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Career Advice, Life Lessons, Productivity

If You Feel Like You Need A Break, Take One

July 1, 2019 No Comments

You recharge your phone when it runs out of juice. You refill your gas tank when you’re running on empty. But sometimes, you forget to take a break and recharge your most precious possession: Your body (and the brain that’s inside of it).

Whether you love what you do, are in between jobs, or have a job you hate: You’re working. Living is also a job. A pretty tough one, actually. Just the act of getting up in the morning can be a daunting task. And I’m not even talking about all the responsibilities we have.

So why do you make your life even more challenging by not taking a vacation to recharge? I’m not talking about your weekends that are packed with activities, or holidays where you do more work than relax.

No, that type of “free time” only costs energy. I’m talking about resting with a very specific reason: To recharge your battery so you can get back to living a productive life.

Procrastination, Productivity

Procrastination Study: 88% Of The Workforce Procrastinates

June 17, 2019 No Comments

This study on procrastination focus on the following research question: What part of knowledge workers procrastinates on average? It’s a simple question. But until now, no one provided an answer.

Research has only focused on the procrastination behavior of college students. It doesn’t require much research to answer that question. I know from personal experience that students are notorious for procrastinating—which is fine.

The real issue with current research is that students don’t represent the workforce. That’s why I set out to discover how many professionals procrastinate. I conducted a survey on my newsletter and 2,219 people participated. Here are the results.

Habits, Productivity

Why I Stopped Being Busy

June 10, 2019 No Comments

Do you know that feeling of being so busy that time flies with a blink of an eye? We’re so busy with all kinds of things—work, friends, going out, holidays, etc. But being busy is not a good thing at all.

Especially because we waste most of our time on nonsense. We say we’re busy but in reality, we just fill up our lives with crap.

We binge-watch tv shows for days, we go to networking events with weirdoes who try to sell you their services, we spend hours finding new clothes to buy so we can impress people we don’t even like.

We’re busy with bullshit. But until a few years ago, I never got it. When people asked me, “how are you,” my answer was, “busy.”

Life Lessons

Never Underestimate The Impact Of A Rotten Apple

June 6, 2019 No Comments

What do you think is more likely to happen when a lazy person joins a highly productive team?

Option A: The lazy person gets inspired by the productive people and their positive mindset. The lazy person automatically gets elevated to their level.
Option B: The productive people in the team become lazy over time.

It can’t be scenario B, right?! That’s not how it works. The lazy person is by himself. There’s no way he can influence the whole group!

When the lazy person is surrounded by productive people, he’ll be inspired to do more work as well. That’s what most of us think will happen.

But in my experience, and from what I’ve learned from others, the opposite happens.

One negative person can easily destroy the group dynamic. So why do many of us believe that Option A will happen? It’s because you look at yourself.

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