Do you know that there is a vast potential of ideas in you that never surface and see the day? Whether you realize it or not, there is a vast treasure house of ideas within you which has been supressed all these days, months, years, or even a lifetime.
Why do these ideas remain hidden? What suppresses them? How do they get supressed are the key questions you need to ask yourself?
Let me give you the reasons why they do not surface, eventhough you need them:
• Constantly restless mind
• Always focusing on the external world
• Always being in company of people
• Television
• Video games
• Seeking constant stimulation from outside
• Always speaking and rarely remaining silent
• A limiting belief that you are not an ideas person
These are few of the reasons why those wonderful ideas within you rarely see the day.
Here are some concrete steps to surface them:
• Choose a specific area where you want ideas
• Dwell on it for a few days
• Start a new habit of spending atleast an hour alone
• Put away all the external stimuli-go to a queit place
• Choose a specific time for thei get away
• Practice quieting your mind-learn to meditate and pray deeply
• Relax and enjoy the peace
• Focus on the peace day in day out
• As you listen and go deep and let go, ideas will begin to surface on its own
You will need to practice this routine every day and be patient. Over a period of time, you will suddenly start getting a flood of ideas.
Try this out! It works like magic! It is magic
How to apply your mind and stay out of trouble?
I have observed this, time and again, people just don't apply their minds to solve their problems. Even if they do apply thier minds, they do not go all the way to generate sufficient options. The end result is they choose a suboptimal option that gives them mediocre results.
How do you ensure that you always get the best of the solutions for yourself? The secret magic key is to apply your mind.
Here are a few tips:
How do you ensure that you always get the best of the solutions for yourself? The secret magic key is to apply your mind.
Here are a few tips:
- Generate atleast five options before you choose the final solution
- Revisit the solution after an appropriate period of time.
- Discard solutions that are not working; Go back to the drawing board often
- Discuss with your spouse or friend to get new perspectives
- Surf the net atleast once to get new ideas
- Be alert to the impact of the solution on your life
- Write a journal about your experience of implementing a chosen solution
Just start it!
Everyone of us have the tendency to procrastinate fun things we want to do.
I have recently started doing things as quickly as possible and as near in time to the thought of doing that particular thing as possible.
The results are amazing! I am doing much more and enjoying life much more. No more postponement, just start it and the momentum will carry you through
What do you think? Try it out!
I have recently started doing things as quickly as possible and as near in time to the thought of doing that particular thing as possible.
The results are amazing! I am doing much more and enjoying life much more. No more postponement, just start it and the momentum will carry you through
What do you think? Try it out!
What goes around comes around!
Recently I witnessed a person getting pay back for what he did some time back. It took about a year for the fruits to bear; However, it finally did.
Think carefully what you do to others! Your deeds have a peculiar in built ability to bring the hens home to roost!
Even though evildoers will seem to succeed and have lucky breaks, their deeds will eventually catch up with them in a time called the pay back time.
What do you think?
Think carefully what you do to others! Your deeds have a peculiar in built ability to bring the hens home to roost!
Even though evildoers will seem to succeed and have lucky breaks, their deeds will eventually catch up with them in a time called the pay back time.
What do you think?
How to overcome immobilization by fear?
Many a times we are immobilized by fear. We shun an activity or a task as we imagine all kinds of consequences of performing it.
This immobilization may persist for years. You may have even attempted the task but given up half way. Here is a tip that may help you.
Handover the responsibility for making you perform the task to a person whom you trust.
Make that person take charge of you and the task. Ask the person to be ruthless and counteract all your arguments for not performing the task.
Go ahead and perform it under the chosen person's supervision! You will be surprised!
The task will get done and you also may realize how easy it was.
Let me know after your success. Share your success here!
This immobilization may persist for years. You may have even attempted the task but given up half way. Here is a tip that may help you.
Handover the responsibility for making you perform the task to a person whom you trust.
Make that person take charge of you and the task. Ask the person to be ruthless and counteract all your arguments for not performing the task.
Go ahead and perform it under the chosen person's supervision! You will be surprised!
The task will get done and you also may realize how easy it was.
Let me know after your success. Share your success here!
How to stay focused if you are too creative?
Creative people get lots of ideas. Some of them are good and many of them need reworking. The problem for creative people is to stay focused. They quickly get bored with their own ideas.
Here are few tips to stay focused:
Here are few tips to stay focused:
- Scan through your ideas
- Select just one idea to work on
- Develop action steps to achieve that idea
- Determine at what stage of completion of the action steps you will start embarking on a new idea
- Implement those action steps
- Start o a new idea only after reaching an agreed upon progress of the first chosen idea
- Let all the new ideas incubate in an idea bank
You will be able to accomplish much more if you stay focused.
What do you think?
How does your cell phone reveal a lot about you?
The way you use your cell phone will tell you a lot about yourself.
Here are hints that you are careless or downright foolish:
Here are hints that you are careless or downright foolish:
- Do you take a call while you are talking with someone?
- Do you talk over the cell phone while driving?
- Do you text message while driving?
- Do you check your email while talking to someone over the cell phone?
- Do you stop a presentation and take a call?
- Do you visit someone and start talking over the cell phone with another?
- Do you forget to return a call?
- Do you call someone up and start speaking without checking whether he or she is free to talk to you?
- Do you take a call in a flight when you are not supposed to, despite the warning of the air hostess?
