Jobs and CareersLiving a Passionate Life - Using Journaling
By Paula Harvey
Designing a passionate life is enriched through journaling and self-reflection. I love the quote by Judy Collins; "I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important."
Desiring to live a passionate life that has more joy and fulfillment in it is something that a lot of people want, but don't think they can ever have or may even think they don't deserve. Only you can answer the question "What would my life be like if I was passionate about what I do everyday?"
Let's take a closer look at how to stay in a passionless life and then come up with some suggestions how to break free and live passionately.
How to Stay in a Passionless Life
Don't take a look at your life and ask yourself if you are happy and fulfilled. Keep your head down and do the same old things that you always have and continue to wonder why you don't laugh more during the course of the day or why little things that happen can ruin your day.
Don't try anything new in your life. Stay safe in your comfort zone, after all what would happen if you tried something new and you didn't like it? Don't journal or perform any type of self-reflection. After all, you may not like what you discover.
Don't make conscious decisions. Continue to make decisions based on the same information and patterns that you have always had and experience the similar results. At least you are comfortable with the decision process and can prove that things always turn out a certain way.
How to Start Living a Passion Filled Life
I think that journaling is one of the most powerful ways to learn about yourself. It is an amazing experience to put your thoughts into words and to reflect on them. Start writing a journal and explore some of the following questions.
What am I passionate about? What gets me excited? What energizes me? When did I loose touch with the passion that is inside of me? If you can't even tap into the energy of passion then list the things you really dislike and write the opposite of those things. These are clues to what you are passionate about.
Journal about the possibilities of what new things you would like to do in your life, how you would like to live, how do you want to feel as you go through your life? After you obtain a list of the possibilities put a plan in place and start taking action.
Journal about the decisions you make. Reflect on the decisions you make during the course of a day and see if you notice any patterns to those decisions. Are there similar circumstances when you respond and react the same way? What are the other possibilities for how you respond and react under these circumstances?
If the thought of writing in a journal every day seems overwhelming, start out slowly. Make sure you buy a nice looking journal, put it in a special place and assign a time of day when you are going to write. Make sure the TV, radio, and any other devices that may distract you are turned off.
Start out by writing five minutes a day. Do this for a week and see how it feels and then increase the amount of time to 10 minutes per day the next week. Experiment with the amount of time that works for you. You will eventually settle on a time that works for you. Experience the power of journaling your way to living a passionate life.
I wonder what would happen if you were able to identify your passions and start living in alignment with them? I offer tips and methods for living passionately on my blog. I'd like to invite you to receive my free Passion Deficit Disorder (PDD) Report and find out why passion is so important in your life and what you can do about it. You can get your instant access at http://www.DesigningAPassionateLife.com
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Study Smart Tips
By Jeff Weston
There are some study smart tips that will help you utilize your time and energy in a better way. Following these tips will also help you to finish your syllabus on time without sacrificing any entertainment.
First of all, you have to attend all the classes and listen to the instructions provided by your teachers. This will help you understand those sections of your text that you have found confusing. To get the desired result out of study smart tips, you have to read your textbooks thoroughly. However, your regular presence in the class would have also told you about the most important chapters in those books. Pay special attention to them.
Sometimes teachers provide important notes in the class. These will definitely help you progress in your study. Ask questions to clarify your doubts regarding any particular chapter or a definition. It is better that you rewrite the notes provided in the class. This will help you organize the main points of the notes in your own language. This process also improves retention power.
Study smart tips also suggest that you join study groups. In these groups, you will find students who help each other to understand different subjects and exchange information as well as notes. Always study in a fresh mood. A tired, angry and upset mind is not ideal for concentration. You can also follow a routine but make sure that it includes breaks. It is a good idea to make a summary of the chapters you have read as this will help you to understand the key points.
Follow these study smart tips and you will not have to cram too much.
Jeff Weston has written some successful e-books that teach students to study smart and not hard. To know about some study smart tips, you can visit our website.
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How to Improve Reading Comprehension?
By Peter Sturo
It is not necessary for a reader to have prior knowledge of the topic for better comprehension but he should know how to improve reading comprehension. It is necessary to obtain information from books, journals and internet resources otherwise people cannot understand what they read. If you have basic knowledge of a topic then it would be easy to comprehend. A reader needs good mental approach, motivation, concentration, memory, idea development and study techniques to improve his or her comprehension level.
