My productivity Ad Ons that I use to re-gain my Brain Power.
If you are into productivity seeking mission, you will be knowing — the run itself is tiring at times. You want to regain the focus but fail to find it — even though you have tried all the ingredients. You can try these tips to get back on board to building your amazing world around you.
The best strategy is always getting to Work. With out channeling your anger, frustration, and crib towards the betterment of the world, it is not possible you keep your momentum going. You got to channel your thoughts and worries into something. This demands patience, silence and sobriety.
Slowly we all grow into amazing people. Things start to fall into their places. We know, things are not usually so bad, as they feel when they are thrown at us. Life seems normal as we walk few steps down the muddy road.
We still need to make sure we are going in the right direction even when every one tells us we are going right.
How do we make sure peoples’-praise does not slow us down? Let’s find out !
1 — Cook one meal of the Day
I saw this photo on Pinterest and I told myself — it is wierd. How cooking can increase our productivity meter. But, honestly, as I made the breakfast, the egg fried and mayyoneese with cocumber and tomato — things turned out quite well.
It is a different domain. Away from my computer screen. No algorthims, no designs, no logics and no typing. While you get to embrace the kitchen of your house, you do not only cook, you also clean the marble shelves. You make sure the dishes are cleaned. You also ensure nothing rots inside those windows nets and it all improves your overall sense of cleanliness.
Cooking helps. You will learn a lot of things. Not related to programming, or design, or better sentence construction — but it is unique and gives you a different perspective to your life.
We are people who literally belong to the woods, jungle and river streams. Technology has taken us away from our roots. And slowly the bad habits of excessive peeking on light emitting screens is only piling up frustration in our brains.
We need to make sure, our frustration does not prove counter productive. And for that I resort to cooking. You can find your love in gardening, or hiking or anything that keeps you away from your computer screen for some part of the day.
2 — Listen to a podcast where people speak like you want to speak
We all are what we think. And what we think, is what we take inside our brain. Podcast is this amazing product of our new era — we can listen to anybody anywhere in the world, while sweating hard on our jogging tracks.
I do it while I am jogging on the track. While I am sweating hard and I can feel the pain in my legs. Yep.. I get tired after few sprints. But at the same moment — the podcasts somehow amplify my brain power. I feel might, unstoppable, and powerful after I am done with the morning run.
The morning run is there, everyone does it. And most people also work out in the Gyms. I am not promoting going onto the track here. It is not the exersion that boosts my motivation levels.
I listen to people of ladybugs and Indie hackers these days. Even when their words swing past my brain and I do not manage to absorb much — they leave an impression that I carry along the whole day. I feel I am sitting with people of these thoughts, who are contributing to the world and I am a part of them.
If you want to contribute, you got to surround yourself with people who are contributing. If you are from Pakistan, where you do not find many people willing to contribute, you can hook yourself to these podcasts for 30 to 45 minutes a day and get back to feeling great.
It helps us avoid gossipy conversations, people oriented talks and spicy morning shows. We start entertaining our brain the way we want. Instead of the way bombarding news outlets want.
3 — Relax
I know it is already in your check list. If you are burning out quite often you know the right way to get out of the burnt is “Relax”.
I will just tell you — it is the right thing you are doing there. Relax ! Have a great time while you are sitting on your cozy sofa, listen to the bird sounds, put on airplane light stoppers, and go lost in your illusionary world.
I try to put myself at an imaginary place where I want to see myself when I am old — living in a cottage, away in a jungle and I am rich. It feels good. It helps me distract myself from the most crazy, absurd and abnormal thoughts = I am losing my time.
My time never goes wasted having a chilling time with my own thoughts. It is not success I am thinking about, neither failures, nor fights and no worries. I try to get lost into my own private world for some time everyday.
Conclusion
These are important times we are living in. Politicians are unable to control us. Rich guys are not our bosses. Kings are out of the business. Markets that prove their mettle, are flourishing. Internet has lowered the Big Certifications demands. Kids can do job even if they are under fifteen. Things are really turning around with technology.
While technology is proving helpful — it is proving catastrophic to closed minds. Excessive intake of music, pornography, drugs, and losing the instincts to differentiate wrongs from the rights, is giving some of us a dopamine Kick. It is literally taking lives of some of our people.
If we are able to think right, even when these crazy bad things are bombarded at us — it puts a responsibility of saving these people, right above on our shoulders.
Not all people are as productive as you are. Not all are able to take the control and drive their lives out of misery like you managed to drive yourself out.
I say — take this responsibility. Stay motivated not because you need success, but because internet is a wonderful thing and you can prove your life to be gigantically meaningful while building something useful.
Stay happy, stay motivated, stay growing, stay fun, even when you get tired doing it — do it for the lost kids in the far world...
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