some uncommon ways to work smarter instead of harder?

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• Use ninja keyboard shortcuts.
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• Get enough rest and sleep, even when you are behind
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• Use a Kanban board
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• Say NO
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• Procrastinate, but not until the last minute
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• Delegate
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• Don't be a perfectionist. Expect the "first draft" of any project to be shitty.

• Increase your typing speed
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• Use the 80/20 Principle. Analyze the work before you start.
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• Set a deadline
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• Don't multi-task
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• Use a time management system, such as GTD
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• Exercise, even when you think you don't have the time
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• Believe that you can do it

• "Eat that frog": Do the most difficult or the task you hate the most first.
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• Do not sit in the same place for long stretches of time.

The rules of sucess!!!

1. Get comfortable being uncomfortable. Get outside your comfort zone on a regular basis. The more you do, the wider that area becomes. Things that used to seem impossible can become part of your everyday life.
2. Never quit. Unless you're doing something you should stop doing. Just because something doesn't work out the first time doesn't mean there isn't a different approach or a better way to do it. We used to say in the Teams, "Plan your dive and dive your plan." Don't change course just because you face obstacles.
3. Know the difference between preparation and planning. Plans are great and essential for success. But preparation and execution are what gets it done. As General Patton once said, "A good plan executed violently today is far better than a great plan tomorrow."
4. Eat the elephant one bite at a time. Setting and achieving lofty goals is great. But those big, far-reaching goals mean nothing without a series of more near-term strategic achievable goals and milestone set along that path to the achievement of the larger goal. Break the big goals into bite-size chunks, making them less daunting and more achievable.
5. Never stop moving forward. One of my favorite quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. says, "If you can't fly, you run; if you can't run, you walk; and if you can't walk, you crawl. But no matter what, you keep moving forward." If you are not focusing on improving your life and career every day, things will stagnate. If you aren't always trying to improve, then what's the point?
6. Measure everything that is important. If you aren't measuring the success of your activities, there isn't much chance they will thrive. But if you do, there is little chance they won't improve.
7. Manage everything that is important. I don't know how many times I've set something on cruise control to focus on other initiatives only to circle back later to find things either in shambles or with zero progress. It doesn't have to be you, but someone needs to be actively managing the important aspects of your business or life.
8. Know that life isn't fair. I've been in combat, lost brothers, spent years as a single dad while trying to lead a company, gone through costly divorce, battled to maintain much needed full custody of my son, and worked hard to recover from inevitable business mistakes. But God doesn't put us in situations we can't handle. He blessed me with the most amazing wife who saved my life. And she blessed us with a beautiful baby girl. Then she was born with a birth defect and spent a month in the neonatal intensive care unit. That's life. As long as you take every day knowing things aren't fair, you'll be just fine. Never be out of the fight.
9. Laugh when you would rather cry. There is always a reason to smile, especially when you are leading a team. Positivity and calmness are contagious. As is panic. Decide what type of environment you want to promote. Lead by example.
10. Know the difference between skill and success. The world is full of highly skilled people or teams that fall short of achieving true success. In SEAL training, often it was the most elite athletes who were the first to quit. Although they had the physicality, they lacked the mental fortitude to compete and win at that level. They lacked the ability to adapt. We have to be able to bridge the gap between skill and applying that skill to achieving goals.
11. Surround yourself with subject-matter experts. And then take credit for all of their work. Just joking! I would never be where I am today without my wife, business partners, advisers, and our amazing team. I am the least important person at my company. As soon as I realized that, I knew how to get out of the way.

have no regrets later in life!!!

When people look back on their lives, what are common regrets they have?

 

The main sources of regret were, in order:

1. romance
2. family
3. education
4. career
5. finance
6. parenting
7. health
8. "other"
9. friends
10. spirituality
11. community
12. leisure
13. self

They also looked at differences between sexes:

Women, who tend to value social relationships more than men, have more regrets of love (romance, family) compared to men. Conversely, men were more likely to have work-related (career, education) regrets. Those who lack either higher education or a romantic relationship hold the most regrets in precisely these areas.

Americans with high levels of education had the most career-related regrets. Apparently, the more education obtained, the more acute may be the sensitivity to aspiration and fulfillment. Moreover, the youngest and least-educated people in our sample, who most likely possess the greatest capability of fixing their regrets, were indeed the most likely to provide fixable regrets.

other important things people regret are:



Not starting earlier
This is pretty pointless because it's better late than never, but this is the biggest regret most people have. Whenever someone stumbles upon a realization, makes important changes in their life or does something to improve the quality of their life, it's interesting how quickly regret overshadows accomplishment!
The thought process of "If I would have started five years ago, I would have accomplished so much by now" has the power to ruin even the best of decisions.

Doing great things for the wrong people
Of course we had no way of knowing those people better in the past but when you get to know people and choose to move on, in hindsight, it just gets easier to be hard on your past self for not knowing better.

Underestimating your self and over estimating your goals
All of us have a habit of putting away even the smallest of goals for that one magical day when we'll be in a better position, the perfect circumstances, all the required resources at our disposal and the right opportunities presented. The thing about perusing these goals is, you regret over estimating them so much and being afraid of them in the past but then again climbing a mountain looks like a cake walk only when you get to enjoy the view from the top.

But always remember how scary it was when you started out.

Not being spontaneous enough or setting way too many limitations
This is yet another regret point that most people love, but the thing is, it is never too late to open yourself to experiences.

Past mistakes and failures: A lot of people believe in putting these behind them in a black box, never looking back at them or revisiting these only for regret.
"Why do you talk so frequently as so objectively about the things you are supposed to regret?" is a question that is thrown at me too frequently.

