“I never have enough time!” I bet you’ve heard people say that often. It’s quite likely that if you are reading this blog you will also have said it plenty of times too, and you want to do something about it. When I was in my getting (any) thing done stage several years ago I often felt the same way. Then I spent several months out of work and I suddenly had so much time I didn’t know what to do with it. This made me rethink my views on those precious hours constantly ticking away…

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Productivity bloggers love to go on about getting up early. After some GTD loving, sleep is probably the most discussed topic out there… except here. Is this where I’m going wrong? Anyways, why is it so important whether you drag your body out of bed at midday, 8AM or even (ouch!) 5AM? Apparently, from those who do it on a daily basis it is supposed to make you more productive, if only for the reason that you get more stuff done with less distractions because the rest of the world is still (wasting time) sleeping.

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Welcome to another post in the self-help myths series! This time I will take a look at the comfort zone, which is the collection of areas, thoughts, attitudes and environments in your personal, social and work lives that you have become accustomed to. To stray away from these would cause varying degrees of anxiety, which can hold you back. A great many self-help guides state that expanding your comfort zone is the key to achieving your dreams. The more new things you do the bigger your comfort zone becomes, right? Wrong!

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Welcome to another post on self-help myths where I take a personal development concept (in previous posts I looked at confidence and procrastination) and discuss the flaws behind it or take on an alternative perspective. This week I will look at the concept of “being yourself” and discuss how the statement is horribly flawed.

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The whole point of this Self-Help Myths series is to provide an alternative perspective on common self-help topics and one of the biggest topics in productivity circles is that of procrastination. It is the great bad habit that causes you to get distracted when you should be working and makes you rush your projects at the last minute. There is so much information out there on how to “overcome” it (even I have an article on it) that you can ironically spend much of your time researching the topic.

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