Let people BE ! Allow them to make mistakes. Some of them cant be as high in IQ as you are or maybe they are fighting their own battles (about which you have no damn clue about).

They also may not have any wrong intentions. Your reactions to their oddities or words or anything (which is not according to your way) is not Fair !! Whichever way you explain it. IT is just not fair.

The mark of a progress of a MAN is 'How many fewer times one reacts to get through with his day'?

How much have YOU Progressed Buddy?

“There are three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen. People who watch things happen and people who say “What happened?”
– Unknown



“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.”
– Dennis Wholey



“When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.”
– John Ruskin



“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
–Will Rogers



“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”
–Unknown



“Smokers: Young enough to think they can. Old enough to think they shouldn’t. Stupid enough to do it anyway.”
– Unknown



“When you eat less, you look good in clothes. When you exercise, you look good without them.”
– Unknown



“Don’t accumulate fat and karma. Both are difficult to burn!”
– Anonymous



“If we were to divert even 50% of our Social Media time to Bhagwaan Krishna; he will personally come and send us a friend request.”
– unknown



“Going to temple/church/mosque doesn’t make you a human, any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.”
– Unknown



“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by a**holes.”
–William Gibson



Hope some of this collection of extremely funny motivational quotes not only made you think but also put a small smile on your face. Job Done!

I believe God is a comedian, laughing at the seriousness of human race all the time 🙂 … Laugh a little more, mostly on yourself so that no one takes offence. And do spread more smiles along the way while you can!

Just you and your list and your complete attention to life! If you remove the unnecessary distractions (I call it attractive garbage), you will notice that to-dos are, at the end of the day, just to-dos.

Also, waking up early will give you a false, but very realistic and useful sense of having more than 24hours in a day. Who wouldn’t want that!!

2. 2 Minute Noodles

Confused? Let me explain.

Most of the stuff on your list will be minuscule stuff. That’s what I have noticed. It appears XXL to mind but in reality when you do it it comes to be petite (XXS) in size. When I start, it feels like I have a mountain to climb every day. But if you look closely, almost 60-70% of has the ability to get done very quickly, provided we do so.

If it takes just 2 minutes to do a thing, do it first. Suck it up & just do it. The first off the list will feel like a burden. The second will feel a little better. And by the time you reach the third, not only will your speed increase but your procrastination will reduce in an inversely proportional manner. Tried and tested!

3. The Sequence Conundrum:

Most people do this mistake of scheduling the most important tasks all together. I have a different approach.

I schedule my work in pockets – spread across the day. Depending on how many huge tasks I have, I try to mix and match. I would begin with a few small but important ones just to set the ball rolling. Having ticked off 4 small but important tasks will make you feel good and set the inertia. Then get one or two bigger ones ticked off.

Then take a break. Yes. It is crucial that you rest your brain a little after you have completed say 25% of your list. But, don’t let that break stretch for the remaining half of the day.

I try to sit in 3-4 phases in a day. And I schedule different kind of tasks together. That also keeps a check on monotony. I will read the two journal articles I was supposed to and then maybe throw in the writing of my blog post along with it.

This has another advantage. You can make your work multi-disciplinary too.

4. Removing The Distractions & Becoming A Modern Monk:

I will tell you upfront. It is not easy.

You will need to be very tough. Because I am going to ask you to put your phone away and will yourself to not open Facebook for 2 hours. Can you do that for yourself? Most would not have the guts to become a modern monk.

The technologically advanced generation has 2 lethal byproducts – smarter phones and dumber people. We know our phones and Whatsapp messages distract us. But we still sit with them. Is that ‘ping’ and then a very trivial futile, probably not so funny message from a would be crush more important than taking one more step towards your goals?

If your answer is yes, then you probably should not even have been reading this article in the first place!

I will simplify it for you. If you don’t want to switch it off, just put in on silent with vibration switched off as well. Keep it face down and get on with your work. You will be amazed as to how quickly you forget about your phone and other gadgets.

Working on only one device at a time really helps.

5. Removing Clutter:

Till the time I used to have a cluttered desk and work-space, my distractions and hence the probability of an incomplete to-do list at the end of the day used to be really high.

Now I make sure that my desk only has stuff that I need for my work-space. I am not asking you to keep it clean. That is completely your prerogative. But don’t make it chaotic. Chaos may be a sign of creativity at times but it can never induce productivity for sure.

If you keep things that you don’t need around you, you will also keep doing things that don’t need to be done. To-dos have to be approached like a horse with its binders on. If you only see your list – you will stick to it.

I read this interesting article which said, it is a myth that humans can multi-task. The brain does not have the ability to process more than one task together. The attention will always be more for the task you are currently doing. If you are walking and talking, you are pretty much only thinking about the talking part. The brain focuses on the one that takes more cognitive effort.

Pin ItThe key to ensuring that you stick to your to-dos is to remove as many distractions as possible. And that means you need to stop telling yourself that you can multi-task and start telling yourself that you can indeed be quick, efficient and highly focused.

Speed and accuracy are more important indicators of high productivity rather than our false belief of our ability to multi-task.

If you want to tick those boxed against those tasks, forget everything else and just do it!