Self Improvement

What is the point of personal development?

to be content enough and competent enough to do what our highest visions tell us should be done.

What is beyond personal development?

Creativity. the focus must be taken OFF of the self, off of our person, and put onto what it is we want to create. contribution to others. not in some mysticfal self-sacrifical altruism, but the virtue of selfishness taught by Ayn Rand that man through reason and rational self-interest, serves human kind through value production and development of honest self-esteem.

Nathaniel Branden is an advocate of Ayn Rand and one of the best personal development psycholoogists alive today.

Once we have our bases covered for personal development, the other half of life direction is career development.

Physical health (heard of alkaline foods?) and emotional healing are huge for personal development.

Next articles to come:

Your personal spiritual perspectives.

'practical' skills, power, etc.
Next section > Communication in Leadership and othe Relationships.

10 Minute Exercise With Organize Life Tips

10 Minute get-on-track reviews to organize life

At times we get off track, whether practically, or with our [tag]efficiency[/tag], or emotionally.

At those times, it is wise to do a 10 Minute Get-on-track review which is simply sitting down for about 10 minutes and writing out everything that is pressing or weighing on your mind.

The following categories of self-questions will help you do your [tag]organize life[/tag] 10 minute focus sessions.

Organize Life for Self

The core of how to organize
life starts from within. Get in touch with your own
emotions and physical experience. Accept and appreciate
how ever you feel right now.

Organize Life for Yesterday

Reflect on how yesterday went, as that is where today has sprouted from.

Organize Life for Today

Think of the fixed
appointments, the general layout of your day to come,
and where the areas of your day are where you get to
decide exactly what you do with the time.

Organize Life for Civilisation

What is your place
and position in the grand scheme of civilisation? How
would you like to organize and influence your
contribution and place in society?

Organize Life for Ideally Organized Living

Picture
the biggest possible ideally organized living
circumstances that fill your fantasy. This connects
you with the spark of life.

Organize Life for Projects

Now you are ready to
consider the actual projects and responsbilities that
you have in your life. Tasks, hobbies, interests,
pursuits, business ideas, etc.

Organize Life for Right Now

You are more than
readily organized to decide on exactly what things
are important to do next for how to organize life.

Understanding your life purpose and negative emotions

There are 4 negative emotions that come from having difficulty with life direction...

1. Pressure


2. Overwhelm


3. Frustration and


4. Disappointment

…Is your current life just way too boring or frustrating? Not much time or energy to focus on all that ‘deep’ ‘important’ stuff about ‘What do I really want to do with my life?’

Marcia Wieder said “you can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart’s desires”.

But it’s hard to ‘look in your heart’ because of 2 things:

1. Survival pressures to keep your nose to the grind and earn a living.


2. All the POFDs (pressures, overwhelms, frustrations and disappointments) that drain your energy and dampen your spirits.

But now it doesn’t matter.

Because the Life Direction Clarifier automatically carries you beyond all that very easily.

After such a vigorous mental/emotional detox, you need to balance things out and think about all that ‘airy fairy’ stuff – such as the things you enjoy in your life now, and what you want in the future.

Yes you may well think you’ve done this stuff before, but it’s just one step in the process, a needed one.

If you’ve already written down goals before, then pull them out of your dusty file, and you’re going to be blown away about how integrated and practical they are about to become.

If you’ve not really written out a massive list of your dreams, hopes, aspirations, goals, etc. Then now’s the time. Like no other time in your life before or after your discovery of the Life Direction Clarifier.

If you want my exact best practice method then get the trial offer for the 3 week plan and you’ll be sure to do it with enough detail in the fastest time possible.

Here’s what Dolores and Barry said:

“Nathan, the webform was on the money! It forced me to write and think about my goals for your course and made me impatient to start. So, thank you for reading my Web Form submission.”

Dolores Lawrence, US

“Downloaded the stuff a couple days ago. Great work. Just the exercise about life’s purpose is very impressive. I have been struggling for some time now and this looks to be a great help.”

Barry Martin

But what if you’ve spent all too long fantasizing and visualizing about your ideals and now are disheartened and have low expectation of them being realistic; of ever coming true?

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau

The Life Direction Clarifier is guaranteed to put those foundations under your dreams.

“..I keep reading all of these crazy books talking about writing down goals and such. My favorite of all time is The Science of Getting Rich.

For some reason my ego thinks that it seems too easy, too good to be true, you know. To just get a clear vision of want you want.

I find it hard to really focus on my objectives. Usually, I get glimpses of them, during a certain song or something, but never for long.

The questionnaires are a project. I seem to be able to get to deeper states of focus when I do the questionnaires.

I need to live my dreams, and the questionnaires help me focus on the goals and the steps to complete them.

