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Soy

Dieticians recommend regular use of Soy products in a well balanced diet.

A balanced diet is important because your organs and tissues need proper nutrition to work effectively.

Be Effective, Not Efficient
Have you ever finished a whole list of tasks but then realized at the end of the day that you didn’t actually achieve much? The reason why is probably that you were efficient but not effective.

“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration.” – Thomas A. Edison

Efficiency and effectiveness sound similar but actually have very different meanings. Efficiency is the ability to do tasks quickly regardless of whether or not they are important while effectiveness is the ability to choose and do the most relevant tasks to your goal. Efficiency enables you to do a task quickly even if that task is irrelevant to your goals while effectiveness helps you to achieve your goals by ensuring that your time is invested in only the most important tasks.

To use a car analogy, the speed of the car is like efficiency. It doesn’t matter how fast the car is travelling if it’s traveling in the wrong direction. The direction of the car is analogous to effectiveness. Traveling in the right direction and being effective ensures that waste as little time as possible.

Effectiveness is almost always better than efficiency. The art of effectiveness is avoiding useless work that shouldn’t be done in the first place. When you avoid useless work, you get to spend zero time on it with a minimal loss since it’s unimportant. No amount of efficiency increase can reduce the time taken for a task to zero. This is why it’s better to be effective than efficient.

How to Be More Effective
1. Productivity is the result of effectiveness which involves filtering out the most important tasks and doing them. Efficiency (doing tasks quickly) doesn’t necessarily lead to productivity because you could be spending your time on the wrong tasks.
2. Keep your To Do lists as short as possible and do the most important tasks first. Have a Not To Do List to avoid work that is not truly important.
3. Avoid perfectionism. Just do it and be willing to make mistakes. Realize that doing easy, fake work seems productive but really is not.
4. Work now, and often motivation will follow. Starting is the hardest part.
5. See challenges as opportunities to improve and progress. View them positively.