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...
Pressure
Overwhelm
Frustration and
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:
Survival pressures to keep your nose to the grind and earn a living.
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.
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:
Don't care so much what others think of what you do and whether you succeed or fail
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:
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.
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).
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):
1st dimension of life management is AWARENESS and FOCUS
2nd dimension of life management is DIRECTION and CHOICE
3rd dimension of life management is STRUCTURE and ENVIRONMENT
4th dimension of life management is ORDER and SEQUENCE
5th dimension of life management is CONTROL and CREATION
6th dimension of life management is SYNERGY and COLLABORATION
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.
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!"
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.
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.
One number for all your calls and SMS Call screening - Announce and screen callers Listen in - Listen before taking a call Block calls - Keep unwanted callers at bay SMS - Send, receive, and store SMS Place calls - Call free within the continental US and to Canada Taking calls - Answer on any of your phones Phone routing - Phones ring based on who calls Forwarding phones - Add phones and decide which ring
Voicemail as easy as email, with transcripts Voicemail transcripts - Read what your voicemail says Listen to voicemail - Check online or from your phone Notifications - Receive voicemails via email or SMS Personalize greeting - Vary greetings by caller Share voicemail - Forward or download voicemails
More cool things you can do with Google Voice Conference calling - Join people into a single call Call record - Record calls and store them online Call switch - Switch phones during a call Mobile apps - Try our apps for Blackberry and Android phones [widget id="ad-continue-productivity"]Ad: continue-productivity[/widget] Mobile site - View your inbox from your mobile GOOG-411 - Check directory assistance Manage groups - Set preferences by group
A neat new tool for productivity and collaboration.
Destination Dubai
After my 14 months spent traveling and working from my laptop, I dreaded returning to the UK.
The cold weather. The daily chores. The London commute. The same old same old.
So I tried finding clients in Spain and Dubai so that I would be able to relocate.
The Spanish company interview went great. I enjoyed the day in Mallorca (picture taken in Palma, Mallorca on the day trip). But I don't think the company had the budget to take me on and get a team for me to manage. It didn't work out.
Atleast I got a nice day trip to a sunny climate. And they got 2 hours of good consultancy advice.
And the 1st phone call with a potential Dubai client went well, but the 2nd call went terribly. The MD seemed to want me to already know his industry, travel news, which I don't.
So I'm 'stuck' here in the UK, perhaps for another few years at least. Working with a great client now. Although it is still London and I'm bored of the place.
I am compelled by the buzz in Dubai and also emerging markets such as Brazil.
Destination Dubai... Perhaps by 2010.
How To Organize Time
Organize Time Management
What Are The Only 3 Timeless Keys That Will Allow You To Genuinely Organize Time?
Discover right now that there are only 3 possible keys to all time management.
It seems that when we try and organize time, we over-complicate things beyond usefulness.
Notable figures of history, philosophy, technology have shown that the best explanation is very often the simplest.
?Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler?. Albert Einstein
I am certainly one for intricate detail. However, the central guiding principles are almost always simple, short, and powerful when understood clearly.
Here in this article I present my 3 timeless keys to [tag-tec]organize[/tag-tec] time.
And first I review 4 approaches to organize time that is taught out there in the big complicated world.
4 levels to better organize time management
As I researched through many time management courses, home study courses, etc I noted 4 levels of how good they were.
Organize Time Level 1
The lowest level was where the program gave a very clear, vivid description and expansion of the problems and frustrations and all the many areas where loss of time, time wasting, or difficulties with time would come up. Then there would be some scattered tips and techniques at the end of each section on how to actually organize time.
Organize Time Level 2
The 2nd level are programs that explored the possible reasons behind difficulties with time, along with a ton of tips and techniques that would gain great results, provided they were applied, which would take discipline and effort to do for sure.
Organize Time Level 3
The 3rd level did that review of time difficulties, as well as the causes, but gave a streamlined approach to the steps to take for getting priorities controlled, and a selection of more efficient methods to organize time.
Organize Time Level 4
Now comes the 4th level of technology to organize time, which utilizes today's modern computer capabilities, along with eliminating all the dead old inferior and unintegrated techniques.
You can check out my own painstakingly developed groundbreaking method for how to get organized now. Plus the Organize Your Life system. The 3 keys that I teach to organize time are Desire, Mindfulness, and Willingness. Remember and carry these concepts with you always.
DESIRE- clearly identifying your intent for what you want. The easy bit right?
MINDFULNESS – preparation and organization to set you up to achieve. A whole new level of insight.
WILLINGNESS – actually doing the next steps of all your projects. Precise mechanism to control your actions.
By focusing on those 3 keys you can not only organize time, but you can dominate time.
Time is our most valuable commodity.
Everything is done inside of time.
If you lack control over time, if you can not properly organize time, then far less can be accomplished, contributed, created, or enjoyed.
But how is it actually done?
Resources to Organize Time
See the Secret Principles Handbook and my Time Management System.
Time Management Tips
Time Management Tips Galore
As you can see on the menu, this site is stuffed with time management tips galore.
So which time management tip are you after exactly?
Do you even know?
Or are you casually browsing the net expecting that a few tips for time management will make all the difference to your ongoing time management failures?
Harsh?
Perhaps.  But what I've found is that the people looking for 'tips' are often the people most in need of a genuine time management overhaul.
Could that possibly include you to?
It's no shame.  In fact, I know that time management is hard.
You can manage your time quite naturally once you understand what I reveal on the home page for the most crucial time management tips ever that lead to a new paradigm in time management skills.
Are you pointlessly struggling to get organized?
You could spend your life trying to get organized.
Think of it a moment.? You're in the kitchen. Low and behold the kitchen is tidy.? You're hungry. Now if you make food, the kitchen will be unorganized, won't it.? And then you'll have to organize the kitchen once more.? So admit it, you can never be totally organized, because you're always bouncing along in life messing things up, and leaving things half done.
That's life, isn't it?? So you can continue with the frustration of getting organized…
Or you can discover that getting organized is obsolete.
Visit my big breakthrough expose site www.organizedr.com which stands for Organize Doctor.
How utterly boring and pointless would it be to try to get organized, without knowing the 8 major reasons why getting organized is impossible in today's fast paced world.? And better yet, why getting organized is not even important anymore.
And yes, everything is revealed at? www.organizedr.com
Perhaps you have noticed the Maze Trap?
Perhaps you have noticed?
The maze-trap that binds everyone around you...
You, too, are walking through that maze -- looking for the exit just like all the others.
BUT:
You are more curious, more open... Looking at the walls that form the maze you wonder if there is no official exit at all...
Perhaps:
You need to break from the norm.
Perhaps the exit is over that wall?
Of course: some people are too busy rushing around looking for the official exit...
...that they never even stop long enough to consider climbing the wall as a possible escape route.
Incredibly, others don't even notice the wall that confines them to the maze -- they just keep on running through.
Others look up and see the wall but decide against climbing it:
perhaps out of being 'politically correct', or 'respectful' to the designers of the maze (not wanting to rock the boat),
or perhaps it’s the short burst of intense effort necessary to scale the wall (and life is tough enough already as it is, rushing about the maze and all...)
or perhaps because they don't want to get their clothes in a mess or be embarrassed, just in case they don't make it over the wall and others see their failure...
In fact:
They rarely stop to consider their situation at all... not taking the time or trusting themself enough to put the puzzle of success together... To organize their different experiences into a map of understanding and personal strategy.
So they look back down away from the wall, sigh deeply, resign to the quiet desperation of 'looking for the exit', and start running again, faster, and faster, thinking that speed or struggle will give them success.
They bump into others, asking for the answer. Constriction, exhaustion, almost a strangulation, diminishing their energy.
They begin to walk, recovering their breath, feeling more at ease and, becoming more aware, strolling along, sometimes even with a smile, sometimes reflecting on the absurdity of the others running around who are also looking for the exit out of this trap.