Thanks Nathan, great stuff!”

Darrell Thompson

>>> Life Direction Clarifier

What Is Organized Living?

What Is Organized Living And What Does Organized Living Look Like?

What would it be like to Get, Be & Stay Truly Organized?

I have made this Organized Living Website because it's my passion and obsession. I demand of my self to live efficiently, because that means I live the most fulfiling, productive, and worth while life that I can.

This definitions page for what is organized living gives a basis on which the rest of the matrix develops. So read this page and put together your own new answer to the question What is Organized Living to me?

Getting Organized Brings More Success Than Goals

You can set goals right? But what is organized living compared to goal setting?

Yet without being organized goals are disheartening aren't they?

I know that...

Being organized means being successful...
Being successful means being organized...

Where organization is poor, so are the results we get from life.

And you have just begun a journey of an upwards spiral to an organized lifestyle that others can not even dream of. It begins by asking yourself

'What is organized living to me personally?'

What do you want to organize? And how can you get organized?

What are your own specific results right now for your:

• health?


• security?


• wealth?


• intelligence?


• relationships?


• career?

If things were a bit better organized in each of those areas for you, what better results would you get in life? (you don't need to spend long on this question to so easily appreciate that being organized is a big key to success)

Those 6 areas of Life Advantages will genuinely improve through a steady mature sensible outlook on applying certain techniques that you will learn via this site (and no where else on Earth).

Now you know just what is organized living, the next step is:

How To Organize Your Life

Move to the Lifestyle section and discover right now how to get organized in all areas of life: Work, Home and Personal life.

Punch-And-Kick Your Way Through Anxiety and Pressure into Confidence and Success

Since we can all inwardly confess to the bad effects of anxiety and pressure, I won't dwell on it...

But I assume you would rather have less of it. Less anxiety. Less pressure. And on the flip-side, more confidence.

Anxiety, pressure and low confidence come from 2 basic factors:

• First, is that you might not be able to get done that which you want to get done. I.e. you might fail.


• Second, is that other people are watching and you have regard for what they think. I.e. you might look bad.

It's quite clear that those 2 factors as the causes of most anxiety in general situations.

So let's dig a little deeper here and build a diagram to really get under the hood of this thing.

Consider this 2—2 matrix: with the top being 'positive expectation of success' and the side being 'regard for what other people think'.



So to interpret the matrix:

• With HIGH regard for what others think, but LOW positive expectation that we will succeed, our anxiety is high and our feeling of confidence low.


• With HIGH regard for what others think, but HIGH positive expectation for success, our anxiety might be considered 'medium' and our confidence considered 'reasonable'.


• With LOW regard for what others think, and LOW expectation of success, we must be pretty miserable… a flat confidence and medium to high anxiety because we think we can't achieve the thing that we want to do.


• With LOW regard for what others think, and HIGH positive expectation, we have low anxiety and high confidence.

Doesn't that make so much sense?

• A low expectation for success comes from the perspective that you might not have the ability to succeed.


• High regard for what others think comes from our socialised collectivism in which we lack the freedom of individuality and independence.

So the goal for building confidence and reducing anxiety and pressure is two-fold:

1. Don't care so much what others think of what you do and whether you succeed or fail


2. Have high positive expectation that you will succeed

Easier said than done?

Sure, so here's HOW to do it...

Meditation? Visualisation? Positive affirmation?

Noooo!

Sorry to say, but you can not have certainty of outcome (confidence) without relevant experience in reality.

Certainty of outcome without relevant experience is a mind created reality (mysticism).

As such, you can not simply meditate on confidence and achievement and expect to be genuinely confident in reality.

Synesthesia (visualisation combined with the other senses) is indeed a good way to train the body and mind. But reality brings elements of experience that your narrow scope meditation did not include, hence the reality is more complex than the fiction that you prepared for.

Only by immersing in the actuality of the situation that you wish to build confidence in can you really do so. You can only know that you can do something, once you have done it, or something very similar.

I have witnessed for years that people think by reading self-help or personal growth books, that they expect the inspiration gained to transform them into a success power house.

Ain't gonna happen.

If reading Think & Grow Rich was the key to becoming rich, why are most of the books readers still not rich, after 5 years, 20 years, 50 years?!

The book should have been titled ACT & Grow Rich, seriously.

I'm not denying the mental component to it, but sorry folks. Reality is reality. You gotta build genuine positive expectation through complete psychological experience. And that only happens through action in real situations. Not through the 'mental masturbation' of meditation.

To help understand the real solution, consider these quotes from an article on surviving extreme physical pressure during freak accidents:

"Anytime you take purposeful, directed action, you suppress panic."
"The more you practice creating organized plans and executing them step-by-step, the better you'll function in an emergency."
"There are three important steps to take to suppress panic: breathe, organize, act."

