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Virus, Cold, Flu season — Time to bring in Disinfectant Sanitizer
By: Og Products
Tags: Sanitizer, Pneumonia, Coronavirus, Hong Kong, Virus

As autumn turns into winter, most of us know, although some people have difficulty recognizing it, which the dreaded and inevitable flu and cold season will follow. Not to frighten you, but some may say it is currently here. Exactly like a bear enter hibernation in late November that you can depend on the Bad Nasties into re-surface in their abhorrent abyss where they have been lurking and scheming about how they are likely to make you ill.

People today have to get spared from that disagreeable sick-day-ending into the narrative. Why? I bet right now if you should pause and pay attention, if you are at your workplace, school or just taking a stroll into your favorite coffee shop, you will hear those too recognizable sniffles, sneezes, virus and coughs.

Through these chilly months habit branded Disinfectant sanitizer is a fantastic chance to not only get exposure for your business, yet to give a fresh hand and help stop people from becoming ill.

1 — Sanitizer is a demand, not a desire. As it pertains to health there’s absolutely no compromise. Right now someone is hitting in their handbag, starting their glove box, heading to the medicine shop…you understand. Your name and logo will be touched and seen tens of thousands or even hundreds of times each day per individual. The numbers actually start to accumulate.

3 — In the home, in the car and do not forget the workplace. This brings us to our next stage, Disinfectant sanitizer is a funding friendly product. Meaning, give your client 3 or 2 to maintain top of mind where they have a demand for sanitizer. Every drop of the Disinfectant sanitizer will prevent to apply this flu and cold season. Your marketing and advertising dollars will go farther with custom branded sanitizer.

5 — They will thank you. At the end of the day, it is about nurturing and developing that connection with your client. In the end, they will remember how you gave them a trendy thing that showed good care of their well-being.

Try not to sit tight for those Bad Germs or virus to drop on your business, office, clients, or school. Since like demise and assessments, those germs will come. Tweak and request you to get your sanitizers today!
MY THOUGHTS IN IN ONE MINUTE READING
By: Alaa Ezzeddine
Tags: Thougths, Life, Virus, World

I know I am not a writer or a publisher I know very well that I’m not a very good writer I’m not a storyteller I don’t have book, And I am not inspiring anyone right now, but only myself. because this is what I need right now to inspire.

can we inspire others is it possible to wake up in the morning and feel this way or it just a dream.

we have to believe, we have to be honest and pure, Confident, but this is all still just an idea, reality is so different.

This year was really hard it was so hard to think and believe, My mind was so distracted I was frustrated and lost, Because of this pandemic It felt overwhelming and disturbing at the same time.

I know that this virus is still going and it will never stop but we have this hope We have this little word Hope.

Millions have died because of this virus Thousands are infected nothing changed.

People don’t care anymore like nothing happened I can see now people are enjoying their time, They are going to the beach and clubbing But I always think why we don’t go back in time and just feel about one person, a random stranger who got infected and struggled to breathe but sadly he died alone.

I am not trying to be dramatic here I know that we all have the right to live on our own way, And we are free, But I think they didn’t learn any lessons and they Will never learn I feel so sorry for all the people who lost their lives and to all the families.
How to Monitor Airborne COVID19 Transmission in the Air?
By: Christine Kragg
Tags: Covid 19, Health, Coronavirus, Virus, Pandemic

In July of 2020, 239 scientists called the WHO to action and pushed them to acknowledge airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2. In October, the CDC published a scientific briefing acknowledging airborne transmission as one of the ways SARS-CoV-2 spreads. The CDC describes airborne transmission as “infection spread through exposure to those virus-containing respiratory droplets comprised of smaller droplets and particles that can remain suspended in the air over long distances (usually greater than 6 feet) and time (typically hours)” ( CDC ).

This is worrisome because diseases with airborne transmission tend to have high attack rates, as they can spread through the air to quickly infect many people in a short period of time.

Airborne transmission for SARS-CoV-2 is most likely to happen:

In enclosed spaces — confined spaces lead to an increase in the concentration of respiratory droplets in the air.

With prolonged exposure to respiratory droplets — the longer someone is exposed to infectious droplets the greater their risk of infection.

In areas with poor ventilation and air sanitization — poor ventilation and sanitization allow for a buildup of infectious respiratory droplets. Good ventilation pushes indoor air containing infectious particles out and pulls in fresh air from the outside.

With the added threat of airborne transmission, it is clear that cleaning and monitoring surfaces for the SARS-CoV-2 virus is not enough. We must also look to the air to prevent widespread infection. Businesses have been investing in increased cleaning along with air filtration and ventilation technology, but how do we know those protocols are working? Are they efficient and effective at reducing the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in the air? AirAnswers ® is the solution to these problems.

