1.Sort out your priorities. Make time to honestly reflect on your life, and to think about what is important to you. Where are you going? What do you want? What are the steps that will take you there?
2. Focus on the essential tasks. Next, think about your short term responsibilities. Ask yourself: “Out of all the tasks that I have to do, which will get me the greatest return for my time and effort?” Make a list of these types of tasks — they’re your most important things to do this week.
3. Eliminate what you can. Now look at your list. What on the list is not essential? Is there anything there that you can drop from your schedule, delegate to someone else, or put on a “waiting list”. Often when we review these non-essentials later, we find they weren’t necessary at all.
4. Do essential tasks first. Begin each day by doing the two most important tasks. Don’t wait until later in the day as they’ll get pushed aside to make time for other stuff that arises throughout the day. You’ll find that if you do these tasks right away, your productivity will really increase.
5. Eliminate distractions. If you allow yourself to be constantly interrupted by email notifications, IM, cell phones, social media and so on, then you’ll never be productive. Turn them and, if you can, disconnect yourself from the internet.
6. Keep it simple. Don’t waste time on applications that are meant to organise your schedule. Make a simple to-do list with a word document, or with some paper and a pen. Then get started on whatever work you had planned on doing.
7. Do one thing at a time. In most situations, multi-tasking slows you down. You can’t get things done with a million things demanding your attention. Focus on what’s in front of you, to the exclusion of all else. That way, you are likely to achieve more, in less time, and with less effort.
R.I.P. Stephen Hawking. Your body may have been limited, but your mind freely roamed the vastness of time and space. 📷: National Geographic
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
There’s No Time For Anything Else
1. True love is when they accept your past, bless your present and believe in your future.
2. He just wants you to know, that when he pictures himself happy, it’s with you.
3. Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.
4. She’s the happiest when being herself and she’s herself when she’s with you.
5. A good morning text doesn’t only mean “good morning.” It has a silent, loving message that says “I think of you when I wake up.”
6. She’d rather fight with you than love anyone else.
7. Someday you might fall in love with someone that you least expected to fall in love with.
8. Stop thinking about what could go wrong and start thinking about what could go right.
9. One day you’ll realize that it’s not the person, time and place that’s wrong, but the expectation for a perfect love story.
“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I bet they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize there are more important things than what people do all day.”
Calvin and Hobbes (via bl-ossomed)
This is something I see get thrown around a lot and is rarely used correctly.
Summarized DSM-V Criteria
A. Definition of trauma;
The person has experience, witnessed, or been confronted with an event or events that involve actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of oneself or others.
the persons response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror.
B. Re-experiencing; traumatic experience is persistently re-experienced at least one way:
recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the events, including images, thoughts, or perceptions
recurrent distressing dreams of the event
acting or feeling as if the traumatic event were recurring (includes a sense of reliving the experience, illusions, hallucinations and dissociative flashback episodes
intense psychological distress at exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event.
physiologic reactivity upon exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an expect of the traumatic event.
C. Avoidance/Numbing; persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma and numbing of general responsiveness indicated by at least three of:
efforts to avoid thoughts, feelings, or conversations associated with the trauma.
efforts to avoid activities, places, or people that arouse recollections
inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma.
markedly diminished interest or participation in significant activities
feeling of detachment or estrangement from others.
restricted range of affect (ex; unable to have loving feelings) sense of a foreshortened future (ex; does not expect to have a career, marriage, children, or a normal life span.)
D. Hyper-Arousal; persistent symptoms of increased arousal (not present before the trauma) as indicated by at least two of the following;
difficulty falling or staying asleep
irritability or outbursts of anger
difficulty concentrating
hyper-vigilance
exaggerated startle response.