Break these four bad habits to pump up your productivity. Waking up without a morning routine. Rushing through the morning can have negative consequences on your sense of emotional well-being and overall productivity. Without a morning routine, it’s easy to skip important activities such as meditating, working out, and worse yet—skipping breakfast. Starting your day…
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Four Habits that Cultivate Productivity
Working smarter, not harder, requires developing the following four healthy habits. Develop a morning routine. On the subject of cultivating a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness, Dale Carnegie said, “Fill your mind with thoughts of peace courage, health and hope.” That’s an impossible feat if you start each day haphazardly. People…
Three Reasons to Tackle Tough Tasks First
It’s tempting to start the day focusing on easy tasks before addressing more challenging ones. Procrastination is the bane of human existence, but you can overcome it by tackling difficult to-do’s earlier on in the day. Dale Carnegie said, “You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have…
Make the Fault Seem Easy to Correct
A bachelor friend of Dale Carnegie, about forty years old, became engaged, and his fiancée persuaded him to take some dancing lessons. “The Lord knows I needed dancing lessons,” confessed the friend, “for I danced just as I did when I first started twenty years ago. The first teacher I engaged probably told me the…