But some accept there to be no escape, no exit, and they become cynical and negative of the people who are still running...
They say:
'Slow down or you might fall and get hurt. Why rush? We all end up the same way anyway. Nothing has lasting importance. Just live for the moment. Why be concerned? Why try? Just stick to what you know".
Some then resign so much that they sit down on one of the semi-comfortable benches.
They somehow fool themselves into thinking they are on top of things, but their gaze is hazy... the fire in their eyes is dimmed... they have lost their way not just in the external maze, but inside their mind and spirit as well.
They group together in small packs of 'friends' to pass the time.
Whilst you watch them, your inner voice breaks the silence:
“You may delay, but time will not'.
In that instance you arrive into an opening with a bench and you stop, aware of a strange new feeling that washes over you - making you at once aware of Two Worlds.
A flash of color and a distant sound catches your attention. As you catch your breath somehow things are different, in you now. You are different. Your mind has re-organized. You see how things connect.
You sit down besides another person sitting on the bench, and you can feel the person begin to frown as you turn to the person very slowly and frown in the same way too, as they also turn in the same way to you.
The feeling is eery as you catch eye-to-eye realizing this person is part of your self, the projection of your negative self-image. A slow rippling shiver shoots uncontrollably up your spine from the base of your back towards your head and washes over you. A feint tingle in your hands.
In the next moment your mental re-organization is complete.
That 'other' person is no longer of consideration and you understand the distracting pattern of the maze.
You look upwards, skywards. You feel lighter, breath in deeply now.
And your mind has a completely new way of thinking.
With this new mental technology that we call Neo-Think, you see the world with complete honest clarity.
You see the wall that you had been running alongside, but now you look above it.
You stand. You draw in another deep breath filled with power. Your eyes draw thin by your minds new focussed commitment. You feel a renewed vigor, passion, and self-assurance.
You are going to figure out how to get over that wall, that hurdle, that damn obstacle, and you are going to begin now.
Standing tall, to the bright sunny skies you express...
"I will do it, because I have chosen so".
Swallow Your Pride For More Discipline To Get Things Done
philip
mate ive finally swallowed my pride and started actually ticking off the boxes and filling out the “what did you learn from this lesson†- simpleology 101
ive got half his bloody products, none of them are being used, haha
Gav
yeh pride is a major hurdle, I’ve run into that with a number of people lately, I should try to write an article about it
well copywriting im doing...but at the expense of other stuff.. so as silly as i feel... simpleology 101 needs to be drilled in
Gav
you're doing copywriting?
philip
yeah the ted nicholas and joe sugarman course mark joyner has
Gav
cool
philip
ive paid for the first three months already, but im on day three shakes head - will let you know in a few months how things are going
if i stick with it or if i just revert back to bongs
peace out bro
Gav
well maybe simpleology101 will help you organize your priorities
and values
then you'll have the discipline to follow through on projects that you are confident about benefiting from
something else that helps is rigorous physical exercise
philip
so you get the discipline from knowing what you and your life are about?
Gav
the mental focus and discipline learned physically from hard sports will carry over to the psychological discipline of learning and project management
philip
yeah nice, i like what youre saying
Gav
do you remember a time when you was well disciplined?
philip
yeah man , swim squad when i was 14 ... 5 days a week, 5am-7am
well until i was 14, haha
Gav
why were you disciplined for it?
philip
i dunno man, to get better at swimming and felt good
Gav
why did you wanna get better at swimming?
philip
maybe i just ‘did’ swimming... then i realised id always be faster than my mates at the beach, pool, school swimming carnivals... so wanted to keep that going
ego drive - gotta harness it
Gav
ok cool, so maybe you can carry some values over from your earlier experience of good discipline to your current projects
philip
yeah even just having thought about yeah, i was disciplined, has made me think, yeah man.. im disciplined -
just gotta define project next actions well enough so doing a project with discipline is as easy as getting up in the morning and going to the pool
Gav
whilst giving you what you really want
ego drive, feeling good, etc
so gotta understand your values to strengthen your discipline
gotta have a point to doing stuff before you can be motivated to do it
philip
yeah damn, i wonder if thats what i really want. haha. alright, thanks a lot brother, I think this will help me know what to look for from completing Mark Joyner´s Simpleology 101
what was that time management product you had again?
Yesterday you mentioned the what, why and how. Where did you pick that idea up from?
Joshua Seymour
Neothink literature and the 7 Steps of Organizing.
Gavriel Shaw
aha ok good
check this quote out:
"We too often mistakenly believe that “if only people would understand the detail of the solution they will also understand the underlying paradigm†– dead wrong. If people understand the paradigm first – if the paradigm is transferred properly – then people can, and do, understand the detail – but not before. Before they will only interpret the proposed detail in terms of their current paradigm." - http://www.dbrmfg.co.nz/Strategy%20Sales.htm
Joshua Seymour
do you have an analogy of that in action?
Gavriel Shaw
well yes, wanting to get to 'how' prematurely, without sufficient time in the 'what and why'...
Joshua Seymour
ah, alright makes sense
Gavriel Shaw
I think we have to do both at once
Joshua Seymour
what and why do come before how it seems
Gavriel Shaw
its walking a very fine line of balance between contextualism, flexibility, practicality and openness
Joshua Seymour
which you've spoke of countless times and demonstrated countless more
[Editors note: cheeky bugger!]
Gavriel Shaw
consider the example of strategies and tactics http://www.gavrielshaw.com/post/1678/
Joshua Seymour
you consider strategy the 'why' side
Gavriel Shaw
similarly we might think of strategy as being 'what and why', with 'how' being about tactics
Joshua Seymour
right
Gavriel Shaw
but that post explains the theory of constraints view that strategy and tactics must exist together at every level of the hierarchy
Joshua Seymour
strategy is based on fundamental ideas/beliefs tactics are based on fundamental applications of those the strategies
Gavriel Shaw
right
Joshua Seymour
both need each other
Gavriel Shaw
so, 'how' comes often and at every level, given any 'what and why'
Joshua Seymour
it's the perfect division of labor / division of essence
Gavriel Shaw
but then re-consider that above quote in terms of 'true knowledge' knowledge builds contextually, right?
Joshua Seymour
agreed
Gavriel Shaw
someone recently asked me if I found a guru would I take on board the gurus total model I said of course I could not because I have been exposed to many models, of which that guru would no nothing or very little
Joshua Seymour
b/c contextually speaking you have different memories/experiences to base off
Gavriel Shaw
right, thus only I am at the centre of my universe, and must 'play' with all the various models that I am exposed to from various 'gurus'
Joshua Seymour
what works for the guru and his village of students, very well might or might not work for you in whole or in part which doesn't make him wrong or you wrong
Gavriel Shaw
right
Joshua Seymour
b/c it's not about right or wrong it's about good, better, best in the moment contextually
Gavriel Shaw
right and I also found it intersting that the above quote suggests that we can push people prematurely into 'how' they 'should' do something before they have been given sufficient exposure or time to adjust to the broader underlying dynamic
and that shines light on FRWs writing sytle approach and also MH's
that they focus on the big picture stuff, and never gave 'enough' detail (from our eager perspective)
because they had to focus our attention on the broadest possible underlying dynamics, and only once that was embedded and coralled properly, could they fill in the details of 'how'
make sense?
Joshua Seymour
ahh... yes that does make much sense
and it explains the effectiveness of modern product launches formulas
Gavriel Shaw
?
Joshua Seymour
side ways sales letter focusing on what/why stuff but still good stuff you really need to know and if you don't know it then the how stuff isn't gonna work anyway
Gavriel Shaw
nice so strategy / what/why comes before tactics / how... because strategy lays the underlying foundation or paradigm, on which the tactics are contextually accurate and practically valuable we have to dance between seeking detail and remaining wide scope
Top Life Frustrations | Primary Research Results
Here is a list of the top frustrations of 16 different people from primary research (surveys and interviews) I performed around 2005.
