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  • Lemon Water to Start your Day

    Lemon Water to Start your Day

    Daily writing prompt
    What is your favorite drink?
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    Why Lemon Water to kick start your day?

    My favorite drink is lemon water to start your day. The biggest benefits of doing the same has been mentioned in this blog post.

    This is the perfect recipe to rehydrate your body after you wake up. Aside from a wide variety of health benefits like improvement of immune system, it plays a big role in stimulating focus and motivation.

    Lemon water is your best recipe to boost your energy and improve your mood to fight challenges of a gruelling day.

    Physical revitalization to lift your mood is the perfect recipe you need to start your day.

    As you know our daily mood follows a pattern as mentioned in the following insight from Daniel Pink’s book When.

    Lemon Water to Start your Day

    To know more about our Daily mood pattern and how can uplift it by this regular habit mentioned in the post, please visit this link:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/what-is-your-daily-mood-pattern/

    To know more about Daniel Pink and his work, please visit this link:

    https://www.danpink.com/

  • Be a Good Choice Architect

    Be a Good Choice Architect

    Who is a Choice Architect?

    Be a good choice architect and see how you can bring about changes in human behavior by using the right nudges.

    A good choice architect uses precision, context and intelligence to nudge people towards the right decisions.

    Such a person can be a teacher, doctor, nurse or even a person who designs the school cafeteria menu placing healthy food at locations catching eyeballs preventing overconsumption of candies and brownies.

    In his book the author defines such a person as follows:

    Be a Good Choice Architect

    For another insight around proper decision making, please visit this link:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/need-help-for-a-decision-making-conversation-three-steps/

    To know more about the author Richard Thaler and his work, please visit this link:

    https://www.ubs.com/microsites/nobel-perspectives/en/laureates/richard-thaler.html

  • Be Obsessed with the NOW

    Be Obsessed with the NOW

    Are you obsessed with Now?

    I would like to be remembered as a person who was obsessed with the now or the present moment.

    In the hustle and bustle of modern day life, we spent a lot of time worrying about the future and regretting about the past.

    Very often we do not realize that the only truth is the present moment wherein we can unleash all our energy to leave a legacy behind.

    Various techniques like practicing mindfulness, doing meditation teach us the virtues of focusing on the present moment.

    The following insight mentioned by Eckhart Tolle in his book The Power of Now is very illuminating.

    Be Obsessed with the NOW

    For another insight to inspire you to stop worrying and start focusing on the now has been mentioned below:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/your-anxiety-removal-mantra/

    To know about Eckhart Tolle and his work, visit this link:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle

  • The Power of Default Option

    The Power of Default Option

    Understanding the power of default option

    The Power of the default option has been wonderfully illustrated by Richard Thaler in his book Nudge.

    As mentioned by the author, people have a strong tendency to go along with the status quo or the default option.

    The primary reason is risk or loss aversion and hence this gets chosen by common people.

    Further to this the following insight further supports the insight shared by the author.

    The Power of Default Option

    To know more about the author Richard Thaler, please visit this link:

    https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/richard-thaler

  • Say Bye to Social Media

    Say Bye to Social Media

    Daily writing prompt
    Do you need a break? From what?
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    If I were to take a break, I would say bye to social media.

    In the hypermediated world dominated by social media and digital gadgets I strongly feel that we are surrendering our autonomy.

    Being addicted to digital gadgets waiting for that one like or comment has slowly taken control of our lives without our notice.

    As mentioned by Cal Newport in Digital Minimalism its high time we realized this and use digital gadgets and social media judiciously.

    Say Bye to Social Media

    Read this post to know more:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/surrendering-freedom-to-social-media/

    To know more about Cal Newport, please visit this link:

    https://calnewport.com

  • Perfect complement for TODO list

    Perfect complement for TODO list

    Daily writing prompt
    Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done.
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    To know your perfect complement for a todo list please read this blog post.

