Divide and Conquer

Learn to do this and you can even build an empire.

For all the courage and naval strength of the British empire during its heyday, it was the mastery of this tactic that held it together.

Breakdown your tasks into small manageable portions and then complete it. You have a paper to write then tasks may be:

1. Jotting down the ideas

2. Organizing the ideas

3. Connecting the ideas

4. Writing

5. Editing

6. Re-writing

Also you must set an acceptable time limit to each task. Don't take more time than required to complete a task. Take only short breaks between tasks. Try completing before the scheduled date.

This is a way to beat feeling overwhelmed by work.

Reign Supreme

Master your thoughts and control your ego and you will rule everything in your world.

The mind is a wonderful thing. The best creation of God's best creation. It is above everything, the best weapon there is. Use it wisely and you reap the benefits. Abuse it and you pay the price.

It is not easy to master thought. It takes patience and self awareness. But it can be done and there are many programs out there offering help. Most times this blog does just that.

The ego. The wild beast the roams our hearts. This beast must be tamed and makes it serve us. Let this beast free and it will bite or worse swallow you whole. There are many courses available to provide help but only you can tame your ego. Only you can bring it under control. It is a big battle, make no mistake about it. But a battle worth fighting and winning.

Sounds simple isn't it....

Attention!

If it is boring then you are facing a mammoth task in paying attention. A lot research and studies have suggested that the human attention span is no more than 10 minutes and with the amount of information that is bombarded to us, it might be getting even shorter. Humans everywhere pay the greatest attention to three things only; food, threat and sex. It is primal. It is something that has kept enabled the human race to survive and thrive. Everything else is secondary.
But if we pay attention to only that three then life is going to get really tough. Attention to our daily business, work and other mundane things modern living offers is important and sometimes essential.

To keep our attention where it should, we can:

1. Start by having enough sleep.
2. Having a snack
3. Reading books
4. Shutting out distractions such as TV and the internet
5. Meditate

The best piece of advice I have read about getting things done was written by Frank Tibolt in his book The Touch of Greatness. The rules are simple, only two.

First, write down whatever you that you have to do from the most important to the least. Second, act on it and don't don't stop or move to the next item until you have completed the previous one.

You might want to try this yourself.

Before you call it a day at the office, do a list of things that you have to do tomorrow. Number it and put in on top of your desk before you leave. When you come back to the office the next day, start acting on that list and keep going. Keep at this habit and see the difference that it makes.

Letter To Yourself

When you let your conscious mind take a break from a task, your subconscious mind continues to process the information in the background. Sometimes, insightful ideas will flash into your mind. To encourage this, you can try this exercise.

Sit down and write a letter to yourself about the problem you are working on. Pretend that you are writing the letter to someone who knows nothing about the project; give a good description, including everything that you have done to date. Be as detailed as possible. Don't forget to mention any constraints that are imposed on the problem and what types of solutions are preferred. Then, give your subconscious a deadline. For example, you could write, "I expect a full report by the end of the week!" It may seem silly to write to yourself in this way, but give it a try. Now close up the letter and put it away.

Unbeknownst to you, your subconscious will continue to think about the problem. When the deadline approaches, open up the letter and read it. Chances are that by that point (or possibly earlier) you will have experienced a flash of insight that illuminates a potential solution.

Source: Braingle

What You See Is Not Always What You Do

This is interesting.

ScienceDaily reported  findings of a Dutch researcher' Hemke van Doorn cooperation between two separate visual systems; namely the visual observation system and the other that takes care of the movement. Read more here

Make an Error and Remember Longer

People remember things better, longer, if they are given very challenging tests on the material, tests at which they are bound to fail.

Research by Nate Kornell, Matthew Hays and Robert Bjork at U.C.L.A. that recently appeared in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition reveals at  have found this not too surprising finding.  We all know that if we have a made a mistake about something, more often than not we tend to remember the correct answer longer. This is because we attach an emotional value to the incident.