These are genuine word for word unedited submissions from a mini-course I ran.
See if any of these people's lists closely reflect your own current frustrations and limitations.
It's also very valuable to note any lists that you can not relate to at all. Comparing this way can lead to very significant and interesting self-realizations.
Person 1 1. Being Cheated 2. Being Lied To 3. Being physically attacked 4. Being diagnosed bipolar 5. Being Yelled At
Person 2 1. job 2. no partner 3. raising children alone 4. pollution 5. government regulations on your life
3 1. Job - too far away - a minimum of 3 hours travelling time a day on buses as I don't drive 2. Lack of time due to travelling; always tired when I get in and no motivation 3. Lack of money - I always spend my wage as soon as I get it on anything that makes me feel good and I have no savings 4. Lazy - prefer to let things happen rather than take action (although I am currently on leave and studying "Think & Grow Rich" and The Lazy Man's Way To Riches" - my goal is to be in a position to leave my job by the end of the year) 5. Unfit - slightly overweight and unable to run a few minutes without getting short of breath (buying an exercise program at the end of the month)
4 1. Huge credit card debt 2. I have a stressful job, that doesn't pay well. 3. Not making money online after almost 3 years 4. A 14 year old car with high mileage. Would like to be able to buy a new car 5. I want to fire my boss and work at home. 6. Painful knee that is aggravated by being on my feet all day at work.
5 1. lack of money 2. age 3. anxiety 4. taxes 5. mondays 6. stepparent stole all my dead fathers money!
6 1. Not able to complete my CGSC so as to become promoted in the Army. 2. I have friends whose loyalties are suspect. 3. Stalled relationship with Julie. 4. Stalled relationship with Deb. 5. Lack of career track in the Army. 6. No investments to build a nest egg with. 7. No job security. 8. Mind out of focus/balance. 9. Lack of creativity.
7 1. difficulty finding a job I want to stay with long term 2. being too shy to date 3. no job 4. not having a place of my own
8 1. feeling that I have not really achieved anything with my life 2. Draining effect of day job 3. Procrastination 4. Bad time management 5. Too many ideas
9 1. Lack of available resources 2. Limited vision in team mates 3. Out of date mind sets of team mates 4. My lack of courage to alienate higher authority levels when I know I am right. 5. My physical condition/eating/drinking habits
10 1. The amount of time I have to attend to my job 2. The lack of money in my life at present due to the high levels of debt I have 3. The inconsistent level of positive interactions in my marriage 4. The amount of time helping my children to grow and learn takes out of my day 5. The level of tax I pay and the constant demands for more money from the Inland Revenue 6. My level of personal health and fitness
11 1. Procrastination. 2. Not finishing a project. 3. Indecision. 4. Hold back and don't speak my mind when I should so I don't hurt someone else. 5. Quick to get upset or angry. 6. Lack of concentration and or focus. 7. Always placing blame elsewhere. 8. I could probably add more.
12 1. Difficult to make progress. After attending to the current crisis and demands of the day, there is nothing left of it to work on new things. 2. Sufficient money is always a problem. It appears that I am just keeping my head above water, although I try to keep expenses to a minimum 3. Unable to push ahead on spiritual matters. It would seem to me that most people are like sheep, and just accept what is told to them. However, I can not come up with my own ideas in this area, and just oscillate between different systems, depending on my mood. 4. Have a problem with "restless leg syndrome" (painful legs) whenever I try to sleep. Tend to loose a lot of quality sleeping time, and am often tired during the day. 5. Don't like saying "NO" to people, with the result that I often do things for people that I regret
13 1. low income 2. not enough strong focus/concentration/integration speed 3. unfulfilling work 4. frustration from not contributing to the Neo-Tech revolution / not knowing how to contribute 5. no music composed yet 6. not in great shape yet 7. not being able to help my mom and family
14 1. angry wife 2. over-stretched boss 3. needy foster-daughter 4. my shyness 5. my reluctance to confront
15 1. Job 2. Government fines 3. Religion 4. Habits 5. Laziness
16 Family relationship/time Finances Mental outlook Personal job effectiveness Property presentation
These lists reveal quite a bit about the human condition.
If you're in business, how can your business profit from helping resolve these kinds of issues?
And what about your own life direction and current list of frustrations?
Take advantage of the Preparation section of the site to re-vitalise your own life direction.
Most of those top life frustrations can be significantly helped by the person becoming better organized in their life.
Membership to my 7 Steps of Organizing program comes with:
The detailed 7 Steps of Organizing Guide - that make getting organized so easy - even George Bush could have used it
A template that you can use on computer or printed out that will be your plug-in guide for anything important you want to organize
When you begin to apply the 7 Steps using the template, email it to me and I'll offer some tips from my experience working with dozens (if not hundreds) of others - whether it be for home life, personal life, career life, or anything at all.
And if you want to do a kind of 'mental detox' and re-set your life direction...
Global Opportunities For A New Professional Lifestyle
Have you ever imagined what it would be like to travel often, all over the world, for business and pleasure...
...and never feel stuck in any one place.
Able to move from place to place, or country to country, at your leisure.
And getting paid whilst you do it.
There are many opportunities for the modern globerati... perpetual tourist... global consultant... or rugged independent vagabond.
And the most valuable professionals of the rapidly approaching future are the globally experienced. Connections. Cultural experience. Global perspectives.
My first long-term travel experience was to South East Asia, in 2006, and I ended up traveling for 14 months! (working freelance from a laptop, and getting involved with a couple of businesses along my way).
It sure was a different experience to taking those measly two week holidays off from work every 6 months that I was used to.
Can you imagine the feeling of spending 3 months or 6 months touring a tropical continent like South East Asia or South America?
Backpack or suitcase... Beach bonfires or city lights... Social gatherings or business meetings in the cafe's, plazas, restaurants, and cities of the world.
Oh but you need to keep your job? Got a mortgage? Will miss your friends and family?
Well let me make this easy. If you aren't strongly motivated by global experience, world travel, and a global lifestyle, then this post isn't for you.
BUT if you have a passion and interest in a global career and long-term travel opportunities, then here's what I want to tell you about to make it all very very possible no matter your current situation:
There are 2 networks I want to introduce you to.
1. New Travel Networking Site
Started by a good friend of mine, along with some other entrepreneurial business talent, Exploroo's ambition is to become the ‘Facebook' of travel social sites.
I'll be contributing ideas to help the site develop, and we're looking for founding members of the site to help us iron out the kinks of the first version of the site, and then to help manage the development platform to make it the absolute best most useful resource for people that love travel and all round global experience.
Check it out and claim an early launch membership before it becomes popular as it attracts more and more fellow globerati.
2. The Lifestyle Alliance
Now...
...this is something I'm setting up myself... for people with a broad range of similar interests as me.
Including travel, health, professional development as the world globalises through innovation and new technologies, freedom, romance, learning, and living like a millionaire.
If you like those topic areas, then you're going to love the network of connections and resources that will be available through the Lifestyle Alliance MasterMind Group.
What is your greatest challenge with getting organized?
Christopher wrote me:
I think my biggest problem with getting organized is...
...actually putting aside a block of time to actually begin & then when I do start making separate files for everything I become overwhelmed.
I start to look at all the photos & read all the cards & decide to keep too many things that should be thrown out, & then I realize that I have spent 90 minutes doing all of this with practically no big results, so I put it all back with the goal of attacking it later on, but later on might not come for another week.
I'm sure you get the picture. Thank you.
My reply:
Hey Christopher - yes I know exactly how that goes...
It's been a few weeks since you sent me that, so has anything changed yet?
My quick-fire suggestion is this:
Before you try doing anything in real-space, which is clearly quite hectic, first create an emotionally compelling vision of how you really want things to be on paper. That is, write out how things would ideally be arranged.
Only once you've done that is it likely that you'll be able to move quickly to actually getting it all organized.
