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These are some thoughtful tips and hack to increase traffic to your blog.  Reading time for the blog - This is key in prompting people to click through to read a blog. Some readers prefer shorter blogs and others who long a long one which explains in details. Reading time is a hint towards the length of the blog. Click to Tweet/Click to share on social media channels - Readers rarely come across great posts. When they do, share them with their friends. Having 'click to share' option helps get shares. Keeping these as sticky buttons could be helpful, as the intent to share can happen at different points of your blog. Research on the topics and the ideal blog length for it - Before we start writing a blog post, it is essential to research on trending topics. This helps you write on issues which are worth your time and the reader's attention. Best way to do topic research, as per me, is by collecting featured snippets and people also ask questions. These are headlines of the ...

We take 100's of decisions every day. Our thoughts and actions are so fast that we really do not think twice on most decisions.  These range from simple things such as what to wear to where to invest our money.  Just think about it.  Do you really think much about buying a pen worth Rs5? Do you go look for a specific brand? The grip on the pen, etc. Not really, right? And if you are doing that as well, then my friend, you are going to start experiencing - Decision fatigue.  So we keep taking these decisions, most of which, we do not even think twice about. Will such decisions be affecting our life in general? No. But imagine, if you start looking at life-changing tasks as the small ones. You end up deciding on them in a split second and not really accounting for anything. That could result in some bad decisions. The impact could be massive! So this blog is an attempt to give 5 ways using which you could take better life-decisions.  Look for  long term benef...

The current human mind is a miracle of ignorance! Are we using our minds in our day to day life?  Do we do things consciously?  How much of our work is muscle memory or habit?  How much brainpower do we use?  What is some mind usage increasing techniques?  How can we go back to ancient times - where humans could process much more information? Everyone knows about the benefits of good habits and also about Decision fatigue. Good habits help us automate and do good things without thinking. And decision fatigue will make us do wrong things even for simple activities. The most common suggestion provided by people is to cultivate as many good habits as possible. So that most of the good things can be done on auto-pilot and have less of decision fatigue. Thereby freeing up your mind to better focus and make the right decisions.  I have a problem though with the above suggestion.  I like the part of setting up good habits. I also agree that to some extent we ...