Following techniques can be used for improving reading comprehension of a reader.
1. You should read books, newspapers and journals to develop a broad vision and background to improve your comprehension level.
2. You should know the style of content because good writers write in a structured and organized manner. Their writings have proper beginning, middle and ending parts. They use proper words and phrases in the content but a reader should understand them well.
3. You should know the organization and structure of the content whether it is written logically, serially, chronologically or functionally?
4. You should try to find out reasons of a particular situation, question or content to improve reading comprehension.
5. Good readers foresee and predict next events and happenings of the reading content. You should develop your interest in reading by questioning and discussing with your friends and classmates because it will help you in understanding the topic.
6. You should pay attention to headings, pictures and graphs because they play vital role to understand the story in a quick passion. Read first and last paragraphs in detail to have clearer ideas of the text.
7. You should summarize, review and highlight ideas to develop comprehension in your reading style.
8. You should have good vocabulary to comprehend your content. You can use a pocket dictionary or see words from the dictionary at the end of the day.
9. You should read content through various strategies such as survey, reading, reciting, questioning and reviewing. When you will start from survey then you can get overview of the content in a short time.
10. Good readers can judge their concentration and effectiveness while reading a text. They should know whether they are gaining or loosing interest in the topic.
11. Your eye movements, memorizing and vocalization are very important qualities to develop your reading skill.
12. Different people read for different purposes so you should know whether you are reading to get information or for pleasure because it also plays a vital role in your comprehension development process.
It is natural that your reading speed will decrease to comprehend a text because you need to understand the meaning instead of reading more and more text. However, there are actually ways to improve both reading speed and understanding with the help of some useful tools. They are especially designed for such purposes including different exercises to improve reading comprehension in a natural logical order. After researching various products in the market, we have chosen the best course which helps to attain a good level of both reading speed and comprehension.
Try the free speed reading test where you can get an estimation of your reading and comprehension score. You will win a free speed reading mini-course on completion of the test.
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Embracing the Slow Movement - 10 Ways to Slow Down Fast
By Matt Caulfield
There is a growing worldwide Slow Movement combating the cult of speed and the beliefs that more equals better and fast is good. By slowing down you can live a richer, more fulfilled life, but if you are used to the frantic pace of our modern society, how on earth do you start to slow down?
Below are 10 tips to get you heading in the right direction. These tips can be done in any order, however, I recommend you do the breathing and the posture tips first followed by the thought experiment, after that do the ones you fancy.
1. Don't Slow Down Too Quickly
We are used to rushing at things and expecting instant result. Don't. Don't try and slow down all at once. All you will do is overwhelm yourself, get flustered and give up. Doing something simple to slow your life down for five minutes each day will be much more beneficial that doing it for 30 minutes once a week.
2. Breathe!
I don't say that flippantly or lightly, we all, obviously, have to breathe but very few of us pay attention to our breathing.
By focusing on and controlling your breathing, you can calm yourself, focus yourself and energise yourself.
3. Check Your Posture
Relax, stand up straight, don't waste energy. We gather all sorts of tensions in our muscles. We collect tension from our worry and our stress from our bad posture we rarely pay attention to our bodies and allow ourselves to slump or bend or slouch.
Relaxing isn't about collapsing to the floor in crumpled heap. Being slow is about being calm and relaxed and as Phil Hine has observed "Confidence is about being relaxed in the present moment."
If you relax, you will find yourself more energised and flexible, with less aches and pains, actions (and thoughts) will be less of an effort. Relax your body; relax your mind (those Yoga people know what they are talking about).
4. Do This Thought Experiment
Why do you want to slow down? And what will you get out of it? These are very important questions, you need to know where you are going and why you are going there, otherwise you will just drift.
Imagine tomorrow you have slowed down, someone has waved a magic wand and you have got everything sorted so that you have the space to be slow. What would you see? How would it feel? How would it sound?
5. Do Something Deliberately.
Pick something that you do every day, cleaning your teeth is a good one, or having a shower. Pay attention to the process, engage all your sense; see, feel, hear, smell and taste (be careful with the last one, don't go licking things inappropriately). Notice all those stimuli and how it feels like it is the first time that you have done it!
