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  On the Journey of Life, Do You Sometimes Wish You Had a Map? You now hold such a map in your hands-a to guide you through the twelve gateways of personal growth to the summit of your potential. Dan Millman makes your ascent accessible by bringing enlightenment down to earth-applying spiritual wisdom to the practical realities of everyday life. Explore the challenges and mysteries of body, mind, and emotions.                Discover Your Worth Self-worth is not a thing; it is a perception. Just as a gymnast begins a routine with ten points and receives deductions for each mistake, so you began life with a natural, complete sense of worth. (Have you ever met an infant with self-worth issues?) But as you grow, you serve as your own judge, deducting points when you misunderstand the nature of living, and learning when you forget you are a human-in-training and that making mistakes and having slips of integrity and mediocre moments are a pa...

    low-value work  done in  a distraction-ful environment  and most of the time it is done by  multi-tasking is called Shallow work. Shallow Work contains: Low productivity  work. Adds  no improvement  over time. It May be  automated  soon. If we continue to do more shallow work, our ability to  achieve deep work decreases over time . Here we use  'business' as a proxy for 'productivity'. Deep Work it is   Professional activities are performed in a distraction-free environment that pushes your cognitive abilities to their limit. Those efforts create new value, improve our skills, and are hard to replicate. Deep work contains: Stretches your mind. Gives meaning to your life More valuable as it becomes scarce. 4 Methods of Deep Work retains: Monastic Deep Work Bimodal Deep Work Rhythmic Deep Work Journalistic Deep Work Monastic Deep Work  Here you leave everything and go to somewhere you are disconnected from the ...

  “The comfort zone is a  behavioral state  within which a person operates in an  anxiety-neutral condition, using a limited set of behaviors to deliver a steady level of performance ,  usually without a sense of risk .” - Judith Bardwick in her 1991 work Danger in the Comfort Zone. why do we need to leave our comfort zone? When leaving the comfort zone, fear doesn’t always equate to being in the panic zone. As the above diagram shows,  fear can be a necessary step en route to the learning and growth zones. Why do we need to get into Growth Zone? It takes  courage  to step from the comfort zone into the fear zone. Without a clear roadmap, there’s no way to build on previous experiences . This can be anxiety provoking. Yet persevere long enough, and you enter the learning zone, where you gain new skills and deal with challenges resourcefully. After a learning period, a new comfort zone is created, expanding one’s ability to reach even greater heigh...

  WHY YOU SHOULD RECEIVE THE WISDOM OF BIG-PICTURE THINKING Allows You to Lead:  People who are constantly looking at the whole picture have the best chance of succeeding in any endeavor. Keeps You on Target Allows You to See What Others See:  One of the most important skills you can develop in human relations is the ability to see things from the other person’s point of view. Promotes Teamwork Keeps You from BeingCaught Up in the Mundane Helps You to Chart Uncharted Territory:  The only way to break new ground or move into uncharted territory is to look beyond the immediate and see the big picture. HOW TO ACQUIRE THE WISDOM OF BIG-PICTURE THINKING Don’t Strive for Certainty Learn from Every Experience Gain Insight from a Variety of People Give Yourself Permission to Expand Your World THE 4F YOU NEED TO HAVE Find a Place to Think Your Thoughts:  If you go to your designated place to think expecting to generate good thoughts, then eventually you will come up with...

Fundamental rules for success Retirement is the worst-case scenario insurance. Alternating between periods of rest and activity   is essential. Focus on   being productive instead of busy . The timing is never right . Waiting for ‘someday’ means that you will take your dreams to the grave. Ask for forgiveness , not permission. Emphasize strengths.   Don’t fix weaknesses. When things are done to excess , they often take on the characteristics of their opposites. Money alone is not the solution . We use not having enough money as a scapegoat for not working out what we want out of life. Relative income is more important than absolute income . Distress is bad, and eustress is good   (the type of stress that helps you grow). The W’s you need to control Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: What you do When you do it Where you do it With whom you do it Mediocrity and happiness 99% of the people in the world are con...

Creative Is Not Artistic The  vast majority of us have conditioned our minds to equate “creative” with “artistic.”  It is not!  Creativity is not a trait you are either born or not born with. subscribe :D We Are Not Born With It The notion that some people have creativity embedded in their DNA and some people don’t is a myth. We all have tons of creative potential waiting to be tapped.  Even though creativity gets blocked in us, it can be unlocked.  All it takes to regain your creative sparks is for you to change your mindset — to lose all the erroneous notions. About Creativity                   Self Efficacy Creative confidence is about believing in your innate ability to change your world. People who come to believe that they can cause change are more likely to accomplish what they set out to do. Think Like A Traveler To keep your creative juice flowing,  you must think like a traveler . When we are ...

  T oday I read this article helpful for those who lost direction in life. everyone needs at least a goal to succeed in life, in other words, everyone works because of their dreams. Organizing our life might help us a lot because it helps us more discipline,  It is not easy to juggle so many things all at once, and some areas may need to be addressed. here it's 10 simple rules to help you stay organized every day.               Developing Habits We all have habits ingrained in our lives. Most of our good habits (if any) take us to eventual long-term success, and our bad habits take our time, health, happiness, and money. Make a list of what you do as a habit daily and see which ones are good and which ones are not. Planning Ahead Life is unpredictable, but planning is still important.  Use your phone's calendar and to-do list, or install an app to create daily and weekly plans: Plan even for small errands. Keep in mind that things take ...