Recreate Your Beliefs
Author: Humayun Mujahid
Ever thought what reality is in its core nature? What you stressfully call reality might be your own reality. To me, there are two things your reality gets triggered from: your beliefs and your actions. So if you aspire to revolutionize your life, review your beliefs, amend them sincerely. Your actions will arbitrarily [...]
As long as there is hope, there is joy in living.
Author: Humayun Mujahid
One important area that always seems well settled in the progress of many successful individuals is goal setting. But my present article is not focused on how to set a goal. It is about its importance. I will dwell on how significant it is that you set certain goal in your life to [...]
What Normal People Want
I know that people are constantly striving to get more out of life. I know that many people wish for, hope for, want for more success, more happiness, more wealth. But wishing, hoping and wanting something is simply a useless mental activity – a waste of energy – because the only thing that will get you what you want is beyond wishing, hoping and wanting – it’s believing. More of that later! For now, if you really look around and observe the behaviour of so-called normal people, you will discover what normal people really want – they want you to be normal too.
How Making Rules Can Improve Willpower
A recent article on the Psychology Today site by psychologist Kelly McGonigal, ”The Self-Control Costs of Moral Flexibility,” talks about research that seems to show that it’s easier to make good choices when we make a rule of them. For instance, it’s easier to choose to do the dishes after dinner if you’ve made a pact with yourself to always do the dishes after dinner.
Broken Ideas And Idea Repair
As a rule, our culture tends to think of emotions as things that well up inside us in a way that’s more or less completely outside our control. We can avoid emotional situations, this point of view goes, or we can suppress them, but they are what we are, and thinking doesn’t enter into it.
Antidotes To Bad Moods And Negative Emotions
I’ve talked recently about how emotions can amplify themselves, an effect called “mood congruity.” This phenomenon is like an overzealous lunchlady, who sees a spoonful of mushy peas on your plate and keeps serving you more and more on the assumption that you must obviously love peas. In that post, I talked about the way purposely bringing up thoughts and memories associated with a better mood can help stop the lunchlady, effectively moving us forward in the lunchline to the mashed potatoes or Jell-O.
How To Improve Willpower Through Writing Things Down: Decision Logging
In my post How to Strengthen Willpower Through Practice back in May, I mentioned how useful I’d been finding a practice I call “decision logging” in terms of building willpower, and I promised to give proper attention to the subject in the future. Here, after some delay, is that post.
How To Handle Multiple Priorities
A friend posed this question:
“What do you do when you have two conflicting things to get done? For example, for me it’s writing vs. studying. Both take the same amount of focus, time and activity level. One is more pleasurable, and one is more necessary.