AirAnswers ® is a patented revolutionary device that captures all biological particles down to 0.1 microns. These are the invisible particles like allergens, mold, and viruses that affect health. AirAnswers ® assesses over 150 liters of air per minute which is over 1.3 million breaths of air in the recommended 3 day testing protocol. Sampling a large volume of air gives a complete picture of what is in the air. The all in one service also provides laboratory testing to give you thorough and actionable results about the quality of your indoor air. Weekly assessments with AirAnswers ® provide longitudinal data to update or maintain cleaning protocols while contributing to ongoing peace-of-mind and increasing confidence.
Is it a Start to a New End?
By: Jeet Narang
Tags: Virus, Corona, Coronavirus

So where do we start from? Maybe the start is quite not good. Because it's the start to a new end. To begin with, the story is about a loop of time traveling, where a man, named Peter Pereira, from the year 2062 lands in October of the year 2022 through time traveling. He traveled outside of a mental hospital in Mumbai, where he is interrogated on who he is, where did he come from, and how did he end up here? Upon being asked he tells Dr. Gayatri Rajput that he is a time traveler, who came from the year 2062 to save the world from a Bigger Pandemic than CoronaVirus, which was just a start. Peter Pereira, the time traveler, further tells that the vaccination for CoronaVirus hasn’t stopped the virus, but instead helped the virus to become a mutation in a woman’s body who was about to take a flight from Mumbai International Airport to London where the spread of the Mutation will begin and will take over the world very slowly.

So now the question was how did he land up here and why was he chosen to come up here? In the future advanced technology, people somehow managed to create the Time Machine. Many lasers were fired upon someone or something which changed the gravity to send him to the past. Now, why was he chosen? The government wanted a guy who didn’t have any family, friends, or any loved one. Because the Government didn’t want any problems from his loved ones as when will he come back.

Peter Pereira is a character played by Ali Fasal and Dr. Gayatri Rajput’s character is played by Richa Chadha. Virus 2062 is produced by Unni Nambudripad, which is an original Spotify Podcast show. The intensity of the show is exceptionally good. The storytelling in the show is very well done by Ali Fazal and Richa Chadha. Released on 3rd September, this friction thriller is a must-listen show with 10 episodes released already.

The podcast is very interesting and intense which keeps you awake and want to listen to all episodes. When I first saw the poster, I didn’t want to listen to it. After listening to the trailer, I totally changed my mind. It is so addictive that I listened to all the 10 episodes in one go. I highly recommend you to listen to the podcast and give your reviews. The podcast's name is VIRUS 2062. Go and listen to it NOW.
Mask off: I told you so!
Tags: Public Health, Covid 19, Vaccines, Masks, Virus

The year 2020 was scary. We got through it somehow. Some days were harder than others.

Photo by Mika Baumeister

I spoke previously about my days as a mask Nazi, and my fear when the masks came off. Well, my worst fears have resurfaced and I’m completely terrified. But mostly I’m just angry. I’m angry with politicians and the everyday maskless person.

I hate that the word “maskless” has entered my everyday vocabulary. During the summer everyone promised that things would be alright. On the news I hear everyday about nurses being overwhelmed. There are hospitals turning folks away. I thought perhaps that would sway people into being safer. But all I see in the comments of YouTube videos statements saying, “there are tons of reports of hospitalizations, but why don’t they show the number of deaths.” Getting so sick to the point of needing to go to the hospital is a crisis.

Most businesses aren’t enforcing social distancing. They aren’t requiring masks. They aren’t asking if you’re vaccinated. Everything is an “honor system” but everyone is dishonorable.

Photo by Cyan

We are in a worse situation than we’ve experienced during this entire pandemic. Just a few weeks ago, a hospital in my native Houston had to airlift an infant out since there was no more room in any pediatric hospitals in the entire city. I checked Wikipedia, there are twenty-eight hospitals in the Houston area.

I want to beg and plead with every person I see without a mask on to please think of others. I don’t want to fight. I just want them to be cautious not only for their own sake but their children, their parents, their grandparents, and everyone else in their community.

The rest of us better pray that we don’t need the hospital right now because there may not be any room left.
How to Scan an AWS S3 File for Viruses in JavaScript
Tags: Tutorial, JavaScript, API, AWS, Virus

How to Scan an AWS S3 File for Viruses in JavaScript Cloudmersive Apr 6·2 min read

Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (a.k.a. AWS S3) provides object storage through a web service interface. It is one of the most popular options for cloud storage, and was also one of the first, with competing services popping up to follow suit after AWS S3’s broad adoption. If your business relies on this storage as a secure space for company objects and files, it’s important to ensure that infected files don’t contaminate your content. The following API can be run in JavaScript to scan the contents of an AWS S3 file for viruses and malware; it provides wide file format support as well as multi-threat scanning.

