Social Media has become an addiction for people. Majority of the people spend countless hours on social media. It is hurting their personal lives, careers and even psychological state. Here we look at reasons why you should quit social media.
Time is the most scarce resource we have and also the most valuable one.
Anyone and everyone you meet will tell you, how they don’t have time to do things they want. It seems everyone is in short supply of time these days.
Time management is the skill that everyone ought to master. You cannot do without it. When you look at the top professionals in various fields and disciplines, one of their key attributes is time management.
No matter who you are and what you do, organising time and using it well will never hurt you in life.
People who rise to great level of success in their fields spend their time with absolute attention. It is very often the quality of time they spend doing what they do. They spend quality time with full focus, which results in disproportionate results and great success.
It’s not about how much time you have, but the quality, attention and effectiveness with which you use it. Here we look at some powerful ways to organise your time:
1. Do it Today, don’t Wait for Tomorrow
It’s an attitude, either you do it today or postpone to tomorrow.
Schedule what you want to do in the day & give all your energy to complete it. People who postpone things for tomorrow end up wasting time, procrastinating and ultimately doing very little effective work in their day.
Successful people have a habit of getting things done. They make a short list of important and high priority work for the day. They stick to it and get it done.
People who rise to the top of their fields make their day count. They don’t wait for tomorrow to do what is scheduled today. It’s a small habit that does wonders in the long run.
You will surprise yourself with what you can achieve when you follow this simple mantra of doing it today.
2. Schedule Tasks Wisely
This is the golden rule of thumb for time management. Everyday, identify the most important tasks that need your attention & start with them.
Have a very simple and organised routine to set yourself up for work. Don’t waste your energy first thing in the morning. Give all your energy to the hardest problems to want to solve.
With full energy and attention, you can often get the hardest things out of the way quickly. You can then schedule lightweight tasks that require less brain power during the course of the day.
There is a famous Eisenhower’s principles for managing your tasks:
a). Urgent & important: Do them now. Important deadlines and critical tasks that need your attention.
b). Important but not urgent: These are important tasks that need to be accomplished for you to move forward. Successful people have a way to get things moving even if they are not urgent.
c). Urgent but not important: Delegate these tasks if you can. These are small tasks that take away your focus and attention from important work.
d). Not Urgent and not important: Avoid these time stealers.
Successful people build routines that maximises their efficiency. They know how to make peak use of their time and end up doing lot more than their peers in the same time.
3. Follow 80/20 Rule & Eliminate Distractions
The 80/20 Rule says that 20% of your activities are responsible for 80% of your success. Or in other words, stick to your core and do it well.
The only way you can focus on a few tasks is by eliminating distractions. People are becoming a slave to their smartphones. It helps them do some of their work, but every notification, chat message, social media post is not important.
You need to eliminate your time stealers that prevent you from fully focusing on important things. Learn to say no to the distractions that hold you back. Schedule a time after lunch when you may be drowsy for the unimportant tasks, emails, chat messages etc.
Don’t let low priority tasks or unimportant work get in the way. Successful people understand the difference between doing the right thing than just doing the thing right.
4. Attention Management
Time management is more about attention management and staying focused. Being busy without being productive is a nightmare for professionals all over the world.
When you put in time, you need to make the best of it. It requires a deeper understanding of yourself. Think of it, what helps you produce your best? What time you are most focused? Which is the work you enjoy doing?
Find a strategy that works well for you and stick to it. Attention and focus are rare in a world of digital distractions. But for deep work, you need full attention and focus.
The attention management also requires you to handle ever changing priorities. You need to be able to have spontaneity and presence of mind to adapt to situations and do your best.
The business world is extremely demanding and the top professionals are those who can adapt very quickly as per the changing priorities.
5. Make Your Time Count
Parkinson’s law states that “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
It is common for most professionals to work for an average of 60 hours per week. However, not everyone achieves greatness, far from it. Most people end up being mediocre because they do mediocre work.
Successful people spend time doing something that creates great value. They build things that attract attention and opportunities. They do things with complete involvement and end up with monumental achievements in their time.
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Trust is highly soughted in the world today. For a common man, everything from news, politicians, campaigns and media are under the scanner when it comes to trust. So, who are the most trusted professions in the UK? The answers to this may be revealed in a survey done by Ipsos.