This relates to the 3 keys presented in my guidebook The Missing Principles of Mind Control, which are: Clarity, Preparation, Action.

Building these 3 mind-body 'muscles': clarity, preparation, and action are the keys to confidence: becoming independent in thought and able in body:

1. Clarity: Know who you are, what you want, and what you are currently capable of. The more you do, the less you will care about what other people think, and will develop the focus for the next 2 keys of confidence.


2. Preparation: Break down what you want into the steps for achievement. Become clear on the mechanism of success. The more you know about the situation, the higher will be your positive expectation of success. (There is also another important tool for preparation, but it's not the visualisation or meditation that the self-help guru's teach. It's a visceral bodily experience that imbues your being with confidence within reality -- explained below).


3. Act: Again, only through the reality of experience do you build genuine certainty of outcome.

Your Visceral Microcosm For Building Confidence

• Visceral? -- Relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect


• Microcosm? --A little world

One of the most potent little worlds of deep inward feelings is strenuous physical activity.

Socially acceptable forms of that include sex and sport. Let's focus on sport...

And not just watching it!

High adrenaline sport provides the opportunity to focus, prepare and act, through a full-immersion mind-body experience.

Sport clearly presents a complete little world where the rules are defined, the environment is set, and the goal is both clear and obviously achievable.

When you try different sports to experience their different psychological effects, you will find a few that best suit you for the purposes of building confidence.

Categories of sport include:

• solo sports such as sprinting or inline skating or cycling;


• team sports such as football or volley ball; and


• highly aggressive sports such as martial arts or arm wrestling.

Each sport requires dedication to be clear on what you want to achieve, to prepare for success through practice and training, and to act by participation.

From the psychological experience of physical sports you will be able to bring increased clarity, preparation and willingness into various areas of your life, for higher positive expectations of successes and less regard for what others think of our decisions and actions.

With the confidence you learn in the microcosms of sport, you will carry your mind-body confidence muscles of clarity, preparation and action into the macrocosm situations of your life through THE 7 dimensions of life management (explained in full elsewhere):

1. 1st dimension of life management is AWARENESS and FOCUS


2. 2nd dimension of life management is DIRECTION and CHOICE


3. 3rd dimension of life management is STRUCTURE and ENVIRONMENT


4. 4th dimension of life management is ORDER and SEQUENCE


5. 5th dimension of life management is CONTROL and CREATION


6. 6th dimension of life management is SYNERGY and COLLABORATION


7. 7th dimension of life management is CONTRIBUTION and INFLUENCE

The ultimate goal of course, is to eliminate the anxiety-of-influence and become the person we are meant to be.

Confidence by nature comes from the clarity that one is able to prepare and act on a purpose and achieve its outcome.

As a final note I include the words of Frank R Wallace, author of Neo-Tech:

"the anxiety of influence presses corruption upon the brow of consciousness to smother honesty, rationality, and self-responsibility.  That anxiety -- that fear of responsibility and honesty -- constitutes the barrier to endless riches and romance.

"in an anticivilization of mysticisms and irrationalities, the resulting corruptions bring mounting compromises and torpid diminishments that shrivel the passions for life.

...German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) postulated that man dwells in three realms: (1) what he is, (2) what he has, and (3) what others think of him. In today's anticivilization, realms 2 and 3 control -- realm 1 is derivative. In tomorrow's business/science/art civilization, realm 1 controls -- realms 2 and 3 are derivative. ...What causes the difference between those two civilizations?

Re-read this article to clarify your plan, prepare your actions, and then take those actions to reduce anxieties and build confidence.

See the page Anxiety and Influence for a continuation of the research.

Life Direction Choices

Your entire life is made up of the daily activities you do.

True enough? Of course.

... So what should you do today, beyond normal living activities, that contribute in the fullest way possible, to the big picture of your life direction?

Hard to decide, isn't it?

Would 3 sheets of paper displaying every important activity, project, interest, and responsibility you have got in your life help at all?

After all the work you do in the Life Direction Clarifier you will have 3 sheets of paper that pin-point all areas of your life.

Just 3 sheets of paper end up containing everything important to your life right now - giving you exact control over your life direction.

From Shahana Yasmin, Basketball Coach, London UK, I received this email:

"Wow, I think I've just amazed myself! I've started adding bits to my Life Direction Blueprints, everything seemed to just flow out - like I knew exactly what points I wanted to put down.

I've put them up on my wall now. I can feel the wonder already.

It feels so good to write these things down. I've always wanted it all to be structured, and it fits to do it like this."

It's so great having [this] which has made my life much easier and enjoyable!"