Our first step is to install the jQuery library:

bower install jquery

Next, we need to input a few parameters to ensure the operation runs smoothly including the AWS S# access key, secret key, bucket region, and bucket name. Once we have all our information plugged in, we can call the virus scan function with the following code:

The result will indicate if any of the contents were identified as threats, and if so, will specify both the infected file name as well as the virus name.
Sneak peek into the Habit tracker that helped me out of Depression
By: Trippy Entrepreneur
Tags: Mental Health, Habit Building, Motivation, Habits, Discipline

On my father’s suggestion, I started Tracking my habits — The good ones and the little joy-giving sins that do more harm than good.

I started tracking my habits almost 2 months back, and just this habit of consciously tracking my habit patterns has tremendously helped me break some of my bad habits and replace them with some positive ones.

Here’s a snapshot of my habit tracker from September and October.

October’s habit tracker is a little more organized and an upgraded version of September’s version.

I also embarked upon the #1000DayChallenge starting in October to build a better version of myself. Lately, I had to suffer a big enough loss to push me deep down into depression and make me question everything that I ever believed in.

This challenge was a self-reminder that “I am not my work, and I cannot, and I shouldn’t tie my identity to my work.”

I know my habit tracker looks messy and overwhelming, but don’t worry — “The only habit you need to keep a check on is to ensure that you are filling up the tracker”

The only habit I had to track was the tracking of my habits which involved me picking this journal up before I sleep, hence I keep this journal under my pillow so that I know if I missed out.

Here’s the physical change brought in because of the tiny habit of tracking my habits, and I think I am 10X better mentally.

And now, I am all set for 2021, cuz I can already see, and feel the difference of tracking habits in just these 3 months, and I like who I am becoming.

If a lethargic procrastinator like me is improving with this tiny habit, I am hopeful that you might find this helpful too.

Good luck.

Drop-in an 🍎 if you’re up for the #1000DayChallenge

If you’re curious about this habit tracker, here’s a short video that explains how you could go about creating your very own Habit-tracker.
Habits and Trigger Habits
By: Tadiwanashe Madzivire
Tags: Habit Building, Success, Habits, Gym, Growth

I realized recently how most of the things I have achieved in life have been because of my habits or my lack thereof. [1] Habits become that action that you perform without thinking much of because it is almost as if it is ingrained in who you are. The points I’m trying to get across are threefold;

Habits Trigger Habits Habitual Results

A well-known trigger habit that you and I both experience (I hope) is as soon as my feet hit the ground in the morning I feel the urge to brush my teeth and nothing else can happen until that happens. That was triggered by me waking up in the morning. The habitual result is that I never speak to anyone without brushing my teeth and I’m a better human for that. Ha! (Thanks mom).

I hope you realize that you get to choose your habits and the ripple effects are endless. What started as me weight training to look good led me to a new hobby and led me to eat healthy etc. The list is endless. I’ve reached that point in my life where I don’t require a lot of motivation to go to the gym [2]. The clock just strikes a certain hour and good day or not I’m already making my way to the gym.

Acknowledge it or not we all have habits that we adhere to. That first cup of coffee in the morning, that sad movie on a bad day, and the most important one — your diet.

Habits work best because they lead to compound interest. Compound interest leads to great results in the long run. The thing about compound interest is that in the heat of the moment it does not always feel like a great reward is being reaped. In the grand scheme of things, compound interest is responsible for most of the stuff we see around. Our relationships, our wealth and our health. It’s a total of small improvements.

The right habits tend to lead to muscle memory. Being able to act without putting much thought into it. PG has a statement on practice that links directly to habits.

“Practice teaches you how to do things without having to think consciously about each step. So even when you “already know how” to do something by making a conscious effort, you can often reach another level of knowing how to do it through practice“ ~ PG

Habits work any way you want them to. Positive or negative. Choose wisely.

[1]. Luck/Favor/Blessing tends to play a part in most people’s success.

[2] The habits that you enjoy will start to look easy to you and perhaps harder for everyone else. You may even receive a few nasty comments from naysayers but that is exactly what they are — naysayers.

For example, I have received countless comments on how it’s pointless to go to the gym as often as I do. Uhm, thanks Jack for your opinion.

Thanks to Tashinga Chiwazo for reading drafts of this.
Building Your Habit String
By: Devin Mehra
Tags: Self Improvement, Habit Building, Life, Habits, Productivity

In his book The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg discusses how to build a habit. He breaks habits down by including three components, which include the cue, the action, and the reward. The cue serves as a reminder to perform a habit. The action is the actual habit performed. Finally the reward is the feeling or physical thing received for performing the habit. For example let’s hope we all have the habit of brushing our teeth each morning. See the habit breakdown below:

Cue — Get out of bed Action — Brush teeth Reward — Teeth feel fresh

Performing positive daily habits is critical to our health and well being. Regardless of how many positive habits you’ve developed, there is always room to add more to our days. The question becomes how do you add multiple habits to your day? This involves a two step process, which includes first what I call the rapid habit time block. The second step is to string the habits together.