Mark Hamilton's Neothink Society and the Twelve Visions Party
My Letter to Mark Hamilton, founder of The Neothink Society and the Twelve Visions Political Party
Dear Mark,
I wanted to send you a big “THANK YOU!â€
A simple phrase. Yet with infinite gratitude.
Why?
Because for 13-years your work has given me so very much...
...From optimism for the future to business ideas that I can’t see an end to profiting from.
In fact, my entire life’s career has been guided by your work.
Your work...
...30 years of research and writing, from business and productivity, romance to politics, and much more.
And I intend to re-pay you in-kind.
I intend to contribute to your movement… because your movement is really my movement... everyone's movement.
You see, around 1996 I received a promotion for your book Get Rich by 2001. It opened my eyes to the lies of big media, big business and big government.
It gave me ideas and tools for raising my intelligence, my creativity… encouraging great curiosity to uncover how the world works, and how I could profit.
And profit I have.
Financially. Professionally. Emotionally. Intellectually. You name it.
Right now I am building my independence via http://www.gavrielshaw.com where I provide information on life management and career development…
I am a freelance marketer and writer… and I am traveling the world.
At present, I am in South America, Colombia to be exact... with time to work on my own value creations and indulge in the natural pleasures of being my own boss whilst exploring new cultures.
So you see, with the help of Neothink, my lifestyle has become enviable by many standards. I just wish more people had the chance to read what you have discovered and captured in your books.
Yet most people are still needlessly distracted by jobs they hate, relationships that hurt, or politicians they believe.
But now, with the work that I see Neothink Society members doing, such as Joshua and Trent Seymour, I think we will see more opportunity for us all to help build and share a new way of life (through respect and justice without politics, via the Prime Law)…
In fact, I can see that your ideas of a protection-only budget are accelerating the revolution, beyond the TEA Party, beyond Ron Paul, beyond Ayn Rand’s narrow-scope Capitalism, and into the Neothink world that you describe in your spell-binding work.
Every minute of every day I am working to balance my focus on short-term and long-term value creation in-line with the Neothink mentality, fueled through happy experiences during my global adventure.
The incredible thing for me right now is that whenever I am not feeling as happy as I could or should… or productive as I could or should… I know that your company’s information has the answers.
It really is amazing just how very much wisdom and how very many life advantages are captured in your work.
Mark, I thank you for all that you have done and all that you will do.
How to quickly raise your Integration Quotient (the new IQ)
This won't take a minute…
Look:
Occam's Razor jumps your ability to integrate ideas instantly.
Whenever you face a problem or question of validity, ask yourself this piercing question...
What is the simplest answer?
Because, 'the simplest answer is usually the best'.
As said by Occam in the 14th century:
"Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity"
As echoed by Albert Einstein:
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."
This approach to knowledge is a minimalist one.
Perhaps you have colleagues excited by the latest business management or marketing fad.
Perhaps you have friends excited by idealist notions of spirit worlds and global apocalypse.
I suggest that you go easy, and go slowly, because that might be the fastest way of all.
Learn to ask basic questions. Clarify the clutter of complexity. Seek the simplest answer. And only broaden your concepts as new information adds either practical value or eliminates contradiction.
Forget traditional IQ (intelligence quotient) -- few are sufficiently blessed with that.
But develop your Integration Quotient for genius-like thinking.
Learn integrative thinking.
Ask questions.
Find the simplest explanations.
Build from there based on practical value and the elimination of contradictions.
Simple answers reveal similarities between opposing ideas.
Context is crucial for understanding. What is mysticism to some (mind created fanciful ideas), is actually not mysticism to others (because they have integrated the practical value of those ideas).
Remember: The simplest answer is usually the best.
How to Get Organized
Watch my video below which shows you what it really takes to get organized...
‘Getting Organized’ is next to IMPOSSIBLE!
There will always be clutter.
There will always be something to tidy up.
There will always be more things to do...
Right?
Getting Organized is a good goal, but only when mixed with some ‘secret sauce’...
Watch the video to learn how to get organized (and stay organized) -- using the 7 Steps of Organizing.
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How To Begin Organized Living By Bypassing Getting Organized
You are overwhelmed by the information age. But your saving grace is almost here. A major revolution is coming by 2010 that I’ve coined the [tag]Efficiency Age[/tag]. Past revolutions include the industrial, technological and current information age.
The old dictum ‘knowledge is power’ seems to have become obsolete. Too much knowledge causes confusion. Today’s information age is overwhelming. We want an organized life. A new approach to life has to emerge through careful selection and efficient application of world knowledge. This points us to an [tag]Efficiency Revolution[/tag].
It soon becomes obvious. You don’t want to get organized. What you want is to get stuff done in the best and fastest way that gives the greatest benefit for the least amount of effort.
Efficiency goes beyond getting organized to put us in the driving seat of modern life.
Traditional [tag]how to get organized[/tag] information is becoming very obsolete very quickly. David Allen’s [tag]Getting Things Done[/tag] is truly excellent when applied to career development. For your personal life though, it still becomes overwhelming.
I now believe getting organized is in fact impossible in today’s fast paced modern life. Getting organized defeats it’s own purpose by being a waste of time. Get past the struggle for getting organized with something different. Something new. The idea of being efficient.
Stress Management Tips
I ask because when you're working on changing your life direction, you will most certainly be experiencing a level of stress that is uncomfortable, urgent... and actually quite easy to reduce...
Stress effects even the highest caliber business executives.
But often they stubbornly refuse to do anything about it.
It can cost them their health, their happiness. And even their lives (heart attacks are often caused by stress - and always come 'unexpectedly').
I recommend the following product to help you Minimize Stress and maximise control...
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As well as introducing you to relaxation techniques, its unique approach shows you how to win control of your job and career, build positive relationships with powerful people and co-workers and thrive under the intense pressure of a successful career.
The Stress Management Masterclass has been designed, researched and tested in collaboration with stress experts at University College London.
I strongly recommend it for dealing with the stress that results whilst changing life directions.
In my previous post I mentioned a time management software. One of my clients emailed me the following:
"You suggested checking out TimeTo in your other email to manage my todos but as brilliant a piece of software as it is with its ability to reschedule your actions for you automatically (if you don't get to them as scheduled), based on all the parameters you set ahead of time, it still schedules "to time" and "priority" and runs contrary to your whole approach of doing per convenience within your soft schedule landscape.
"I found an online program called Todoist that allows me to manage to dos by project without necessarily scheduling a time so it's a nice fit with my Folderarchy where my projects are "born" you could say.
Thanks for that Richard. Todoist looks like great Web 3 personal productivity software.
Folderarchy demonstrates how to organize your life in a broader sense than anything else. Updated for 2008. Richard is also using Insta-Time, my time management system, that he says:
I was intrigued by what appeared to be something different and perhaps more effective then the GTD approach? It seems your system has a more organic/natural and complete feel to it.
What to do about the confusions and distractions that block our success...
One 'cute' technique that can help you keep focused and on-track is to carry with you, inside your pocket or purse, a little piece of card with something on it that represents an emotionally compelling achievement, responsibility, or desire.
Perhaps a photo of your wife or husband or that car you are saving up for.
Perhaps it's a word such as 'Freedom' or 'Peace' or 'Power' or a phrase like 'Health & Happiness'.
Whatever it is to you that can act as a genuinely motivating reminder of what you want to have, do or be. And thus something that will help guide your daily actions and choices.
As an example:
If you are on a weight loss program and walk passed an ice-cream parlor, you can have with you a card that emotionally represents your desire to lose more weight and thus not eat the ice-cream.
Perhaps it's a picture of your daughter in her wedding dress, and with the wedding just 3 weeks away you are losing some weight so you look your best in the wedding photos alongside your daughter.
So the principle of the 'this or that' card is that whenever you feel the internal struggle of making a positive decision against other enticing but negative options, you take out your card and make the decision by asking yourself…
"Do I want this (looking at the card) or do I want that (looking at the distraction)?