The answer is, I don't believe in wasting my time entertaining regrets. Everything about my past, my mistakes, my fears, my failures, my limitations, my heartbreaks, my issues, my shortcomings, the bad habits I gave into, my destructive patterns, my toxic friendships and the phases of my life when I was spinning out of control or when I was drowning in darkness shaped the person I am today. I would be someone else if not for them and the only thing that comes naturally to me now is to break all of them down, to analyse every aspect of my past, to find my patterns and to learn from them, for the future.
This is the only way, I feel one can completely move on from the ghosts of their past, by honestly confronting it, by understanding it and accepting it as a part of your life. That is why I don't regret the alleged mistakes that I have made and that is why I feel extremely comfortable talking about them, even though it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

Embrace everything about your past, even the ugliest of it because regret feeds on fear and denial.

Who said you can't be always happy?

 


Perhaps the main point of contention here is to ensure that you do not allow your happiness to be contingent upon something.

For example, don't tell yourself that "If only I could get into grad school, I would be so happy!"

You can still be happy now, pursuing a place in grad school. Sure, you might experience a burst of elation upon seeing that grad school acceptance letter, but you are only limiting yourself if you think that you can't be happy NOW.

Because when you get into grad school, you'll think to yourself: "If only I could get into a PhD program, I would be so happy!"

And then: "If only I could get tenure, I would be so happy!"

It will never end. There will always be SOMETHING.

Also, from experience, you have to recognize that your happiness will have ebbs and flows. My mistake in my early-mid 20s was allowing a period of decline in my happiness to become more permanent than it needed to be.

If I was ever unhappy, I would go into bouts of excessive rumination and over-analysis about the cause of my unhappiness, without realizing that "This, too, shall pass."

I've realized now that sometimes you just have to let things roll.

Life has ups and downs. You can't change that. If you allow your "downs" to define who you are instead of just running with it and allowing it to pass, then you'll impose permanent unhappiness onto yourself.

YOUR HAPINESS DEPENDS ON YOU AND YOU ALONE, NO ONE ELSE!!!

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GET RID OF YOUR PIMPLES: THE BEST AND FASTEST WAYS

Photos: Michele Morosi/VogueRunway.com

As far as pimples go, those deep, humungous cystic-acne ones are probably the most traumatic. Aside from how much surface area those suckers tend to cover, the pain they cause makes them impossible to ignore. Press on one, and it reverberates throughout your entire face (that’s not an exaggeration). “Usually, people run to their dermatologist’s office for a quick cortisone injection to dry up those monsters within hours,” says Rachel Nazarian, a dermatologist with the Schweiger Dermatology Group in New York City. But what if you just don’t have the time (or money) to pop into your derm’s office that regularly? Here are the six next-best treatments top dermatologists recommend for getting rid of those under-the-surface cysts ASAP.

Whatever you do, don’t try to pop it. “The hardest thing for me to communicate with my patients is that often, around age 20, women experience a major change in their acne. No longer are the zits the juicy whiteheads that explode with a satisfying pop. By the mid-20s and 30s, acne is made of deep pockets of white blood cells, and these can’t be popped. Keep your hands off these awful kinds of zits; popping only makes them worse.” —Scott Dunbar, a dermatologist at Schweiger Dermatology Group

Ice it like a sprained ankle. “Applying an ice cube directly to your pimple for several seconds will constrict small blood vessels feeding the cyst and immediately decrease redness and size.” —Nazarian

Try Renee Rouleau Anti-Cyst Treatment. “Since cysts form on the inner layers of the skin, they need a product that can be absorbed deep down. This Renee Rouleau product does that, and it has a lactic acid-based formula that acts as an anti-inflammatory.” —Karen Hammerman, a dermatologist with Schweiger Dermatology Group

Mix this cocktail of three acne products. “The combination of these three over-the-counter products—a sulfur-containing cream (try Olay Professional Pro-X Clear Intensive Refining Sulfur Mask), a benzoyl peroxide cream (try Arithmetic Acne Control Complex), and a mild cortisone cream (try Cortizone-10)—usually proves very effective when mixed and applied two to three times a day over the cyst for seven to ten days. The cyst will start to significantly reduce in size after two to three days.” —Leyda Bowes, the medical director at Bowes Aesthetics in Miami

Layer your treatments correctly. “Treat painful undergrounders with this order of medications: a hydrocortisone cream to reduce inflammation, a 2 percent salicylic acid product to dry out excess oil, and then benzoyl peroxide to kill acne-causing bacteria.” —Joshua Zeichner, the director of cosmetic and clinical research in dermatology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City

Color correct the cyst away. “Use makeup with a slight green tinge to help mask redness and blend your pimple into your natural skin tone.” —Nazarian

Kim, Khloé, and Kourtney Kardashian Sued Over Beauty Line

Kim, Khloé, and Kourtney Kardashian are the target of a new lawsuit. (Photo: Getty Images)
Kim, Khloé, and Kourtney Kardashian could be on the hook for more than $200 million for not tweeting about their own makeup line … this according to a new lawsuit.

Hillair Capital Management claims it ponied up more than $10 million to save the Kardashian sisters’ struggling cosmetics line, “Kardashian Beauty” … after their former business partner went belly up.
As we previously reported, the Kardashians originally partnered up with a company called Boldface in 2012, launching a makeup line called “Khroma Beauty.”

Problem was … a year later, a judge blocked the company from using the name “Khroma.” The girls changed the name to “Kardashian Beauty,” but Boldface started tanking.

A savior stepped in … Hillair Capital Management, buying out Boldface and sinking $10 mil into the business.

Hillair now claims the Kardashian girls didn’t hold up their end of the bargain by blasting out the virtues of “Kardashian Beauty” to their millions of followers.

Hillair wants its $10 mil back plus what they would have made … up to $180 mil.

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