Music for increasing productivity

Today i'll discuss how I use music in my normal workday.

Classical Music For Preventing Mistakes

Obviously I take my own advice, and when I’m working on things where I need to be meticulous, I play Mozart very quietly in the background. I will also do this when I want to be creative, like when writing or planning. Mozart is one of those few composers who have that mathematical quality to his music, so I strongly suggest Mozart as your go-to guy for this kind of thing.

The easiest way to do this is to go to YouTube, look up a few of his pieces, find one you like, then go up to the URL in your browser and put

the word “repeat” right after “youtube”, so that when you’re done the URL reads:

www.youtuberepeat.com/watch?v=Rb0UmrCXxVA

instead of:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb0UmrCXxVA

This will take you to a site that auto-repeats the song without any advertisements. Drop the volume down a little, and get to work. (By the way, the above link is to a two-hour best-of-Mozart compilation)

Fast-Paced Music For Tedious Work

In the last blog post where I talked about this, I said that fast paced music tends to make you work faster. This is true. I use this when I want to get through grunt work that I don’t like. The faster music not only increases my speed a little, but it also tricks my brain into thinking that time is going by faster. This makes tedious work not quite as tedious.

For example, I have to do some financial bookkeeping once a month, and let’s just say it’s not work I enjoy very much. No problem. I find some very fast-paced music with no lyrics, play it softly in the background but a little louder than I would normally play classical music, and get to work. Instead of one or two hours slowly plodding along, they whiz by very fast, and I’m suddenly done with my grunt work. Nice.

Emotional Music For Goal Setting

You probably have a special grouping of songs or tracks of music that have a strong, positive emotional effect on you. I know I do.

Whenever you set some big goals, make some big plans, review your goals, or want to visualize your goals, this is the music you want to play. Not only will it make you feel fantastic, but it will also assist you in embedding these goals deeper into your subconscious.

I have three or four musical pieces that most people would not consider interesting at all, but which have great emotional significance for me, and you can bet I’m playing one of these whenever I’m goal setting or visualizing. It really transforms the experience. Try it and you’ll see.

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BE SMART THINK SMART

The Principle of Separate Realities
1. It is impossible for two human beings to see things exactly alike. Yet, many people spend their lifetimes proving to themselves and to others that their version of life is valid, realistic, and correct.
2. When we realize that everyone sees things differently, we can continue to maintain any belief or opinion we have. Other people’s objections to them will not be such a source of hostility or pain.
3. When you approach someone, not in an attempt to change their beliefs but with a genuine interest and respect for their view of life, defenses drop and hearts open.
4. Listen without judgment, and the person you are with will sense your respect for his/her position and your willingness to listen. The result is increased understanding and softening on both sides, the essence of compromise or collaboration, bringing out the best in ourselves and in others.

The Principle of Feelings
1. Negative feelings will disappear quickly enough if we simply leave them alone.
2. Wisdom and common sense come from a more positive feeling state, from a quiet and rested mind. When we feel good, we are more equipped to solve any problem that may come up.
3. If our internal experience of life isn’t pleasant, we are creating our own misery through our own thought system. We can recognize and value our alternatives, make the mental shift, stop habitual thinking, and return to a natural state of well-being.

The Principle of the Present Moment
1. Keeping your attention on the past (or the future) can become a habit that is difficult to break.
2. The only way to experience genuine and lasting contentment, satisfaction, and happiness is to learn to live your life in the present moment.
3. Your thoughts can take you from a state of calm into a state of turmoil without any actual changes taking place. The solution to this mental sabotage is to become aware and conscious of your mind spinning forward toward problems, deadlines, and issues, or backward toward reliving old wounds or frustrations. Remind yourself to guide your thoughts back to the present when they are too caught up in problems.
4. As you become more proficient at living in the moment, you will be able to decide moment to moment what your experience of life will be.

