Keeps track of what you are doing all the time and criticizes you for little things.

benefit the whole populatio

forget the names of places and objects

early, middle or late stage of the disease

Alzheimer's is not a normal part of aging.

They also affect behavior, feelings and relationships.

marks are there to aid understanding in a later phase of reading.

I agree that you should neither ruin other people’s property nor their reading experience of library books by painting the book’s pages, though. That’s just ruthless. But you’ll need to mark passages for further reference, else you’ll forget what you found important in the first place. So because you have to, use a pencil and erase your marks later if the book wasn’t yours.

I don't understand how you can smile at someone who's crying because of you.

I often repeat myself which is just something that i do and she says that it is annoying, I get that but she makes it out to be such a big deal.

on average just 3h of productive work a office/knowledge worker achieves during an 8h workday. Accounting for vacation time would mean that just 180 hours (3 * 5 * 12) of productive work gets done over a quarter while spending around 480 draining hours or 60 days at work in total.

You can also go into even greater detail by adding an 8th and 9th step and break down each scheduled work-block into single tasks of an hour or less. But in my opinion this is either over-planning or you do it intuitively when planning the next week/day anyways.

work blocks don't all have to be 3h long. I found that 3 hours work well for me and it fits the naming scheme nicely.

ou can and should, of course, make adjustments on demand.

It's an iterative process. You don't sit down and schedule the full 3 months down to the hours of each work-block. You more so start with a rough draft for the 3 months then break down the first month roughly. Then you only plan the next week in greater detail down to the hard days and work blocks. Every Sunday you make adjustments accordingly so that the goal is achieved. Maybe, because you will learn a lot along the way, the major and minor goals might even change?

Structure3 months time-frame is scheduled(∑ 12 weeks work + 1 week of vacation or strict rest)3 major goals per each of the 3 months are defined(∑ 9 major goals to achieve over 3 months)3 week long focused sprints are scheduled for each of the 9 major goals.A 3 week sprint is followed by a week of buffer-/down-time and time to reflect and plan the next steps.(∑ 9 sprints for the 9 major goals)3 minor goals for each of the 3 sprints are defined(∑27 minor weekly goals in total or 3 per major goal/sprint)3 days per sprint week are pre-scheduled as hard days (e.g. Mo, Wed, Fri).The other days are rest days or low "admin" days with easy work(∑ just 27 hard days in 9 sprints or 3 months)3 work block micro goals are defined per minor weekly goal(∑ 81 work block micro goals in total for the 3 months)3 hour long work blocks for each of the hard days (e.g. 8-11 am, 12-3 pm, 4-7 pm) are scheduled(∑ 81 work blocks in total scheduled)

3. Add a Secondary Axis of Priority Map how you spend your time against how important those things are to you. So, keeping the activities in their place on the X axis, move them up or down depending on how big of a priority they are to you.

Cultivating a Mindset of Abundance Here’s an empowering fact to internalize: we’re all given the same amount of time as everyone else. Everyone in the world has 24 hours each day to spend as they see fit. It’s up to you to figure out what matters to you. And to spend your days doing those things. In the big picture, we think about life in time periods. Years, decades, and relationships. But you never actually live life on that time scale. Life happens in the moments of every day. Minute by minute. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -Annie Dillard So take the time to align your daily behavior with your priorities. There may be some discomfort in the near term, but you’ll thank yourself down the road.

(This isn’t to say you don’t need money. The point here is that there are always other ways for you to accomplish a given goal. In this case, to make money in a way that brings you joy and fulfillment. Free educational opportunities have never been more abundant. If you want to make a change and do something new, you can.)

Payoffs in the current state: Even when you are aware that you want to change, change means you’d lose the payoffs you’re getting in your current situation. Losses loom larger than gains. e.g. You might say you want to get in shape. But eating well and getting active means losing the payoff of continual comfort and enjoying indulgent food.

When your priorities align with how you spend your time, you feel great! Joyful. Satisfied. Present.

When your behavior doesn’t align with your priorities, you feel unhappy. Angry. Stressed. Unfulfilled.

Aligning your priorities with your behavior isn’t about maximizing productivity, or any other external metric. It’s about maximizing your personal wellbeing.

But far too often, time isn’t spent wisely. You begrudgingly spend it on the priorities of other people. Or on commitments you let into your life without considering their implications.

When I told myself and others “I don’t have time for that”, what I should have said is “I’d like to, but that isn’t a priority for me right now.” Or, a more unfortunate response: “That is a priority for me, but I feel committed to spending my time in other ways…

That statement wasn’t untrue because I lacked personal commitments. I’ve always been driven, and keep my calendar full! My real problem is that I hadn’t taken the time to consider how I spent my time, and why I spent it that way.

“I don’t have time for that”,

At the end of your life, you’ll give just about anything to have a few more years of life. Which is why spending your time wisely is such an important issue.