Rapid Habit Time Block

When planning your day you should set aside a block of time devoted to the habits you’d like to develop. The amount of time allocated to habits depends on your personal schedule and how many habits you want to incorporate. Keep in mind many of the habits we aspire to build don’t take much time in our days. Let’s say you want to build the habits of meditating, journaling, and stretching. Devote 10 minutes to each and you’re only asking for a half an hour of your day. For sake of an example let’s say you’ve decided to do these habits 8:00–8:30am each day.

Stringing the Habits

Once you’ve set aside a time in the day for meditating, journaling, and stretching, you must then decide the order in which you perform each habit. This is a personal choice, but regardless the order it’s important to move quickly from one habit to the next. The reason for this is to hone in on the cue. If you recall the cue is the reminder to perform a habit. By stringing habits together, the ending (reward) of one habit also serves as the cue to begin the next habit. See the process below, with the understanding that the order of the habits are meditating, journaling, and stretching:

Habit #1 — Meditating

Cue — 8am alarm reminder to meditate Action — Meditate Reward — Mind feels clear

Habit #2 — Journaling

Cue — Mind feeling clear after meditating Action — Journal Reward — Satisfaction of getting thoughts onto paper

Habit #3 — Stretching

Cue — Satisfaction of getting thoughts onto paper Action — Stretch Reward — Body feels more limber

Summary

In order to bring new habits into your life, you must first decide when to do the habits and then string them together. One of the biggest reasons why we don’t perform habits (aside from laziness) is we simply forget. Remember that the key is in the cue. By stringing habits together, the momentum of completing one habit cues us to take on the next habit. Grouping your positive habits together will decrease the likelihood of forgetting about them. Eventually the string of habits will become as second nature as brushing your teeth.
The Happiness Equation
By: Bex De Prospo
Tags: Covid 19, Mental Health, Habit Building, Happiness, PTSD

It all started in late 2019 with a bullet journal to keep me busy over the summer holidays.

I’d long been fascinated by my life represented in data (to varying degrees of healthiness…), so I found it easy to start meticulously tracking everything. From every dollar spent to every unit of alcohol consumed. After a few months of methodical tallying, I started to think of this brightly-coloured tome as something like an equation for happiness.

Get x amount of exercise, spend y hours on business development, invest z dollars and, over time, x + y + z = a happy life.

And then a global pandemic sent the lift barrelling towards the ground.

A life in numbers

Now, I’ll preface this with an acknowledgement that I live in one of the most humane and fortunate countries on earth. New Zealand’s management of COVID-19 has, thus far, been a masterclass. I have felt nothing but gratitude to be here while I’ve watched in impotent horror as my previous homes, friends and family in the UK and US have been devastated by both a deadly virus and their deeply flawed so-called leadership. But, despite our relative safety, we’ve faced many of the same challenges here as everyone else.

We’ve thought too hard and we’ve drunk too much and we’ve slept too little. We’ve repressed and denied and looked for something, someone to blame. Our most cherished relationships have faltered from miscommunications and lack of contact. We’ve grieved the loss of experiences and lives we finally admitted we could no longer have.

For me, lockdown marked the beginning of a sometimes painful period of profound growth, the depth of which I don’t think I’ve experienced in my adult life.
Why Do You Stand A Chance To Become A Thought Leader? — Journal Of A Content Strategist
By: Nischala Agnihotri
Tags: Thought Leadership, Ghostwriting, Habit Building, Habits, Writing Habit

Why Do You Stand A Chance To Become A Thought Leader? — Journal Of A Content Strategist Nischala Agnihotri Feb 3, 2019·2 min read

Here are a few quotes that explain Thought Leadership before I answer the question, “Why, You Stand a Chance To Become a Thought Leader?”.

“Thought leaders are the informed opinion leaders and the go-to people in their field of expertise. They are trusted sources who move and inspire people with innovative ideas” — Denise Brosseau

These words reminded me of people such as the Village Sarpanch (elected head of the village in India), the President of Panchayat Raj, and the priest in a temple. They all have something in common.

They are all Opinion Leaders.

They are the go-to people in their field of expertise.

They are trusted sources.

And, maybe also people who inspire with innovative ideas.

So, think here for a moment. “Are they all Thought Leaders?”

Here is another quote.

