The Power of Flow: How to Achieve Peak Productivity
Do you want to be productive? What about achieving peak productivity?
The fact is, there is a difference between being merely productive and having peak productivity. If you have peak productivity, your output will increase multiple folds. You will be able to finish things in a much shorter time than normal.
I had an experience recently that describes this difference. I had an app in mind that I’d like to develop. But because it’s a pretty big app, I just kept it on the back of my mind. Then one day I decided to just jump into it. And you know what? After spending more than ten focused hours on it, I was able to finish...
Source: Life Optimizer - June 29, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Working Source Type: blogs
5 Essential Ways to Save Time
I recently asked the readers about their best time-saving tips. I was glad to get many great answers. Now, I’d like to contribute my own thoughts on it. Along with the readers’ answers, I believe these can help you live a more effective life.
Without further ado, here are five essential ways to save time.
1. Have Clarity
Before anything else, you should have clarity. You need to know where you are going and whether you are on track or not. Otherwise, you could waste a lot of time doing things that turn out to be unnecessary. Worse, you could have lifetime regrets.
How can you have clarity? By investing time in finding ...
Source: Life Optimizer - June 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Time management Timesaver Source Type: blogs
The Surprising Way to Find Answers to Your Problems
We all have questions that require answers. We all have problems that require solutions. But how can we find the answers and solutions we need?
I believe that there is an effective way to do that. It might not be what you expect, though. It’s not about finding a better answer to your current question. Instead, it’s about finding a new question. What you should do is this:
Redefine the question
Yes, redefine the question. Instead of trying to find a better answer to your current question, find a better question. When you do that, the right answer often becomes obvious.
I once heard the story of a king in the distant...
Source: Life Optimizer - June 9, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Thinking Source Type: blogs
Ask the Readers: What Are Your Best Time-Saving Tips?
There is no doubt that time is a precious resource. In fact, it’s the one resource that you can’t get back if you lose it. That’s why it’s important that you use your time wisely.
To use your time wisely, you should save your time whenever possible. Do the right things and do them the right way. Don’t take more time than what is necessary. That’s how you can become productive.
I’d like to know how you save your time, so here is my question to you:
What are your best time-saving tips?
Please leave your answer in the comments so that everyone can read it. Thanks! (Source: Life Optimizer)
Source: Life Optimizer - June 3, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Time management Timesaver Source Type: blogs
A Simple but Proven Method to Get Things Done
Have you ever experienced not getting things done? Days or even weeks may have passed, but you accomplish just a little.
This is especially true when there is no deadline. For instance, let’s say you want to write a novel as your personal project. Since there is no pressure from the outside, you might make very little progress over time.
I experienced this myself. In writing for Life Optimizer, I don’t have a deadline from someone else. It’s up to me when to write. Because of that, I found that my productivity suffered. There were times when I finished just one post a month.
What is the solution then?
I eventually fo...
Source: Life Optimizer - May 26, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Time management Source Type: blogs
Attacks in My City
As you might hear, there were suicide bombings in Surabaya, Indonesia a few days ago. Surabaya is the city where I live. My family and friends are safe, but there are many sad stories of those who were affected.
It was surprising because there had never been any incident before in this city. Also surprising is the fact that the attacks were carried out by whole families: parents and their children (as little as 7-year-old). In previous attacks in other places, I have never heard of them being carried out by whole families.
We are just as strong as ever, though. Life in this city is mostly normal with no fear.
But there are...
Source: Life Optimizer - May 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: General Source Type: blogs
How to Reach Your Full Potential: Live Like an Athlete
To reach your full potential, you should live like an athlete.
I came to this conclusion after observing my own life and the life of others. You see, there is a gap between where we are and where we could be. In order to close this gap, the best metaphor that I could find is the life of an athlete.
Why is that the case?
Because the life of an athlete is optimized for performance. They live in such a way that they can achieve peak performance in what they do. They live by design, not by default. They live an optimized life. We can learn a lot from them on how to achieve peak performance in our lives.
What should we do then?...
Source: Life Optimizer - May 11, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Purpose Working Source Type: blogs
Why You Should Learn to Code and How to Get Started
Last week, I shared with you about the insights I got from being self-employed. There I wrote that – thanks to my online business – I no longer have a day job since 2009. Moreover, I have decided from the beginning that control is important and have designed my work accordingly.
