What if you could work with time, instead of struggling against it?
How good would it feel to have all your tasks finished for the day?
There is a mental model which promises to achieve exactly that.
Read on to discover the Pomodoro Technique of better productivity and time management.
How do you react when somebody criticizes you?
It feels like a punch in the gut, our shoulders get tense, our face gets serious and our ego goes into a hyper-defense mode, ready for war.
What if we could short-circuit that reaction and substitute it with a growth mindset?
Read on to find out how you can use criticism as your biggest tool for self improvement and personal growth.
“No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.” That’s what the army says.
This is what Sales Folks say: “No sales plan ever survives contact with customer.”
So, how do we ensure success?
An army officer says he knows the trick.
Read on to learn about a brilliant insight which is the key to achieve excellent team work, individual efficiency and eventually, project success.
Decision Paralysis can happen to the best of us. The overwhelming anxiety of choosing between two or more options can be crippling.
Unfortunately, decision making is not one of those activities that we get better at by repetition.
The question is “Can we do something about it?”
Read on to know how to make decisions that make us more self-aware and help us reduce post decision regrets.
There is enough research done to show that “We have more leisure time today, than what we did a few years back.”
However, between you and me, do you really feel that you enough leisure time in the day? I mean, we can never get around to reading that book or learning that language.
In all this chaotic busyness of our lives, how are we supposed to carve out time for ourselves? How are we supposed to find the time that makes us happier, that allows us to pursue what we love doing?
A Harvard Professor has found good answers to this question. Read on to find out.
If you are like me and suffer from an acute case of “So many books, but so little time” syndrome, you probably understand the struggles of maintaining a daily reading schedule.
As it is, the time starved nature of modern work and living allows us limited liberties when it comes to reading.
What if we could optimize the time we have and use it to maximize the value add we can get from reading daily?
With time always being a finite resource and our daily schedules getting as unpredictable as the weather, it is fair to assume that we are never getting around reading all the books we want.
However, we can be smart about it.
What if we had a systematic approach that could help us choosing the right books? Could we optimize our casual browsing that we normally do and make it more effective?
Read on to find out.
Has this ever happened to you: You have a list of tasks you need to complete but somehow you never get around to finishing them and the reminder of that fact keeps agonizing you further?
In this post, my objective is to provide a different perspective on the idea of task lists and action items.
What if we found a better way to approach them? Can we use the idea of starting with small tasks and optimizing them to help us make exponential progress towards our big goals?
Can we find a way to execute and finish these tasks so that they can give us exponential productivity benefits?
We are solid with our resolutions for the first week and in some cases, even the first month. But as the newness of the year fades away, our passion and enthusiasm also fades away. Eventually, we again find ourselves in a state of routine that we so eagerly promised to get out of.
But is there a way to overcome this? Can we ensure that we stay committed to our resolutions? Can we use psychology to program our minds to stick to our promises?
Traditional investors, entrust the managers of the pubic companies with their money, aiming for a higher than average return on their investment.
As readers of The Evening Project, you are entrusting me with something far more valuable than money – your time. Time, that could have been spent doing something else.
The resource of time is limited and finite. This makes it imperative for every one of us to understand and realize the opportunity costs associated with time. Reading The Evening Project means that you are not doing something else. Hence, it becomes my responsibility to make sure that you are getting an above average return for your time.
In this letter, I wish to talk about how we got here, what are we doing now and what can the readers expect from The Evening Project in the future.