30 days: Change your habits, Change your life

Questions
What is happiness to you? (Be specific.)
How many smiles have you gifted last week?
How many smiles have you received?
Action Steps:
Remember the moments that made you the happiest in your life.
Write down at least five moments that made you feel exceptionally
great:
1. 
______________________________________________
2. 
______________________________________________
3. 
______________________________________________
4. 
______________________________________________
5. 
______________________________________________
Re-live these moments with all their emotions and happiness.
How does it feel?

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Multitasking is a lie
Most of the time multitasking is an illusion.
You think you are multitasking, but in reality you’re
actually wasting time switching from one task to another.
—BOSCO TJAN
DO one thing at a time!
The newest studies show that multitasking
is actually less productive than doing one thing at a time with a
concentrated effort. Some studies even imply that it makes you
slower and—careful now—dumber!
Even if you think you are multitasking, you are actually doing one
thing at a time, aren’t you? You might have five tasks on your hands,
but I’m sure you don’t do all five things at the same time. You are
writing an e-mail. You stop writing it and take a phone call. You hang
up and continue writing the e-mail. A colleague comes to you with a
question. You stop writing your e-mail and answer the question, and
so on. So forget about multitasking. Focus on doing one thing at a
time and do it with concentration.

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Simplify your life
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
—CONFUCIUS
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule,
but to schedule your priorities.
—STEPHEN COVEY
If you started applying some of the things that you have learnt until
now in this book, your life should already be a little simpler. Did you
unclutter? Clean out your cupboard? Get rid of some toleration? Did
you get rid of some of the people who drag you down? It was
Stephen Covey who said that “most of us spend too much time on
what is urgent and not enough time on what is important”. Do you
know your priorities or are you just floating around handling whatever
comes up, extinguishing fire all the time? Maybe it’s time to make
some time for the really important stuff in your life.