A question that you might have is: how could I build an online business?
Well, there are multiple skills involved, but here I’d like to focus on one of them: coding skill. While it’s not mandatory for building an online business, it will make things much easier for you.
Why You Should Learn to Code
Online businesses are – by defin...
Source: Life Optimizer - May 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs
7 Insights I Got From Being Self-Employed
For years, I was a full-time lecturer. But in 2009, my online business took off and afforded me the opportunity to become self-employed. I no longer have a day job since then. At the time of writing, I have been self-employed for nine years! Wow, that’s quite a long time!
Here I’d like to share with you some insights that I have got from being self-employed. I hope you will find something useful that you can apply to your situation. Here they are.
1. Control is what I like the most.
What I like the most from my current work is the level of control I have. Instead of someone else telling me about what to do and when to ...
Source: Life Optimizer - April 28, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Working Source Type: blogs
How to Make Yourself Future-Proof
I recently read the book summary of Life 3.0. It describes a future, called Life 3.0, where artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a dominant force in the world. At that time, there is a possibility that AI would rule the world because it has superintelligence that far surpasses human intelligence.
It’s still a distant future, but recent advancements have made it closer and closer. Through a field known as machine learning, for instance, computers can now learn to perform a task without being taught before. They can learn from experience and get better by themselves. Currently, this only applies to specific fields (e.g. pl...
Source: Life Optimizer - April 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Working Source Type: blogs
Why You Should Have Role Models and How to Find Yours
Reaching your full potential requires you to have the right role models. Without them, it will be difficult for you to become all that you can be. But with the right role models, you will be on your way to reaching your full potential.
I’m lucky because I have had good role models for years. Having them has pushed me to make the most of my life.
Why You Should Have Role Models
Here are some reasons why you should have role models.
1. They can inspire you about what is possible.
This is perhaps the most important reason for having role models. Our expectations are often too low, especially if we base them on what we see a...
Source: Life Optimizer - April 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Thinking Source Type: blogs
Why Having a Community Is Essential
In the world we live in now, new technologies come out constantly. These technologies help people become more efficient. But in the midst of these, there is a growing epidemic of loneliness. It’s a sad contrast: many people become more efficient on the outside but emptier on the inside.
There is an essential component that is missing here and that is community. We all need to have a community.
By community, I mean a group of people who care about you and want to support you. On the other hand, you also care about them and want to support them. A community is a group of people who care about each other. A group of people ...
Source: Life Optimizer - April 6, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Relationships Source Type: blogs
The Power of Mental Models and How to Build Them
In reaching your full potential, your decision-making ability plays an important role. After all, your life is just the outcome of your decisions. So the better you are at making decisions, the better your life will be.
Good decision-making has two characteristics:
Effective: you make the right decision for your situation. You choose the right action to do.
Efficient: you make the decision fast. It doesn’t take you too much time to make the decision.
If you can make the right decisions, and make them fast, then you have a good decision-making ability.
But how can we achieve that? How can we be effective and efficient i...
Source: Life Optimizer - March 29, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Thinking Source Type: blogs
Ask the Readers: What Are Your Favorite Productivity Tools?
If you want to get the most out of life, you need to become productive. Productive people can get more valuable things done in less time.
Note that I said valuable. Productivity is not about getting anything done; it’s about getting the right things done. If you can get more of the right things done, then you are productive. If you get a lot of things done, but they are not the right things, then you are not productive. Being busy doesn’t necessarily mean being productive.
Fortunately, there are plenty of tools that can help you become productive. These could be apps on your smartphone, or even just pen and paper.
I’...
Source: Life Optimizer - March 23, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Tools Source Type: blogs
A Simple but Powerful Way to Improve Your Life
To reach your full potential, it’s important that you improve different aspects of your life. But that, unfortunately, is easier said than done. You might say that you want to improve something. But actually improving it is a different story.
So how can we solve this problem?
I have found a principle that can be useful here. It came from Peter Drucker and was originally intended to improve business performance. But I have found that it’s also useful for personal effectiveness. The principle is this:
What gets measured, gets managed.
In my opinion, this principle is simple but powerful. Do you want to improve something?...
Source: Life Optimizer - March 16, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Health Working Source Type: blogs