The creative tension you need to get organized and achieving success
Customer letter:
Your 7 Steps has got me motivated...
I had to use some of your samples as a template because they were so close to where I am and where I'm going that I couldn't have put it better myself.
It's time for me to really successfully apply all this incredible information I've been learning and it looks like your methods support that live-whilst-you-earn-whilst-you-learn ideal.
I've been seeking that for so long and had so much information overload that's left me with nothing but a head full of info and inertia.
Your system is a real value and I thank you for it.
Your illustration of the current reality point and how necessary it is to understand it finally made a piece of my personal jigsaw fit into place.
Having read it just today, I took a break, went to the library and tried a little experiment.
I wrote my desired realities on one half of paper and my current realities on the other half.
Immediately I could s e n s e the creative tension between the two. Brilliant.
But, more than that.. It makes me think I can do it.. I can achieve my desired ends because now I intellectually understand the Structured Tension facts and can emotionally feel them
...That was the missing piece for me.
And you're right, I feel some what lighter now. Calmer. And have more faith in my capabilities. thank you."
NeoCra, Sound Music Educator
Get the 7 Steps of Organizing now where you'll learn...
The Ultimate secret of how to Get Organized
And it has NOTHING to do with how 'neat and tidy' things are around you...
In 2006 I stumbled across a new powerful concept of what it really takes to get organized... inside a dusty old book from 1920.
Top Problems with Getting Organized - And how to fix them right now!
Here is a collection of the problems my customer, clients and subscribers have sent me about getting organized.
See if yours are similar, and please add your own in the comments section below.
Hi, Gavriel!
My whole life, of course!!!! What a mess it is! Piles of papers in two rooms upstairs, books everywhere, more projects looming than 60 people could accomplish. No time for yoga, or pool, downtime. Running on empty for a good while. Etc, etc, etc. A formidable task. I think the only solution is for me to figure out how to clone myself. But, no time to concentrate on it....
:) Debbie
Debbie... I understand! Keep reading my emails because I've helped a lot of people that have expressed a similar situation to you, and believe it or not, there are effective solutions!
And here's another topic request I've received in the past day:
"I have trouble to clarify my future about my work... I would like to change the job. I am tired to be consultant. I would like to find a job who will give me some passion."
And this next one from Jean really got me thinking.......
"I would really enjoy a brief video on organizing the kitchen. I have seen multiple "How to organize your kitchen", TV programs and read several books."
And despite all that, Jean still isn't satisfied with her kitchen, and continues describing her problem:
"My biggest problem is that half my storage is upper cabinets and I can only comfortably reach the first shelf. Which means I only have about 50% of the storage I need in my kitchen.
I feel I should get my kitchen organized before I try to decided what type storage space I could add to my kitchen (on a tight budget).
...Also I seem to have a hard time deciding what I should keep in the kitchen and what I should store elsewhere.
Regarding the article I loved it! I felt so dumb because I can not seem to focus on exactly how to organize my kitchen. The room I love most in my house."
Jean, please don't feel 'dumb' about it, because IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT!
Here's why:
99.9% of all those books and TV programs about getting organized are DEAD WRONG.
THAT is really the Top Problem with Getting Organized...
In fact, many of my customers have been people that described a similar situation. Here's what another customer said that is inside my ebook Life Management for the New Professional:
"I've read many, many organization books, and am still having a problem seeing my way clear. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated..." - Jane
The thing is:
Getting specific areas of your life organized can be easy and fun... if you use the right strategy.
Here's what DOES NOT work:
Canned techniques!
Time and time again I have had to 'de-brief' people on what not to do when they are trying to get something organized.
They attempt to use techniques from books or TV which aren't appropriate for them - and begin to wonder if there's something wrong with themselves, instead of questioning the unsuitable techniques.
If you haven't already, add your problems with getting organized in the comments below by answering this question:
What is your greatest challenge with getting organized?
Here are the 4 awful emotions you suffer because of disorganization...
1st Emotion: PRESSURE
First, you feel pressure. Pressure from some kind of deadline; perhaps at work, or an upcoming event. Perhaps towards people that are relying on you. (maybe a 'weight on your mind')
1. Do you get feelings of time being tight to get something done?
2nd Emotion: OVERWHELM
As you get nearer to the 'deadline' (whether definite or one that you've personally decided to target) you feel far away from being on target and feelings of overwhelm build up. (maybe 'hectic butterflies in your belly')
2. Do you get feelings of there being too much to do?
3rd Emotion: FRUSTRATION
Then as the deadline is reached and you've been unsuccessful, the pressure and overwhelm turns to frustration. (maybe an 'aggressive feeling in your throat area')
3. Do you get strong feelings that you should have various things done by 'now'?
4th Emotion: DISAPPOINTMENT
After the failed schedule or project your feelings can turn into disappointment. (maybe a 'sinking feeling in your gut')
4. Do you get feelings that you should have been able to succeed at things that have now passed?
When & Where Do You Get Any Of Those Emotions Of Pressure, Overwhelm, Frustration, And Disappointment?
When I find my self in a rush.
When I can't find something.
When I forget to do something and a deadline or an event come up (such as going on holiday, a project deadline, meeting at work, or heading into town for shopping) and suddenly something reminds me of what I forgot.
When I'm focused on something and get interrupted.
When I'm working on a project and can't seem to grasp the full picture and struggle to find the best way to get on with it.
When I'm thinking about making changes or improvements in my life.
When I'm reflecting on the past. Such as at the New Year thinking of resolutions or goals I failed to achieve in the previous year.
When I realize that because I'm not organized enough I'm missing opportunities that I would like to take.
When I try to do something but obstacles get in the way and slow me down.
When I try to live by certain standards but can't seem to maintain them.
When other people make demands of me without giving me the freedom or appreciation that I want to do things in my own way.
When I collapse into bed with echo's of the day buzzing round my head, already feeling the stress of tomorrow because it's too late to get enough sleep anxious that I'll be tired again tomorrow.
Are you determined to solve all this if you can?
If finding out how to get organized now in the modern fast paced world is important to you, THIS video on getting organized reveals the modern day solution to the get organized problem.
I've recently been thinking about anxiety in, shall we say... less acute situations.
I'm toying with a 2x2 matrix with the top being 'positive expectation of success' and the side being 'concern what other people think', where those 2 factors are seen as the causes of most anxiety in general situations.
More on that soon. Â
And if you want to get organized in a more normal set of situations. Like home, health, business, relationships, etc.. check out the 7 Steps of Organizing.
8 Top Get Organized Techniques - And Why They Fail
If you want to know the easiest, fastest, and most certain way of getting organized... read these top 8 get organized techniques.. and then DON'T do them...
Why?
... Because when you get rid of the 8 lies of getting organized I'm about to reveal to you, you'll finally be freed from those ideas that are limiting you right now from getting organized efficiently.
1st Lie of How To Get Organized
"YOU NEED LOTS OF TIME"
Have you been led to believe that getting organized needs a big time commitment?
Obviously not the ideal way to organize your life because you are already busy, right? It's difficult (if not impossible) to spend lots of your time getting organized.
2nd Lie of How To Get Organized
"ORGANIZE AS YOU GO"
Have you been led to believe that to get organized you need to work on areas of your current lifestyle that are disorganized?
The problem with that is like trying to mix ingredients for a cake inside the hot oven. You need to separate the stages: Cooking preparation, and then the actual cooking.
Would you try and tidy the kitchen at the same time as cooking in it? No you would struggle to get anything done. Same with organizing life while living life. It's not compatible.
3rd Lie of How To Get Organized
"ORGANIZE EVERYTHING AT ONCE"
Have you been led to believe that you can get organized by tipping up lots of draws and trying to sort through all the skeletons in your closet, including hobbies, goals, responsibilities, etc, all in one go?
Only Professional Organizers would put you through such a hard time of opening many cans of worms in your life in one big get organized marathon. How unnecessary.
