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The beginning of the year is a great opportunity for a brand new start; it’s the time most of us set new goals and get all fired up and motivated again.

By the end of January, however, that feeling of freshness of the new year is long gone. Many of us don’t even remember the goals we had set, let alone achieve them. How can we keep that fe

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The time capsule is a great journaling technique you can use to raise awareness about the direction your life is taking, as well as capture your current wisdom and memories. More than that, it allows you to have this valuable knowledge delivered to your door in the future. rnOh, did I mention it’s also a lot of fun?rnRead post for ideas h

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Putting it simply, time boxing is the most effective time management tool that I know of. Even if you already know and use it to some extent, there is a good chance that you can make it even better with some of the tips that follow.

For those those new to it, time boxing is simply fixing a time period to work on a task or group of tasks. I

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If you’re stuck finding ways to achieve a goal or solve a problem, there’s a quick analysis tool that can put you back in perspective and save you hours of frustrated brainstorming. It’s as effective as it’s simple: all it takes is asking ‘why’…
Behind every goal you set or every problem you’re working on there’s a motivation.

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13 specific journaling tools you can start using immediately, along with a mind map of the book ‘Journal to the Self: Twenty-Two Paths to Personal Growth‘.

The tools: Springboards, Character Sketch, Clustering, Captured Moments, Dialogue, Lists, Stream of Consciousness, Steppingstones, Time Capsule, Topics Du Jour, Unsent Le

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Quotes selected from nearly a decade of collecting them.

"Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories."
"We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is

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Creating task lists can give you an immediate sense of control and productivity.
However, if you keep using them for a while, you may also experience how stressful and overwhelming they can become: instead of shrinking, these lists usually only get longer and longer, no matter how fast you knock your tasks down. What to do?
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Use your imagination to create a place that you can go to at any time to generate or recreate any feeling, emotion or memory you feel like.
It can serve as a relaxing place for meditation, a place to feel energized, to bring good memories or feelings, overcome fears, solve problems or perform any change in your mood.
This is

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The Memory Palace is one of the most powerful memory techniques I know. It’s not only effective, but also fun to use — and not hard to learn at all.

Try it, it works.

Serial killer Hannibal Lecter uses Memory Palaces to store amazingly vivid memories of years of intricate patient records.
Eight-time world memory champio

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120 things you can do starting today to help you think faster, improve memory, comprehend information better and unleash your brain's full potential.

# Cultivate ambidexterity. Use your non-dominant hand to brush your teeth, comb your hair or use the mouse. Write with both hands simultaneously. Switch hands for knife and fo

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Summary of the mind-expanding bestseller How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day, along with some thoughts about Leonardo and the book.

In How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, author Michael Gelb does a superb job of capturing the essence of Leonardo’s genius and laying it out in a practical fram

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Interview with Mark Forster, one of the foremost thinkers in the field of time management. He is the author of three books on time management, including the innovative (and intriguing) Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management.

Unlike many other experts, Mark goes way beyond the ‘getting organized’ approach, and ac

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SCAMPER is a technique you can use to spark your creativity and help you overcome any challenge you may be facing. In essence, SCAMPER is a general-purpose checklist with idea-spurring questions — which is both easy to use and surprisingly powerful.

Each letter in the acronym represents a different way you can play with the

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