Don’t Let Your Old Beliefs Trap You

Posted on January 28, 2011 by John

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If you have ever wondered what kinds of beliefs you have stored away in your unconscious that silently influence your choices, take a good look at your life, including your friends, your loved ones, your job, and even your health.

The life you currently live is a reflection of your beliefs about what you are willing to accept and tolerate. This is the vital difference that separates people who live abundant happy lives from those who don’t.

For instance, people who continue to stay in abusive relationships, work at jobs they don’t enjoy, or struggle financially, do so as a result of the beliefs they hold.

Yet there are individuals in society who will never ever accept being unjustly treated, living just above the poverty line, or working in professions that do not make full use of their gifts.

These individuals are those who stand out in the crowd: the entrepreneurs, pioneers, and leaders who refuse to allow the opinions of others to dictate how they live their lives.

They do this not because they are better or more gifted than everyone else, but simply because their beliefs do not allow them to do otherwise.

It is important to remember that we all play an active role in the creation of our belief systems, even if this occurs when we are vulnerable to the influence of others.

Once these beliefs are impressed on our unconscious mind, they become the rulebook that controls the direction of our lives.

All your successes and failures, then, are in some way influenced by this unconscious set of rules you have written. Whatever it is you wish to achieve, whether it be a skill you’re attempting to master, a subject you wish to learn or an illness you are struggling to overcome, your success will be determined by a single factor: the unconscious beliefs that make up your book of rules.

Much of the struggle you experience in life relates to the inner turmoil you feel when you make a new choice that conflicts with the set of rules you have created about life and simply forgotten.

To end this struggle and become the master of your own destiny, you must therefore master the unconscious beliefs that control you.

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Time Management – One Sure Way To Success

Posted on September 22, 2010 by John

Time is the most valuable asset every man possesses. It is the currency of life because we all have such a limited supply of it. In a day, we are allotted only 24 precious hours to do what we have to do to achieve our aspirations. Correctly managing the way you spend time is one sure success formula.

How you spend your time is one skill that you have to develop well and early. Not being able to manage your time is to be unable to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.

Assigning time

One of the important things to realize is that you need to set and achieve your goals if you want to have a better life. Achieving these goals would need you to assign time for their implementation, and making sure that the time used is only for that purpose.

Experts and self-help gurus had declared before that effective time management is one very hard habit to learn and execute properly. Because it is considered a habit, making it one of yours is your biggest challenge.

One effective way to combat a habit is doing another habit: writing a daily to-do list. Experts had been one in declaring that this habit of writing your future tasks on a day-to-day basis also reminds the brain to do them on a daily basis.

Writing a daily to-do list

By trying to make the best of your time, your correct starting point is knowing what to do during the day in order for you to inch into your long-term goals. One way to do it is to write them down on a piece of paper in the order of importance.

The tasks that concern your major goals should be in the forefront of your list, while those that are less important can be relegated after the important ones.

Assigning specific time for tasks

A to-do list without specific times to complete them is not enough — it defeats the whole purpose of the exercise. Since we have a very limited supply of hours, there has go to be assignments of times to each task.

The idea of specific times for completing tasks makes you accountable. You would know what should be done at such and such time and if you have been derailed somehow, you can quickly go back on track.

Of course, you also have to be flexible in working out your schedules. If the task took longer than you had anticipated, you can reassign it again. The next time, you would know the length of time needed to finish the chore.

Avoiding time wasters

One of the biggest reasons why a lot of people do not achieve what they set out for the day is the fact that they tend to spend time on activities that are not relevant to their goals. These are the time-wasters that steal their time.

In one’s life, there will always be time-wasters fighting for your attention, and they could be very tempting. However, you can stick to your plans and think of your goals and they would not look very tempting at all.

Time management is one of the best ways to ensure your dreamed-of success.

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