Ifeanyi obed
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The Skill of Self Confidence
In my past life as a soccer teacher, once you won a national title, everyone wants to come play for you. Really not true. Once you paid them $ 25,000 a year in grants, everybody wants to come play for you. And parents would always come to me and they'd say: "Okay, my son or my daughter wants to come play at your university, what is it that we have to do? You know, what are you looking for?" And being the Socratic professor that I am, I say, well, what does your son or daughter do? What do they do really well that we'd be interested in? And usually their answers are, well, they've got great eyes. They're really good. They can see the entire field. Or, my daughter is the fastest player, there's nobody that can beat her. Or, my son's got a great left-footer. Really great in the air and can hit every ball. I'm like: "Yeah, not bad; but to be quite honest with you, those are the last things I'm looking for. The most important thing? Self-confidence." Without that skill, and I use the word skill deliberately, without that skill, we are useless as a soccer player. Because when you lose sight or trust in yourself, we're done for. I use the meaning of self-confidence to be the ability or the belief to believe in yourself, to achieve any job, no matter the odds, no matter the challenge, no matter the hardship. The opinion that you can did it, self-confidence. Some of you are saying, "Great, I don't have it.
By Ifeanyi obed about a year ago in Lifehack
How To Gain Control of Your Free Time
People think two things when they hear that I write about time management. One is that I'm always on time, but I'm not. I'm sometimes late, and I'd like to say it's because I have four little kids, but sometimes it's not their fault. I was once late for my own speech about how to handle my time. That was so funny that we all had to stop and enjoy it for a moment. The second thing they think is that I know a lot of ways to save time. I get calls from magazines that want to do a story like this, usually about how to help their readers find an extra hour in the day. We will cut small amounts of time from our daily tasks and add them up. That way, we'll have time for the fun things. Even though I don't agree with this piece's main idea, I'm always interested in hearing what they've come up with before they call me. Running errands where you only have to make right turns is one of my favorites. Being extremely careful in microwave usage: it says three to three-and-a-half minutes on the package, we're totally getting in on the bottom side of that. And my personal favorite, which makes sense on some level, is to DVR your favorite shows so you can fast-forward through the commercials. That way, you save eight minutes every half hour, so in the course of two hours of watching TV, you find 32 minutes to exercise. Which is true. You know another way to find 32 minutes to exercise? Don't watch two hours of TV a day, right? Anyway, the idea is we'll save bits of time here and there, add it up, we will finally get to everything we want to do. But after studying how successful people spend their time and looking at their plans hour by hour, I think this idea has it completely wrong.
By Ifeanyi obed about a year ago in Lifehack
