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Create Your Life Handbook

Life Handbook

One of the key tools I found critical in my pursuit of personal growth and living a purposeful life is creating my own life handbook. What do I mean by a life handbook? A life handbook, to put it simply, is your manual that contains anything and everything important in living your life, from your life purpose, adages, life lessons, long-term goals, short-term goals, strategies,…

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Posted Mar 15 by | Comments Off
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Keep Your End Objective In Mind

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To keep your end objective in mind is crucial for conscious living. It can be divided into two phases: 1) Identify your end objective 2) Evaluate everything against your objective. 1) Identify Your End Objective Whenever you are starting a new task, activity or goal, always be clear on what your end objective is. Why are you doing this? Is it serving some larger meaning?…

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Posted Feb 20 by | 4 Comments
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You are the Average of the 5 People You Spend the Most Time With

Average of 5 People

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn This is a quote made by Jim Rohn, motivational speaker and self help guru. To be honest, I don’t fully agree with this statement because it negates the fact we have our own consciousness as well. The quote will be more accurate if we revise it to: “You…

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Posted Jan 27 by | 19 Comments
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Apply 80/20 to Your Life Now in 3 Simple Steps

The 80/20 Principle

This is the last part of a 3-part series on achieving more with less in your life using the 80/20 principle. Part 1: How To Achieve More With Less In Life using 80/20 Principle Part 2: Why You Should Not Resist 80/20 Principle Part 3: Apply 80/20 to Your Life Now in 3 Simple Steps If you look closely, 80/20 can be seen in action…

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Posted Jan 11 by | 2 Comments
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Why You Should Not Resist 80/20 Principle

The 80/20 Principle

This is part-2 of a 3-part series on achieving more with less in your life using the 80/20 principle. Part 1: How To Achieve More With Less In Life using 80/20 Principle Part 2: Why You Should Not Resist 80/20 Principle Part 3: Apply 80/20 to Your Life Now in 3 Simple Steps Some people have written off the 80/20 rule, because of misunderstandings of…

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Posted Jan 10 by | 1 Comment
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Achieve More With Less In Life Using 80/20 Principle

The 80/20 Principle

This is part-1 of a 3-part series on achieving more with less in your life using the 80/20 principle. Part 1: How To Achieve More With Less In Life using 80/20 Principle Part 2: Why You Should Not Resist 80/20 Principle Part 3: Apply 80/20 to Your Life Now in 3 Simple Steps “Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one…

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Posted Jan 9 by | 5 Comments
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Self-Discipline is Overrated

Self-Discipline

What is self discipline? Self discipline is the ability to do a particular task, when you would much rather be doing something else. For example, studying exams over playing games or chatting. Finish up a particular report at work over meeting your friends for drinks. Exercising at the gym over lazing at home. Self discipline is also synonymous with ‘self control’, because you are essentially…

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Posted Dec 30 by | 9 Comments
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Put First Things First

First Things First

Put First Things First is Habit # 3 of Stephen Covey’s book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Do you put your first things first? Putting first things first means doing to the most important things in life. It means being clear about your priorities and acting on them. That sounds pretty easy and intuitive, but many people unconsciously fall into the trap of getting…

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Posted Dec 28 by | 5 Comments
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Become the Master of Your Time

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Do you often find that you do not have enough time to do things? Say you scheduled 3 tasks to do for today. You start off the day full of zest and confidence to tackle those 3 tasks. At the end of the day, you found that you barely even completed the first task because there were other things that were demanding for your attention…

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Posted Dec 26 by | 8 Comments
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