4th Lie of How To Get Organized
"ORGANIZE ONE AREA AT A TIME"
Have you been led to believe that you should focus on organizing only one area or thing at a time?
Organizing one small area at a time is another massively false and damaging technique.
Like putting out little fires, new one's soon start in another area. When you start organizing one area, the area you just organized becomes disorganized again). Plus the dozens of areas not currently on your agenda get even worse.
5th Lie of How To Get Organized
"MASSIVE EFFORT NEEDED"
Have you been led to believe that getting organized requires a great deal of discipline and effort?
If you try to do 'one area at a time', 'all areas at once' or 'put a lot of time into it', then it will be very hard work. With Einstein's solution it's easy.
6th Lie of How To Get Organized
"GETTING ORGANIZED = TIME MANAGEMENT"
Have you been led to believe that getting and being organized is about how you manage your time?
Imagine you are traveling by car. You start off on the long journey early... and drive quickly. Is that good time management? Not if you haven't got prepared by checking the route you are going to use BEFORE you start the journey.
Getting organized must be done BEFORE time management because if you don't know where you're going, and are not well prepared for it, then trying to rush will just get you in a mess.
7th Lie of How To Get Organized
"LOTS TO LEARN"
Have you been led to believe that there are tons of tips and techniques needed for getting organized?
Jane emailed me:
"I've read many, many organization books, and am still having a problem seeing my way clear. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated..."
The problem with 'many, many organization books' and courses, is that they only provide tips for certain situations or lifestyles. You have to be extremely lucky to find an author who has a similar lifestyle and way of thinking to you.
But I doubt you have time to learn from 'many many organization books'?
You even feel time pressured to finish this web page don't you? As you read every word here you reason this information holds the key to you becoming totally organized. And you have time enough for that don't you?
8th Lie of How To Get Organized
"IT'S ALL OR NOTHING"
Have you thought it only worth the time and effort to get organized IF you can get TOTALLY organized, otherwise it doesn't seem worth trying for?
And yet, because of all the common techniques that fail, being so organized seems impossible?
...So you 'cut your losses' and end up not bothering very hard to get organized anyway?
So face facts my friend...
You Will Never Be Caught Up
It's painfully obvious... You will always have things that could be better arranged, better developed, better managed... better organized. You will NEVER be caught up...
You can never actually be 'organized' because we live in a modern world with super busy lifestyles that is never going to slow down.
But surprisingly, the answer is not modern...
In fact:
...I stumbled across the solution in a long forgotten business kit from 1920 (and the example set by a famous dead scientist) revealing...
"What Getting Organized Is Really All About"
... and it's now available in my new ebook "Life Management for the New Professional" which you get FREE with a membership to the 7 Steps of Organizing program (watch the video in the link below).
Watch this video to find out exactly what it really takes to get organized now.
In August 2006, from a tropical island in Thailand, I conducted a 30 day Time Management training course for a handful of clients.
On that beautiful island I put myself through a gruelingly intense 30 days dedicated to controlling every detail of my own time.
I reviewed over 80 software programs (including 'goal setting' and 'personal productivity') .
And I sent daily emails to the people on the course detailing my ongoing activities, the time management techniques I was testing, along with providing practical exercises for them to apply to their own time management too.
It turned out pretty embarrassing to start with.
You see... I had been selling a time management ebook that I had written. Much similar to the typical time management books you can buy at the book store. Along with some major improvements.
But during those 30 days of total dedication, my old time management system failed me.
Plus: All the time management strategies, tips and techniques I had learned from years of study... also failed me.
I tried prioritizing by A to E.
I tried scheduling all my daily activities to exact time slots on my calendar.
I tried simple to-do lists that I wrote at the beginning of each morning.
I tried reducing the amount of things to do each day.
I tried overwhelming myself with lots of things to do hoping it would give me the discipline to do it all.
I visited dozens of blogs and discussion forums and article sites on the net to try and find help.
I used the best of those 80+ software programs.
Bottom line: Most time management techniques commonly taught don't work. They're unnatural. Short-lived. Difficult to maintain. Etc.
But by the end of the 30 days I had 55 pages of notes... and created a 4-part plan for time management that worked for me. And in the long-term it has worked for about HALF of the clients that joined me on that course.
But what of the other half?
Those 55 pages of notes were still kind of complicated and difficult to maintain. Too much effort was required for a lot of people to be able to maintain them.
Getting better at one area of time management such as:
prioritizing or organizing your daily locations,
or creating a full list of all your projects,
or separating project lists into active, someday, maybe,
or using time devices as discipline reminders such as timers and stop watches.
They worked on their own. But required a lot of preparation and effort. And were impossible to fit together. There was just too many pieces to this time management puzzle.
Having more effort and discipline is not exactly the right message to tell people that are struggling with time management.
I was forced to research the history of time management for deeper answers.
It became a personal quest to uncover the truth of what would work for the most amount of people.
I deeply believed that how we manage our time was KEY to life success.
Continuing to sift through my notes. Writing in the margins of my personal diary. Trawling through website after website, book after book...
And it wasn't more than a few weeks past this point that I stumbled on the answer.
A very straightforward and natural approach to managing time that involves a kind of 'lattice structure'.
Let me explain with these diagrams...
Here's a 'hexagonal lattice':
And here's the same lattice with one of the sides missing:
You can easily see that something is missing. And that's how the natural approach to managing time works. By easily showing you wherever something is missing from your approach to time management. Can you imagine how easy that makes managing your time?
And so that's why I bought the domain name with the word 'lattice' in it: Time Management System Lattice .com
I refined the system and it turned out so powerful as to completely turn people's failure with managing time around, into instant and total success...
Rather than turning my 100+ pages of notes into a giant training course, I decided to teach the system only to a small group of private clients.
"...intrigued by what appeared to be something different and perhaps more effective then the GTD approach? It seems your system has a more organic/natural and complete feel to it." - Richard L
Now we call it InstaTime, because it gives instant success with time management to anyone that puts it into action by cutting out all the old crap from obsolete time management techniques - whether in business or in your personal life.
In fact, the entire system can be summarized on just 15-pages.
I think of it like the carbon based 'lattice structure' of coal turning into diamond under great pressure.
So that's the story behind the domain name TimeManagementSystemLattice.com
Thanks for asking Mike.
The video that exposes the 3 most popular and most destructive old fashioned time management techniques still being taught today is available from the homepage if you haven't yet seen it, along with access to the InstaTime system for natural time management.
At the end of an interview with Albert Einstein the reporter asked:
"Mr Einstein, would it be possible to take your phone number in case I have any further questions?"
"Certainly" replied Einstein. He picked up the phone directory and looked up his phone number, then wrote it on a slip of paper and handed it to the reporter.
Dumbfounded, the reporter said...
"You are considered to be the smartest man in the world and you can't remember your own phone number?"
Einstein replied,
"Why should I memorize something when I know where to find it?"
Aren't we talking about the smartest man in the world of his time? And he can't remember his OWN phone number?
But look - it gets 'worse'.
Here's a picture of Einstein's gawd-awful messy looking desk... einstein's desk...
Would you even hazard a guess at where the phone book is amongst all that clutter!
But you see, Einstein knew...
The Ultimate Secret Of Being Organized
And it has NOTHING to do with how 'neat and tidy' things are around you.
Imagine yourself sitting with Einstein at that cluttered desk when he says to you in his Anglo-German accent:
"Out of clutter, find simplicity... From discord find harmony... In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
That's a real quote of Albert Einstein, who was obviously not organized in the way we generally think of it.
And despite training people in personal organization since 1999 it took me untiil late 2006 until I stumbled across this powerful secret of what it really takes to get organized... I discoverd the secret inside a dusty old book from 1920.
Famous Dead Scientist... And
Forgotten Business Kit From 1920... Show You
What Getting Organized Is Really All About
Einstein was way ahead of his time... And here are 7 modern facts about getting organized that have come from discovering Einstein's Breakthrough.
Getting Organized...
