YOU MUST BUILD AN ENERGIZING SYSTEM INTO YOUR DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A concept is worth nothing if one doesn't assure that the results are harvested from it!

Here's a way to harvest the idea that we should run our energy system much better in life. 

Everyone should, at least, assure that they do this energizing practice AND that there is a system built into the day to remind them to do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Failing to do this would not be smart!!!!

Try this:  Building Energy Into Your Day

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 Keith D. Garrick

Of The Life Management Alliance

(A pay-it-forward, never-a-cost endeavor to dramatically improve people’s lives)

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(Note that most of the pieces I write are intended for more study and completion.  As such, you might do the overall reading of the piece and then tickle it for followup later if you cannot complete it in one sitting.  It is not likely that you can do it in one sitting.  Possibly, read How To Read And Learn From A Keith Garrick Piece.)

It’s a good use of one’s time to review Living The 7 Habits.

 

This deserves to be perfected to a great degree and built forever into one’s living of life! 

Living The 7 Habits (video, 1:30:09)

There is no better choice than to fix that pattern!!!!

 Isn't it radically clear that when we solve our symptoms but fail to address the root cause and fix them that we make little progress and just get to repeat the same old emotional pains over and over and over?

"Avoiding things that trigger you isn't healing.  The biggest healing happens when you are triggered and instead of reacting or retreating within you [or into an "escape" of some sort] move through your old patterns and find a new path [pattern]."

                                                      Fix the pattern - copyable image.

Use this great tool to immediately see the principles that fit your situation.

 As a free benefit, billionaire Ray Dalio offers a free app where you can access at any time the key principles relevant to situations in your life - so you won’t have to figure that out for yourself.  His book Principles - Life And Work is a seminal work - and you can master access to life principles any time you wish, via this easy app: The Principles Coach (link to it from the link below).

 [This will add to the capability and capacity of your Second Brain!!!  See the brief definition “What Is Your Second Brain?”]

Principles Coaching

Being emotionally intelligent by inserting a pause between action and reaction

Backing up the importance of The Power Pause:

Emotionally Intelligent People Know How To Insert A Pause Between Action And Reaction.

This is an “always” rule to engage in, in “the gap”!!!

The Simple Mechanics Of Getting What You Want

This is more than simply workable, it is life transforming but in a truly guaranteed to get results way!

See Part I and Part II of this summary - it will give you huge value for your life.  Link to this page:

Work The System.

Please let me know how this benefited your life and what value you think it has for others, too.

Why “creative people” often don’t do well in life...and how they can be effective

Here’s the reason why “creative” people often don’t do well in life and the way a creative can be much more effective in life:

“If creativity is connecting unlikely ideas in novel ways, follow a structured approach to it can feel contradictory or even wounterproductive.  You can’t put borders around spontaneity!  Making an actual plan for how you’re going to be creative can feel just plain wrong.  But by developing basic strategies, systems, and frameworks to support your output, you’ll relieve yourself of the burden of waiting around for lightning to strike.  In the process, you’ll become much more effective. Trust me - I wish I’d learned this sooner.”

So says a master creator in the book Creative Calling. 

Consider it.  (If you want to follow up read the book but also read the intro piece on my site: 

Systems - The Core Of Life And Getting Results.)

Of course, if you want to be a successful creative, must reads are Pressfield’s The Art Of War and also Do The Work and then Turning Pro - be an expert in how to make yourself successful if you are a creative (but I think this applies to us all! 

A worthwhile happiness article - and how to build these into your life...finally!

We are in the habit of reading articles or books (or attending seminars) without even doing anything about them.  But anyone who has mastered life knows that that is fruitless, a waste of life, even at some level of insanity.

Sanity would say that what you do should be to gain results/benefits.  If there are no results/benefits, except a momentary good feeling, then it is crazy to waste energy on it.   After all you could apply that same energy to getting a beneficial result for yourself, and create a whole new level of living your life.  

If you are committed to mastering life, then you'll read the article and the followup piece about actually harvesting it for great personal benefit/results.  Otherwise, just read the article and go on with your life....

Here is the excellently done article, with my comments inserted, 17 Surprising Ways to Cultivate Happiness as a Habit.

And, after reading the article, see how it is used in:

EXAMPLE AND HANDLING OF MY LIFE IMPROVEMENT IMPLEMENTATION LIST

If you are thinking of joining (no cost) The Future Masters Of Life group, you would definitely, for sure, follow through with the full implementation sequence!

Massive learning progress rapidly via intense focus periods

We never seem to get around to really mastering a topic of vital importance if we attempt to do it in 20 minutes a day...

We need to have periods of intense focus, immersion, concentration on the one subject for a Intense Immersion Learning and progress in a relatively short period.

For instance, we would identify a topic, find some readings/books that would give us study material, and then set aside, say, a weekend.  Or we could decide to spend 10 hours a week on it for a month or three months.

This way we 

1.  Get it done, whereas we’d unlikely complete what is necessary.

2.  Get it done and get the results quickly - which is not only empowering, in the verifiable-by-results sense, but also very inspiring. 