“Thought leadership is at the center of a — strong executive-positioning plan. It Cheryl Kim focuses on an idea or problem that you are passionate about, and that you will continue to be passionate about no matter what industry you work in or job you have.”

As I read this, I picture a stubborn entrepreneur and an adamant kid.

Again, both have a strong executive-positioning plan.

They focus on the problem that they are passionate about.

They will continue to be passionate, no matter what!

Breaking down these two definitions of a Thought Leader brings me to a dormant reality — each one of us stands a chance to be a Thought Leader.

Just like the maidservant, Cinderella stood a chance to try the glass slipper and become a princess.

Now, do you believe in yourself?

If you are still skeptical and in self-doubt, here is a cue from Michael Porter, the management guru,

“You don’t have to be the best. You just have to be different.”

That brings us to find out ‘Who is a Thought Leader?’, and how to set oneself apart from the noise?
30 minutes every day for your craft: Committing code to GitHub for 365 consecutive days
By: Philip Riecks
Tags: Coding, Habit Building, Java, Software Development, Craftsmanship

30 minutes every day for your craft: Committing code to GitHub for 365 consecutive days Philip Riecks Feb 3, 2019·5 min read

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” (Will Durant)

Last year I decided to establish a new habit: Dedicate at least 30 minutes every day to code in my spare time. I wanted to take time out of my schedule to practice every day. I got the idea while reading Uncle Bob’s attitude towards work ethic as a software developer in his Clean Coder book:

“Professionals practice. True professionals work hard to keep their skills sharp and ready. It is not enough to simply do your daily job and call that practice. Doing your daily job is performance, not practice. Practice is when you specifically exercise your skills outside of the performance of your job for the sole purpose of refining and enhancing those skills.” (The Clean Code, Page 19)

In the past, I often tried to take some time at work to practice but then unexpected issues occur, bugs are reported, coworkers appear with problems, features are waiting for their delivery and your planned practice time shrinks or even disappears. So to avoid these distractions and really focus on sharpening and enhancing my skills, I had to do this outside of the daily working environment.

For motivation and to track the progress of establishing this new habit, I used GitHub to push my code on a daily basis to have a visual overview of my what I’ve already achieved:

Contribution statistic of my GitHub account (https://github.com/rieckpil)

In this post, I’ll share my experience with this habit, show you what I achieved in this year and which obstacles occurred and how I solved them.
If This is Thought Leadership, Then, Who is a Thought Leader? — Journal Of A Content Strategist
By: Nischala Agnihotri
Tags: Thought Leadership, Habit Building, Personal Branding, Writing Tips, Personal Blog

I couldn’t believe it when I saw the results. I ran a poll with a question, — “Which among the following options trouble you?”, in the context of product marketing.

And, ‘To establish as a Thought Leader’ was the second most challenging among the options. This persuaded me to start this 100-day challenge that will help you become a Thought Leader in 100 days.

Among those who responded, I found founders, product managers, and marketers were trying hard to set themselves apart from the rest of the crowd, in two ways. Personal Thought Leadership and Organizational Thought Leadership. This chapter will focus on Personal Thought Leadership, to begin with.

In the digital age of impulsive purchases and instant gratification, thought leadership is abused to be the sum total of the number of likes, followers, shares, comments and so on. To me, they only carry social validation but do not really speak about the authority or thoughts of the leader.

What is Thought Leadership?

To me, a thought is a culminated manifestation of cumulative experiences, beliefs, perspectives, and influences that belong to a person.

To battle contradictions, attract attention, build a voice, establish clout, and create ripples around one’s own thought is Thought Leadership. This is what distinguishes a thought leader from a mere subject-matter expert.

Evolving into a Thought Leader

Who is A Thought Leader?

Look at this list. This is a personal one and need not resonate with others.

Steve Jobs = Design

Michael Phelps = Championship

Seth Godin = Marketing

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie = Feminism

Guy Kawasaki = Evangelism

When I imagine a person listed on the left-hand side, I think of the equivalent words on the right-hand side.

Now find a word for yourself.

You = ?

Honestly, the words associated with them are not because, they told the world how good they are at it, but they showed how to get better with it. It because they found their ‘niche’.

To me, a thought leader is someone who builds a thought that is a culminated manifestation of cumulative experiences, beliefs, perspectives, and influences that belong to that person, and is willing to lead her way to realize it in action.

Step #1 to become a Thought Leader is to ‘find your niche’.
Struggling to wake up early? Join the journey with me starting TODAY
By: Theta Aquarii
Tags: Journey, Self Improvement, Habit Building, Morning Routines, Productivity

How do our thoughts respond before we even start to incorporate a new habit?

We have all been there. Our inner self wants us to change a particular habit, but our thoughts hold us back from doing so. As our brain in it’s subconscious form has a habit of delaying stuff. And that’s all because of us.