Intriguingly, this survey has been done every year since 1983 to reveal the most trusted profession. The results for 2018 are out and Nurses remain the most trusted profession in the UK. As many as 96% trust them to tell the truth, Doctors are a close second with 92% & Teachers round off the third spot in the survey.
Which is the least trusted profession among the Britons? No, surprisingly it’s not the politicians, but advertising executives with only 16% trusting them. The advertising professionals have their work cut out for them.
Politicians are among the least trusted as you would expect. They are second in the least trusted professions with a meagre 19% people believing them. Government ministers are the third least trusted profession behind the politicians.
Journalists and Estate agents also rank among the least trusted professions with the fourth and fifth ranks respectively. The trust deficit among these professions is quite high.
Engineers are also high on people’s list of professions they trust. With as many as 87% revealing that they trust engineers to tell the truth. They rank as the fourth most trusted profession. The professors rank next to the engineers with 86% people trusting them as the fifth most trusted profession.
The survey also revealed that people’s belief system is also shaped by their age & other socio-demographic factors. However, people trust 14 of the professions majority of the time compared to the 8 they distrust most of the time.
Another fascinating revelation is that overtime people’s trust levels in priests are declining. In 1983, as many as 85% of the people trusted in priests, but this year, the number has decreased to 62%. Last year 69% people believed in priests.
With all the fake news and stories around the media, it is quite apparent that people’s trust is declining. However, still over 62% trust in the Television news readers, last year it was 67%.
Charity chiefs, Bankers, Business leaders & Local councillors are also among the professions with less than 50% believing them. The Armed Forces and Police both are high on people’s trusted allies with 78% & 76% approving them. The Police Force has made a steady climb in trust ratings with barely 60% in 2009.
The study also revealed that young people are mostly trusting. The generating Z and millennials trust most professions compared to older groups. On average the trust in most professions is higher compared to the distrust.
A world where trust is high and people believe in each other is always a welcome sign. With the shared economy platforms and the digital world increasingly connecting distant people across the world, a high level of trust can break down barriers and make the world a more united place.
You may share your most trusted professions in the comments below!
How can you become more creative? Well, lets look at the 7 secrets to unlock your creativity from the most creative professionals and top rated experts in their fields.
Readers are leaders and leaders are readers. Yes, you may have heard this before. Reading is to mind what exercise is to body.
Studies show that it is becoming harder for people to read & stay focused. Reading books doesn’t come naturally to a whole new generation growing up on mobile devices. But reading is one of the most fascinating things that can shape your knowledge, thoughts and personality.
Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Richard Branson and many other top leaders read vociferously and adore books. Despite their hectic schedules, these leaders find time to read. Many of these leaders also share their list of recommended books to their followers.
Here we look at the top reasons why you should read more books:
1. Improves your ability to Focus:
Reading a book improves your ability to focus and concentrate. The uninterrupted time you devote to a book helps you improve your focus, concentration & your ability to process information.
In the digital world, people are often doing too many things at any given time. It makes them distracted, stressed and lowers their productivity too, but reading a book requires single pointed attention.
People who have a habit of reading books develop good concentration and focus.
2. Expands your Mind & Imagination:
Reading opens your mind to a whole new world of information and imagination. You can learn from the top people in any field by reading their books.
How did Warren Buffett learn about investing? Well, the answer isn’t surprising. He invests 80% of his time reading and learning. He says, “I just sit in my office and read all day. That’s how knowledge builds up, like compound interest.”
Reading expands your horizon and worldview. You can get more ideas and be more creative with reading. When you read books, you can get insights into the mind of top people and learn more about them.
3. Good for Your Brain:
Reading is good for your brain. Researchers at Stanford University confirmed that reading a book provides a truly valuable exercise of people’s brains. Reading increases blood flow to regions of the brain & activates them.
The Standford Researched Natalie Phillips said, “Surprising preliminary results reveal a dramatic and unexpected increase in blood flow to regions of the brain beyond those responsible for ‘executive function,’ areas which would normally be associated with paying close attention to a task, such as reading.”
4. Develops Skills & learning:
A lot of successful people attribute their learning to reading. They develop skills, learn and constantly update themselves with new information through reading.
“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
Dr. Peter Drucker
The knowledge that you build overtime gets outdated with new information growing all the time. So, most of the top professionals devote time to read and learn. Reading helps them to keep pace with the current changes and improve their skills.
