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How To Plan Your Week Effectively

December 7, 2021 by The Art of Improvement

In his celebrated book on organization, The Bullet Journal Method, Ryder Carroll describes his personal organization and productivity system: the bullet journal. Throughout his life, Carroll struggled with keeping track of tasks, often forgetting important information, and feeling overwhelmed by tasks. However, through trial and error (and after trying countless other organization systems), he finally … Read more

4 Ways To Be 10x More Productive In 2022

December 5, 2021 by The Art of Improvement

Every day, you have the opportunity to be smarter, more productive and more successful. You can take on new tasks that will help your company grow or work on personal goals like starting a business. The only limit is how much time you spend working towards these goals. It’s not about doing everything at once … Read more

How to Use the Eisenhower Matrix in Every Area of Your Life

November 28, 2021 by The Art of Improvement

If you’re looking to organize your day-to-day life, consider using the Eisenhower matrix. This is a time management strategy that can be used for work and personal life. It’s based on the idea of ranking tasks or projects by urgency and importance, with a “time available” variable in mind. The goal is to prioritize what … Read more

How to Get Out of a Rut

November 25, 2021November 25, 2021 by The Art of Improvement

So, you’re in a rut.

The dishes have piled up. Your work lays unfinished in a pile on your desk. You haven’t been to the gym in days or even weeks. You spend your time watching tv, or TikTok, or playing video games all day. Somehow, you’ve managed to wake up on the wrong side of the bed every morning. You lack energy, motivation. You can’t even remember why you used to be so productive in the first place.

What’s worse, the thought of picking yourself up by the bootstraps and getting back on top of things fills you with dread. You don’t want to clean your room. Lying on the couch all day is a much more enjoyable pastime. Catching up on work sounds like a huge burden. And the further you slide into this rut, the harder it is to come back out of it.

Practice These 10 Tiny Habits Every Day And Watch Your Entire Life Change

November 28, 2021November 21, 2021 by The Art of Improvement

By keeping a few simple habits in mind each day, you can begin to see your life change in almost every way. It’s worth the effort to make these changes and practice them daily because they will make your life easier, healthier, and happier. Here are 10 tiny habits that will help you do just … Read more

How to Keep Going (Even When You Don’t See Any Results)

November 14, 2021November 14, 2021 by The Art of Improvement

Have you ever had a goal that no matter how hard you worked or how many hours you dedicated or how many affirmations you chanted, just didn’t seem to make any progress? Despite all your best effort, it felt like you were running on a treadmill — working hard but not going anywhere.

When I decided to take my career to the next level and become a freelancer, I encountered this problem. Even though I was putting in countless hours every week, I just wasn’t getting any clients. At the time, I didn’t even know the first thing about business or marketing or how to sell my services. The only thing I actually knew how to do was the service I was trying to get clients for.

3 Techniques to Overcome Your Brain’s Negativity Bias

November 7, 2021 by The Art of Improvement

Did you know that your brain has a negativity bias? That means that it pays more attention to negative information than positive. This doesn’t mean we should give up and always be pessimistic, but it does suggest that we can take steps to overcome this tendency. In this video I’ll share three techniques for overcoming … Read more

Parkinson’s Law: How to Manage Your Time More Effectively

November 3, 2021 by The Art of Improvement

Have you ever been given an assignment for an essay that’s due in a month, but waited until the last few days to write it? Or maybe you’ve had to give a work presentation at the end of the week, but put everything together an hour before you had to give it? Or maybe you’ve set a big goal for yourself to get completed in five years, but don’t seem to be making any progress?

If you’ve ever experienced this kind of procrastination, you’ve experienced Parkinson’s Law.

Parkinson’s Law is a theory developed by Cyril Northcote Parkinson in an essay published in The Economist in 1955. Cyril wrote his essay after spending a lot of time in the British Civil Service where he noticed tasks took up as much time as they were allotted.

Will Smith’s Life Advice Actually Works

October 31, 2021 by The Art of Improvement

Will Smith’s self-discipline and philosophy on life has got him to where he is today. From a young man with no direction to becoming one of the most successful people in Hollywood, he believes that we should always be learning something new and working towards our goals every day, so long as we enjoy it … Read more

This One Book Helped Me Beat Procrastination & Overcome Mental Resistance

October 24, 2021 by The Art of Improvement

I know that I am not alone when it comes to procrastination and mental resistance. In fact, these two things can be the most difficult obstacles you will ever have to overcome in your life. What I found really helped me was this one book which completely changed my outlook on everything. It is called … Read more