- Do you forget to keep your cell phone on a silent mode in a meeting?
- Do you forget to turn off the silent mode of your cell phone and miss calls?
- Do you keep the cell phone in some corner of your house on a holiday and not hear it ring, thus missing calls?
These are some of the key signals that you could be a careless person.
Correct these mistakes for your own good.
Do you get distracted easily?
Has this happened to you? You start your day with full enthusiasm and as the day goes by you suddenly find yourself wasting the day on some trivial or useless pursuit. You recognize this state you are in, but you don't stop or are unable to stop.
Why does this happen, often, to you? If you have a chronic problem, days go by and weeks go by without accomplishing much.
Here are some of the major reasons you get distracted, again and again:
Why does this happen, often, to you? If you have a chronic problem, days go by and weeks go by without accomplishing much.
Here are some of the major reasons you get distracted, again and again:
- No vision of the future
- No clear goals set
- Pleasure centered approach to life
- Harbor a misnomer that self-discipline is bad
- Want to escape from reality
- A strong habit of wasting time
- No demands placed on you by your organization
- No demands placed on you by your family
- A sense of habitual indifference
- A belief that you are very smart and intelligent and can get to the tasks and finish them easily
- Overconfidence
- Settled for "less" in life
It is time to pull up your socks and get going.
Here are a few tips to break loose:- Stop the source of your distraction-turn off the T.V, disconnect from the internet---
- Spend time to rethink your life
- Set long term exciting goals
- Talk to your spouse
- Take your friend's help
- Read an inspiring book
- Get organized and in control
- Limit your pleasurable activities to a predetermined duration and time
- Start small and conquer
- Set family goals together
- Celebrate small wins when you get back in control
- Set up some productive routines-exercise, meditation, reading---
- Substitute time wasting activities with new important activities
- Review the program you have set for your self every week
- Make course corrections based on the review
All the best! Reclaim your life using the tips given above.
What are the warning signs that you are chronically out of control?
It is easy to be habitually out of control and not even be aware of that state. Over a period of time, being out of control becomes a way of life.
You get used to the stress. You get used to missing deadlines. You get used to disappointing people.
Over a period of time this way of life becomes hard wired in to your brain.
You may, well, note these warning signs:
The journey is tough but the sooner you begin the better it will be for you.
You get used to the stress. You get used to missing deadlines. You get used to disappointing people.
Over a period of time this way of life becomes hard wired in to your brain.
You may, well, note these warning signs:
- You have too many things to do and you do not know where to begin
- You are constantly missing appointments
- People keep calling you up to remind things you promised to deliver to them
- Your spouse has given up on you
- Your children do not trust you anymore
- You have come to the point of not caring about the direction your life is taking
- You are aware of several problems-obesity, finance out of control, debts, eating junk food, reading trashy novels, smoking, drinking, forgetting birthdays----and you are doing nothing about them
- Every small setback gives you the power to procrastinate
- You indulge excess in some mindless activity such as internet surfing, video games, chatting, Facebook, watching the same movie again and again---
- You live moment to moment with no planning for future
- You set elaborate plans and never follow them
- Your house is a junk yard
- You have low energy even in the morning
- You overeat
- You have no friends or your friends have abandoned you
- You are on the verge of losing your job
- Your skill sets are all redundant
- You have sunken eyes because of lack of sleep
- Your libido is low
- You constantly fear that things will go wrong because you know deep inside you that you are not well prepared
- You dream of some unrealistic fantasy where you picture yourself very rich and powerful
- You do nothing to realize your dreams
- You have lost touch with your family
- Your children are aping you
- You know deep inside you need to change but you feel helpless
If you have several of these signs then what you need to realize is that you have hit the bottom.
The good news is that the only direction you can move is upwards; Another good news is that you have the choice-either to remain at the bottom or to move upwards.
The good news is that the only direction you can move is upwards; Another good news is that you have the choice-either to remain at the bottom or to move upwards.
The journey is tough but the sooner you begin the better it will be for you.
Are you falling behind in fulfilling your desires and wants?
How many desires do you have and not done anything about? The more you have the less you are living a life you want to live. Think about it. Desires are the currency of your actions. Don't let trivial pursuits or other people's demands short change your actions.
The best way to begin is to take an inventory now or sooner or later.
A good inventory will look like what is given below:
The best way to begin is to take an inventory now or sooner or later.
A good inventory will look like what is given below:
- Spend time with family
- Take spouse for a vacation
- Buy a platinum diamond necklace for your wife
- Loose weight
- Get a promotion
- Change a job
- Start on a path of a new career
These are just few items on a sample list I just made.
Make your own list and get going
How often do you shake your routine?
It is very easy to fall into routines. Many a times, months may go by, before you may even realize that you are stuck in a routine.
It is not bad to get stuck to a routine as long as you have consciously chosen it.
However, most of the routines have been set unconsciously and are dysfunctional in nature.
Examining your routines periodically and weeding them out is a very productive exercise-it has to be done at least once in three months.
What routine are you going to eliminate or modify today?
It is not bad to get stuck to a routine as long as you have consciously chosen it.
However, most of the routines have been set unconsciously and are dysfunctional in nature.
Examining your routines periodically and weeding them out is a very productive exercise-it has to be done at least once in three months.
What routine are you going to eliminate or modify today?
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