Attentive Higher consciousness and karmic sense

Why are some people rich and others poor? Why are some
able to enjoy the beauty, diversity, and abundance of many
developed nations – while others live in ravaged, war-torn areas
of the earth? Why are some people prone to be sickly, while
others enjoy robust health for most of their life? Why do some
people die young and others die old? Why is it that some human
beings more beautiful and others seemingly unattractive? These
remain valid questions for a pondering mind.
The Buddha was once asked as to what accounted for these
differences among people. His reply was that all humans are the
heirs of their own past karma. Their lives in the present were
the result of their past actions. There were actions that produced
each of these various results. Such a response intrigues us.
According to Buddhism, then, the inequalities described
are due not only to heredity and environment ("nature and
nurture"), but also to karma. In other words, our own past and
present actions are vital and weighty factors in our happiness
and misery. We create our own heaven and hell. To a significant
degree we are the architects of our own fate. While we are born
with hereditary characteristics of mind and body, we also
possess innate abilities that science cannot always explain. Some
believe that these can be accounted for in terms of accumulated
karmic tendencies that have been inherited from the course of
previous lives.
The Buddha himself was exceptional as far as his physical,
moral, and intellectual abilities when compared to his long royal
lineage. "Thus, from a Buddhist point of view," concludes Ven
Mahasi Sayadaw, "our present mental, moral, intellectual and
temperamental differences are, for the most part, due to our own
actions and tendencies, both past and present." He quotes the
following commentary:
Depending on this difference in karma appear the
differences in the birth of beings, high and low, base and
exalted, happy and miserable. Depending on the difference
in karma appears the difference in the individual features
of beings as beautiful and ugly, high-born or low born,
well-built or deformed. Depending on the difference in
karma appears the difference in worldly conditions of
beings, such as gain and loss . . . blame and praise,
happiness and misery.
However, Buddhism does not assert that everything is due
to karma. It is only one of many other conditions described in
Buddhist texts. Sayadaw also states:7 "In one sense, we are the
result of what we were; we will be the result of what we are. In
another sense, it should be added, we are not totally the result of
what we were; we will not absolutely be the result of what we
are. The present is no doubt the offspring of the past and is the
present of the future, but the present is not always a true index
of either the past or the future; so complex is the working of
karma."
This book mainly explores the meaning of karma for our
present lives today. It also touches on the future aspect of
karma, including beyond this life. In short, the book looks at
karma from as many angles as possible, and shares insights
regarding this basic law of life, observable in creation and
humanity.
Nevertheless, karma remains a multifaceted, complex
subject. For any given action, there are multiple conditions and
causes involved, resulting in multiple effects. Often it is humanly
impossible to determine the exact links in the equation of cause

and effect.

Frequently-Asked Questions
look at the following questions,
 What is karma?
 How does karma work?
 How are karma and mindfulness related?
 Does karma help in understanding events in our lives?
 Does karma include taking personal responsibility?
 Is there a connection between karma and mental health?
 Does understanding karma lead to compassion?
 What connection is there between karma and rebirth?
 What are some predictable karmic results of our actions?
 How do I deal with my past karma?
 In what ways is karma misunderstood?
 How could I meditate on karma?
 Are there different types of karma?
 Where does karma fit in our understanding of life?
As we come to understand the profound nature of karma,
and how it works in our lives, may we embark on a way of living
that will enable us to fashion our lives to yield greater love,
peace, and happiness.

Watchfulness is the path of immortality: unwatchfulness is the
path of death. Those who are watchful never die: those who do
not watch are already as dead.
(The Dhammapada: Watchfulness, 21.)
The man who arises in faith, who ever remembers his high
purpose, whose work is pure, and who carefully considers his
work, who in self-possession lives the life of perfection, and who
ever, forever, is watchful, that man shall arise in glory.
(The Dhammapada: Watchfulness, 24.)
Men who are foolish and ignorant are careless and never
watchful; but the man who lives in watchfulness considers it his
greatest treasure.
(The Dhammapada: Watchfulness, 26.)
Watchful amongst the unwatchful, awake amongst those who
sleep, the wise man like a swift horse runs his race, outrunning
those who are slow.
(The Dhammapada: Watchfulness, 29.)

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ONE DAY I DECIDED TO QUIT

I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality… I wanted to quit my life.

I went to the woods to have one last talk with god

“God”, I asked,

“Can you give me one good reason not to quit?”.

His answer surprised me…

“Look around”, He said. “Do you see the fern and the bamboo ?

“Yes”, I replied.

“When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them.

I gave them light.I gave them water.The fern quickly grew from the earth.

Its brilliant green covered the floor.Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo.In the second year the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful.

And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. He said.

“In year three there was still nothing from the bamboo seed.But I would not quit.

In year four, again, there was nothing from the bamboo seed. I would not quit.” He said.

“Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant…But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall.

It had spent the five years growing roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive.I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle.”

He asked me. “Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been rowing roots”.

“I would not quit on the bamboo.I will never quit on you.”

“Don’t compare yourself to others.” He said.”The bamboo had a different Purpose than the fern.

Yet they both make the forest beautiful.”"Your time will come”, God said to me.

“You will rise high”.

“How high should I rise?” I asked.

“How high will the bamboo rise?” He asked in return.

“As high as it can?” I questioned.”Yes.” He said, “Give Me glory by rising as high as you can.”

I left the forest and brought back this story.I hope these words can help you see that God will never give up on you.Never, Never, Never, Give up.

Don’t tell the GOD how big the problem is, tell the problem how Great the GOD is!