    In his book When the author Daniel Pink mentions the important of having a BREAK LIST to make our TODO list more effective.

    Very frequently in the heat of having a lot of todo items, we forget to take breaks to relax ourselves to get the items in the todo list done.

    Hence break list is something I am trying to work on to get all my pending actions addressed.

    Most scientific way of taking breaks has been mentioned in the book When as follows:

    Perfect complement for TODO list

    Hence once your learn the art of taking breaks rest assured your todo list will get addressed.

    To know about Daniel Pink and his work, please visit this link:

    https://www.danpink.com/

  • Science behind Technology Addiction

    Science behind Technology Addiction

    How do Tech Companies drive Technology Addiction?

    The science behind technology addiction revolves around 2 primary factors.

    In his book Digital Minimalism, the author Cal Newport enlightens us on these two factors that are exploited by tech companies to glue us to their products and websites.

    The Drive for intermittent positive reinforcement and social approval are responsible for our addiction to all the technology platforms.

    This has been highlighted in the below insight.

    For another insightful post from the same book, please visit:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/surrendering-freedom-to-social-media/

    To know more about the author please visit:

    https://calnewport.com

  • Fearlessly take the Risk of Optimism

    Fearlessly take the Risk of Optimism

    Daily writing prompt
    What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it?
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    Fearlessly take the Risk of Optimism and see the benefits it brings in your life. This blog post elaborates on the same.

    I have been highly influenced by the work of Simon Sinek around the topic of optimism.

    According to him the primary ingredient of progress is the unwavering belief that the future is bright.

    This and having faith in God that something good will happen is necessary for a fulfilling life free of anxiety and stress.

    Research proves that when we are positive about life, the brain functions in a positive manner at the expectation of a reward. This is similar to a dosage of morphine.

    Fearlessly take the Risk of Optimism

    Hence adopting feeling is scary at the start but something we should never shed moving forward in life.

    For another insightful post around the same topic, please visit this link:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/go-shop-for-optimism/

    To know about Simon Sinek’s work on this topic, visit the following link:

    https://simonsinek.com/

  • Surrendering Freedom to Social Media

    Surrendering Freedom to Social Media

    Why should you not surrender your freedom to social media?

    If you are in the process of surrendering your freedom to social, this post is for you.

    In the modern day we have all become puppets at the hand of social media. Neither do we have the autonomy to enjoy solitude, it is as if the digital media has taken control of our lives.

    Cal Newport throws more light on the same in his book Digital Minimalism and inspires us to maintain our autonomy.

    Surrendering Freedom to Social Media

    For another interesting insight from the same book please visit this link:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/control-your-idle-brain/

    To know more about Cal Newport, please visit this link:

    https://calnewport.com

  • Complain less Contribute More

    Complain less Contribute More

    Daily writing prompt
    What do you complain about the most?
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    Life becomes a better place to live in when we complain less and contribute more.

    We complain in a state when we are not prepared to take ownership for any shortcomings that we see. This leads to a proliferation of such complaints and never any fruitful solution.

    As Simon Sinek aptly mentions in this quote instead of cribbing we need to contribute and bring about the change we want to see in the world.

    This not only leads to more fulfillment but makes our lives much better.

    For another wonderful insight from Simon Sinek, please visit this link:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/why-should-you-carefully-choose-your-mentor/

    To know more about Simon Sinek and his work, please visit this link:

    https://simonsinek.com/product/the-art-of-presenting/?utm_term=&utm_campaign=&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=6968735945&hsa_cam=22203731911&hsa_grp=&hsa_ad=&hsa_src=x&hsa_tgt=&hsa_kw=&hsa_mt=&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22203735358&gbraid=0AAAAAojL0XuO4O6sBmAONZa5cQs50sWq9&gclid=Cj0KCQiAvtzLBhCPARIsALwhxdoxMEENRHfLXeBhSXr7xR81w7LJ_378QLi0vvPOmyXmrrxkNGP37OIaAhZHEALw_wcB