Generally, it's not because they spent time deliberating and somehow arrived at the wrong answer. It's because they didn't spend any time thinking at all.
Below, we've listed 10 of the easiest traps to fall into, at the office and at home.
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✔ Do the hard stuff first.
As a quotation attributed to Mark Twain: "Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day." So, would you?
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✘ Constantly check your email.
✔ Silence your phone so you don't receive email alerts and designate specific times to check and respond to email in batches.
Will it really work? But at the most of time, the siren call of your inbox can be hard to resist.
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✘ Keep your phone on your desk at work.
✔ Keep your phone in another room entirely.
Turning your phone on "vibrate" isn't enough. Actually, turning your phone off isn't even enough.
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✘ Stay seated all day.
✔ Even if you get up and move around for a few minutes several times a day, you're improving your overall health.
You know what? People who were active for a total of about an hour a day had half the mortality risk of people who didn't. And it didn't matter whether they were active in 5-minute increments or in longer chunks.
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✘ Stare at a screen for hours at a time.
✔ Enter the 20-20-20 rule: Every 20 minutes, look at something 20 feet away for at least 20 seconds.
Staring at a computer all day can lead to "digital eye strain", resulting in symptoms like dryness and blurryness!
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✘ Wait until late afternoon to take a break from work.
✔ Take that break mid-morning instead.
Interestingly, it is found you don't necessarily have to engage in non-work-related activities during a break because if you are enjoying the work project which you are excited about, you will be even more restorative than browsing social media.
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✘ Listen to music while you work.
✔ A better bet is to listen to music for about 10 to 15 minutes before you start doing focused work.
The exception is when you're performing tasks that are repetitive or monotonous, such as when you're working on an assembly line or driving for long periods of time. In that case, listening to music can perk you up.
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✘ Choos foods that seem nutritious -- but aren't really.
✔ Don't believe the hype -- know the facts about your food.
Bottled juices and fast-casual smoothies might seem nutritious, when in fact they're generally loaded with sugar and calories.
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✘ Passively browsing social media.
✔ Send a message to an old friend or comment on someone's happy family photo.
General suggests that passive Facebook use can make us feel worse. That's possibly because we feel jealous of everyone's (seemingly) glamorous lives that they're broadcasting publicly.
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✘ Stay up too late.
✔ Turn off the TV and get ready for bed. You'll be grateful tomorrow, and years later.
This isn't just silly -- it can be dangerous. As Business Insider previously reported, in some cases sleep loss can be just as deadly as smoking.
Even smart people can
make terrible decisions.
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