Sleep, Task Completion, and Order Will Help Productivity

Maximizing productivity is difficult and will vary depending on every individual and their specific tasks. There are, however, some simple tricks to increasing your productivity that you may not be aware of. To really understand how you can increase your productivity you have to really analyze your specific tasks, abilities, and lifestyle in a holistic manner. Everything in your life is connected. What you did yesterday really influences your productivity today.

What your diet was yesterday will influence how productive you are today. How much you slept the day before is one of the most important things with regards to how productive you will be today. Sleep is one of the most important things with regards to your health and your productivity. Sleep is directly connected to the brain’s ability to function. Someone will die of lack of sleep before they die of lack of food. Sleep is so essential for productivity. Not just getting a lot of sleep once in a while. Being on a consistent sleep schedule is one of the most important things you can do for proper health and staying productive. Productivity is directly connected to your brain’s ability to function. If you want to be as productive as possible you should have your brain functioning at its highest level. In order to get your brain functioning at its highest level you need to be sleeping regularly. For men testosterone is directly connected to the amount of sleep they require. While sleeping people replenish much needed chemicals and hormones in their bodies. While men sleep their body makes testosterone. While everyone sleeps regardless of gender their brains replenish much needed chemicals which are essential for being productive.

After getting enough sleep on a consistent basis, knowing the best way to wake up is also important for setting yourself up for a productive day. I always recommend to all my clients that they should make their bed every morning. This serves two functions. One is forcing them to start a task and finish it. Leading them to a habit of finishing things they begin. It also keeps their room clean. Keeping someone’s area clean is important for helping them to maintain productivity. This means their home, room, and working station. Being unorganized can massively influence someone’s ability to be productive. It’s also very distraction to people who are trying to work. Being surrounded by a mess will pull your attention away from your task at hand.

So to recap today’s tips on productivity make sure you get healthy consistent sleep, setting yourself up for healthy patterns in completing tasks, and maintaining order in your immediate surroundings will help anyone and everyone to be more productive. If you already do all these things, there is no need to fear because there are plenty of more ways to become more productive. If you’d like to know what steps can be taken to help your specific productivity issues it may be worthwhile to get a productivity coach. Productivity coaches will help to assist you with your specific productivity needs.

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How Foundation is Made

Foundation dates back to medieval times, however back then the point of foundation was to make you seem fairer skinned. Fair skin was associated with the wealthy because it showed they didn’t need to spend time outside working like peasants did. Contrary to today where tan skin shows you have more leisure time. The point of foundation today is to match your particular skin tone rather than to change your skin tone. This is why companies invest in making as wide of a variety of foundations as possible to make sure every individual can find their unique foundation. There are even custom foundations available. But how is foundation made? The first step is figuring out the amounts necessary to get the desired color for the powder foundation. The powder is made by mixing a blend of titanium, mica and zink. This blend is often mixed with the colors red, yellow and black.

This is to create a unique and precis consistency and shade. Once the pigment is figured out in the lab they send it to the larger production facilities to be produced on a factory level. They use massive mixing machines to mix the foundations at the precise consistencies that they figured out in the labs. Once the ingredients are mixed the entire contents of the mixer needs to be put into a compounder. This is where the particles are compounded and the pigment comes out. This is where the real shade of the foundation comes out. At this point the foundation is pretty much ready to be sent to the shelves. But not before a skilled worker checks each product to make sure the shade is up to the correct standards. Then the foundation is ready to be packaged.

Since it’s ready for packaging the foundation is transferred into large containers known as drums. These drums are transferred to the packaging facility. Each individual container has the same exact amount of foundation put into it. A plastic bottom is put on the container and it is sealed. After being sealed the foundation needs to be labeled to ensure the specific shade is known. Most of this process is automated by machines with little human interaction.

This makes the entire process much faster and cost effective. Once the foundation is packaged and labeled the containers need to be cleaned before it’s put into its final packaging. At this point human interaction is back in and a line worker is needed to clean off the container. Then the products are put into large boxes and are ready to be sent out. The actual ingredients that go into foundation aren’t the difficult part, the precise amount of ingredients and the amount of cleaning all the mixers need is the difficult part of the production process. Customers aren’t paying for the ingredients as much as the knowledge and experience of formulas held by all the makeup companies. If someone could figure out the formula for their skin tone they could easily make their own DIY foundation at home by just buying the ingredients.

