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Minimize your ambitions to a few critical ones

June 3, 2018 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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There are just too many things that we can do right now. It is up to us to decide which things need our immediate attention, and how we can discard everything else from our attention. At least for the time being, as it is just more productive and better for our own sanity. It is physically impossible for us to be on New York and in Singapore at the same time. We all know and full-heartedly admit that. Still, when it comes to our goals, and the things that we want in life, we simply tend to forget exactly that, or at least are not aware that we are even doing that.

I became a Ruby on Rails and React contributor and you can too

December 10, 2017 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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I am really grateful that I have managed to contribute to a few open source projects, including the ones that I currently use on a regular basis: Ruby on Rails and React. My contributions are very minor fixes, and suggestions, and may not be that much worthy of the praise, but I want to use this article to inspire you to go and make your own contributions as well.

One of my core values is contribution and helping others. That’s one of the reasons why I love to write articles, and also contribute back to the very projects that I have benefitted from over the years.

Although major frameworks that are largely used have gone through tons of reviews and careful analysis over the years, there is always room for improvement or addition. This means that you are not only able to fix bugs, or improve something that is already implemented, but you can also implement new features as well. Continue reading

Comments remind you to write simpler code

April 23, 2017 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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When you are programming, there are cases when you implement something in such a way that it is difficult to understand and reuse by others. As a result, you decide to write comments above it to explain the logic behind your code. The moment you decided to write this type of comment, you admitted that your implementation is already complicated enough so that others or your future self would benefit from adding this plain English type of explanation. Continue reading

Doing the right thing is the right thing

October 9, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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There are a lot of things that are constantly competing for our attention, but not all of them are the right things to be done for the moment. We might not be ready, feel motivated, or simply think that doing something that is important is supposed to be postponed for an undefined time. Moreover, having a lot of things to do can be overwhelming and can cause us frustrations. Usually, starting to do something is one of the most difficult part and is perceived with an underestimated importance, as it is not used enough especially when people are procrastinating. Another important tip that is underestimated is the fact that the more you do something, the more you want to do it. Continue reading

The 400,000 dollars idea about productivity

September 4, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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Charles M. Schwab, who used to be one of the richest man in the planet, asked the productivity consultant Ivy Lee for some advice that would help his employees increase their work efficiency. The advice he gave to the executives turned out to be something very valuable for which Schwab later paid Lee a sum that is now worth 400,000 dollars. Continue reading

Do not waste too much time on tiny decisions

September 13, 2015 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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Does it really matter for you to consistently have to worry about the type of clothes that you wear and every kind of food that you will eat for lunch? Would it be better for you to simply put these things on an autopilot mode, where you do not have to decide each day about them, and focus on more important things instead? Continue reading

The importance of choosing wisely

September 6, 2015 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

There are just a lot of things that you have to do and there does not seem to be available time to finish everything. Whenever you finish something, other things simply show up and this iteration keeps repeating endlessly. You are simply forced to choose a few things from an infinite list that are waiting and attracting your attention. Continue reading

You are never ready for it, you just need to do it anyway

May 23, 2015 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

The granddaddy of all procrastinators is having excuses. They are really good at finding excuses that might sound reasonable in the first sight. “I do not have time”, “I am not ready yet”, “I am busy”. However, these are usually attempts to deal and work on the things that are truly important and uncomfortable. Continue reading

OMG, I didn’t check my email until 6pm

April 22, 2014 / Fatos Morina / 1 Comment

It went 6 pm and, believe me, I didn’t check my email until that time. I had to learn something and I had lecturers earlier, so I didn’t have time to check it, but, I am still alive and the world didn’t go upside-down.

Even though I don’t usually get more than 10-20 emails per day, I sometimes waste too much time by just checking it, because I simply begin to read what it is on it and there is a Facebook notification for a private message that I get and I go there to reply, and I end up spending a lot of minutes by simply scrolling down the page and not doing anything entertaining and productive.

In fact, the part-time job that I do is depended on using email, but I have already opened another email account to use it only as an Outbox and I do not show it to others, because I only want to send emails from it, which I learned from the New York Times best-selling author, Tim Ferriss (more on this later). So, when I said I didn’t open my email today, I meant my main email that I use for getting and sending messages.