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HOW TO START (AND COMPLETE) A RESEARCH PAPER

You are a re-entry student and it’s been fourteen years since you’ve written a paper. You coasted through high school on your charm and good looks and never actually wrote a research paper. You have written research papers, but every time is like the first time, and the first time was like a root canal. How do you start? Here is a step-by-step approach to starting and completing a research paper.

1. Choose a topic.
2. Read and keep records.
3. Form a thesis.
4. Create a mind map or outline.
5. Read again.
6. Rethink your thesis.
7. Draft a body.
8.  Revise.
9. Add the beginning and end.

Finally, Proofread and edit.

 

SOURCES: http://www.butte.edu/departments/cas/tipsheets/research/research_paper.html

 

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Getting ahead can be a struggle if you don’t have the discipline to do the right simple things every single day.

By Christina DesMaraisContributor, Inc.com@salubriousdish

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Ever wonder why getting ahead can sometimes seem like such a struggle? The truth is: If you want to be highly successful, you need to be highly disciplined. I’ve polled countless executives and entrepreneurs about the things they’re doing every day which help them succeed, and typically they credit simple daily routines which have been proven over time to give them an edge. Check out these quotes from 33 high-achieving individuals who share the habits which help them get ahead in business and life.

1. Read about your industry and beyond.
2. Keep a daily journal, but do it the right way.
3. Work out for a strong body, which holds up a strong mind.
4. Remove fear.
5. Unplug without a device.
6. Check your pride at the door.
7. Never give up.
8. Surround yourself with positive people.
9. Listen and learn.
10. Put in extra effort to stay organized.
11. Pay attention to details.
12. Keep some balance in your life.
13. Write down your gratitude.
14. Deprioritize opportunities which don’t fit with your goals.
15. Adapt to what the present holds.
16. Pick three things to do each day.
17. Start the day with a small, meaningful win.
18. Use Sundays to plan out your week.
19. Protect your Sunday nights.
20. Make a list of goals for improvement.
21. Walk while talking on the phone.
22. Accept that one amazing thing will happen every day.
23. Start your day with meditation.
24. Walk in the park.
25. Think like a customer.
26. Invert the traditional working hierarchy.
27. Let music influence your mood.
28. Create a sense of calm.
29. Make time for music.
30. Give yourself time to relax. 
31. Tell the future you what to do.
32. Get inspired by reading something inspiring.
33. Move your body.

SOURCES: https://www.inc.com/christina-desmarais/33-things-highly-successful-people-are-doing-every-day-that-you-probably-arent.html

 

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Where does mental toughness come from? I’ll let Mr. Rollins start me off here with a quote I love about the Iron Mind…

“People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole. I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to their suburban homes. They stress out constantly, they lose sleep, they eat badly. And they behave badly. Their egos run wild; they become motivated by that which will eventually give them a massive stroke. They need the Iron Mind.”

Henry Rollins

What is Mental Toughness?

Wikipedia says:

Mental toughness is a measure of individual resilience and confidence that may predict success in sport, education and the workplace.

Mental toughness is “Having the natural or developed psychological edge that enables you to: generally, cope better than your opponents with the many demands (competition, training, lifestyle) that sport places on a performer; specifically, be more consistent and better than your opponents in remaining determined, focused, confident, and in control under pressure.” (1)

Some key words stand out in these definitions:

• Resilience
• Confidence
• DeHabit #3 Monitor and Adjust Your Self-Talktermined
• Focused
• Psychological Edge

Habit #1 Test Your Metal

The only way to get the iron mind is to push yourself physically beyond what you were previously capable of. Growth is hard and painful. The mind resists and begs you to stop. This is your chance to prove to yourself that you can overcome pain and difficulty.

Habit #2 Choose How You Interpret Stress

Mentally tough people do not just react to stress. They choose how they interpret stress and how they will choose to deal with it. They realize that the stress itself has no real power. All of the power lies within us to make a choice on how we’re going to deal with external stressors.

Habit #3 Monitor and Adjust Your Self-Talk

“our findings suggest that self-talk strategies can make
a valuable contribution to skill acquisition, learning, and task
performance enhancement” (2)

How to Improve Self Talk for Improved Mental Toughness

According to an article in Psychology Today, there are 4 steps you can take:

1. Notice what you’re already telling yourself. Pay attention to it.
2. Ignore unhelpful self-talk
3. Pick a “power phrase.” Something that makes you feel motivated
4. Pick a phrase or reminder word to help you stay focused.

