Most of you might not know that your brain is in various phases while you sleep. Yes, even if you think you are a deep sleeper, you aren’t in the “deep sleep” stage the entire time you are in the bed. The brain alternates between various stages and there are times when you are in …
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Ever wondered why people do what they do? How simple things that is not very noticeable, alters human behaviour. Why we like some people and dislike someone else? How some can be very persuasive when they talk to others? All this can be understood from the online course on Social Psychology, from Coursera. It is …
For a long time, I was tracking my workouts (which was just plain walking and jogging) using an iPod Nano which had a simple pedometer. It could track how many steps you take and how many long runs you do and a very simple calorie calculation. It worked great as I can listen to podcasts …
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Today’s post isn’t about money or investments. Instead it is cycling. It was something I used to enjoy when I was a kid, which was the primary mode of transport from home to school. But soon, I got my license and stopped cycling. After 9 years, I was looking back at cycling and found that …
There are times when you would want to sit down and work on a task, but lack the determination & concentration to sit through it and finish it completely. Add colleagues or family members who constantly disturb you for petty things and you have got the perfect recipe for a huge list of tasks that …
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Are you a super procrastinator like me? Do you always wait till the last minute to finish off something? Use this 2 minute rule to finish off the small tasks and have a clear head for your important tasks which take longer time to finish. If something can be done in 2 minutes, do it …
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Most of us have lot of crap filled in our homes – as dresses that don’t fit, books that we don’t read or finished reading, electronic gadgets, chargers & earphones that don’t work anymore, etc. The above list is just a sample of things I could see around in my room. Last month my wife …
Do you want to get into the habit of writing regularly? Do you want your journal protected from others and easily accessible across various devices? Try Day One, an awesome looking journaling app for both Mac and iOS. Think of it as a facebook timeline for your thoughts, but visible to only you on your …
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When I say I work from home, my friends and relatives imagine me lying down lazily on the couch and watching TV, with one hand on the laptop and another hand in a bag of chips. No boss to breathe down your neck or micromanage you. You’ve got all the time in the world and …
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You can’t improve something unless you measure it. If I asked you how productive you were last week, you would not be able to give an accurate and objective answer. You might say “Well, I emailed the proposal to the client and added feature A, B and C to the product”. Measuring productivity by tasks …
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