Don’t complain!!

Everybody likes to complain. There is nothing wrong in it, if you don’t change it in an obsession of finding all possible disadvantages of your life. 

When you get up in the morning and you think: „oh no... working day... AGAIN!”, „oh no... what a terrible weather!”, „I am sick of this”, „My boss always annoys me!”, etc. consider for a moment that other people don’t have a job and they would have done everything to be in your place.

Instead of complaining about lack of money, think that others have less than you have. If you are reading this post, means that you have enough money to have Internet connection and a PC or smart phone or any other electronic device which allows you to surf the Internet.

Remember that complaining is not a solution to your problems. Your life will not change if you complain. Simple!

What changes instead is your mood. You feel worse and worse, you start to see more problems... it’s becoming a vicious circle full of negativity! Is it what you want in your life?

Cognitive Distortions – How much are you distorting your life?

Language we use everyday shows and reflects how we see the world. We try to “catch” our thoughts and ideas and describe with words everything that we see and feel.

Unfortunately, we inevitably lose in translation what we want to transmit.

We lose it through generalizations, deletion of information, cognitive distortions and many, many more.

Distortion takes place when we care and focus more about some ideas and experiences than about others. We do these things unconsciously and consciously. The way we do it gives many clues of our deep beliefs about ourselves and the rest of the world.

Here are 10 most popular cognitive distortions:

Wake up your brain!

Nowadays it becomes more and more difficult to be creative. Schools teach children how to use check-lists and how to match answer A, B or C. Is there creativity in that?  

Creative thinking is ancient past known from stories of our grandmothers.

There is a really easy way to keep your brain working as it should!

How to overcome procrastination in 2 minutes!

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” - Karen Lamb

As you perfectly know from my previous post procrastination is one of the biggest “Time Stealers”.

There are many reasons why we procrastinate: lack of management, fear of failure, badly organized time, laziness and I’m sure that you can name at least other 3 reasons why you procrastinate.

Our brains always try to find a way to justify our actions and also in this case, our brain gives a logical explanation why we haven’t dust the house for 4 months or we haven’t replied to an email for weeks....

5 reasons why Time Management is important!

Everybody knows that time is money, so I will try to explain, as fast as I can, why you should manage your time. There are 5 simple reasons which make it so incredibly important.

Time Management:

• helps to save your precious time
• relieves you of stress
• helps to avoid procrastination
• makes everything organized
• helps in achieving your goals

Fast, wasn’t it? Now you know the reasons, so you can finish to read here. Otherwise, you can continue reading to find out how to make a first and most important step in effective Time Management and have more time!

The first and most important step is to detect and eliminate the “Time Stealers”. Time Stealers are things that you do which steal your time. Here are some examples of most common “time stealers”: