declined a simple request from you? I’m guessing you’d have to think hard. Even then, chances are you’ll draw a blank.\n\nThe same applies to you.\n\nSo, if you want to code instead of hanging out with friends, say no to your friends. They won’t mind. 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If you get convinced against your will, people will recognize a pattern and use it against you. And you will end up right where you started.\n\nIf you’ve said yes, root yourself in the present moment and work on the task. You have no way out, so you might as well give it your best.\n\n3. Offer an alternative.\nYou may not like the hotel your friends want to eat at. At such times, offer alternatives. For instance, say “I don’t like the hotel because its service is slow. Why don’t we go to another one instead?” Or if a colleague asks for help when you’re pressed for time, say “I have a deadline to meet. If someone else doesn’t help you, come back after Thursday. We’ll work on it together.”\n\nSee? Doesn’t it become easier?\n\n4. Delay the response.\nSapiens are impulsive by nature. We often jump the gun, only to regret our decisions later. An impulsive ‘yes’ could submerge you in a deluge of work. Just like that, an immediate ‘no’ could make you rue your decision. 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      "body": "“Goals cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.” —Denzel Washington\n\nWhat do you want in life? Do you want a better job? A healthier lifestyle? To finally write that novel or screenplay that keeps bouncing around in your head?\n\nWe all have goals. Goals about our career, goals about our health, goals about our life. And yet, it seems we are always failing at our goals. But why?\n\nOne of the main reasons why people fail at their goals is that they don’t have a good goal plan. On Sunday night, they think, “Tomorrow I’m going to wake up early and finally start exercising.” They set their alarm for 5 a.m., but don’t plan any further than that. Come Monday morning, they roll over, hit the snooze button, and dredge through another week without a single change to their lives.\n\narticle continues after advertisement\n\nSound familiar?\n\nNo shame here — we all do it. But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can achieve your goals, whatever they are; you just need to know the right way to go about it. As Denzel Washington pointed out in his 2015 commencement speech at Dillard University, to achieve your goals, you need discipline and consistency — but that’s easier said than done.\n\nFor this post, let’s just focus on the consistency part. To be consistent, you need a good plan. One that will ensure that no matter what your day is like, you will still get off your butt and work on your goal, no matter what. Lucky for us, psychologists have figured out exactly how to develop such a plan. Even better, you can do it in under 60 seconds. Here’s how.\n\nA good plan should specify five things:\n\n1. When you are going to work on your goal\n\n2. Where you are going to do it\n\n3. How you are going do it\n\n4. How long you will do it\n\n5. 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