6. De-Clutter
Make space to be slow. How much of what do you do, do you really need to do? We collect baggage; old habits, thoughts and behaviours that we no longer need, but never discard. We find we do things that serve no purpose, but never bother stopping. Do a slow audit of your habits and see which ones you can start to discard.
7. Single Task
We consider multitasking as the pinnacle of our ability to be productive, doing more than one thing at once means we get much more done, faster. Right?
Wrong. Productivity experts are starting to recognise that multitasking makes us less productive, not more. Multitasking isn't really doing several tasks in parallel; it is just constantly interrupting your self.
It is better to focus on a single task for its entirety, you will get more done, more quickly, to a higher quality and less stressfully than if you are trying to do several things at once.
8. Make The Effort to Connect with People
No person is an island and slowing down is as much about community as it is about the individual.
By being polite, well mannered and conversational with everyone you meet, it encourages you to remain calm, centred, mindful and observant.
9. Talk More Slowly
I don't mean take like a record on half speed, I mean take the time to formulate your questions and answers, breath properly, leave gaps between word, plan ahead, don't trail off half way through.
Don't feel pressured to respond immediately, a response is not an answer and we often make mistakes in communication whilst rushing to get the words out. Take your time, ponder and consider the answer.
10. Notices the Spaces Where You Can Be Slow Now.
There will be times when you are waiting for something. Like on hold on the phone, or waiting for the kettle to boil. These are spaces where you can be slow right now.
When you find yourself in a space to be slow; relax, breath, maybe allow yourself to daydream, or lose yourself in a (nice) memory. You can't do anything else at that moment. Why fight it?
Matt Caulfield is The Slow Coach. After 10 years running a successful motivational training and coaching company, he found he was unfulfilled and stressed out. He realised he just need to slow down a bit, soon after that he discovered the Slow Movement and now spends his time using the skills and strategies he developed as a success coach to helping people slow down, relax and reconnect with their lives, he shows people that by slowing down you will actually get more done, less stressfully and to a higher quality! You can find more details at his website http://www.tortoiseknowsbest.com where you will also find regular blogs and podcasts.
By Paula Harvey
Designing a passionate life is enriched through journaling and self-reflection. I love the quote by Judy Collins; "I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important."
Desiring to live a passionate life that has more joy and fulfillment in it is something that a lot of people want, but don't think they can ever have or may even think they don't deserve. Only you can answer the question "What would my life be like if I was passionate about what I do everyday?"
Let's take a closer look at how to stay in a passionless life and then come up with some suggestions how to break free and live passionately.
How to Stay in a Passionless Life
Don't take a look at your life and ask yourself if you are happy and fulfilled. Keep your head down and do the same old things that you always have and continue to wonder why you don't laugh more during the course of the day or why little things that happen can ruin your day.
Don't try anything new in your life. Stay safe in your comfort zone, after all what would happen if you tried something new and you didn't like it? Don't journal or perform any type of self-reflection. After all, you may not like what you discover.
Don't make conscious decisions. Continue to make decisions based on the same information and patterns that you have always had and experience the similar results. At least you are comfortable with the decision process and can prove that things always turn out a certain way.
How to Start Living a Passion Filled Life
I think that journaling is one of the most powerful ways to learn about yourself. It is an amazing experience to put your thoughts into words and to reflect on them. Start writing a journal and explore some of the following questions.
What am I passionate about? What gets me excited? What energizes me? When did I loose touch with the passion that is inside of me? If you can't even tap into the energy of passion then list the things you really dislike and write the opposite of those things. These are clues to what you are passionate about.
Journal about the possibilities of what new things you would like to do in your life, how you would like to live, how do you want to feel as you go through your life? After you obtain a list of the possibilities put a plan in place and start taking action.
Journal about the decisions you make. Reflect on the decisions you make during the course of a day and see if you notice any patterns to those decisions. Are there similar circumstances when you respond and react the same way? What are the other possibilities for how you respond and react under these circumstances?
If the thought of writing in a journal every day seems overwhelming, start out slowly. Make sure you buy a nice looking journal, put it in a special place and assign a time of day when you are going to write. Make sure the TV, radio, and any other devices that may distract you are turned off.