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Benefits of Traveling When You’re Young

Many people look forward to their retirement and spending time traveling. The thought behind it is that you’ve worked really hard, earned enough money, and now have the time to do it. This may be one of the biggest errors, traveling can have great benefits in getting things in place prior to retirement.
There is a theory that waiting until you have the funds to “Travel right” is best, but that day may never come, as there are often many other responsibilities that arise and take priority. And what does it really mean anyway to “Travel right”? There are too many missed opportunities by waiting.
Is it wrong to travel on a budget? Most travel agents will say that it depends on the individual. Some might say go big or go home, or stay home, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Usually when you’re younger your fear of the unknown is less inhibited and you’re usually more willing to experiment. There are new places to see, new foods to try, new cultures to learn about, but as people get older sometimes that daring side has been tamed.
Creating a budget is your first step in determining where you can go and how long you can stay. If you can set up a credit card with a rewards program such as cash back or mileage points, that will go a long way. Changing your mindset from lodging and eating as a local as opposed to a tourist, that too will be a tremendous savings.
Generally, flexibility is a trait more common among the younger, so try planning your trip during what is considered as “off peak”.
While you’re in good health and physically fit, at least somewhat, be prepared to walk. Taxis can be an avoidable expense.

There is the lesson of “What to do with my life” that can be prompted by experiences from traveling. It is a common problem with people graduating from high school or college with little to no real direction. After high school, many students choose what is referred to as a “Gap year”. This is a time where there is real soul searching, but that can’t be successful with no life experiences. And the same for college graduates with no direction.
This is a great time to gain those life experiences that everyone talks about. The time before you become committed to a job or family. That gap year can be the best thing for those that are uncertain what to do with their life. The skills and confidence that can be gained during that time can pave the way for your choices for your future.
Travel can push your boundaries, things that you read about in school textbooks can become a reality and while you are young with plenty of stamina you can consider a volunteer program that puts you in the reality of the places you thought you learned about.

None of this is to say that there is no benefit in waiting to travel when you are older, you can potentially see the same sights but through a very different lens.

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Nuggets

It was a few months ago that Burger King started a new deal on their nuggets where they would sell ten nuggets for a dollar. Being the shrewd and complex businessman I am, I decided to go out and buy 100 chicken nuggets. It was agreed upon between me and my roommate that we would finish all 100 nuggets in one sitting. Our other roommate said our mission was impossible and that I am no Tom Cruise. I said just watch us. We are unstoppable. He said that if we ate all 100 nuggets we would explode. I said no way. He said way. I said that, if Vince and I could eat all 100 nuggets, we get to rename his annoying cat. He said okay since he had no faith that what we could do was possible. Rolling up to the take-out window and ordering 100 nuggets will, in fact, make the employees quite upset. It took a while for them to prepare the nugs, but also set us up with every sauce they had. From there, we went back to our apartment. We set out all the nuggets on the table and devised a plan of attack to demolish the nuggets one by one. I started the first phase. I knew that it takes your stomach about 20 minutes before it understands that it is full, so I wolfed down around 25 nuggets in about 15 minutes before having to tap out and let Vince take over. He was able to take down about 20 nugs before doubling over.

I started back again, and again and again we weren’t never stopping in our noble quest to rename Elio the Cat. My stomach was burning, and my butt was in danger. It is not healthy or recommended to have more than three burger king nuggets and I had consumed around forty. It would have been cool to have the world record for nugget eating. The rule was that if we puked then we lose, so I took a second to do some deep breathing and my girlfriend gave me some words of encouragement. Sometimes I think this day was the reason she broke up with me and I find it understandable. When the dust settled, and the nuggets consumed, Vince and I ate around 83 nuggets before Vince had to tap out. I was borderline about throw up, so I had to stop too. We had lost. Was it all for nothing? We decided to just start calling the cat a different name anyway since the cat does not really respond to any name, so why should it matter? I now refer to the cat as Ricardo, or Rick the Dick, and it makes my roommate very angry, which gives me joy. The moral of this story is that you should never give and never surrender, even when the odds are stacked against in such a monumental way. Believing you can do something can lead to success and even if you fall short of your goal you can look back and be proud that you have attempted something very few men of valor have dared to try. Life is a ladder that goes on forever and you will never see if it ends if you do not start climbing.

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