Procrastination, Part 3 – Beat It! (With Science)

Original image by blakie In my first two posts about procrastination, I suggested a simple reframe and one unusual method that can help you become more aware of your procrastination habits. Even just this awareness can be a great help in overcoming procrastination. In part three of the series, I look at some of the [...]

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Flow

Image by gwylow71 Mihály Csíkszentmihályi – what looks like  the result of me randomly banging my forehead against the keyboard is actually the name of an academic who is one of the pioneers of positive psychology. He coined the term “flow” as a particular state of mind and concentration, sometimes also referred to as “optimal [...]

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90 Minutes – If You Have Only One Good Habit, Let it Be This

Photo by apoxapox I believe that good habit-building is very central to personal progress, productivity and self-improvement of almost any kind. In this post, I explain the most essential, basic and important habit in my life – the habit I simply refer to as “90 minutes”.

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Sorry For The Downtime (Part 2)

So, after this blog went down for a few days last week and then came back, it went right down again… I finally gave up on trying to solve the problem myself and hired someone who knows what the hell they’re doing to clean up my files instead. Explorative Approach has been back online for [...]

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Flexibility Experiment, Part 6: Before and After

My first 30-day experiment has now run it’s course and it’s time to post the results. The experiment consisted of me doing Resistance Stretching exercises for 30 days, every day. Unfortunately, there was a small glitch along the way: I paused the experiment for four days due to a minor knee-injury. To compensate, I extended [...]

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Procrastination, Part 2 – One Simple Method Every Procrastinator Should Try

In my previous post on the subject of procrastination, I presented a brief definition of “problematic procrastination” and offered one unconventional reframe that can help you beat this bad habit. In this post, I will take it one step further and show you how you can combine this reframe with a simple method to improve [...]

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What is a (Mental) Reframe?

It occurred to me recently that I have already mentioned “reframes” in past articles (most recently in this one about procrastination), but never explained what meaning of the term I was referring to. In this post, I will briefly explain what a mental reframe is and show you how reframes can be helpful as well [...]

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Will Smith’s Key to Life

I came across a very inspirational video featuring Will Smith talking about one of his life philosophies and I want to share this video with my readers. First, let me thank David from Il Cantone, where I first encountered this video. Okay, so here it is, followed by some of my thoughts about it:

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Procrastinate Much? Maybe You Should Read This Later…

Yeah, I know, hilarious title. I worked on that one all day. Moving on: Finding something entertaining and distracting to do is easier than ever and as a consequence of this, procrastination has become a wide-spread problem. As long as you have internet access, the next status-update, short message, puzzle-game, cute animal picture or dubious [...]

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Derren Brown: A Brief Glimpse Into an Incredible Mind

Below, you’ll find a video featuring a short interview with Derren Brown. It’s worth seeing for several reasons, one of them being that anything with Derren Brown in it is worth seeing. Yes, I’m a fan. Another reason I will get into after you’ve given the interview a look. In case you don’t know who [...]

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