Start out by writing five minutes a day. Do this for a week and see how it feels and then increase the amount of time to 10 minutes per day the next week. Experiment with the amount of time that works for you. You will eventually settle on a time that works for you. Experience the power of journaling your way to living a passionate life.
I wonder what would happen if you were able to identify your passions and start living in alignment with them? I offer tips and methods for living passionately on my blog. I'd like to invite you to receive my free Passion Deficit Disorder (PDD) Report and find out why passion is so important in your life and what you can do about it. You can get your instant access at http://www.DesigningAPassionateLife.com
===================================
Study Smart Tips
By Jeff Weston
There are some study smart tips that will help you utilize your time and energy in a better way. Following these tips will also help you to finish your syllabus on time without sacrificing any entertainment.
First of all, you have to attend all the classes and listen to the instructions provided by your teachers. This will help you understand those sections of your text that you have found confusing. To get the desired result out of study smart tips, you have to read your textbooks thoroughly. However, your regular presence in the class would have also told you about the most important chapters in those books. Pay special attention to them.
Sometimes teachers provide important notes in the class. These will definitely help you progress in your study. Ask questions to clarify your doubts regarding any particular chapter or a definition. It is better that you rewrite the notes provided in the class. This will help you organize the main points of the notes in your own language. This process also improves retention power.
Study smart tips also suggest that you join study groups. In these groups, you will find students who help each other to understand different subjects and exchange information as well as notes. Always study in a fresh mood. A tired, angry and upset mind is not ideal for concentration. You can also follow a routine but make sure that it includes breaks. It is a good idea to make a summary of the chapters you have read as this will help you to understand the key points.
Follow these study smart tips and you will not have to cram too much.
Jeff Weston has written some successful e-books that teach students to study smart and not hard. To know about some study smart tips, you can visit our website.
===================================
How to Improve Reading Comprehension?
By Peter Sturo
It is not necessary for a reader to have prior knowledge of the topic for better comprehension but he should know how to improve reading comprehension. It is necessary to obtain information from books, journals and internet resources otherwise people cannot understand what they read. If you have basic knowledge of a topic then it would be easy to comprehend. A reader needs good mental approach, motivation, concentration, memory, idea development and study techniques to improve his or her comprehension level.
Following techniques can be used for improving reading comprehension of a reader.
1. You should read books, newspapers and journals to develop a broad vision and background to improve your comprehension level.
2. You should know the style of content because good writers write in a structured and organized manner. Their writings have proper beginning, middle and ending parts. They use proper words and phrases in the content but a reader should understand them well.
3. You should know the organization and structure of the content whether it is written logically, serially, chronologically or functionally?
4. You should try to find out reasons of a particular situation, question or content to improve reading comprehension.
5. Good readers foresee and predict next events and happenings of the reading content. You should develop your interest in reading by questioning and discussing with your friends and classmates because it will help you in understanding the topic.
6. You should pay attention to headings, pictures and graphs because they play vital role to understand the story in a quick passion. Read first and last paragraphs in detail to have clearer ideas of the text.
7. You should summarize, review and highlight ideas to develop comprehension in your reading style.
8. You should have good vocabulary to comprehend your content. You can use a pocket dictionary or see words from the dictionary at the end of the day.
9. You should read content through various strategies such as survey, reading, reciting, questioning and reviewing. When you will start from survey then you can get overview of the content in a short time.
10. Good readers can judge their concentration and effectiveness while reading a text. They should know whether they are gaining or loosing interest in the topic.
11. Your eye movements, memorizing and vocalization are very important qualities to develop your reading skill.
12. Different people read for different purposes so you should know whether you are reading to get information or for pleasure because it also plays a vital role in your comprehension development process.
It is natural that your reading speed will decrease to comprehend a text because you need to understand the meaning instead of reading more and more text. However, there are actually ways to improve both reading speed and understanding with the help of some useful tools. They are especially designed for such purposes including different exercises to improve reading comprehension in a natural logical order. After researching various products in the market, we have chosen the best course which helps to attain a good level of both reading speed and comprehension.
Try the free speed reading test where you can get an estimation of your reading and comprehension score. You will win a free speed reading mini-course on completion of the test.