Can happen quickly.
Can happen almost automatically.
Can be done naturally as you go about your life.
Can be easy.
Is not the same as time management.
Does not require lots of techniques.
Can not happen if you try to organize everything in your life at once.
Many people believe otherwise.
And that creates MAJOR hurdles in being able to get organized.
They learn lots of so called 'get organized techniques'. They try really hard to make a best effort of organizing many areas all in one go - but expect only limited success anyway.
They never realize...
The key to getting organized is to actually not focus on getting organized at all...
And after 11 years (yes it took me eleven years) of going through the same cycles of trying to get organized... then letting things get messy again... and then trying to get organized... getting only so far... and then letting things get messy again... until back in late 2006 when I stumbled across this...
Modern Secret
For Getting Organized
Easily, Quickly, And Simply
Here is what I'm calling Einstein's Secret:
The ultimate secret and modern breakthrough to getting organized is:
You might notice a subtle balance between presenting his strategic opinions, whilst treading with diplomatic care (such as agreeing with the intervention of Iraq but not with the method of reconstruction).
If you have any insight, please comment below.
The two root causes of slow progress
Success online or in the corporate world is as much about you as a person as it is about the practical details.
Anyone can buy a clickbank product with the delusion of getting rich quick.
But it takes commitment, perspective, intelligence, and a whole host of other characteristics to make a winner.
Managing these characteristics honestly can be very hard work.
Having the right attitude depends on your self-image. And that depends on the results you've got so far, i.e. your experience, as well as how you relate to that experience and subsequently manage your focus, i.e. how you make and act on new decisions for moving forward.
So here are the 2 mutually supporting root factors of success vs failure: Self-Image and Organization.
Those who are poor at organizing and lack a decent self-image will progress painfully slowly. They also create a feedback mechanism to each other: when one side becomes worse, so does the other side.
Side A of the Failure Coin: Out of control self-image
Here's an example...
Paula said:
Hmm... I think I joined that one earlier this week. Not sure how to go about it yet. One problem is simply to do with time.
Paula (I changed the name) couldn't quite remember if only last week she had registered with a particular marketing program... gave no indication of control or scheduling of it... and suggested that she hasn't got time to get familiar with and make use of this marketing program 'yet'.
Paula later describes that:
I'm very much an ideas person. I sometimes get overwhelmed with all the creative thoughts that run around my brain and as long as I'm not capable to squeeze a week into a day or duplicate myself a dozen times, I simply lack the capacity to follow up on all of my own ideas.
Paula sees her self as an idea person. That is a self-image. And do you see how that supports her apparent extreme lack of organization and lack of results?
To be successful in Internet Marketing we very much need to be an action person, an organizing person, a prioritising person, AND an 'idea person' -- in fact we need multiple talents and abilities.
How true it is that we all have more ideas than we seem to be able to control and act on... But so what? That hasn't stopped big corporate companies or many online marketers from creating and enjoying wealth.
And now with the principles revealed through FIIM on this site you can plug these attributes into your efforts very simply and effectively.
Sure enough, Paula's self-image is blocking her success... She experienced that consciously as her not having enough time. Time constraints is the more visible manifestation of the underlying factors of her failure. But often we can't see the core, we can only see the surface. So Paula may not yet realise her failure is partly because of her self-image. Perhaps she can only see the time constraints. Poor Paula.
Of course it's hard if not impossible to admit our own limitations caused by our self-image. But we can certainly recognise that wherever we are right now, we can improve our various abilities to get more things done better and quicker.
Organization: The 2nd side of the failure coin.
Mark Joyner in his Volume II manuscript sums it up elegantly:
"Most people fail to realise their ideas and the most common reason is a lack of organization"
Paula has a chronic problem with organizing her online efforts. Paula's expression of not quite knowing whether or not she registered with a particular marketing program only a week ago clearly demonstrates this.
See the two diagrams for the full model being explained here.
So what's the Solution?
What does it take to get things under control enough that we can at least achieve that level of success where we would feel totally proud of our accomplishment along with a satisfactory financial income to boot?!
Imagine owning ideas that reduce making money on the internet to the very fundamental permanent principles that were never before revealed.
What would that be worth?
Here's what my very good friend John Scziepanik of SynergyDiscovery emailed me after I shared some of the new strategies:
"I am so profoundly exhilarated by watching the evolution of this super civilization machine accelerate. The methods advance production immediately!"
So let's pin-point the exact process to achieve excellence. Continue to the next section on...
Have you ever really thought about what excellence means?
Excellence represents a commitment to completion.
Excellence can be reduced to 3 factors or steps:
The degree of your intent for excellence.
Your degree of organisation.
The use of your time to complete things.
This translates to the 3 core factors of Fully Integrated Internet Marketing (FIIM):
Crystal clarity of what we want to achieve, what we have and want to market, and who we will become through the journey.
Optimum preparation and organization of how we are going to do number 1.
Efficient implementation of numbers 1 and 2.
So FIIM is divided loosely into three Modules, one for each of those factors:
Business Planning.
Setting up your infrastructure for success.
Project and time management.
Of course these areas interrelate so these are not linear steps but the aspects of a combined upwards spiral process.
As part of Module 1 we will develop the necessary clarity of product and marketing yet inject into organizing (module 2) and implementation (module 3).
Next step is to understand the philosophy of big business executives and corporate values. This is crucial background that most online marketers do not have.
From agency-side and client-side work, leading to senior marketing management, I can share with you what most other online marketers have no clue about.
Here's how I explain what it means to organize life.
To organize life means to capture every worthwhile thought in a way that efficiently facilitates action on everything important to you, without wasting time or losing time, and allowing you to succeed at whatever you desire.
How easily can you agree that the three techniques I've outlined are significant aspects to organize life?
Again they are:
Regular 10 minute get-on-track reviews Organize Your Life Weekly self-assessment reviews Current projects/responsibilities list Even if you are unclear of the benefits or exactly how to do those 3 techniques, just start. Start from now. Really. I mean don't just read this article, use it, apply these techniques because they will genuinely help you organize life, and they are easy to do aren't they?
If you happen to read this and not take control of those 3 techniques, just be sure you know how to get back to this article so that when you suddenly realize one day that these 3 techniques really will help you organize life significantly, you'll want to read about them again.
I hope this helps you to organize life. It will when you do the simple steps.
Resources to Organize Life
Organize Your Life Free Report.
Time Management Books
In 2006 I read dozens of time management books, plus a handful of others since then... and here are my few select favorites:
You may also want to see the result of putting all this together into a super sleek natural approach to time management.
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The hurricane of life management
Here is a fun and provocative conversation that I had with a friend and Joint Venture Partner via Instant Messenger software.
Obviously the point here is to consider in what ways it is relevant to your own choices, or lack thereof...
Gav: are you going to talk to Lynn McTaggart soon, or I can?
Jamie: soon, i just need to feel settled
Gav: but do you really think you will?
Gav: i mean until you're in the other Holborn flat in 2 months
Jamie: i honestly don't know yet Jamie: it's all so up in the air
Gav: what is?
Jamie: life!
Gav: what do you mean, exactly?
Gav: bring it back down from the air.
Jamie: i mean moving around all the time, packing, unpacking etc
Jamie: yes wish I could catch it all and sort it out!
Gav: let the flurry of environmental conditions whirl around you, whilst your consciousness remains in the quiet eye of the tornado, choose your focus and purpose, and take the simple obvious steps that are next
Gav: what do you think?
Gav: easier said than done?
Gav: well obviously, but too difficult to do?
Jamie: hmmm well I'm all for staying centered while the tornado whirls around
Gav: so never mind the baggage and bags, that will get done
Gav: there must be a few things important to your actual development
Jamie: it's doable but not easily learned in a day!
Gav: there's nothing to learn
Gav: listen to your heart, sit in quietude, right out a little list of priorities, and get it done Gav: that's it
Jamie: yes, sensible
Gav: just obvious
Gav: and easy
Gav: how long would it take to arrange the mailing with lynn?