Knowledge becomes outdated every passing second. The more you sit back on what you did in the past, the further you recede in your career.
5. Reading Helps you Discover Yourself:
Reading helps you discover the various facets of your life. Reading enables you to accumulate different experiences about people, characters, locations, culture and various other fields.
Reading enriches your vocabulary, knowledge and conversation skills.
Simply put, books have the power to shape the personality of a man. The books help a man’s quest for learning, satisfy intellectual curiosity and unleash different aspects of his life.
Reading also helps a person to improve their cognitive abilities and understanding.
6. Broader Understanding of the World & People:
Reading books can help you develop broader understanding of the world and people. When you read books, you open yourself to different cultures, traditions and lives of people.
Reading autobiographies and biographies of successful people will inspire you to do well in your live. You get to learn from the experience of the people who have achieved great feats in life.
Reading fiction gives you great insight into the minds, behaviours & characters of people. Reading lets you learn about people’s day to day lives, what they think and do like nothing else can.
Your understanding and perception of things will broaden when you read. There are several studies and researches that point out that reading makes people more open minded too.
7. Makes you More Persistent:
Reading a book is like a marathon, you need to go on and on to complete it. It makes you persistent. When you pick up a book, you are glued to it and do your best to complete it at the earliest.
This habit of reading many books subconsciously makes you persistent. You finish what you start. You try your best to complete the undertakings and accomplish more as a result of it.
The top executives around the world and the leaders who make it to the top attribute a lot of their success to reading. Invariably, people at the top are readers. And many of them, pick up this habit of finishing things they start by reading a lot of books.
Conclusion
So, what are you waiting for? Make a list of your next 5 books to read and start reading until you finish them!
It’s really surprising that the common man still gets excited every election. Elections come and go, but everything remains the same.
1. “Talent wins games but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
Michael Jordan
2. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
Henry Ford
3. “Teamwork makes the dream work.”
Bang Gae
4. “Alone we can do so little together we can do so much”
Helen Keller
5.“The strength of the team is each member.The strength of each member is the team.”
Phil Jackson
6. “None of us is as smart as all of us.”
Ken Blanchard
7. “Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon result.”
Ifeanyi Onuoha
8. “The ratio of We’s I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.”
Lewis B Ergen
9. “Individual commitment to a group effort-that’s what makes a team work a company work, a society work a civilization work.”
Vince Lombardi
10. “We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
Ben Franklin
11. “A successful Team is a group of many hands and one mind.”
Bill Bethel
12. “It is Literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
Napoleon Hill
13. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
Henry Ford
14. “Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence.”
Mike Schmoker
15. “The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.”
James Cash Penney
16. “Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.”
Mattie Stepanek
17. “People achieve more as a result of working with others then against them.”
Dr. Allan Fromme
18. “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.”
Andrew Carnegie
19. “The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.”
Margaret Carty
20. “Teamwork. A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.”
Justin Sewell
YouTube is easily the world’s most popular video platform with over 1.8 billion users in 2018. Since it’s launch in 2005, it has become the one of the most popular portals with the leading brands and users contributing videos.
YouTube has millions of videos freely available for you to enjoy across various of genres.Whether it is education, entertainment or anything in between, YouTube has them all.
Here’s a countdown of the top ten most popular Youtube channels based on the number of subscribers.
1. PewDiePie
Subscribers: 69.96 million
PewDiePie makes the top of our list with over 69.96 million subscribers!
Felix Kjellberg is a 29-year-old Swedish who makes videos about gaming, humorous commentary about life, animations, and memes etc.
PewDiePie is currently the highest subscribed YouTube channel in the world. It became the highest subscribed channel in 2013 and since then it holds the coveted spot.
Felix built his popularity on Let’s Play-style gaming videos, PewDiePie has a lot of influence in the gaming industry.
2. T-Series
Subscribers: 69.38 million
T-series is the second most subscribed YouTube channel in the world. It is close behind PewDiePie with over 69.38 million subscribers making it the second most-subscribed and the most-viewed YouTube channel in the world.
T-series is also the most subscribed Indian YouTube channel.
T-series is a media and entertainment company. They are growing strong in the digital world with a strong online presence. The channel primarily uploads music videos and audios for its subscribers.