===================================
Embracing the Slow Movement - 10 Ways to Slow Down Fast
By Matt Caulfield
There is a growing worldwide Slow Movement combating the cult of speed and the beliefs that more equals better and fast is good. By slowing down you can live a richer, more fulfilled life, but if you are used to the frantic pace of our modern society, how on earth do you start to slow down?
Below are 10 tips to get you heading in the right direction. These tips can be done in any order, however, I recommend you do the breathing and the posture tips first followed by the thought experiment, after that do the ones you fancy.
1. Don't Slow Down Too Quickly
We are used to rushing at things and expecting instant result. Don't. Don't try and slow down all at once. All you will do is overwhelm yourself, get flustered and give up. Doing something simple to slow your life down for five minutes each day will be much more beneficial that doing it for 30 minutes once a week.
2. Breathe!
I don't say that flippantly or lightly, we all, obviously, have to breathe but very few of us pay attention to our breathing.
By focusing on and controlling your breathing, you can calm yourself, focus yourself and energise yourself.
3. Check Your Posture
Relax, stand up straight, don't waste energy. We gather all sorts of tensions in our muscles. We collect tension from our worry and our stress from our bad posture we rarely pay attention to our bodies and allow ourselves to slump or bend or slouch.
Relaxing isn't about collapsing to the floor in crumpled heap. Being slow is about being calm and relaxed and as Phil Hine has observed "Confidence is about being relaxed in the present moment."
If you relax, you will find yourself more energised and flexible, with less aches and pains, actions (and thoughts) will be less of an effort. Relax your body; relax your mind (those Yoga people know what they are talking about).
4. Do This Thought Experiment
Why do you want to slow down? And what will you get out of it? These are very important questions, you need to know where you are going and why you are going there, otherwise you will just drift.
Imagine tomorrow you have slowed down, someone has waved a magic wand and you have got everything sorted so that you have the space to be slow. What would you see? How would it feel? How would it sound?
5. Do Something Deliberately.
Pick something that you do every day, cleaning your teeth is a good one, or having a shower. Pay attention to the process, engage all your sense; see, feel, hear, smell and taste (be careful with the last one, don't go licking things inappropriately). Notice all those stimuli and how it feels like it is the first time that you have done it!
6. De-Clutter
Make space to be slow. How much of what do you do, do you really need to do? We collect baggage; old habits, thoughts and behaviours that we no longer need, but never discard. We find we do things that serve no purpose, but never bother stopping. Do a slow audit of your habits and see which ones you can start to discard.
7. Single Task
We consider multitasking as the pinnacle of our ability to be productive, doing more than one thing at once means we get much more done, faster. Right?
Wrong. Productivity experts are starting to recognise that multitasking makes us less productive, not more. Multitasking isn't really doing several tasks in parallel; it is just constantly interrupting your self.
It is better to focus on a single task for its entirety, you will get more done, more quickly, to a higher quality and less stressfully than if you are trying to do several things at once.
8. Make The Effort to Connect with People
No person is an island and slowing down is as much about community as it is about the individual.
By being polite, well mannered and conversational with everyone you meet, it encourages you to remain calm, centred, mindful and observant.
9. Talk More Slowly
I don't mean take like a record on half speed, I mean take the time to formulate your questions and answers, breath properly, leave gaps between word, plan ahead, don't trail off half way through.
Don't feel pressured to respond immediately, a response is not an answer and we often make mistakes in communication whilst rushing to get the words out. Take your time, ponder and consider the answer.
10. Notices the Spaces Where You Can Be Slow Now.
There will be times when you are waiting for something. Like on hold on the phone, or waiting for the kettle to boil. These are spaces where you can be slow right now.
When you find yourself in a space to be slow; relax, breath, maybe allow yourself to daydream, or lose yourself in a (nice) memory. You can't do anything else at that moment. Why fight it?
Matt Caulfield is The Slow Coach. After 10 years running a successful motivational training and coaching company, he found he was unfulfilled and stressed out. He realised he just need to slow down a bit, soon after that he discovered the Slow Movement and now spends his time using the skills and strategies he developed as a success coach to helping people slow down, relax and reconnect with their lives, he shows people that by slowing down you will actually get more done, less stressfully and to a higher quality! You can find more details at his website http://www.tortoiseknowsbest.com where you will also find regular blogs and podcasts.
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