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How To Spot The Lessons Life Tries To Teach You Today

NEXinTEK — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 03:21:39 +0000

How to Be More Creative

NEXinTEK — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 03:13:35 +0000

One of my favorite things about being a poet, a writer, and from time to time, a visual artist, is the joy of creativity. Legit, as cheesy as that may sound, I love the rush of new ideas, the playful fun of exploring something my mind puts together, the connections that send my imagination into warp drive.

I’m not sure there are more things, this close to work, that’s as fun as the art and craft of learning how to be more creative.

So, when I sat down with the simple desire to really tackle this subject, I thought, where better to begin than to ask the obvious: How do you feed your imagination? How exactly do you become more creative?

Carly Schwartz writes:

Like mastering any skill, becoming more creative takes practice. It’s important to engage in regular habits that both directly and indirectly allow you to cultivate creativity. Activities that help prime the brain for creative thinking, such as meditation, yoga, reading fiction and surrounding yourself with people who inspire you, are just as important as creativity exercises themselves, be them prototyping or problem-solving.

There’s power in the word practice. Buried down deep in its concept, its idea, and its essence is this release from the chains of perfection. Embrace the rawness of your growth and all the potential that lives there. You might make a mess of things, and you might grow if you let yourself. Just keep this in mind, it’s all practice if you let it be.

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The Mindset You Must Adopt To Live A Happy Life

NEXinTEK — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 03:04:43 +0000

Photo by Glen McCallum on Unsplash

Most people live in a constant state of mediocrity. They’re afraid to follow their dreams, find their purpose, and accomplish everything they’ve ever wanted.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. Without even knowing you, I can tell that you want to create a happy life, and to live each day with a sense of optimism. But only thing holding you back is a lack of clarity on where to start.

It sucks.

You don’t need to trap yourself in a negative mindset, and consequently, never fulfill your potential. Because when you adopt a different way of thinking, I’ve discovered that you’ll create a very different future. The Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius, said it best:

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

Fortunately, there is a solution that will help you to create a much better future. Because if a lack of optimism is preventing you from creating the life you desire, all you need to do is adjust your mindset to become the person you aspire to be.

Here’s how.

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6 Easy Yet Incredibly Effective Time Management Strategies

NEXinTEK — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 01:01:22 +0000

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In general, our society’s understanding of work is a pretty paradox.

Isn’t it weird that we believe everyone’s job would be done in 8 hours per day? Maybe we don’t even believe that anymore, but most people are working a 9-to-schedule, which indicates that they have 8 hours of work to do.

You can’t really manage time. You can not take 1,5 hours out of 1 hour or influence the flow of time by any other means.

However, you can manage your productivity.

You can make sure to get as much as possible done during the timeframe that you have at disposal.

For me, becoming more productive starts with a good schedule and includes making use of a few time management methods to get more work done while even increasing the quality of your work.

Time management methods make your life easier.

To help you, I have put together the most valuable time management strategies I’ve learned and tried out over the past few years. If practiced correctly, these strategies can help you to boost your self-organization and productivity enormously.

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Hello world!

NEXinTEK — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 03:20:58 +0000

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Stop Ignoring These 7 Inspiring Truths

NEXinTEK — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 10:18:12 +0000

People know who they have the potential to be.

The challenge is seeing that process through.

Self-development is an art.

It takes time. It requires patience. It asks you to step outside your comfort zone. It is challenging — and that’s the point.

However, the biggest challenge when it comes to self-development is the process itself. People really struggle with the path and all its twists and turns, much more than they do any single obstacle.

But should you learn how to walk that path of self-development, you will learn some tried truths to live by:

1. Any failure can be reframed as a lesson.

Self-development is a mindset.

To one person, a project going poorly or a relationship ending means they failed. To someone else, it is nothing more than another lesson on the path.

By reframing to see the lesson instead of the mistake, you will ultimately learn more and move on to what’s next faster.

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How to be 1% Better Every Day

NEXinTEK — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 10:11:07 +0000

“Compounding is the greatest mathematical discovery of all time.” — Albert Einstein

The quest to become a better version of yourself often feels like a roller coaster ride. It’s hard. And it’s usually so uneven. You can end in failure. But life is a journey, not a marathon, so you always have another opportunity to restart and improve.

Many people practically look out for secrets, tricks, and hacks that will make EVERYTHING better right now. But unfortunately life doesn’t work that way. There are no “overnight successes”. Think of all the incredible people you truly admire. They didn’t succeed becasue of one giant move, but rather a series of small and consistent actions over time.

Stop aiming for radical personal change!

“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” — Stephen Covey

A 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. Every 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.

Instead of reading every self-improvement post for the one golden tip that will make you superhumanly efficient, focus on doing the actual work that needs to be done. You 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.

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How To Become Ridiculously Self-Aware In 20 Minutes

NEXinTEK — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 18:09:41 +0000

Four years ago my sister got me something that would dramatically alter the direction of my life.

In fact, it was probably the most influential gift I’ve ever received.

It would help me find my true calling, become a writer at the Huffington Post, and go on a 5-month road trip across America by myself.

You know what it was?

One of these…

A journal.

A freaking journal.

Here are 4 Life-Changing Benefits Of Daily Journaling

You’d think that sitting down and putting pen to paper wouldn’t be that life-changing of a practice.

In this article you’ll learn four things..

Why journaling’s the secret to not getting angry/upset much anymore.
How it can show you why certain strategies work and don’t work.
How writing can teach you to be more “present” in your everyday life.
How journaling will help you become incredibly self-aware (the MOST IMPORTANT benefit by a long-shot).

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What’s the Point of Self-Improvement Anyway?

NEXinTEK — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 19:39:09 +0000

There’s a paradox with self-improvement and it is this: the ultimate goal of all self-improvement is to reach the point where you no longer feel the need to improve yourself.

Think about it: The whole goal of improving your productivity is to reach the point where you never have to think about how to be more productive. The whole point of pursuing happiness is to reach the point where one no longer has to think about being happy. The whole point of improving your relationships is so that you can enjoy some drama-free cunnilingus in the McDonald’s drive-thru without almost crashing the car.

(Still working on that last one.)

Self-improvement is therefore, in a weird way, ultimately self-defeating.

The only way to truly achieve one’s potential, to become fully fulfilled, or to become “self-actualized” (whatever the fuck that means), is to, at some point, stop trying to be all of those things.

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Self-love is the basis for self-improvement

NEXinTEK — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 19:34:42 +0000

There’s a quandary I hear people talk about a lot in the self-improvement world which goes something like this: “Should I keep trying to change, or should I just learn to love myself?”

The people posing this question almost invariably feel terrible about themselves, and further, they assume that’s par for the course. It isn’t. In fact this whole “self-love vs self-improvement” thing is a false dilemma, one that badly misunderstands the role of self-love.

This equates loving yourself with thinking you’re just fine the way you are. It treats self-love as a reward for being the person you want to be. It assumes that your self-regard should be based, in some sense, on you being objectively “good.” And conversely, it equates wanting to change with disliking yourself. But ask yourself- is this true of your love for other people?

If you love someone else, surely that means you want the best for them? You want them to be healthy, happy and successful. If you have children, you want them to do well in school. If a friend is unhappy with their life, you want their life to change so they’ll be happy.

Apply the same standards to yourself that you do to others- love yourself the way you love your friends and family. Decide to be better because you deserve better; because you love yourself and want to enable yourself to live your ideal life.

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