Productive Not Busy Podcast

When it comes to running your own business, there’s always something productive you can be doing. But some days, you may find it difficult to get into your normal work rhythm. You may feel distracted and struggle to focus on your tasks. You may experience headaches or dizziness. You might also be feeling fatigued. Instead of giving up and watching Netflix for the next few hours, it can helpful to check in with your body...

Do you feel fatigued while you’re working? Do you frequently experience headaches or dizziness while you’re building your business? Do you find yourself feeling like your brain is in a haze as you struggle to think clearly? These symptoms might sound scary at first Don't Look on Facebook our Google. But they’re often caused by a simple medical condition known as dehydration. Dehydration happens when your body doesn’t have enough fluid. As a result, you may feel tired and achy...

Taking a leap of faith for yourself is an already daunting and challenging path. Naysayers or Negative Nancy’s only make the journey that much more difficult. You do not need their pessimism, nor do you have to deal with it. There are several ways to deal with these individuals so you can move past them and crush your goals.

1. Distance Yourself from the Negative

If possible, put space between those individuals and your goals...

Is the Goal Really the Point? Most of us would like a new car or a bigger house. Or maybe you’d like to climb Mount Everest. However, if you were instantly teleported to the top of Everest, you wouldn’t be as happy or fulfilled as if you actually climbed it. Our goals are more than just things we want to have or achieve. There’s much more to it. You might think that you’d like to have a magic genie at your disposal. But it would be a lot less enjoyable than you think...

What are the 4 types of motivation?

These forms of motivation are just as important as intrinsic ones if you can leverage them.

• Incentive motivation. Incentive motivation is all about external rewards. ...
• Fear motivation. Here you're motivated by the fear of an undesirable outcome. ...
• Power motivation. ...
• Social motivation...

What are the Big 5 traits of conscientiousness?

Conscientiousness is one of the five personality traits of the Big Five personality theory.
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The sub traits of conscientiousness are:

• Self-efficacy.
• Orderliness.
• Dutifulness.
• Achievement-striving.
• Self-discipline.
• Cautiousness...

The most powerful way of learning to disempower our inner critic is to stand up to it!

This approach entails identifying the inner critic, labeling it, observing what it does without judgment, and then letting it go.

Whenever we recognize the voice of our inner critic, we may practice thinking “Thank you, inner critic.” When it bombards us with unhelpful thoughts, we can resolve not to take the content of these thoughts too seriously...

Worry seeps into every nook and cranny of our lives. Every day, we worry about our jobs, our children, our relationships, money, and a million other things. It's no surprise that we don't get things done the way we'd like.

Fortunately, this does not have to be the case. To change your life and stop worrying, consider the following questions:

What Are You Really Worried About?

Many times, worry is a mask for something else entirely...

Learning from challenges is a key factor that separates successful people  from those who only wish their future was bright.  When you take the time to reflect on the things you’ve accomplished and  how you got there, you’ll find patterns that you can repeat for many other  goals you set in your life. Why make the same mistakes, when you’ve  already learned how to succeed? Every situation is different...

 You're not alone if you suffer from anxiety. In fact, about one in six people do — and that number is likely to grow as our world becomes increasingly chaotic. Whether it's general anxiety or a specific phobia (like public speaking), the important thing is that you know anxiety isn't something to be ashamed of...