What we are feeding to our brain literally is “I can do this task later. I have a lot of time and this is not the priority for me right now”. (And we end up looking exactly like this cute little kitten in the photo)

Photo by Kate Stone Matheson on Unsplash

Brain + negative “self talk”= You get ruled by your brain

What this does is, make our brain habitual to this negative “self-talk”. A situation where our brain has the power to control and apply this notion to almost every task. It eventually leads us to boredom, stagnation, staring at our friends updates on social media and scrolling endlessly. As Darren Hardy in his daily talk today said “ What controls our thought is the input you feed to your mind, what you put in front of your eyes and what you allow into your ear. The input that you allow in is what you think about.”

Clearly our thoughts are what we feed our brain.

The thought that our brain has the power to control us on every decision scares me. We humans don’t like to be ruled by anyone. Specially, for our decisions. It should be our choice. Why someone else should be responsible for our decisions? Well, I think this is a very natural thought that many of us might have. Some of you might be nodding your head right now. Yes, YOU.

Do you know at what point it started scaring me? When I looked back, introspected my failures and mistakes. And what that helped me was to understand that I need a change. It was when I hugged all my failures and “accepted” it. And said to myself “It’s okay, everyone does mistakes and you are only 25”. According to the data online, if I suppose my life expectancy would be till 75, I have two-thirds of my life to incorporate all the failures and convert them into successes. I have only lived one-third of my life. I am fortunate to have the opportunity for failure at this age. This is what I feed to my brain. This statement in particular might seem very silly to a lot of you. But it might resonate with the ones who have been there, in the struggle and are still struggling (like me).
A better way to form habits
By: Siddharamesh Mudhol
Tags: Habits For Success, Habit Building, Exercise, Habits

I’ve developed over four habits in the last 2 months. It wasn’t easy at the beginning. But as time passed by I realized the power of this simple technique.

When I started exercising, there was only one thing in my mind. I needed to lose weight. This goal motivated me to exercise each day. This continued for about 10 days. By my 9th day, I was feeling that this isn’t going to work and I won’t lose any weight continuing this.

The thing that freaked me out the most, in the beginning, was that to get into shape, I’ll have to do these exercise sessions for months, even years. That had some form of negative feelings about exercise in my head. Why waste time on this and just relax. I’m in fact in good enough shape.

One of the reasons to stop could’ve been this

The major reasons why I feel habit formation fails is ( explain each point with your own experience and elaborate on that)

We overestimate its value and underestimate the time it takes

We prefer reaching the goals over enjoying the process of doing it

We give lame excuses for not doing it ( that could be telling yourself not to do because you have to work at 9 AM )

We get too extreme with it. And place too many restrictions around it.

Good habits have less pleasure ( always )

Good habits have often less instant gratification. What that does is that when we want to try some good habit, we do it with a motive. “ I want to be thinner “, “ I want to stay fresh and healthy “. These are the goals that we want to achieve. But due to the lack of a reward system in the short term, we just fall short and stop doing it eventually. Our minds start to give good reasons for stopping that. They are often logical reasons, “ It’s not working “, “ Being vegan isn’t so tasty “. Those thoughts push us towards not doing work.

I tried exercising again but with a different motive this time

I pushed my thoughts aside and tried to focus on the exercise. I started taking the most common thing in my exercise as a reward. Pain. If I was in pain it meant that I was really pushing myself and getting better. More sweat meant that I was up to my potential and could go on more.

This time as I went along, exercise became a habit to enjoy. Even after two months, my weight hasn’t reduced a bit but I’ve become obsessed with it.

One more thing

Why not just do it and act like it’s your daily habit. When you remind yourself of your habit session, it’s easy to act like you’re supposed to do it every day and just do it.

This happens for every habit that you try to cultivate. Instead of canceling my habit building sessions because you couldn’t get to your goal, you can try getting rewards from whatever comes out from the habit. For exercising, it can be an effort and sweat.
Two-Minute Rule to Start a Good Habit
By: R.A. Shinta
Tags: Self Improvement, Habit Building, Habits, Atomic Habit, Productivity

In one of the chapters of his book, Atomic Habit, James Clear detailing this technique to help you shape a good start for a new habit that you want to build. For example, if you are someone that wants to lose weight you might want to start working out diligently for 45 minutes. But it might be too much for most people, you start imagining all the hurdles that you might face, like lack of stamina, not doing the work out perfectly, etc. By ruminating about all of this, you might lose confidence in yourself to start doing a workout.