Our mind can be our greatest enemy or our most valuable asset. Monitoring and adjusting your self talk can be a huge step in increasing mental toughness.

Habit #4 Visualize

Taking just a few minutes each day to visualize can make a big impact on how we react and perform. Studies have shown that the mind doesn’t really know the difference As Tony Robbins says.. “In life, we get what we are, not what we want.” You have to BE, not want. If something is important enough that you dream of it, then you have to be willing to forego temporary satisfaction in the name of achieving, and becoming something much greater.

between strong visualizations and actual activity.

Athletes use visualization all the time. Research has shown that visualizing shooting and making free throws can actually improve shooting.

Habit #5 Be Disciplined. Delay Gratification

“The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.”

Jocko Willink

A hallmark trait of someone with mental toughness is the ability to forego what they want right now, in exchange for something greater later on.

Habit #6 Control Your Emotions

Mentally tough people remain in control. They tell themselves that nothing is going to stop them, and they mean it. When something is making you feel like you’re going to lose control of your emotions, use your self talk and focus on who you are. Like i said before, it will become a habit just like anything else repeated over and over.

Conclusion

YOU are in control. This is your life, your mind. You get to choose who you are and what you’re going to accomplish. Being mentally tough is a choice. If you want it, you’ve got a great start with this article. The only question is.. what will you do now?

 

SOURCES: https://supastrong.net/2020/02/13/6-habits-of-people-with-serious-mental-toughness/

 

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3 Practices To Become Indistractable At Work

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Rebecca Zucker

I am a Career and Executive Coach and in 2002, cofounded Next Step Partners, a leadership development firm based in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles. I work with senior leaders in a variety of sectors and functions to help them be more effective at what they do and to find more fulfillment in their work. Prior to my coaching career, I was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and held leadership positions at Disney Consumer Products in Paris and at Robertson Stephens, where I led Training & Development for the investment banking division. I earned an MBA from Stanford and graduated as valedictorian from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU and have coaching certifications from CTI and Minds at Work.

We often start our work day with the best of intentions to get specific tasks done — to get traction on our work — but invariably, those plans get derailed as we get distracted throughout our day. I recently spoke with Nir Eyal, author of Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, about what we can do to become less distracted and more productive. We discussed a few key practices, outlined below, that can help.

1. Timebox your work:

Timeboxing is effectively making (and keeping) a meeting with yourself. Pick a task, when to do it, determine for how long and block it on your calendar. Not only is timeboxing one of the most effective productivity tools, designed to keep us focused on the task at hand, but it gives us a greater sense of control — one of the key elements missing in many workplaces that can create the negative emotions that often serve as internal triggers to distraction. Further, when we timebox our activities, we are by definition, single-tasking versus multi-tasking. The former is far more productive, with research indicating that 40% of our productivity is lost by the task-switching involved in multi-tasking.

2. Schedule sync with your boss to set priorities:

A common challenge I’ve seen with many of my coaching clients that I raised with Eyal is that many people will block out time to focus on something important and their co-workers — their boss or peers — will book over it. To address this. Eyal recommends doing what he calls a weekly “schedule sync” with your boss. This is when, in keeping a time-boxed calendar, you sit down with your boss for 15 minutes at the beginning of each week and say, “Here’s my calendar for the week. Here’s how I plan to spend my time, and here’s the stuff I won’t get to on this other list.” This way, your boss will either agree with what you’ve planned, or help you reprioritize.

3. Recalibrate your responsiveness to email.

Email is the “mother of all habit-firming products,” says Eyal. Our work product ends up suffering when we continuously check email throughout the day. “We keep checking email because if feels productive,” he says, “but we should be checking it based on our schedule and priorities, not someone else’s.” Email is much more efficient when we timebox it, as with other focused work. This could be ten minutes every hour, on the hour, or at other specified times of the day. It’s really up to you. “But hold to that time box,” says Eyal, “Check it on a schedule and not when your emotions get the best of you,” referencing our internal triggers — like feeling uncertain, stressed or anxious — that can often drive us to get distracted.

Eyal shared one of his favorite quotes by Paulo Coelho, “A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.” We are human and get distracted. But we can take a responsible mindset and decide not to be, as we aspire to become indistractable.

SOURCES: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccazucker/2020/02/25/3-practices-to-become-indistractable-at-work/#5486444c2ef0

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