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11 Tips to Improve Sleep Quality: How Light Affects Sleep

In this article you will learn:

11 actionable tips to improve sleep quality instantly.
how a lack of sleep is harming you,
why you should stop using an alarm,
how light affects sleep quality, and
How to use light to sleep better.

Psychological Safety for Creative Minds

Research shows that psychological safety in the workplace is essential to foster creativity, learning, and innovation. For this reason, mega innovators like Google, make sure their high performing teams have what is known as a psychological safety net. And, Regardless if you work in a group, you should have one too.

Book Summary: The inner Game of Tennis- A Guide to Peak Performance

By James Razko

In this book summary of The Inner Game of Tennis, you will learn

we all have two selves, our conscious (ego) self, and non-conscious (egoless) self,
how these two minds are simultaneously competing and cooperating for cognitive space,
how quieting your self-talk will help you reach peak performance,
and how to acquire new skills and perform effortlessly.

Meditation and Creativity: What Style of Meditation is Best

By James Razko

Can meditation be used to boost creativity?

You’ve probably already guessed the answer to the rhetorical question above, but first, let’s go over what we know meditation already does. Meditation reduces stress, helps control anxiety, increases self-awareness, sharpens attention, improves sleep, decrease blood pressure, and helps manage pain. And, according to several studies like this one, one form of meditation also increases creativity.

Importantly, research also shows you do not need to be an experienced meditator to reap the creative rewards.

Reach Your Full Potential and Conquer Fear: Wipe the Mirror to a More Actualized Self

By James Razko

We all dream of becoming our best self, however, only a few dare to reach their full potential. In positive psychology, this is known as self-actualization. It is the peak of one person’s human development. When you are fully actualized, you are entirely human and completely alive.

Why Does Surfing Instagram and Mediation Feel the Same:Who’s Driving my Consciousness Bus?

By James Razko

Lately, I’ve been considering what it means to be present.

When meditating, this answer seems clear. Being present is not being lost in thought, but being in the here and now. It’s a special kind of focus, where our brain’s default mode network shuts off, and we enter a state of flow. I do my best work in these moments, and often it brings a welcomed feeling of contentment.

Also, and oddly, when on social media and in particular Instagram, I often feel a very similar experience. I can get lost looking at just about anything oddly-satisfying, especially (for reasons unknown to me) people fishing. I don’t fish…

How to Use Feedback to be More Self-Aware: Becoming a Truth Shaman

Honest feedback is in short supply. Mostly because, anyone that likes you, including yourself, lies all the time. Nobody wants to hurt your feelings. And this lack of feedback is keeping you from being your best self.

Book Summary: This is Marketing by Seth Godin

By James Razko

Without realizing it, many of us are marketing every day of lives, looking to gain likes instead of the dollars that advertising machines like Instagram and Facebook seek.

Getting ahold of what marketing is and approaching it with empathy and service as core values will help you see the world and others more clearly.

Seth Godin’s book, This is Marketing, gives tools, tips and practical advice on how to market like a professional and a kind human.

In this summary you will learn:

how to start marketing like a pro,
essential marketing strategies,
how empathy is the key to success,
and tips to find the people you’ll need to be successful.

Embracing a Growth Mindset: You are Plastic, Not Stone

By James Razko

What all of the people at the top of their fields have in common is hard work, luck and most importantly a growth mindset.

How to Craft Playlists to Induce Flow and Enhance Performance

By James Razko

Music can induce sadness, happiness, excitement, trances, and prepare you for battle. It’s ancient, and it’s powerful. Are you treating music with the respect it deserves?