Clear said one thing to help in this condition is to establish a “gateway habit” that naturally leads you down a more productive path. You can figure out the gateway habit of the habit that you want to start by mapping out your goals on a scale from ‘very easy’ to ‘very hard.’ Actually working out for 45 minutes on day one is fall on the scale of very hard, jogging for 30 minutes is hard, walking one thousand steps is moderately difficult, walking for 10 minutes daily is easy, putting on your work out shoes is very easy. Your goal might be to lose weight, but your gateway habit is to put on your workout shoes. That’s how you follow the Two-Minute Rule.

People might think it’s weird to get so happy about putting on workout shoes, but the point is not putting on workout shoes. The point, Clear stated, is to master the habit of showing up. By showing up, you prove to yourself you can start a new beginning, establish a start of a good habit. By showing up, you can improve your new habit to build up into something. Do easy and simple thing daily and on a more consistent basis, instead of trying to build a perfect habit on the go. In Clear’s words, you have to standardize before you can optimize.

By mastering the art of showing up, your first two minutes become a simple ritual at the beginning of a larger routine. Your first two minutes not only make your habits easier but actually the ideal way to master a difficult skill. By constantly doing it, you shape the start of your new habit. Remember, what matters is to start doing something rather than imagining a great way to start it.

The more you imagining the perfect way, the harder it is for you to start doing it. If you can effortlessly doing your first two minutes, the more likely you can slip into the state of deep focus that is required to do great things.

So, are you ready to start your two minutes?
My first 5 minutes
By: Omar Adam Husain
Tags: Writing, Habit Building, Checklist, Habits

I started creating a daily checklist at the start of this year. It was not driven by the urge to be more productive, nor was it to micromanage myself. Instead it was about creating a habit to build habits. It is a bit strange to think about but I see habit creation and destruction as the true superpower of humanity.

Our habits take care of decisions that would otherwise drain us every single day. What way should I go to work today? What time should I go to sleep? Should I brush my teeth this morning? Each of these decisions are taken care of us by the habits we have accrued over our lifetime. We do not decide to brush our teeth every morning, it takes effort to not brush our teeth as it feels wrong and gross.

A snapshot for tomorrow

So I have taken it on as a goal this year to go one step further than building a habit. I wanted to build a habit of building further habits by strictly adhering to a daily checklist I create every night. Some checklist items are stupidly easy, such as showering or making my bed. Others are more complicated such as performing a series of stretches or backing up my laptop. A lot are one off items but at the beginning and end of each day I have been cultivating a growing checklist for my morning and evening routines. These include weighing myself, flossing and updating my calendar every morning, things that I would have struggled with doing regularly a year ago.

The most recent addition to these daily check lists? I have decided to write 5 minutes each day. Starting today.

Thank you for reading my first 5 minutes.
The Top Life Hack To Become Invincible — it hurts
By: Cybil Lake
Tags: Habit Building, Invincible, Life Hacking, Filmmaking, Horror

Sometimes, when I’m working at my desk, I hit that kind of snag that propels me out of my chair. Sheer discomfort courses through my veins — so I leap up. This sensation arises whenever I have to work through some super boring technical issues or equally boring paperwork. Yet, completing the project, in this case my feature film, was even more important than how I felt. So, I had a choice — remain in the slimy discomfort or leap up, run away, and never break through — never complete the film. Now, I’m a feelings kinda gal; I let my feelings rule me a tad too much. But, this goal was even bigger than my feelings. When I chose to push through the pain and the sheer agony of endless technical complications, I made a massive discovery.

I discovered something amazing on the other side: exhilaration from completing a really hard task; that’s truly the motherlode.

Now everyone is different. I exercise a ton and so in that area of my life, I’m accustomed to pushing through to completion despite how I feel. But the area in my life where I get stuck is mind-numbing computer work. It truly makes my skin crawl. Who would have thought that doing something I despise would deliver an amazing gift?
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Tags: Habit Building

DISCOVER:: How to Add DOZENS of Positive Changes to Your Daily RoutineWant to improve your life, but don’t have enough time? Right now you could easily think of a dozen ways to instantly improve your life. Odds are, these ideas will only take a few minutes apiece to complete. The problem? You might feel like there’s not enough time to do all of them. One solution can be found using the power of “habit stacking.”One Routine + Multiple Habits = Habit StackingWe all know it’s not easy to add dozens of new habits to your day. But what you might not realize is it’s fairly easy to build a single new routine. The essence of habit stacking is to take a series of small changes (like eating a piece of fruit or sending a loving text message to your significant other) and build a ritual that you follow on a daily basis. Habit stacking works because you eliminate the stress of trying to change too many things at once. Your goal is to simply focus on a single routine that only takes about 15 to 30 …

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We Don’t Find Habits, We Build Them
By: Dustin Lebel
Tags: Fat Loss, Fitness Tips, Habit Building, Fitness, Muscle Building

We know that the key to success is to have really great habits that can be sustained for a very long time. Habits take away decision making and become an extension of what we do on a daily basis — saving time and energy for when we really need it.