T-series is also into film making and regularly shares promos for upcoming shows, films etc. T-Series uploads prolific content & has over 12,800 videos on Youtube.
Subscribers: 42.51 million
KondZilla is a Brazilian music video producer who has over 880 music videos on Youtube. This channel uploads music videos with high frequency.
According to his YouTube channel, he is the largest producer of electronic music in Brazil. His YouTube channel started in 2012, has over 42.51 million subscribers and has overtaken Justin Bieber.
This channel uploads mostly music videos and has millions of viewers around the world hooked to its entertaining content.
Subscribers: 41.9 million
Justin Bieber has the fourth highest subscribed channel on YouTube & has over 41.9 million subscribers. His channel compiles music videos, live performances, interviews, and other entertaining videos for his viewers.
Bieber is a young sensation who has four videos with over a billion views on YouTube. He began singing at the age of 12 in 2007 and since then captivated the audience with his brilliant performances.
Bieber is one of the most watched and followed artists on the video-sharing site & has over 130 videos on Youtube.
Subscribers: 40.041 million
The 5-Minute Crafts is one of the fastest growing YouTube channels. Launched in November 2016, it is now among the top 5 most subscribed channels on Youtube.
The channel uploads several How-to videos for its users that make life easier for its users. It has videos relating to crafts, parenting, kids, cooking hacks, health and almost everything that you want to learn about.
5-Minute crafts is a very interesting channel that you may want to bookmark.
5-Minute Crafts has 2,300 videos that have been viewed over 10 billion times. This channel is sure a contender for the top spot in the coming future.
6. Dude Perfect
Subscribers: 36.29 million
Dude Perfect holds the sixth highest subscribers on YouTube. This is a sports and entertainment channel. This channel was created by a group of college roommates.
The channel has videos related to stunts, trick shots in different sports, comic interpretation of various events & fun things for guys etc.
The group has many Guinness World Records to their credit. The channel was created in 2009 and has over 190 videos on YouTube. The channel maintains high quality videos & some of them are simply exhilarating.
7. WWE
Subscribers: 36.19 million
World Wrestling Entertainment, or better known as WWE, is one of the most subscribed YouTube channels with over 36.19 million subscribers. The channel has over 37,900 videos and more than 28 billion views.
The channel started in 2007 is easily among the top sports channel with viewership from every corner of the world. The channel is frequently updated with exclusive videos, behind the scenes footage, & SmackDown live etc.
It is fast climbing the ladder in terms of subscribers and viewership.
8. Ed Sheeran
Subscribers: 35.29 million
Ed Sheeran is a popular musician, and channel remains of the top YouTube channels with over 35.29 million subscribers. The channel is quite active with several music videos, live performances, and interactive stuff.
Ed Sheeran is an english song writer who was raised in Suffolk. The musician received international success selling over 38 million albums and 100 million singles worldwide.
A lot of his success is also attributed to the the streaming platforms, which allowed more people to see his work.
The channel was started in 2006 & remains very popular with over 15 billion views of his videos.
9. SET India
Subscribers: 35.19 million
Sony Entertainment Television is a 24 hour hindi channel for family entertainment. A dynamic channel that caters to a wide range of audience in India remains quite popular with over 35.19 million subscribers.
SET India uploads videos at high frequency and has currently more than 27,000 videos on its YouTube channel. The videos have been viewed over 24 billion times. The channel uploads daily TV shows, stand up comedy shows, movies and music videos etc.
10. HolaSoyGerman
Subscribers: 34.79 million
Run by Chilean German Alejandro Garmendia Aranis, HolaSoyGerman is the tenth highest subscribed channel on YouTube with over 34.79 million subscribers.
The channel was created in 2011 and the highest subscribed YouTube channel.
This channel holds the distinction of being the first to earn two Diamond Play Buttons. It is an award given by YouTube to channels that have more than 10 million subscribers.
The channel focuses on humorous videos and everyday topics like How to find a job, make friends, the typical lies of parents etc.
German Garmendia has two channels on YouTube, with over 60 million subscribers in both these channels.
However, despite the popularity of the channels, there are no uploads since November 2016. The channels are still active and entertaining the viewers.
“Trust me you can ask me any question. But be prepared, if I dont like it.”
