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Blinkist: An App For Life Long Learners

Do you love reading and learning from non-fiction books? Or would you at least love to read it more often but run out of time throughout the day that you’re unable to keep up with that 20-40 min of daily reading recommendations by Tony Robbins, James Altucher, Ryan Holiday? Then here’s an app that will help you exercise your brain and get your reading index higher … Continue reading Blinkist: An App For Life Long Learners

Recite This is an amazing tool that makes creating visual quotes insanely simple

RECITE: Now Create Beautiful Visual Quotes As Images In Seconds

    Have you ever wanted to express your message as a visual image? But then the whole idea of digging through the web, sorting background images and then working on Photoshop turned you off. This can sometimes be a bit time consuming and at times when you need to mock up a creative visual image with your message in a short interval, you need something … Continue reading RECITE: Now Create Beautiful Visual Quotes As Images In Seconds

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How To Take A Partial Screenshot On A Chromebook

I often take screenshots for my various online projects and getting to know this amazing built-in feature to take a screenshot has been a big time saver. Essentially, the key combination of Ctrl +   will take a quick screenshot of your screen. Easy to use and does a real neat job. Often I’d have to crop my full screenshot to get the required area of the captured image until … Continue reading How To Take A Partial Screenshot On A Chromebook

5 Unmistakable Ways To Overcome The Work Load Feeling Of Overwhelm

Imagine yourself at your workplace. You’re working on this project in which you’ve been struggling to come up with the solution as desired by your client. This has delayed your shipping date. You feel as if you’re stuck in a rut. You’re mind gets cluttered by clouds of hopelessness. And then you are assigned more deliverables to ship. “I’m overwhelmed by all this work and … Continue reading 5 Unmistakable Ways To Overcome The Work Load Feeling Of Overwhelm

5 Simple Ways To Create Value In Your Organization

Do you have a job where you work for XYZ company? If you answered yes – Are you creating value in your organization i.e. maximizing their return of investment on you? They pay you a salary right, and they expect to get more than what they pay you. Here are 5 simple ways how you could create value in your organization and maximize their profits. … Continue reading 5 Simple Ways To Create Value In Your Organization

5 Minimal Smartphone Tricks To Have Laser Like Focus At Work

1. Airplane mode Imagine this scenario – You get an important work related call at 2 past midnight (that was a norm in my IT job). You somehow manage to accept the call after 5 rings. By the time you finish your conversation in half awake-half sleep mode, you have a blurry idea what the call was all about. And then you mess up. Next … Continue reading 5 Minimal Smartphone Tricks To Have Laser Like Focus At Work

5 Sacred Morning Rituals To Boost Your Productivity

1. Exercise – The best way to start your day is to get the blood flowing throughout your central nervous system. It helps boost your productivity and gives you a fresh outlook to celebrate the day ahead. Don’t have a gym membership, try calisthenics (body weight exercises). Throw some pushups, jumping jacks, squats and see how this simple act of shaking your booty in the … Continue reading 5 Sacred Morning Rituals To Boost Your Productivity

Why You Should Take A Nap Right Now?

Did you ever get caught by your history teacher while taking a nap when you were in junior high school? I’m guilty as charged. Back in the day, I used to feel embarrassed when my teacher would politely yell at me, “Ankur! Please go wash your face.” Only if I knew back then that naps taken in short intervals of 30 min actually increases productivity … Continue reading Why You Should Take A Nap Right Now?

The Ultimate Way To Organize Your Email Subscriptions

Imagine this situation – It’s 6 AM. You’ve just hit the snooze button on your smartphone for the third time. You’re still lying on the bed with your eyes wide open. And your inner voice is saying to you, “Get up and go get ready for work.” Keeping your smartphone on one hand and placing it in your line of sight, you manage to click … Continue reading The Ultimate Way To Organize Your Email Subscriptions

The 2-Minute Rule To Prevent Productivity Paralysis

Do you prefer to organize your daily tasks using to-do-lists so as to stay uber productive? If yes – has there ever been a situation, when you looked down your to-do-list and were overwhelmed by the number of tasks pending for you to finish thereby paralyzing your productivity completely? The sheer feeling of accomplishment while striking things off your to-do-list can sometimes be addictive. You … Continue reading The 2-Minute Rule To Prevent Productivity Paralysis