This also works especially well when working on difficult challenges. 

For instance, one might, instead of being depressed and hopeless about it, focus for a weekend, plus perhaps some 10-hour weeks, on formulating strategies and a plan for getting/changing a job.  

Or on repairing a relationship (which requires reading at least three books on relationships, or some other more than surface learning).

Anything that you want to master sooner rather than later (or never).

Of course, you will always use the one hour or more daily focus on the One Thing that will make the most difference in your life or business or whatever. 

Also, read this for the core understanding and to use it in your life:  Go Deep And Complete - For Living The Greatest Life.

Moving from untested beliefs to verified ones

This is a copy of the biweekly video post on the Juicy Life Facebook page.  

It is about how we operate based on untested beliefs, how they impede our lives despite “feeling good” in the short term, and how our lives will soar if we follow up on this.  (The links included take you all the way to the application and through the process of completion.  Remember that there are never any costs for my extensive materials.) 

Video (7 minutes, but transcript is included in the links)

Links and transcript 

Accountability and accelerated results for the next 100 days

(Not affiliated) One of the strongest programs for getting you going and keeping you going for the next 100 days, at a low cost ($177, with a 30 day no questions asked refund guarantee).  Try it!

The 100 Day Challenge 

As always, write to me with your results.  (Contact)

The master skill for all of life

Just posted, the transcript and back up pieces for my talk on the Juicy Life Facebook page:

The master skill for all of life:  Life Value Productivity...

See the links to other significant pieces, the discussion on earning a lot more based on value, the discussion of the Actuality Version Of The Law Of Attraction (pay attention to the core piece), and more.

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Let me know what you get out of it.  Contact.

Creating your leader's "user's" manual about you - WARNING!

In business and in life, you might want to heed this warning!

ALERT! THIS COULD BE ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT LIFE ENHANCEMENTS
YOU'VE EVER DONE!

It makes no sense to operate complex machinery like your brain and your body or the productivity
of your actions without a user’s manual, yet we consistently do that. And get the not so good
consequences from that, or the lack of desired results that we could otherwise get. 

Abby Falik writes about the idea of giving a user's manual to your employees about how to use
and work with you, as it saves a huge amount of learning time. “Leader’s Need User’s Manuals”.

But then she takes and applies that concept to her life.  

The idea was from here:  The 5 Steps To Create A Personal User’s Manual.

I'd recommend highly, highly, and highly that you develop your own life user's manual.  See
The Life Operating Manual.

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If you were a highly proactive learning and creator, and you were interested in this idea, you would:

Put this in your task manager inbox (and then assign it later), describing what to do and what
the subject is - and you’d attach the link to the article, post or document (copying the links from
above or, in the case of a post you’d click on the title of the post and then copy from the address
bar at the top).

If you are not a proactive learning and creator, you might file it away in your brain to be lost
forever, having created  no, or close to zero, value - and likely having wasted your time.  

See the place where you’d put all of this:  How To Set Up The Second Brain.    

Of course, you’d estimate the number of hours this might take to master, and if it’s worth it, you
would schedule and spend the time!!!!!  After all, you are interested in long term build that will
elevate your life one part at a time...

Assuring your top 12 habits/practices for life success are in place

Your life will only be a fraction of what it could be if you don't decide and track your top "Life+" habits/practices. 

These are those that are crucial to achieving our life vision and goals.

Use this for a month and then contact me with what a difference it made in your month and in your life!

Consider using this form to help you track and hold accountability in place:  Daily Habits Followup.

Should we really question our beliefs, even the most "holy" of them??

Posted on Mindvalley University facebook page:

Last night, at dinner, this issue came up:

Should we question our beliefs, to the point of assuring we have the correct and beneficial ones?

Is it effrontery for Vishen to call “The Secret”, “kindergarten reality”?

Is it rude for Dr. Shefali Tsabary (and Socrates) to urge us to “question everything!”

Why bother?

Well, the reason is that it is the only way to get to “what actually works in the reality of life”?

Yes, in our primitive minds, we humans will hold onto beliefs as if “they ‘r us”, but in no way is that belief true For we have beliefs, they are not part of us, not a part of our true selves, but simply a tool we embrace for our own good.

I hope that we further question our beliefs during this wonderful learning time and then that we, as soon as possible, really nail down this belief thing, as it determines the very quality of our lives!

Here’s an excerpt from one of my pieces on this:

“We as humans seek to explain the unexplainable and to believe that our explanations are the truth. That is natural and definitely explainable, as is covered in this site's The Believing Brain - after reading it, you may want to buy the book, for it is certainly a vital central understanding you will need to successfully navigate life.

To emphasize and repeat: This is an essential understanding for all humans to have, if they are to live the lives they are capable of. It is, it seems to me, a necessity to do our own examination of what is true or not and to decide what is a positive, possibly valid (even if not proven) belief - and that means to screen out any distortions that limited human beings wrote into the literature, as some beliefs directly contradict what are proven valid beliefs and/or make people unduly dependent or unrealistic about life.”