But where we can sometimes fail to connect the dots is believing that we can just go around picking up habits without any concern of how they can be implemented into our lives and what the potential cost of that new habit might be.

When we find habits and then try to throw them on top of whatever mess we might have already created, they just don’t seem to stick all that well. When the going gets tough we’ll revert back to our usual behaviors.

But when we build habits, we first start with a blueprint of what we would like to change. We take our time and leave a little room for error. We fold them into our daily routine and when we mess up, we can make hopefully learn from our mistakes and swiftly correct course.

Building the right habits around good training, nutrition, and lifestyle practices takes more time and effort than we probably realize, but the foundation beneath those habits is unshakable.

Some quick guidelines when building habits:

Start with one thing — the most important thing right now — and go from there. “Too many change, make no change at all” — Mr. Miyagi (I might be paraphrasing).

2) Start small. Oh you’re gonna from Doritos and Pepsi for lunch to chicken and broccoli? Good luck. Make the change as easy as possible to get some wins under your belt.

3) Use the Jerry Seinfeld Trick: don’t break the chain. How many days in a row can you implement your one habit?

4) When you mess up, miss a day, or completely fall off the wagon…own it and move on. Your just a good decision away from being back on track.

5) You don’t need ALL the habits to get the job done. Enough already with the 90 minute morning routines that anyone with a real job or family can’t possibly execute. Move the big rocks that are important to YOU.
Building a habit
By: Filip Fabijanic
Tags: Napoleon Hill, NLP, Self Improvement, Habit Building, Motivation

There is a powerful story in the book called The Richest Man in Babylon which I am gonna take from here, for the sake of not typing.

Arkad, the rich guy in this story met two men from his youth and all three of them were poor at the time.

Many years later they asked him how come he is now rich and they are still poor.

The next is the quote from the mentioned site:

“If I set for myself a task,” Arkad says, “I shall see it through. Should I say to myself, ‘For a hundred days as I walk across the bridge into the city, I will pick from the road a pebble and cast it into the stream,’ I would do it. If on the seventh day I passed by without remembering, I would not say to myself, ‘Tomorrow I will cast two pebbles which will do as well.’ Instead, I would retrace my steps and cast the pebble. Nor on the twentieth day would I say to myself, ‘This is useless. What does it avail you to cast a pebble every day? Throw in a handful and be done with it.’ No, I would not say that nor do it. When I set a task for myself, I complete it. Therefore, I am careful not to start difficult and impractical tasks, because I love leisure.”

In Neuro-linguistic programming this is a very powerful concept.

In my first post, I devoted myself to the commitment to write a post every day. So this is my pebble for today.

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The DriveSales™ | Bad sales habits which you should break right away!
By: The Drivesales, Making Sales Stories Promising
Tags: Habit Building, Habits, Change, Change Management, Sales

The DriveSales™ | Bad sales habits which you should break right away!

The job of a salesperson is not exactly everyone’s cup of tea. They have to constantly engage with their customers and get back and forth with them to land a deal. More often than not, they come across as ‘annoying’, ‘sleazy’ and customers do not want to interact with them. It is so because there are certain qualities which are not welcome by customers.

Are you being cut off by your customers? Do your customers seem hostile to you? Here is a list of qualities that seem to be putting you off track.

1) Not listening- We cannot emphasize enough on your listening skills. Listening to your customer is crucial. Not listening to them does not help you understand what they want. Talking too much without listening comes off as annoying and pushy. 2) Intimidating your customer- Customer is king. You should make them feel comfortable. This helps them open up to you. This also helps them express what they are looking for which helps you serve them better. 3) Invading their space- You should get back to your customers but not bombard them with calls and emails. You should give them their privacy and time to take calculated decisions. Invading their space backfires on you and you will lose your prospects 4) Lack of knowledge- Make sure you have complete knowledge about your product. Giving them false information and not answering their questions hinders their confidence in investing in your product. Knowing your product thoroughly makes your customers believe in you and the product. 5) Inarticulate- Being eloquent is one of the basic qualities essential to becoming a good salesperson. An inarticulate salesperson cannot pitch his ideas efficiently. This does not get the message you are trying to convey across to your customers. This in turn leads to a bad sales pitch which is usually the foundation for all your sales.

Now, as an effective SALESPERSON! We can do three things from here.

1) Ignoring the opportunity and blaming the situation for revenue loss. 2) Taking important notes and going back to revisit your sales strategy with the growth mindset. 3) Reaching out to us if you need any specialized help for sales.

To conclude, what you choose to think also provides some idea of your growth mindset. It is something like Sean Covey’s quote “Depending on what they are, our habits either make us or break us”

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