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Have you ever thought to yourself; I'll do it when I feel like it? Of course you have, as have I, and every other person on the planet above the age of about five. This proves (circumstantially of course)that

Were you born before or after 1988? Depending on how you answer that question will depend on whether you can remember a childhood without the internet. If like me you can remember a time when if you wanted

Have you ever looked at a certain type of person and thought, I want to be like that? Maybe you want to be a more productive person, or maybe you want to be more adventurous, or perhaps more social. Maybe

Why do some people seem to easily motivate themselves, whilst others do not? Are you the sort of person that starts a new project with enthusiasm, only to see that initial burst of energy die away until

Question. How do you do the things you need to do? In life there are things you want to do, and things you need to do, however these two states of being are often out of alignment... As long as it is not

Question; how big a part do you feel motivation and willpower play, when it comes to being focused and productive? If you are like most people, you would have answered that willpower and motivation play

If you have the desire to become more focused and therefore more productive, yet find that you can't quite turn your desire into positive action, then this article is for you. The other day we spoke about

If you are the sort of person who wants more focus in their lives, but finds it hard to acheive this, then you probably look at other focused people and wonder how they are able to keep doing what they

Your comfort zone can best be described as the point at which you are using minimum effort to achieve a particular result or set of results. So if you have a repetitive 9-5 job, then you are in your comfort

Six months ago I told you how to kill off your version of Nigel, in the article Incredible You! The Killing Of Nigel. That was where I told you how giving your fixed mindset a name would help you to achieve

In this series we have been exploring ways to regain the concentration that modern living has destroyed. From smartphones to social media, from Netflix to email, we are surrounded by things that are fracturing

In the last article, we started to explore the nature of desire, and we saw that a lot of the time, things we think we want actually represent the path of least resistance. That is to say, it is easier

Continuing on from our willpower series, I wanted to talk today about the intrinsic link between desire and willpower. A couple of days ago @old-guy-photos made an excellent point in the comment section:

In the last article we looked at the anatomy of willpower and how it related to your comfort zone. We established that the size of your comfort zone is directly relatable to the strength of your willpower.

How do you increase your willpower; is it something you just have or can you train it? I recently became a nonsmoker and whilst it was something I really wanted to do, it still took a lot of willpower.

So far in the last five articles I have pointed out to you the reason for your poor concentration and limited ability to focus on single tasks. If you follow the advice in this article alone, you may just

Recently in the Learn A Superpower series I spoke about how best to rid yourself of distractions in order to gain the newly established super power of concentration. We explored how the ability to concentrate

It's All In The Cards OK now we get to the really hardcore stuff, this next technique has been scientifically studied, and it has been shown that people who teach themselves this next trick, have a

So far in the series I have been showing you the steps to take in order to learn a new superpower, the power of concentrating on one thing for at least an hour. Why? Because that is where all the quality

OK, so if you've got this far you obviously want to learn how to improve your concentration which has been destroyed primarily by social media and your smartphone. Right so let's dive straight in and start