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"There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work." - Charles Spurgeon. If you've been stuck in a lazy rut lately, here are some suggestions to get yourself working productively...

Steve Pavlina’s words can truly add to your stockpile of wisdom. His blog has helped millions of individuals like you and the articles in it are worth collecting and compiling in a comprehensive order for vicious consumption. You will no doubt enjoy his words on improving your personal productivity, discovering whether you are a light worker or a dark worker, discussing how polarity affects you and your career, how to better yourself and even more in the second installment of this three-part series.

What does it mean to be a man today? How can men consciously express their masculinity without becoming cold or closed-hearted on the one hand... or wimpy and emasculated on the other?

Are you still on your journey to become a productivity master? With this book, you'll learn all about why you need to "do it now", be flexible, use single handling, why failure is your friend, triage ruthlessly, identify and recover wasted time, apply the 80-20 rule, and more. Enjoy this book and enhance your productivity today. Not tomorrow, today.

There are actually quite a number of ways to decondition a negative thought pattern. The basic idea is to replace the old pattern with a new one. Mentally resisting the negative thought will usually backfire - you'll simply reinforce it and make it even worse. The more you fire those neurons in the same way, the stronger the pattern becomes. Here's a little method I use to break negative thought patterns.

One of the most difficult matters to confront with respect to family relationships is that you don’t control the entire relationship yourself. Whether the relationship thrives or withers isn’t up to you alone. As the saying goes, it takes two to tango. When major family relationship problems are encountered, it’s common to attempt a control strategy. You try to get the other person to change. Sometimes this approach works, especially if your request and the other person are both reasonable. But many times it just leads to frustration.

This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: Understanding human relationships, make people feel good, how to help negative people, how to decide when to end a long term relationship, understanding family relationship problems, ridiculously rewarding relationships.

The most important aspect of manifesting money is to approach it from the right heartset. Think of your heartset as the overall vibe of your relationship to the activity of attracting money. How would you describe that relationship? Is it greedy, needy, excited, hopeful, etc? If you approach this process from a place of neediness, clinginess, scarcity, or too much seriousness, you’ll most likely fail.

This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: BEING AN ACHIEVER, DO A FULL DAYS WORK IN 90 MINUTES, CONTROLLING YOUR OWN SCHEDULE, TRIPLE YOUR PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY, PLEASE DON'T INTERRUPT, PRIME YOUR BRAIN FOR A PERMANENT PERFORMANCE GAIN IN A FEW MINUTES.

We are what we make ourselves to be. From one perspective we’re all separate individuals. From another perspective we can see ourselves as a unified whole. Imagine a gigantic sheet of aluminum foil with billions of tiny indentations in it, like protruding fingers. As individuals we’re the dents. Collectively we’re the foil. You can choose to adopt either perspective, or switch back and forth. As an individual your power is limited. You’re just a dent in a sea of other dents. But you have an interesting perspective on the whole sheet. No other dent sees the same picture you do.

Limiting beliefs can seriously hold us back in life. But most of the time such beliefs are invisible to us. They control some of our thoughts and behaviors behind the scenes, enough to curtail our results in some area of life. For example, if you have the false belief that mistakes and failure are bad, then you’ll avoid many growth and learning experiences because you have to be willing to fail in order to build new skills.

This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: HOW TO STOP COMPLAINING, REMOVE A LIMITING BELIEF IN ABOUT 20 MINUTES, HOW TO SQUASH NEGATIVE THOUGHT PATTERNS, OVERCOMING NEWS ADDICTION, CLARITY, UPGRADING YOUR MIND.

I had already dropped TV news and newspapers, but I still had the habit of checking Yahoo News or CNN every day or two, so for 30 days I decided to drop all news sources and go totally news-free. In this audiobook I'll share what I learned from this experiment. It went well enough that I intend to remain free of the habit of daily news checking.

In this book you will learn all about how to make sense of infinite possibilities, love the chaos, find order and clarity despite chaos, stay or go decisions, what to do when objective reality beats you down, shedding personal weaknesses, EQing your life, turning weaknesses into strengths, how to address core weaknesses, how to work from your strengths and train up your weaknesses, how to move a skill to a different part of your brain to improve productivity, how re-framing fear could improve productivity, learning new skills, and the skill of calibration.

Suppose a group of superintelligent aliens came to earth. Or suppose that humans developed some advanced A.I. that’s far beyond our mental and physical abilities. If we could somehow communicate with these beings, what might we say to them? We might be too scared to say anything. We might just run and hide. But if we could manage our fear enough to say something, we can imagine some possible scenarios.

This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: YOU CAN CHANGE TODAY, 8 SHORTCUTS TO DESIRE AND MOTIVATION, THE #1 REASON PEOPLE FAIL AT 30-DAY CHALLENGES, HABITS AND THE LONG VIEW, CLARITY.

It’s amazing how much time and energy people waste stressing over money, reacting to financial setbacks as if money is life itself. What’s the point of playing the money game? Is it to amass a fortune? Of course not. You’re going to lose it all when you die anyway. The point is to enjoy the experience, have fun, and grow from it. The money game isn’t your enemy. It’s your teacher.

Self-discipline is the ability to get yourself to take action regardless of your emotional state. Imagine what you could accomplish if you could simply get yourself to follow through on your best intentions no matter what.

Neurological imbalances can show up as psychological, behavioral, and motivational problems. If we try to treat these problems at the psychological or behavioral levels, however, we can’t effectively cure them because the problems have physical causes, such as a buildup of toxicity in the brain.

The typical American office worker only does about 90 minutes of real work per workday. The rest of each workday is largely spent on distractions like reading the news, web surfing, socializing with coworkers, snacking, taking coffee breaks, shuffling papers around, processing irrelevant emails, needless delay tactics, playing games, and daydreaming. Moreover, American office workers are among the world’s most productive. In many other countries, even less work gets done each day. This stat hasn't changed much in decades.