JAMES PLOTI

  7 Tips to Make This A GreatWeek Well, Monday is here again. While this of course means the weekend is over, it also means a new week of unlimited potential lies ahead. The following are 7 ideas that will help you have a happy, productive and meaningful week: 1. Set Goals Ideally, on Sunday (but Monday is ok), I like to take some time out to think about the week ahead. This involves the following: Identifying Roles: identify the key roles in your life. If you haven’t given this much thought before, just write down what immediately comes to mind. Some of my roles, for example, are: father, husband, blogger, employee, and uncle. Selecting Goals: next think of 2 or 3 important things you would like to accomplish in each of these roles in the coming week. For example, as an uncle I need to buy and send presents for my niece and nephew so that they reach USA in time for Christmas day. Scheduling: this basically involves taking the abo...

  DURING MY RESEARCH ON HUMAN BEHAVIOR, I REALIZED CONFIDENCE AND GRATITUDE ARE TWINS . Confidence : The feeling or belief that one can have faith in or rely on someone or something.   Gratitude : The quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness. In my years of studying human behavior and the attainability of self-confidence, I have found that there’s one core value that confidence always always always comes back to: and that’s  gratitude.  Feelings of gratitude and feelings of confidence are directly related. This is because the more grateful you are for all that you have, the more you realize ALL that you have to be grateful for… and more and more awesome things in your life become apparent. The truth – everyone has countless reasons to be thankful. But sometimes it doesn’t feel that way. Maybe you’re having a bad day, a bad week, heck, even a bad year. But regardless of any of that, there is always something to be ...