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The 5 things I learned in two months of meditation

February 17, 2015 Filed Under: Jedi mind tricks, Mental performance

According to research done in Harvard, I have a new brain now. Well, perhaps not quite, since the participants in the study clocked an average of 27 minutes a day over two months, whereas I'm averaging 20 minutes a day, six days a week. So I'll give my new brain a little more time to develop. Nevertheless, It's been around two months since I started a (almost) daily …

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Give in to the system (and watch your productivity skyrocket)

November 8, 2012 Filed Under: Making things happen, Mental performance

In my previous life as a consultant I would often get to work, open my laptop, pour a cup of coffee and start thinking about what is that I should actually start doing. As I was slowly sipping the coffee I might have opened my email, browsed a few news sites or blogs, and by the time the coffee was getting cold I'd be nowhere nearer to getting any real work done. Sounds …

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Increase your productivity… by playing Angry Birds!

October 16, 2012 Filed Under: Creativity and innovation, Making things happen, Mental performance

Looking back the few years since I started getting interested in how to change human behavior, how to be productive, and in general how our brains work, I can confidently say that I have gotten the most done when I have used a method of working in focused and uninterrupted blocks of time. At first I experimented with working for 50 minutes at a time, followed by a 10 minute …

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Creating a clean slate

March 2, 2010 Filed Under: Making things happen, Mental performance

The past two months have been hectic to say the least. I've been doing more courses in the university than during the fall, and I also started a new work project which actually turned out to take quite a lot of my time and energy. I'm doing things that are entirely new to me such as detailed project planning and resourcing. Factor in a new relationship and the end result has …

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Managing stress… and sucking at it!

February 7, 2010 Filed Under: Happiness and positivity, Making things happen, Mental performance

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. - Matthew 6:34 I am not a religious person. In fact I've been jokingly telling my friends that if I had a religion it would have to be Dudeism, and even that only so I would be able to marry couples. I think that would be cool. Luckily you don't have to be …

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