Eesha’s Early Excerpt 10/11/2020 Confucius, Shimmying, and Motivation

Hey Friends! This is our first edition of "Eesha's Early Excerpt"! A Sunday newsletter for you to read with a cup of tea and some biscuts. It will have everything from notions and insight, to dancing dogs and cats. Have a peaceful Sunday and here is the excerpt for your morning.

A Habit to Hack the productivity equation:

Learn how to singletask. A mere 2% in the world can multitask successfully. The constant juggle between tasks costs your focus to decrease and for your mind to become cluttered. Your brain will find it rather difficult to filter out irrelevant information. Multitasking lowers your efficiency and may impair cognitive control - fancy word for a picture your mind paints to guide your behavior. For the next week try to single-task in places you can. Start by making a “to-do” list of things you must accomplish. Start with the task that consumes the highest priority and proceed to bulldoze through the list one thing at a time.

Insight from the Inspiring:

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it” - Confucius

The chinese philosopher believed in environmental morality who emphasized kindness, justice and sincerity. A simple takeaway from this quote is to observe the world around you and search for the positivity in it all. Through these difficult times, it is easy to become clouded by negativity and despair. Hold your chin up high and notice the beauty of your community, the beauty of your family, and the beauty of your life. This week take a moment to breath in - breath out and appreciate three things occurring in your life right now. Exercise this ritual everyday, and it will eventually become a routine that leads you to live positively and optimistically.

Something for Some Serotonin:

We have all been stuck indoors recently (for the past 7 months). However despite the lack of social interaction, people have found a way to cure the depression with a simple action; dancing! A survey of 2,000 British adults found that three quarters feel ‘happy’ after shimmying around their home. So next time you are walking downstairs to graph a snack, dust of those dancing shoes and shimmy away!