Eduardo Ugalde

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Two Simple Alarm Hacks To Start Your Day Without Hitting Snooze

Two Simple Alarm Hacks To Start Your Day Without Hitting Snooze

Waking up in the morning is the first battle of the day. The convenience of hitting snooze or turning off the alarm and going back to bed is very tempting. You want to sleep more by hitting the snooze button, but sometimes you hate yourself for doing it. The time

How To Avoid The Over-Thinking Trap and Go Straight To Taking Action

How To Avoid The Over-Thinking Trap and Go Straight To Taking Action

Thinking helps you determine what you want and the following steps to get there. It is often the step before taking action towards your next steps. Going past thinking and into an overthinking mental space, though, may lead you to think of all the things that could go wrong in

Bridge The Gap Between Expectation and Reality Among Yourself To Help Build Discipline and Confidence

Bridge The Gap Between Expectation and Reality Among Yourself To Help Build Discipline and Confidence

You frequently set expectations for what you want to do in your life. It may be something to do on a given day, a week, or by a certain age. When you don't follow through with the expectations you set for yourself, you may feel bad about yourself.

Define the Costs of the Achievements You Want in Life and Be Ready to Pay the Price

Define the Costs of the Achievements You Want in Life and Be Ready to Pay the Price

What are the things you want to achieve in life? What are the costs of achieving those things? Do you value accomplishing the thing enough to pay a one-time or recurring cost? Before embarking on a journey to complete things you say you want to achieve, these are some questions

Simplify Decisions With The Regret Minimization Framework

Simplify Decisions With The Regret Minimization Framework

In our journey through life, you will come across forks on the roads in which you have to make a decision that could have a noticeable impact on the trajectory of your life. A mental model you can apply to help make the decision process easier is the Regret Minimization

Budget Time Like Budgeting Money For Savings, Bills, and Guilt-Free Spending

Time Management

Budget Time Like Budgeting Money For Savings, Bills, and Guilt-Free Spending

There is a common saying that "time is money." From my understanding, the phrase is about how time is valuable, and you should invest your time to build skillsets that will help you make money. It also means that one should be more productive and efficient so you

Want To Get A Bigger Sense Of Joy From The Money You Spend? Spend Based On Your Values.

Personal Finance

Want To Get A Bigger Sense Of Joy From The Money You Spend? Spend Based On Your Values.

Money tends to be harder to earn and easier to spend. If you are not mindful, you may spend most of your money on frivolous things that don't spark much joy.

Focus On What Is Within Your Control. Makes Life A Bit Easier.

Focus On What Is Within Your Control. Makes Life A Bit Easier.

Life will inevitably throw you obstacles throughout your life. Learn to categorize what is in your control and what is out of your control.

Tap Into Desire and Fear To Motivate You To Move Closer To Your Ideal Life

Tap Into Desire and Fear To Motivate You To Move Closer To Your Ideal Life

If I ask you what you want your overall lifestyle to look like, you will likely think of what you desire for your life. A different perspective to help answer that question is thinking of what you don't want in your life. What do you fear? You will

It May Not Be That A Topic Is Too Difficult To Understand... It May Be You Haven't Found The Right Explanation For You

It May Not Be That A Topic Is Too Difficult To Understand... It May Be You Haven't Found The Right Explanation For You

The process of learning something new does not always go smoothly. When we come across something we have difficulty understanding, we sometimes give up too quickly. We tell ourselves something like, "I am not smart enough." Leverage The Internet, Explore Different Explanations On The Topic If you have

Simplify Goal Setting With The Four Bucket Approach

Simplify Goal Setting With The Four Bucket Approach

A new year brings another year of potential opportunities. Goals are something that is commonly thought of when starting a new year. Thinking about goals one would like to set for the year can be overwhelming. These goals steer how the year may go and potentially your life. A while

Visualize Your Career Development with the S-Curve of Growth

Visualize Your Career Development with the S-Curve of Growth

It can be challenging to visualize how our career development is sometimes going. You may find yourself thinking: * Am I improving and growing my skillsets? * Should I stay in my current assignment/position or try something new? There is no curriculum to follow like in grade school to show your

Action Brings Clarity. Clarity Brings Emotional Calmness.

Action Brings Clarity. Clarity Brings Emotional Calmness.

Take action on the projects you want to complete to bring clarity. Find out what works, what doesn't, and if it is a project you want to continue.

Simplify Your Digital Workspace with PARA

Simplify Your Digital Workspace with PARA

A simple way to help bring order to our digital workspace.

The Bell Curve For Optimal Performance

The Bell Curve For Optimal Performance

Too Bored. Too Stressed. Just Right.

Start Small, Grow Big, But Most Importantly Start

Start Small, Grow Big, But Most Importantly Start

Sometimes the biggest obstacle to starting something we want to start is ourselves.