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Self-efficacy is very important. Sometimes It feels like the whole world is against you, but the relevant question here becomes how you explain your situation to yourself. Practice self-love by writing a letter to your future self.

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12.12.2022

Write to your Future-Self

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Take a pen and a piece of paper
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Write down
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Social media is designed with every pixel and every algorithmic recommendation to increase screentime, while most people want nothing more than to decrease it. Do a one-week experiment; set a screen limit and give the passcode to someone else.

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Give the Key Away

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Giving the key away
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Agree on a timeline
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Setting the clock
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Agree on the end
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Reflecting

78% of people grab their phone within the first 15 min of waking up. They check WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, news sites or checkup on their email. We live in a world which has no time for reflection. From the moment we wake up, we are already consuming. Not producing. But what if we instead would say "no media in the morning"?

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12.12.2022

No Media Morning

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Commitment
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Cue
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Action
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Swap
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Check-off

Deliberating on what would be a fun and meaningful skill to learn is something we almost never do. Yet it can lead to unique skills that can foster flow and offer us unique experiences.People believe they make conscious decisions every day that decide the shape of their life. In actuality, however, what shapes your life most are some big choices that you made along the way. What should I study? Should I move and start fresh? Should I fire a friendship? We never make adequate time to think about these bigger choices that influence everything else.

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12.12.2022

List 2 skills you want to pick up

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Take a pen and a piece of paper
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Top 2
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Reminder
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Make a goal for yourself to give 5 sincere compliments during your day. For a society that is all about ‘likes’, we rarely take a brief moment to look in somebody’s eye and tell them did something well. We personally would start by giving compliments to somebody you already know and make it about not something like looks, but rather something they did or said they can be proud of.

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12.12.2022

Give 5 Compliments

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Give 5 compliments over the course of your day
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Select a time or place that suits you best
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Think about cues to give out the compliments
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Trouble focusing on what is important? The best way to not get distracted is by exactly knowing what you want to be doing. With Telos' free daily planning, you can set up each day anew.

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Make a daily schedule

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Limit the amount of interruptions you get on a daily basis. By simple doing an experiment for the next week you can find out once and for all if you are missing out on important things, or not. Social media embraces the fact that we are Pavlovian creators. As we receive an intermittent notification that serves as a cue, a big dopamine spike can be recorded before you even attend to it. As a feature; not a bug: sometimes these notifications are nothing important nor urgent. That is even better because it is even more addicting. Now that there is uncertainty because of variability, it is even more effective in getting us hooked than it would be if we were fed a constant stream of rewards.

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Become Less Interruptible

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Change Vibrations
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Dial sound to very low or off
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Limit notifications
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Select your preferred messenger service and turn of Sound
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Repeat

How much time are you spending on your phone? Is it what you envisioned it being for you? Before checking it, let’s dive a bit deeper together.

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12.12.2022

Examine Your Screen Time

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Take a pen and a piece of paper
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Make an educated guess
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Check Screen time
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Compare
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Calculate

Continuous partial attentionand instant gratification. Two traits that have become the signature traits of the 21st Century — and we are all the poorer for it. Correspondingly, self-regulation and sustained focus have become invaluable superpowers, as much research has confirmed. Do you want to hone this skill?

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Coping with Instant Gratification

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Recognise that most desires are fleeing
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Wait for 3 minutes
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Notice your feelings, again
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Reflect and energize
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Write down 5 things you want to do in the next month. It can be anything as small as reading a book or having a talk about something particular.

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12.12.2022

Create a list of 5 things you want to do

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Take a pen and a piece of paper
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Write five things down
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Ever wondered how the whole internet is seemingly ‘free’? It is because online everything is trying to harvest your personal data so it can create a 'digital voodoo doll’ of you, which it gradually learns to manipulate.

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Check your Safari's adblocker

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Take a pen and a piece of paper
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Discover
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Positive Psychology Exercises

The most memorable exercise of Harvard, Stanford and University of Pennsylvania is waiting for you here in the gratitude Night Challenge.

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Gratitude Night

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Step 1 | Pick a person and invite them
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Step 2 | Write it down
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Step 3 | Get Ready for Tonight
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Linley (2008) a strength is “a pre-existing capacity for a particular way of behaving, thinking or feeling that is authentic, energizing to the user, and enables optimal functioning, development and performance” (p. 9).

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Red & Green Activities

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Prepare notations
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Journal
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Activities
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Day Notes
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Final Reflections

Attention Restoration Theory (ART) describes the phenomena where people's attention spans verifiably increase after spending some time in nature. This is the case for all of us; young and old. Ottosson and Grahn (2005) found people in an aged care facility who were exposed to nature for one hour a week had improved attention compared to the elderly people who remained indoors. In a completely different context, Kuo and Sullivan (2001) found young adult residents who had a view of nature had higher scores on attentional capacity and were also less likely to be aggressive, compared to people who lived in the inner city.

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Spending Time in Nature

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Choose a natural place to go
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Clothing
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Visit a natural place
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Keep the mind alert, yet relaxed
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Sensate experience

It is very difficult to be grateful and unhappy: Intuitively, we know this. Gratitude is one of the strongest emotions that sweep through you and is relatively straightforward to induce. It has been researched for many years by prominent psychologists like Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough who, together, have even gone so far as to develop a gratitude scale. Increasing gratitude has been proven to significantly improve the quality of one's life. Unfortunately, however, in many cultures, there is no mainstream vehicle for expressing gratitude to loved ones.

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Gratitude Journal

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Grab a piece of paper
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Write down
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Top 3
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Try subtraction, not just addition
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Repeat

Most of the 400 million bits per second processed by your brain do not break through the barrier of subconsciousness, into consciousness. Bits of information can't be perceived unless the reticular activating system (RAS) filters them out for being deemed important enough. What we selectively filter out can be manipulated through exercise, so we become more mindful of the little things we are grateful for, rendering us happier and fulfilled.‍

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Affirmation Sentence

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Choose your positive affirmation sentence
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Try it & notice it
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Choose a cue
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New Perspectives

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3 Must-see Documentaries

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Deleting Facebook Won’t Fix the Problem
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Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends
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Hit the Reset Button in Your Brain
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Top Podcasts About Social Media

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Books About The Attention Economy

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Stand Out of Our Light
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The Distracted Mind
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The Disinformation Age
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The Attention Merchants
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