The thing about sports is that there is always a winner and a loser – apart from those rare occasions when there is a draw and everyone wins. It is such a buzz when your team wins, that you even get to do a victory dance and hug random strangers at the pub. But it’s a different story when your team is the one that loses. It can be a bit like heartbreak really. So here are our tips to help you cope when your sports team loses.
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With rising property prices throughout the country and especially in our towns and cities, investing in property can seem like a sure fire way to make money. Successful property investment, however, requires careful planning and preparation so let’s look at some common mistakes that novice landlords often make. Not making sure the numbers add up. Making sure the numbers add up goes beyond the initial purchase price.
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Yes, we know there aren’t enough hours in the day, especially if you’re a start-up business owner or a budding entrepreneur. There simply isn’t time to keep active when your business is just taking off. However, being active is an essential part of a healthy, balanced lifestyle and should be as fundamental as sleeping and eating. What’s more, regular exercise also helps you to be more
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For years, books and articles and blogs on productivity have been showing us how to be more productive: crank out the tasks, multi-task, work faster, be organised. In short, they’ve taught us to be a good part of a corporation that wants more out of us. But that’s old-school productivity, or Productivity 1.0.
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When we talk about compassion, it’s usually towards other human beings — family, friends, neighbours, co-workers, strangers, people out there in the world, suffering. We talk about empathising and suffering, and wanting to act to ease or end the suffering. We talk about taking action, through kindness, to end the suffering in some way.
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If you’re feeling overwhelmed, tired and exhausted and you’re struggling to find your mojo then chances are your productivity levels will be suffering too. It’s natural for all of us to feel below par from time to time for a variety of reasons. But when your productivity levels start to take a dip, how can you bring yourself back up again? Well, here are our top five tips to help you stay sharp and focused.
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Many of us feel overwhelmed by all we need to do, and it can be downright stressful. I’d like to share three practices to take you from overwhelmed to just whelmed. You can’t eliminate stress, anxiety or the feeling of being overwhelmed from your life, nor would you want to. However, you can see them as wonderful places to practice some amazing things that will help in all areas of your life.
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A Paradigm Shift is when a significant change happens – usually from one fundamental view to a different view. In most cases, some type of major discontinuity occurs as well. Thomas Kuhn wrote about Paradigm Shift during the early 1960s, and explained how “series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions” caused “one conceptual world view to be replaced by another view.”
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Could you let go of your distractions, or at least learn to? Here’s a list of things you could begin to let go of: Twitter, Reddit, Favourite blogs & websites, News websites (most of the time), YouTube (or other video sites, unless needed), Shopping, buying unneeded items, Reading more than one book at a time, Additional projects, Checking phone often, Checking, mail/messages more than 3x per day
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I’ve heard from many people who say, “I think too much,” or “I can’t get out of my own head.” This is pretty common. Thinking isn’t the problem, but the struggle comes when we’re constantly spinning stories in our heads and getting caught up in them. Our minds jump from one thing to another, seeking distraction or avoiding difficulty. We can’t focus, we can’t be present in the moment, and we feel the need to be constantly busy.
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