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I like
the excerpt following the brilliant two paths choice, as it nailed the
spiraling self-perpetuating circle that goes nowhere in life.
The
principle is between two paths:
Here → Too busy, no progress
→ Survival mode, frazzled
Here → Intervene to upgrade life
→ Happiness, quality time mode
Are you
choosing to get wiser or just to "get on"?
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JUST TOO BUSY
(From
Kill The Chaos (notes from a podcast about using Evernote), Steve Scott),
“I’m
Just Too Busy” ” This [fixed] mindset usually works out in one of two ways.
You can
adopt new things and try them – keeping what works and dropping what doesn’t.
Or you
can do what some people do. They say “I’ve just got three more projects to do,
then I’ll get to it.”
Problem
is, ten years go by and it never happens because optimizing their workflow
never becomes a priority.
They
live in survival mode and they get a lot done, but what they don’t realize is
that, by investing a couple of hours, they could start to get 110 or 120
percent more done than they would by not investing that time. [Using your math
skills, that's 210% of what was done before.]
Basically
a person has to decide, “I don’t have time not to do this!”
Here’s
what might be a valuable question to ask yourself: “Am I getting wiser, or just
getting on?”
Yes ...
Knowing without action equals not knowing.
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NO INTERVENTION → NO
BETTERMENT → NO BETTER
We humans are basically experiencing a war between the lower primitive mind, which is spontaneous (meaning random and without purpose) and the higher brain, with its "executive functions". [See Brain 101 - "Who" And How To Manage.]
Of
course, an executive "executes", meaning he/she gets things done,
accomplished, but he/she accomplishes always from a prioritized plan that
focuses only on what is most important - as he/she realizes that he/she does
not have the human time to fit in everything and that that means the low and
medium value items have to go - because there are enough high importance items
to fill one's life - meaning it is "unsmart" to not do those first,
or to let the unimportant crowd out the important.
[Or as
Jim Rohn says: "Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of
people don't do well simply because they major in minor things."]
Without
this executive function, one will not be able to exert control and power over
life. He/she will just "go with the flow", meaning just doing what
comes up from circumstances or what others demand of him/her, passively accepting the hand downs. If one thinks that "out there" has your best
interests at heart and will have you do what is most valuable for you, then
that's wonderful, in the "that's nice" sense - but one who thinks
that is living in a fog of marijuana smoke, and for sure not living a great
life or a life even close to what one could live if he/she freely chose with the higher brain!
The
person who gives away his/her life to forces outside is...well... giving away
his/her life (or at least 80% of it). It is highly unlikely (actually
impossible) that "out there" has your best interests at heart!
[Perhaps you might read "They" - The Fictional "Big People" Running
Your Life?, who one will likely feel "small" around, dependent,
little....]
Those
living life without thinking, however, will keep responding like a puppy (or
child) hungry for attention. They will keep doing what it takes to get
attention and approval from "out there" and thus will be doing
what "out there" wants of them, with no clue as to what they want for
themselves. They live a rudderless life, sailing around to nowhere, in circles
of Groundhog Day after Groundhog Day.
To break
out of the circle, spiral, or self-perpetuating spinning in life, one has to
break into one of the points on the circle - to change one of the steps (since
EVERYTHING occurs in steps, EVERYTHING - See The Master Laws Of Life Physics ) to produce a different causal chain and accordingly a different result.
NO "HIGH IMPORTANCE"
TIME = LITTLE VALUE IN LIFE
If I
leave you with just an idea, I am violating the laws of physics related to my
intentions for writing in the first place: to have you get results, not just a
brain massage.
Yes, it
is easier, in the short term primitive thinking sense, to not set aside (and
use) time for these:
Cap.
Worth Will
___ ___ ___ 1. Looking at the big picture of life,
how everything fits
together
and what is important in life.
___ ___ ___ 2. Determining what valuable activities
(activities
that
produce high life value) to do.
___ ___ ___ 3.
Determining when to do them. (See "schedule", below.)
___ ___ ___ 4. Setting up the tickles and means to
assure we
are
reminded to do them.
How hard
can that be? (Things aren't "hard" if you have plenty of time, no pressure, and no
internal emotional conflicts. One of the first things we have you do is not
just to learn time management, but also to implement the first part of Emotional Mastery.)
(You
might copy and paste the above into a word document...)
Check
off which of those you are capable of doing (under "cap.").
Check
off which of these you think are worth doing (under "worth").
Check off
which of these you will do in order to have a much better life.
If you
checked off "will", then you must put this into your
schedule right now, this moment, without delay. For now call this
"Quadrant II - High Importance, Planning", or "QII"and do
it once a week for the amount of time you think you will be likely to be able
to do it. The time will be increased as we go, as you "grow up"
to be the Successful Chief Executive Officer of your life and
as you experience the benefits - 10 minutes of thinking ahead/learning produces
time saved of 10 times that.
[Without
a CEO of a corporation, or of a life, how well do you think the
"organization" will do in terms of profit (and the happiness of its
participants). In life, "profit" = happiness value, and the
participants equal the pieces of your body and mind and the external pieces
that comprise your life (spouse, children, close friends, job),]
Are you
living a life with no CEO in charge?
THE POSSIBLE SCHEDULE
Eventually,
as you "grow up" into being a fully in-charge, fully responsible for
your life adult, you might live this schedule:
"The
schedule of a high life value producer
He/she
has blocked out, scheduled times
5-7 hrs
- Life Learning (life skill enhancement)
5 hrs -
Physical care
3 hrs -
Psych self care
Full
night's rest
Full
relationship care
Because
of life learning, the highest happiness person does not need more psych self
care. He/she has learned life and solved how to be without problems and
to be happy most of the day. But, until that level is achieved, it is
important to allow for more self care - sufficient enough to assure a happy
day."
Copied from: Living In The 5 Quadrants Of Quadrant II
If you
are in the mode of "life repair", the amount of life learning time
should be at the speed it up, asap pace of learning, at 11-15 hours a week.
"Life repair" is fixing any areas of life that are not at the
"sufficiency" level of running pretty well.
[An overview of possible
combinations of what a schedule would look life for life learning is
here: Allocating My Time To Learning/Implementation (to life
mastery).]
Happy sailing, with control...,
Keith
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write me and let me know your experience in your implementation efforts and
results, any difficulties especially and/or any thing you learned that others
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