‘Achieving Goals’ Archives
Would You Like to Have a Life without Failures?
“I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong” - Benjamin Franklin Fear of failures is one of the biggest drivers behind most people’s actions. It makes them to always look for situations where they know the possibility of failure is minimal. In other words, they miss most opportunities of their lives. What if I told you that there is no such thing as a [...]
How to Save Money (to Do Something Fun Later)
“The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.” - Kin Hubbard Many people don’t have a lot of extra money and they use pretty much everything they get and a bit more (taking short term loans like pikavippi or pikalaina from www.pikavippi.fm or www.vippisivut.com, which is not wise). Okay, the fact is that we are not going to get our money with [...]
5 Habits that Will Make You More Intelligent
“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.” - Victor Hugo Genetics have a lot to do with your potential IQ, but intelligence is not only about the ability to understand and learn new things – the more you know about things the more intelligent you appear to be and the easier it is for you to master things. You can become more intelligent by [...]
5 Huge Time Management Mistakes You Should Avoid
"It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?" - Henry David Thoreau I just love time management techniques. The reason for that is not that I would like to be the most efficient person in the world and become a workaholic who works efficiently for 12 hours a day, but rather the fact that with a right kind of time management you can achieve [...]
7 Amazing Productivity Tips for Lazy People
I must admit that I am quite a lazy person, like many people seem to be. Often, the most tempting way for me to spend a day would be something like going to the beach and listening to some relaxing music on my iPod. For a long time, I thought that it would be impossible for me to enjoy life and get things done at the same time, but recently I have noticed that it is not true. One of the most [...]
The Real Truth behind Perfectionism
Do you have the irrational belief that you and your environment must be perfect and you always strive to be the best, try to reach the ideal and never allow yourself to make a mistake? If so, you can call yourself a perfectionist. This is one of the most common sources for stress nowadays, so it might be useful to analyze if there are some ways to make one’s life less stressful and still [...]
How I Failed to Become an Early Riser
Everyone talks about how important for your success it is to wake up early, as it is supposed to make it easier to achieve more. For many people that don’t have to wake up early because of work or school, it is quite difficult to be able to wake up to the alarm. I guess the main problem is that there is no real motivation to wake up, so it is much more satisfying to just push the snooze button [...]
Achieve All Your Dreams by Overcoming Your Fears
I watched the movie Donnie Darko yesterday, which is a really good movie by the way and I suggest you to watch it too, if you haven’t already. There was a motivational speaker character in the movie called Jim Cunningham, who was talking about two main forces in life: Fear and Love. We were going to find out later in the movie that this guy was a pedophile (sorry for the spoiler) and a joke in [...]
How to Stop Procrastinating
I just love this topic as it is one of my own very personal problems – or at least was for a long time. When I was studying in the university, I always left everything for the last possible minute and I often even started to study for an exam only a couple of hours before the start of it. Of course I was then very efficient because I was in a small panic and didn’t have any choice but to [...]
How to Be a Real Man
There are many ways to define a man and nowadays the male role model is anything but a clear and simple concept. More often men have lived their childhood without seeing their fathers every day and in the kindergarten and school most of the teachers are females, so the time spent with grown up men in the childhood is very small for many guys. The social environment gives us many different ideas [...]
How to Replace Your Limiting Beliefs
Limiting beliefs are one of the major things preventing us from succeeding in our lives and doing all the things that we are capable of doing and would enjoy the most. They are even more important than concepts like self-confidence, effective time management or effective goal setting because we will never be able to even get to these ideas if our limiting beliefs are stopping us before we get [...]
Set Goals and Accomplish Them
All of us have sometimes dreamed of some things that we would like to achieve. The dreams, big or small, are very important as such, but many people don’t realize that by setting clear goals and working hard it is more than possible that those dreams can become reality. First thing is to identify exactly what it is you want and then focus on it. Here are some helpful ideas: Set yourself a [...]
