Track your Expections and Reality

REALITY CHECK!!!

What are you planning right now?

Do you want to change?

Are you the type who procastinate and loss track of what you were doing?

Well, people would always tell you to list down the things you want to happen and cross each one when you achieve it.

I can tell you that its the topic of this post: Tracking down your expectations.

Its simple.

Instead of a list you'll make a table with two columns.

Left column is labeled "Expectations", while "Reality" on the right.

Its pretty simple actually, you'll just take note what happen about your expectation.

Example:

Expectation: "I'll give my crush a soda." Reality: "I hid behind the bushes when i was going to give the soda to her."

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Using this method, you can keep track of what really happened so that you could change it.

Its effective since you are telling yourself what are the wrong things that you do...

I just hope you're not being lazy about writing these kind of things down.

"The flaw of every weapon is its user."

Use this tool well, to improve and to get what you want!

Hit Songs

Did you ever wonder why those popular songs today are popular?

Do you want to make a song that would also be a hit?

Then, i'll tell you the secrets in making a song that could be popular!

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"What do those popular songs have?"

After careful listening to popular "songs", I noticed some very particular similarities among them.

These songs have the same characteristics which makes them great! (Not all great things are good though *Cough*Jusehember*Cough*)

What are these characteristics?

1) Melody that is Repetitive and Easy to remember. - Our brain likes patterns. Admit it, even though you don't like those popular "songs", the melody of those "songs" are stuck inside your head! Why? Because it's (a) Repetitive, and (b) Easy to remember. It's basically a pleasure for your brain which is the reason why it is betraying you in terms of your music preference.

2) Catchy Lines that is constantly Repeated. - Never mind the Stanzas of the songs. You could just fill it up with " I like jellies, I like jelly, and me so jelly" then bring in a Catchy line like "and I was like, jelly, jelly jelly oh oh ohhhhh." together with a equally Catchy and Repetitive Melody. That will surely make your listeners remember your song.

3) High notes in the middle of the low notes - Do you get it? Add a high note after singing in a low tune then lower down your notes again. An example of this is the song "Paparazzi". Listen to this carefully (Well, play the song.), "I'm your biggest fan, I'll follow you until you love me, Papa, paparazzi.". Why does it sound so good to the ears? Was it autotune? No! It's because your brain was BLASTED with it! The part of the song prior to the high note puts you into a state of relaxation (Relaxed in a sense that you have accomodated the music). After blasting you with a high note, your mind was altered into a "emergency state" which increases your attention and focus to the source of the stimuli enabling you to remember it easier.

This 3 stuffs, are the MAIN factors that makes a song a HIT!

However, there are other ways to make a song popular.

This includes, but is not limited to:

1) Violent Lyrics

2) Cool and Noisy Melody (By Cool I mean, it's "different")

3) Controversial Artist

4) Hidden Satanic Messages

5) Controversial Lyrics

6) Making your song banned in other countries.

7) Spreading conspiracy theories about your song.

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See, making a hit song wasn't so hard.

Only 3 things to consider and every one of it is in front of you.

What are you waiting for?

Write your own song now.

Who knows, maybe you'll become the next idol.

Work Smart

Disclaimer: This is just a thought that poofed into my mind while I was trying to name my new bunny stuff toy. Believe in this Tip at your own risk.

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Have you ever put an effort on doing something only to realize that what you did was not the best?

That someone did a job better than you without working as hard as you?

I know what that feels.

Someone once said,

"Work smart, not hard.".

That changed my way of doing things.

Why work smart and not hard?

I'll enumerate its advantage,

1) Working smart save you time - instead of working you could just spend your extra time with your family or have a little time off.

2) Working smart save your energy - working hard not only drains your time but also your energy.

3) Working smart can give you the same or better results than working hard - this is the part that is the best. You spend less time and energy for the same result, it just like having an ice cream without making it!

4) Working smart will give you an advantage to anything - this is an exaggeration. If you work smart, you need to think carefully and analyze the things you will do. That really gives you an advantage about doing something.

Now, how do you work smartly?

It really depends on you!

But the words that matter really are

1) Effiency - doing things in the right manner

2) Effectiveness - doing the right thing.

How could you remember this?

Simple

"Be effective, do the right things. Be efficient, do it right for the first time without taking up too much time and effort."

If your goal is to do the laundry:

You're effective if you finished doing it.

You're efficient if you finished it right away

You can be effective at something without being efficient

but you cannot be efficient if youre not effective.

Try doing the laundry but end up finishing watching tv - you cannot measure your efficiency if you did not achieve your end goal (which is to do the laundry).

So the two steps to working smart are

1) Be effective

2) Be efficient

Want me to elaborate?

1) Focus on the goal(s) and make (a) plan(s) on how to achive it.

2) Execute the most efficient plan and do it right for the first time. Doing it the 2nd time is being inefficient.

Well, this basically sums up everything.

If there are any questions and reactions, feel free to comment.

Always Remember

"Work Smart, not Hard."

P.S. When i said "Work smart", it doesn't mean you'll not work anymore. As you can see, the word "Work" is in the statement.