Shahana Yasmin

>>> Life Direction Clarifier

Ten Web 3.0 Future Technologies For Techys

Items 7 and 10 at 10 more future web trends are both fascinating and alarming.

With such things as spontaneous brain uploads of 1000 blog posts, and sensory integration with virtual realities, what should we call the technological new world we are forever entering?

Web marketers and bloggers are familiar with the term web 2.0, and also web 3.0.

Semantic Focus asks the question where do you stand on web 3.0.

I think technological definitions are useful for contextual landscaping, which is perfectly ok to be subject to change.

Web 2.0 means social networking, and related technologies.

Web 3.0 means Internet based productivity and efficiency.

When you think about all the related technologies, those 2 simple clear cut definitions really do seem to be useful and valid.

And web 3 efficiency is the only way that the advancing web technologies will be useable on a day by day basis by us mere mortals.

Well, until we get rid of the only blockage to us becoming god-men that is.. What's the block? What's holding us back? See the Civilisation 2.0 section for the battle between government and tech.

How Disorganized With Clutter Can You Tolerate?

Cluttered and Disorganized?

A big question is: How disorganized do you let life get until you feel

'right, that's it! the final straw, I'm going to get things straightened out, I'm gonna get organized!'

And then do you get organized or do things stay cluttered?

Sure, to an extent you get productive, right? Then what? Yoyo like a fad diet right?... Organized... Disorganized... Cluttered... Determined.. Organized... Disorganized..

The fact is that you have got a limit right now on how well organized you can tolerate being.

The success and outcome of your projects and life are the results of what you can tolerate.

Imagine 2 lines running parallel?

Above one line is a life so exciting and rapid and fulfilling that it's way beyond belief, and way beyond the capacity of your current lifestyle set-up.

Below the bottom line is the level of lifestyle that is too low for you, that you are not willing to accept.



The curved line suggests that how organized you are becomes different as time goes on. Inbetween the upper limit (how organized you believe life can really be for you) and lower limit (how much of a mess you will put up with).

When life feels a mess, your priorities change, procrastination and laziness get steam rolled, and you suddenly jump into productive energetic cleaning and tidy up mode. Clutter that was there for weeks is obliterated. Well, perhaps not quite. Perhaps you wittle it down to a more acceptable pile, and stick it in a make-shift storage area, like at the foot of your bed.

HOW can you change the pattern and shift the boundaries, and really make a lasting difference in how organized your life is, your projects, your career, home, events, relationships, etc?

The solution is not self-help, personal development, positive affirmations, or Tony Robbins. I know dozens of people that have been very much into all those things and still stay stuck in limbo, usually living more fulfilling lives than 'average Joe', but who wants to be compared to average Joe anyway?

Not me. The solution that I found for my self has become my passion in life.

Remember this: Satisfaction in life can be categorized as 2 sides of a coin. They form 2 sides of a coin because although they are different, they can not really exist without the other.

• The first is self-clarity, which those positive thinking types do quite well at, but because they do not have the other side of the coin, their self-clarity is never really that deep.


• The 2nd side of the coin is preparation and organization. This side of the coin usually faces down.

Have you read the conversation I had with Jamie? 'Eye In The Storm Of Organized Living'. Jamie was self-sabotaging his progress on his important projects and desires because he was 'overwhelmed' with some short-term issues of life.

Well when are there ever not any 'short term issues' in life? Probably never right?

Despite the things we 'have to deal with', we personally have an upper and a lower limit, a threshold, for how badly, and even how well, we will allow and tolerate our life's level of organization, and therefore the things we do in our life, and the successes that happen for us.

Depression sinks us only so low as we allow it. Finally, whatever our 'final straw' is to us personally, we'll shift our lifestyle to improve our feelings.

Many people focus on the 'clarity' side of the coin (Jamie has read a lot of '[tag]personal growth[/tag]' stuff). But people neglect the 'organize' side of the coin. The irony is that by focusing on being organized, tremendous clarity develops.

Can you appreciate how your upper and lower limits of what you accept will then both rise higher? As your limits move to a higher level you get a better lifestyle with more clarity, direction and efficiency.

In my clients I've seen heavy feelings of overwhelm lift into a comfortable lightheartedness, because you gradually see new power and possibility for every area of life.

You can gain an organized lifestyle to whatever level you want - go as far as you personally want to go (as far as you can tolerate).

Through the Organized Living Technologies for modern day efficiency you will soon find a whole new degree of clarity, your toleration limits will permanently shift, and you'll suddenly, almost automatically, move to a better lifestyle, stronger mind, and all round enjoyment with your life.

I've even guaranteed it. Check out the details. Challenge your limits.

www.organizedr.com