Is luck entirely beyond your control? Not really. There is research to suggest that you can improve your luck. Yes, professor Richard Wiseman who wrote the book Luck Factor studied over 1,000 people
Here is what Richard had to say about luck, “What the work shows as a whole is that people can change their luck. Luck is not something paranormal in nature. It’s something that we are creating by our thoughts and behavior.”
You can change your luck by changing your thoughts, behaviour and actions. You attract your own luck by what you do. It’s that simple. In other words, luck is not entirely beyond your control.
There are a few exceptions like people who are born in a very rich family or rare talent, more often than not majority of the successful people work hard to earn their luck.
Lucky people make the most of what they have got, they persevere, learn and work hard. They remain open minded and committed and do everything they can to attract luck. Here are seven incredible ways to improve your luck.
1. Be Optimistic
Expect the best. Believe that you are lucky. People who believe they are lucky are more receptive to the opportunities around them. It sounds strange, but it is true.
Being optimistic is especially important when you’re going through tough times. As a result, most people give up. But optimistic people believe that they will see through the tough times and eventually rewarded with great things in life.
Several studies have shown that optimistic people tend to make the most of the situation, they are less stressed and more likely to succeed in their chosen fields.
2. Feed Your Mind with Positivity
Lucky people surround themselves with positive people. They like being with people whose frequency matches theirs.
Lucky people build the right networks and circles. They build good relationships by being trustworthy. They know the value of long lasting relationships.
Your circle of friends, colleagues, books you read and your attitude towards things defines who you are. If you are surrounded by positivity, chances are that you will be able to take on bigger challenges in life.
Lucky people understand the value of training their minds to look at positive in any situation. The most successful people don’t delve on negative things, but see things from a positive perspective.
3. Be Open to Opportunities
In his book Luck Factor, Wiseman writes, “Lucky people create, notice, and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives.”
Lucky people attract opportunities by doing what they do very well. They get noticed because of the sheer quality of the work they do. They are hard to forget, because they push the limits and offer something extra ordinary.
In other words, everything that you do is a great chance for you to create your own opportunities in life. When you are doing the ordinary and mundane, your opportunities will be limited. But when you step out of your comfort zone, you will see your opportunities will multiply.
So keep trying new things, push yourself to learn, improve and accept hard challenges. As Stemen says, “I think the luckiest people are those who are always open … and that allows them to seize opportunities as they happen.”
4. Believe in Karma
Karma is a fundamental tenet of Hinduism and Buddhism. It basically says every action has a consquence. If you do good, you will get good things in life and vice versa. What goes around, comes around.
People who believe in karma know that whatever they will do will come back to them. It is a simple yet very powerful way to live a good life. Even the likes of Steve Jobs believed in karma and it helped them shape their philosophy in life.
You cant do bad things to other people and expect happy outcomes for yourself.
People who venture out to help others, are kind hearted, make meaningful connections, & do good create their own luck.
5. Trust your instincts & Go with the flow
In a study, 90% of lucky people said they trusted their intuition in regards to personal relationships and nearly 80% said that it played a large role in their career choices. Unlucky people trusted their gut far less. They scored roughly 20% less in those areas.
Lucky people tend to make the big choices with their deep hearted conviction and trust their intuition. It can make a big difference in the eventual outcomes of life.
Lucky people devote themselves fully to anything they do. They create opportunities by doing their best and working with absolute flow.
The most notable scientific inventions, masterpieces of art and great work in any field owes to intuition and flow. Great work often attracts great opportunities too.
6. Show Up
Lucky people show up and do whatever it takes. They know the value of work ethic, showing up and doing their day to day tasks with integrity.
Lucky people increase their chances of winning by playing consistently to the best of their abilities. They know the value of persistence and show up day in day out to achieve what they want.
In any field, when you give more, you receive more. Luck favors those who are well prepared.
7. Great Energy
Lucky people never grouse what they are doing. They are infact passionate about what they are doing. It helps them create tremendous energy and enthusiasm that rubs off on other people as well.
When you work with lot of passion and energy, you attract great possibilities in your life. The sheer involvement and enthusiasm with which you undertake things can dictate the results.
Passionate people are able to endure the difficult moments, because they have a very deep commitment with the things they are doing.
Lucky people never blame the circumstances, situations or other people. They do their best wherever they are and keep rising in life.
No one is lucky all the time. But lucky people make the most of the opportunities they get, take the initiative and go for it when they can.
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