So... are there any "kindergarten beliefs" that we have left unquestioned and uncorrected? Or should we just continue to believe them because they, on the surface, "feel good?"

Extraordinary People Discover/Create Extraordinarily Effective Systems

Vishen Lakhiani discusses this in his highly recommended book, The Code Of The Extraordinary Mind:  

“Extraordinary people don’t just have extraordinary models of reality. Theystrive to ensure that their systems for living—that is, DOING what they do in the world—are well defined, structured, and continuously optimized.”

Some of my notes in Evernote:  Vishen Lakhiani Systems And Models. (I make these rough notes available for the proactive learners who can scan/skim read to find what is of value to themselves to follow up on.) 

Good example of a daily planner to use

We often forget what we need to focus on during the day.

This planner is a good example, from a highly respected thought leader, of how to plan and focus in the day:  10X Planner

The incredibly powerful "power pause process"

This is the way to return yourself to a higher state when upset and/or to make better decisions not rushed by the moment (it takes only 3 seconds to alter your decisions for the better).

Check it out, and consider putting this into your life as one of you key "always on" practices - it'll elevate your life remarkably and get it moving in an exponentially upward curve.

The Complete Power Pause Process 

In business, or in life, you need to know this to live a truly great life!

(Sent to an “advisee” that I give some feedback to.)

 Buy this.  

Do not consider not spending the money, for this is something that will have much more benefit than the cost and get you out of some of the old ideas you are currently not benefiting from.  “Business tells the truth, gives you valid feedback on what isn’t working” (paraphrased, but he makes great points around that).

It also adds something that will add to your own workshop. (You could even play excerpts for the class.)

It is likely something that all levels of success (and not success) should listen to several times.

Yes, this is audio, but please don’t make the common mistake of thinking you can “passively learn”, for that is a myth, for you learn little - and definitely not enough (where there is something to learn, that is).  I’d recommend you make notes, type them up and set them up for review...as that is, most of the time, a required step in mastery...

Genius does not lay in IQ, it lies in setting up what it takes to get results.  (R.Q., we also need to raise the excellence level of what you do: Results Excellence In LIfe.

In life, we spend time defending/proving how intelligent we are, once we are told we have an I.Q., and we tell ourselves that we have a growth mindset, but what is more true, or at least offsetting, is that we have a fixed mindset, which I definitely wasted a lot of my life on!)

BUY THIS:

Pure Genius.  Dan Sullivan (Amazon link)

GETTING OUT OF THE HALTT “STUPID” STATES...

GETTING OUT OF THE HALTT “STUPID” STATES...

The HALT strategy is a successful strategy for noting when you are in a dysfunctional state and need to get out of it!  

In the linked article from this piece:  

“HALT risk states: HALT stands for Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired.

The model was first developed to help addicts in recovery see when they were most vulnerable to relapse. Since then, it's been useful for other people, too – both in the workplace, and in their personal lives.“

I would modify this to HALTT, to include when you are emotionally triggered.  At that point your chimp brain is running the show and the real you (your Higher Brain/Self) is not really present or operating well.  

As with any of the other states, you cannot operate well while staying in them!!!!!!  DON’T STAY IN THEM ONE SECOND LONGER THAN NECESSARY!!!!

The way you shift is by using The Power Pause (stop, shift to well functioning operational mode by breathing/relaxing/movement, and then shifting to “what shall I do now? (solutions) mode” - the latter engages the higher brain.  The level of engagement will vary by how completely you have relaxed into the “safe mode” with deep relaxed breathing, fully oxygenated, fully relaxed muscles, perhaps movement enough to make your body feel alert and alive.  (The chimp brain gets the signal from such a state as being an indication that all is safe, since that is the state we are in when there is no threat.  And it calms down.).

When you use the power pause to write down what has actually occurred and then revisit it to go through the completed solving mode, such as totally correcting the misbelief that caused the triggering in the first place.

(You know when you haven’t completed the process or haven’t even addressed the issue enough, when the trigger keeps on happening.  

For instance, if you have all of the philosophical and comforting mantras and sayings down, but you keep going into the “helpless, hopeless” mode when you make a mistake - you haven’t addressed the belief behind it, such as “I must criticize myself strongly to correct my behavior” or “I’m stupid! Incapable! A bad learner!  I’ve failed permanently! Something is just wrong or deficient in me!” Funny thing is, if you checked with other people who really know you, they would think differently! And that is an indication that you are misperceiving and misbelieving and need to attack and restructure that particular belief system (where several component beliefs are in it and need to be identified and resolved individually).

You would use one of the beliefs processing forms on my site and/or use The Program For Upgrading Beliefs… particularly probably starting with the ABCDEF Rational Analysis short form (for a starter).

The outside article written on HALT: What Are the HALT Risk States? Understanding the Risks of Working on Empty.

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I wish you great life changing results from this!

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Keith D. Garrick

TheLifeManagementAlliance.com