You probably don’t want to admit it but you love distractions. In fact, just like monkeys, you get a shot of dopamine every time something pulls you in another direction. Why do you think you check your email so much?

Want to be more productive and get your focus back? There are no secret tricks here… do one thing at a time. Stop multitasking—it’s just another form of distraction.

Easier said than done, I know.

Here are his tips for staying productive:

Work backwards from goals to milestones to tasks. Writing “launch company website” at the top of your to-do list is a sure way to make sure you never get it done. Break down the work into smaller and smaller chunks until you have specific tasks that can be accomplished in a few hours or less: Sketch a wireframe, outline an introduction for the homepage video, etc. That’s how you set goals and actually succeed in crossing them off your list.

Stop being inquisitive and stop sneaking into others activities, we all know very much and mostly happens for women – they follow up people, spend all the productive time in the day trying to judge others or sneaking about others, end of the day for sure it doesn’t take them anywhere

Stop multi-tasking. No, seriously—stop. Switching from task to task quickly does not work. In fact, changing tasks more than 10 times in a day makes you dumber than being stoned. When you’re stoned, your IQ drops by five points. When you multitask, it drops by an average of 10 points, 15 for men, five for women (yes, men are three times as bad at multitasking than women).

Be militant about eliminating distractions. Lock your door, put a sign up, turn off your phone, texts, email, and instant messaging. In fact, if you know you may sneak a peek at your email, set it to offline mode, or even turn off your Internet connection. Go to a quiet area and focus on completing one task.

Schedule your email. Pick two or three times during the day when you’re going to use your email. Checking your email constantly throughout the day creates a ton of noise and kills your productivity.

Use the phone. Email isn’t meant for conversations. Don’t reply more than twice to an email. Pick up the phone instead.

Work on your own agenda. Don’t let something else set your day. Most people go right to their emails and start freaking out. You will end up at inbox-zero, but accomplish nothing. After you wake up, drink water so you rehydrate, eat a good breakfast to replenish your glucose, then set prioritized goals for the rest of your day.

Work in 60 to 90 minute intervals. Your brain uses up more glucose than any other bodily activity. Typically you will have spent most of it after 60-90 minutes. (That’s why you feel so burned out after super long meetings.) So take a break: Get up, go for a walk, have a snack, do something completely different to recharge. And yes, that means you need an extra hour for breaks, not including lunch, so if you’re required to get eight hours of work done each day, plan to be there for 9.5-10 hours.

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All blasts took place in crowded places. Eyewitnesses said about 15 to 20 people have taken to hospital in Zaveri Bazar. Reports said six people had died in the Dadar blast, four in the Zaveri Bazaar blast.

One explosion,  in a car at a bus stop in Dadar West, has been confirmed. A police officer said there might have been an explosive in a meter box behind a hoarding at Khau gali, a street filled with eateries at Zaveri Bazaar.

Early reports said a police control room had received a call claiming that there were serial blasts in Mumbai.

A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has rushed to Mumbai from Delhi to investigate and collect forensic evidence. The police have appealed for calm.

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“We still ask for additional measures and expect the Pakistanis they take them,” said Secretary of State in an interview with the BBC.

Clinton noted that Washington and Islamabad had “increased cooperation in combating terrorism.

But “there is no doubt in anyone’s mind, that if (the track) the origin of an attack against the United States went back to Pakistan, it would have a devastating impact on our relationship,” she warned.

The failed attack on Times Square in New York in May, which has been accused Pakistani Faisal Shahzad, was claimed by the group of Taliban Pakistan Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP).

The chief U.S. diplomat, came to Islamabad a few days before the donor conference in Kabul is to announce a series of plans to develop water and energy, two areas affected in the impoverished and unstable 162 million.

The entourage of Mrs. Clinton praised the visit in early enlargement and improvement of bilateral relationship long characterized by mutual distrust.

Pakistani side, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday welcomed a visit that “will help to give more impetus” to this relationship.

Mrs. Clinton met on Sunday evening the Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and President Asif Ali Zardari. She must participate Monday in a session of “strategic dialogue” between Washington and Islamabad.

“Speeding” strategic dialogue “is a change in the attitude of Pakistan, first from the government and, more gradually and slowly, in the opinion,” Richard Holbrooke said on Sunday, the effluent U.S. to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

These developments, he added, “we can move on counterterrorism and joint work in the tribal areas” sanctuaries of al-Qaeda and Taliban who harass many international forces in Afghanistan.

Hillary Clinton stressed that there was a link between all these groups, and called on Pakistan to make no distinctions between them.

A senior U.S. official, the discussions allowed “Progress slow but tangible” in the case of the Taliban Haqqani network, a thorn in the coalition, but considered close to the Pakistani intelligence.

The trip by Secretary of State follows its previous highly publicized visit in October 2009 and the first “strategic dialogue” between the two countries in March in Washington.

U.S. investment in Pakistan stem from the Kerry-Lugar Act, passed last fall, and which provides assistance to countries record 7.5 billion dollars over five years.

Analysts said both Afghanistan and Pakistan are concerned, however, the maturity of an early withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in the summer of 2011, which was set last December by U.S. President Barack Obama .

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If you are having quite some locations to surprise your loved ones or share the fun with the family and friends. Being part of  ”True Mauritian Culture” we always spend the time with family friends in house and have traditional lunch or dinner and have all fun together with cousins and friends, uncles and aunties and your complete list of siblings.  So this year of Tiger why cant you do something different and something funny something geeky and gift something new and stylish.

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Everyone looks for one thing in life. HAPPINESS. So why is it that most people want to attach themselves to things that make them unhappy? Because of FEAR. Fear of losing that sense of security, which for most of us, is a false sense of security.

DREAM BIG. Don’t let limitations of your income bring your dreams down.  Plan your life in a way that will you experience those dreams. Because life is short, you need to quit doing what the average person does or you will end living a life average person live. By doing so, you will inspire those around you.

Whatever you are facing or going through, however tough it is, there are millions of people who are in worse situations than you. Stop complaining about circumstances. Circumstances happen to everyone, it’s what you do about it that matters. If you keep complaining, you will only end up living a life worth complaining about.

If you want to be average, keep rationalizing. If you want to live your dreams, be honest with yourself. Don’t be like the dog that whines because he is lying on a nail but doesn’t do anything about it because it doesn’t hurt enough. Jump on that damn nail as hard as you can so that it will wake you up and get you moving towards the life you really want to live.

Everything starts with you. For things to change, you must change. Start surrounding yourself with people who will encourage you and who can see you for who you can become instead of just what you are today.

Negative people are energy drainers and you should get as far away from them as possible. Want to know how your life turns out, look at your friends. If you don’t like what you see, get new friends.

Don’t be one of those people who wake up one day when they are old and say to themselves “what happened to my life”. Letting the little things in life get in the way of big things in life is FOOLISH.

In short, tomorrow never promised. The more time you spend on doing things you don’t like, the less time you will having doing the things you enjoy. Whatever it is you want to do in life, start today. Don’t delay. Make a plan and start RIGHT NOW!

Mystique Gypsy

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