An invisible puppetmaster controlling the human collective and directing it to their negative agenda?

we should remember that the radiations affect not only the sea of mental matter which surrounds us, but also act upon other mental bodies moving within that sea.

a fact which we shall need to have clearly in mind when we come to consider presently the practical possibility of the use of thought-power.

in the astral world either during sleep or after death, he is fully capable of sight and hearing, and can move about whithersoever he will.

in the average man it is only partially developed, and cannot in the least be employed as a separate vehicle of consciousness

The mental body can be employed as a vehicle only by those who have been specially trained in its use under Teachers belonging to the Great Brotherhood of Initiates

that being the part of its evolution upon which the human race is at the present moment engaged

In the heaven-world, however, he finds himself under very different conditions, for the mental body is as yet by no means fully developed,

The distance covered by such a wave, and the strength and persistence with which it can impinge upon the mental bodies of others, depend upon the strength and clearness of the original thought

It has also an important bearing upon the distance to which a thought-wave may penetrate.

thought-power.

The vibration may be simple or it may be complex, according to the character of the thought; but its strength is poured out chiefly upon some one of the four levels of mental matter — the four subdivisions which constitute the lower part of the mental world.

This form, like the vibration, may be in the mental world only; but much more frequently it descends to the astral level and produces its principal effect in the world of emotions.

the world of emotions

If the thought be purely intellectual and impersonal — if, for example, the thinker is considering a philosophical system, or attempting to solve a problem in algebra or geometry — the wave sent forth will affect merely the mental matter. If the thought be of a spiritual nature, if it be tinged with love or aspiration, or with deep unselfish feeling, it will rise upwards into the realm of the higher mental, and may even borrow some of the splendour and glory of the intuitional level — a combination which renders it exceedingly powerful. If, on the other hand, the thought is tinged with something of self or of personal desire, its oscillations at once draw downwards and expend most of their force in the astral world.

There are many different types of matter in the mental body, and each of them appears to have its own special rate of oscillation, to which it seems most accustomed, so that it readily responds to it and tends to return thereto as soon as possible when it has been forced away from it by some strong rush of thought or feeling.

First there is the effect produced upon the mental body itself; and we find that to be of the nature of setting up a habit.

This vibration may under certain conditions be confined to the mental world, but also it may produce an effect in worlds above and below.

Thirdly, then, every thought produces a radiating undulation, which may be either simple or [Page 6] complex according to the nature of the thought that gives it birth.

but also permanently upon the man himself.

Thus the habitual thought of the man builds up qualities in the ego himself.

Just as the mental vibration acts upon the astral matter, which is denser than it is, so also does it inevitably act upon the matter of the causal body, which is finer than it.

which are above and below the mental body in degree of density.

A sufficiently strong thought may for the moment set the whole of the matter of the mental body swinging at the same rate

only a few men can have at their disposal any large amount of its forces, and so only a few can become rich by their means; but it is a prominent feature of the vivid interest of the unseen side of life, that every human being, rich or poor, old or young, has already at his disposal no inconsiderable [Page 3] proportion of its forces.

filling the Zettelkasten means to educate your Zettelkasten

Reflecting on the process will inevitably give your mind a bit of rest. This might trigger ideas which lead you to research differently and get new insights. So take the logging and journalling seriously.

Keep in mind that our memories aren’t reliable, so don’t try to work with it alone. You’ll need to keep a log and take a look at it whenever you want to change the process to make an informed and directed change instead of blindly guessing what could work next.

If you don’t need to do research because, say, you have to write about one large book only, you have to change the process a bit. You won’t need to regulate research time, but reading time instead.

With time and experience, you’ll know how much research you can handle at the start of a project and how to adapt your schedule.

To know more means you can deal with more detailed problems.

Maybe you start with 1h of research, then try 2h and still feel comfortable, try 4h but have the feeling it’s too much, aim for the middle of the last ones, 3h, and end up with maybe 2h30min as your personal preference.

usual anxiety of larger writing projects is due to the insurmountable pile of work yet do be done

drafting early, and drafting often.

It might help to establish a way to leave instruction for your future self so picking up where you left off becomes a no-brainer.

Because you work on the final text all the time, you’ll know when otherwise rewarding activities won’t help you move forward. You’ll have a clear vision of your project, constantly.

we need to ensure that we can pick up work where we left if need be.

Progress is continuous when we are certain we move forward

Neuroplasticity is the best news from neuroscience in recent years.

The brain sees and responds to perception, not reality. Negative lingering brain states can become neural traits that are hardwired into our circuitry.

What we perceive and expect is what we get!

When a continuous stream of negative emotions hijacks our frontal lobes, our brain's architecture changes, leaving us in a heightened stress-response state where fear, anger, anxiety, frustration, and sadness take over our thinking, logical brains.

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