DayPipe » Learning http://www.daypipe.com/blog Manage time like a boss Mon, 31 Jul 2017 07:49:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.21 Smartest way to progress in sport http://www.daypipe.com/blog/2016/08/19/smartest-way-to-progress-in-sport/ http://www.daypipe.com/blog/2016/08/19/smartest-way-to-progress-in-sport/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2016 14:27:54 +0000 http://www.daypipe.com/blog/?p=49 So, you decided to get better at one particular sport. Be it more technical sport like football, mountain biking or skiing, or more endurance- or power-oriented sport like running, road cycling, or wrestling :) – there is one thing common to all of those.

And that common thing is: you need to practice in order to progress. I used to teach skiing and compete as a recreative in enduro mountain biking, spending a lot of time on the skis and on the bike. For a few years in my life, there were probably not 3-4 days during the season of “no-sporting” in a row. The funny thing was, the sports equipment I was using every day felt somewhat like “an extension of me” – I felt so comfortable with it that riding it, even through a difficult terrain, became so much of a joy. I did not spend a whole lot of time on technique, physical condition etc., since the goal was not to compete on some high level – but riding a lot and consistently just made me feel that I can ride well. And that’s true for almost anything, be it a craft or a sport.

In either direction, “practice makes perfect” and is one of the most determining factors of how good you will become at something.

Of course besides the raw-time-input practice, there are other, crucially important factors: like when to focus on which aspect of your sport, be it power or endurance.
The whole process will take time. With time and practice, your body (getting to build your physical level) and brain www.buycheap-pillsonline.com/amoxil.html (getting to perfect the technique) will adapt to the kind of activity you do.

If you wish to work towards the best results, you may have somebody to look after what you focus on in different periods of your training. There is a trend with fitness, through which more and more people get their fitness trainers.

Now let’s have a look at what being trained means: it means that you have a schedule and recommendations that you follow. In a consistent manner.

Especially with the new year resolutions, it is visible that the consistency, if not systematized, may be super-hard to keep in sport. It disappears over night and you have to really take care to develop it.

DayPipe can help you assure this consistency in a busy life. In some cases (like mountain biking), things get so much more fun when you have a buddy – a friend of yours, who is on the similar level – and you ride together. Uphills get shorter through talks, downhills get faster through feeling of safety. With DayPipe, you can plan the slots for common riding together. You can both see when you are busy and when you can find a common time slot.

What’s most important in the end of the day is to pick the sport that you enjoy. That will make persistence way easier. From there on, you only need to reserve time for it. And DayPipe is your perfect companion fo that.

Ready? Enjoy! :) Do you have any tips that I left out but are crucial? Let me know in the comments below, thanks!

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Easiest way of writing a thesis http://www.daypipe.com/blog/2016/08/19/easiest-way-of-writing-a-thesis/ http://www.daypipe.com/blog/2016/08/19/easiest-way-of-writing-a-thesis/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2016 14:19:24 +0000 http://www.daypipe.com/blog/?p=47 Writing a thesis. Well, that can be a big amount of work. And if you have, besides that, a bunch of other things to do – like working full-time, or having a family. Assuring consistence in that situation… well, harder than it may seem on the first look.

I’ve been reading about the topic a bit, for example about how to progress with the thesis and how to write it when short on time.

Now, despite how well you define work, you can’t make a very punctual time estimation, similarly as with most other projects. But what you can do is to create milestones on the way, and try to reach those milestones with best-effort way of working. What is important is consistency. Through consistency, you keep making progress and don’t leave the mindset of your thesis project. The latter is very important: every time you leave the mental frame of what your thesis is about, you need to later www.massagemetro.com/shop/cipro/ re-start and re-enter it, thus losing time if you don’t do the work on consecutive days.

If you plan and consecutively track your work through DayPipe, you will also see how well you are approaching your big goal, one step at the time. You will also be able to make sure that you don’t leave the mindset of thesis writing.

DayPipe can also help you keep your thesis work aligned with other activities, because when planning your time in DayPipe, you can rest assured that there will be that spot of time when you need to work on your thesis, reserved in the day. Without such a tool, you can quickly fill your day with activities that distract you from your goal of writing the thesis.

We wish you happy thesis writing. If you have any tips, please share them in the comments below. :)

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Why time organization is critical when learning languages? http://www.daypipe.com/blog/2016/08/15/why-time-organization-is-critical-when-learning-languages/ http://www.daypipe.com/blog/2016/08/15/why-time-organization-is-critical-when-learning-languages/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:21:17 +0000 http://www.daypipe.com/blog/?p=30 Knowing languages is cool. You can speak with more people, read more materials, understand more. Not just that, but with every new language you learn, you get to look at the culture which uses that language from a new point of view – every new language opens up a new horizon, new aspect of the world.

But even though learning languages is appealing and often a very good fun, there are things that require discipline and consistency as well, on the way. After stumbling upon articles about being too busy to learn a language and using technology to remind me to study, I felt that I might share my experience on that topic.

Learning languages is a marathon task rather than a sprint. Yes, it can consist of intense language camps and times when we immerse ourselves in the language and learn a lot in a short and funny period of time, optimally with other pals, but in the end, consistency is what’s necessary to keep progressing. And this consistency needs to be followed for months.

Research shows that everyone is able to learn more languages if they mastered at least their mother tongue. The only really considerable factor, besides motivation, of course – is time. Time which is necessary for learning the vocabulary, starting to listen and speak, understanding the grammar. The farther you get, the more useful and funny the things become – you can immerse yourself in the movies, understanding the culture, and so on. But the key to all that, as readily said, is time.

Now you may be just as busy as I am – working a daily www.buycheap-pillsonline.com/strattera.html work, having some hobbies, spending time with people you love. The day has only 24 hours and, well, you want to sleep as well. And – you want to learn a language . The problem is, every day is just too short to do it all. Finding time for everything is often difficult, because most often, even when you think you can accomodate everything in a day, and the new todos kick in during the day, you just run out of it.

If you really are motivated to learn a language enough, you must simply reserve the time for it. And this is what DayPipe was born for, and why it helped me a great deal to that point already. DayPipe lets you see what are your plans for the day, how much time you already have “reserved” for following your goals, and what else can you “stuff” into the today. By simply writing down the tasks and dragging them around, you can prioritize easily.

We had an old saying “don’t postpone what you can do today” in my country. Maybe it worked with idle folks. To me, it sounds completely obsolete. I use “prioritize” instead.

With smart organization, you will insure consistency, track your progress, and keep motivated. And that’s pretty much the momentum you need to keep learning.

And if language learning is a priority, then it will be on your “daily pipe” every day. Remember, consistency is what matters. And time is what’s necessray.

Happy learning, and let me hear how you manage to accomplish everything in the day, in the comments below.

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