- Browse different websites that have tutorials for Photoshop. I usually go to www.good-tutorials.com because the tutorials in their sites are linked outside of good-tutorials, when the jump happens I’m redirected to a site that contains the tutorial and I started checking out the website for other tutorials they have and check-out some freebies like brushes, fonts and amazing wallpapers.

- Start doing the tutorial you just  found that interest you, I like to do tutorials that make me wonder and think “how the hell did he do that?!” or “this looks challenging”. After doing the tutorial I save my work in JPG and don’t save the ‘.psd’ file that’s  my way of learning a new technique in photoshop.

- I have an account in oDesk, it is where I get my extra income. I go to the site and bid for any projects that I can do. When I get home I check my oDesk for any message and check for new projects to bid for.

- And lastly is start learning how to write useful articles and submit useful media for TRIOND.

Make use of your working hours instead of wasting them, learn and earn when nothing is assigned to you. 

The last thing I tried to do was to imitate Bing project leader working schedule. This man works up to 21 hours per day and seems to be happy and healthy with just two or three hours of sleep per day.

The first time I tries I did not felt much tired. The first day was normal. I went to bed later and I got up earlier the next day. So far the only thing that changed was I did much more work than I used to do before.

Image via Wikipedia

The second day was a little more frustrating. The weather was very good and me friends invited me to go to the beach with them, instead I stayed there working to make the experiment to write this article for you. I must also say that in the second day I felt a little more tired than in the first day.

The third day was very hard for me. I was sleeping just three to four hours per night and if you do not feel anything on the first days, you will feel it in the third day, all the time. Now I could not finish the schedule and I really had to go to the bed earlier. I could not see my keyboard, I was feeding my 17 year old sister instead of myself and she asked what was I doing to her and I even could not speak normally. Why did this happen? Because my diet did not fit my working schedule. I was physically exhausted but also hungry and very thirsty. I got up that night 3 times to eat and drink. This taught me to drink and eat more while working.

The forth day was much better. With better food and more water I can do more. Now I add some sugar to the bottle so water is tasty and has glucose.

This is the last day of the experiment. I love it so much, I can work so much better now that I am going to follow this way of life.

I hope you try this with yourself and stick to it. The more you work, the more you accomplish, the better ALL your life will be.

Picture of Yourself

Your life reflects your values. What you want your life to be would surely depend upon how you picture yourself to be. Have a vision of yourself. The directions you want to go will surely count, or if you have sufficient faith in a higher power and trust what you need and want in life by asking God to unfold your vision inspired by faith, persistent hope, glimmering imagination, and sustained by actions with love, surely that picture will determine the course you take in life.

Be the person others choose to follow, giving them inspiration, living with your values, providing vision for the future, caring and acting with compassion. Be one who will not become frustrated if victory does not come in easily in your appointed time. Create a mental picture of success not on material or earthly power and possessions but based on God’s standard of success. The following characteristics may be considered:

• Truly God fearing who finds pleasure in His commands;
• Virtuous, gracious, kindhearted and charitable;
• Trusting God steadfastly;
• Just, merciful and faithful living a way of life with eminence in the eyes of God

Deliberate Mindset

Mental discipline, a conscious effort and a decision to pursue one’s thought of becoming successful not by working hard but by working smart or intelligently. One’s way of thinking or frame of mind must be patterned with consistent evaluation of thoughts and changing the same whenever necessary to be able to achieve specific goals and desires. Avoid negative and defeating thoughts as well as fears and worries by keeping your minds focused and with positive thinking.

Specific Goals and Desires

Pursue with diligence specific goals and desires. Reevaluate and reformulate it as life changes, for a lot more is needed to be successful than just working hard all day. Opportunities would come your way and you must have more ideas but never forgetting that there is Somebody, who is in control and promised to give you the desires of your heart, all you have to do is to stay faithful.

Working Smarter

Common sense really counts a lot in dealing with our everyday lives. Work harder with your brains when doing a job by staying clear and focused on what you truly desire in your life and act on those desires applying intelligent decisions or choices. By just working hard will not bring success, it is by working smarter with your specific goals and desires that one can accomplish big things by setting up strategies to make goals more achievable.

Goals must be balanced. To be so, you must not spend your time working on one area but by exploring every bit of opportunity, experimenting new schemes and not to confine one’s self in undoable and unrealistic goals.

For a goal to be considered balanced, it must take into consideration the surrounding circumstances such us matters of spiritual, physical and intellectual well-being. A concrete example of this is in a case where one is consistently working hard to earn more for the bad days which certainly would come like old age. Did he consider setting aside his prime time in the service of God and to his fellowmen? Was he smart enough to take into account the things which are of greatest importance? Or, did he just spend his pinnacle accumulating earthly things and satisfying the desires of his flesh? With this kind of moral fiber, surely happiness is not that exhilarating and true.

Care and Act with Compassion

Assiduousness in the discharge of duties with contemplation of the outcome will reduce doing the non-essentials resulting in saving unnecessary efforts and hardships. People must see that in every job or work opportunity there is a likelihood of discovering better leeway to make a masterpiece a stunning success enough for one to taste victory and feel a sense of fulfillment.

Caring for others will make us great in the eyes of God and will reveal more His imminence in us. Work should be one way of showing that God is manifest in us, and that we are His workmanship.

God is Enough

God is the One who steers our lives to the direction He wants us to be. Thus, no amount of exertions, hard work, human strength or power could outshine or outdo the will of God for us and we just have to trust in Him and follow His commandments. He is enough. All we have to do is seek out for Him and make Him our Only One in life and no one else.