Gav: what actually needs to be done?
Jamie: if so obvious then why so many people all lost and helpless?
Gav: because they say to themselves that they're up in the air, and so they never look at the next two steps in front of them
Jamie: hmmm
Gav: which comes down to the person, not the circumstances
Jamie: yes
Gav: obvious
Gav: and we think things are more complicated than they are
Gav: hence we look for complicated answers
Gav: we're loonytunes
Gav: the answers are simple and obvious, and the steps are easy
Gav: go with the flow
Gav: in the quiet eye of the tornado Jamie: hmmmm very succinctly put
--end of conversation--
Ultimately, you must define what success means to you.
What would it be like to organize yourself?
I myself lived with the pain of failure for a long time until I realized that success is something we must choose to live moment to moment.
This creates the initial requirements to organize yourself. The choice must be made to live an organized life. When you make that choice to organize yourself and your life, magic seems to occur.
Perhaps you already made it and hence found this article, or perhaps you are just beginning now by thinking of how Jamie's experience compares to your own. As you read that dialogue, and you might want to skim over it again, did you see yourself reflected in any personal situations, especially at the points I highlighted?
In this bizarre anti-civilisation we live in on Earth we cause our own failures when we allow difficult or trying situations to distract us from what we hold as important.
Jamie was in the middle of moving twice, and allowed that to sabotage all of his important creative projects. It doesn't need to be like that. But without a system or self organization, that is how things turn out.
To organize yourself requires firstly making a definite choice to organize yourself, your life, your home, your circumstances, and to make choice to not let difficult circumstances stop you from activities that are highly important to you.
Identification is the 1st step to organize everything
This is the skill of asking questions.
Everything comes from asking questions.
Rudyard Kipling illustrates this with his famous 6 Honest Men.
"I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who"
The technical words here are differentiation (finding differences), and integration (finding similarities and connections).
Practically speaking, get into the habit of asking yourself automatically the following types of questions:
• What is the most effective thing to do in this situation? • What does this mean? • Is that correct to my honest assessment of reality? • If this was better, what would be different? • How does this work? • Does that matter? • What other questions could I ask?
Preparation is the 2nd step to organize everything
Preparation may include creating a plan of how you want things to be, gathering together the tools that you will need to get organized, or chilling out for a while to 'psyche yourself up' for the challenge of organizing.
Execution is the 3rd step to organize everything
Execution is that final moment of action that completes a definite step towards a goal.
Like an executable 'EXE' computer file, you activate it, and it executes the instructions that have been carefully organized by the programmer.
The skill of executing a task is about that precise moment in time in which we gather the willingness to act on something.
To control thought in such a way that we direct it to activate our body so that something gets done.
If it is a step towards a desire, it has to be done, regardless of whether we 'enjoy' the task or not.
In summary..
My highest recommendation for organize skills is to think on paper. Get into the habit of writing down your ideas, things to remember, inspirations, and anything at all that weighs on your mind.
The 3 steps to organize everything are Identification, Preparation, and Execution.
How To Manage Time
How To Manage Time
1. Pick a desired outcome
2. Get organized
3. Just do it.
What more do you need?
You want a time management tutorial?
How to manage time requires becoming aware of the 3 top causes of time management failure. And before you find out what they are once and for all on the home page, consider first that the how to's of managing time must always begun with those 3 prime directives of time management.
Without them, any time management system isn't worth %&$@.
Now, if you're ready, discover the 3 causes of time management failure, plus what you can do about it now, at the home page and discover exactly how to manage time.
Slice Of Life Showing My Time Management
The computer is on, an article is open about time management rocks and buckets…
… I need to look after my health (an important rock), so I want to eat (a pebble/project) so I'll rush to the kitchen to chop some salad, steam some potato's, and whatever else (sand/task).
Whilst doing that I might be thinking of my article, or I may listen to an audio file whilst in the kitchen (and therefore fit more tasks into the same time period). Sometimes I'll even get into some pushups on the kitchen floor.
Or indeed I may use the time for personal quiet time and let my brain space out and enjoy the chopping, bubbling, and sizzling.
Then once that's all cooking away smoothly, back to my office I rush and re-focus at the computer. (A fast pace obviously adds tremendous intensity to the day, making you more emotionally compelled towards success, as well as more efficient.)
You could say that eating is more important than writing an article. So you see I do not prioritize or schedule to level of so called 'importance'. I do it all, and I do it by breaking down the hierarchy of 'size', and selecting tasks by convenience. Anything 'urgent' will naturally show itself when your project and task lists are organized properly.
When you have life prioritized and organized this way, you can very easily decide what to do next simply by looking at your project list and task list depending on where you are.
If you scheduled these tasks to time, you'd do dinner at '6pm', write the article at '7pm', and listen to an audio at what, '9pm'? It's obviously not efficient even if it worked out that way (which it rarely does right?). Of course we shouldn't schedule tasks to time. It's a ridiculous technique. It's much more natural to do a small selection of things in one pocket of time chosen by convenience as I demonstrated above. Well now through the new Time management System Lattice that's exactly what you'll have. A natural time management skill.
So the bottom line?
Don't prioritize by level of importance. It's all important. Instead, schedule according 1st to size, then to convenience.
Then you'll find that all of the ?little things' that used to get in your way, actually weave into the ?bigger' things, and then everything gets done, your level of self-satisfaction jumps through the roof, and you leave your peers behind in the dust, unless you share all this with them of course.
I hope I've freed you from some unnatural restrictions on using time.
And these days I almost never burn my cooking.
Ooo speaking of which?.
Top Organize Skill - Think On ________
Organize skills are some of the most important skills to develop.
In fact, they may be of the most highly important skills we can possibly have for our success in all areas of life.
Pretty obvious right?
Once upon a time I was frustrated with my self and life and made the resolve to learn skills of organizing to straighten out my ENTIRE life.
This proved to be a marathon in itself, whilst I continued to juggle my life.
But I was obsessed to find the solution, because I knew that without good organizational skills, everything that I would attempt would be inferior.
And for the sake of finding and learning good organize skills I would be able to do EVERYTHING better for my entire life in every area.
It actually took me 7 years to complete my research.
And the key organize skill that I teach my clients can be captured in just three words:
Think on paper
Use the meme:
"Don't just think it, Ink it!"
I'm telling you...
...this is the best way to develop your ability to organize. Don't reject or neglect it because of it's simplicity.
Grab on to this one idea and you will soon be able to organize a wedding whilst standing in front of a tiger.
Well, who would want to? But the key here is that the elite of the elite develop this habit.
Commit to paper all inspiration, every 'must do that' thought, and all good ideas that are picked up from day to day.
Keep a sheet of paper and pen with you at all times.
Intuition / creativity (whatever you want to call it) will rise and grow by making a habit of this king of tips to develop your organize skills.
I need to spend an hour or so tidying up my current project plans.
Then brush up the next step actions for each.
Once I've done that I'll probably feel a little easier about my time management.
For even though I'm doing the right stuff, I just have that niggling feeling that I'm not quite in enough control, that I've got too many open loops floating about my head
A major part of time management is having full relaxation that you have everything accounted for, and if you're carrying things in your head, which you might obviously forget, then you certainly don't have everything controlled and accounted for, and thus you don't have time management control.
So I'm going to go update my project notes right now.
Here are some other blog posts on Self-Reviews...
Six Components of a GTD Review - The "game" of trying to empty Outlook inboxes and raise my NAA score has provided just enough incentive to get me to plug my GTD leaks and attack those lingering "high cringe factor" items clogging up my dashboard. ...
Online tool review: GTDagenda - I’d like to share my findings with you in case you’re looking for the next online tasks and projects management tool which follows some of the best ideas of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) approach. ...
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Tony Blair and Free-Market Economics
One of my favorite free-market economists Mark Skousen surprised me with his view on Tony Blair, the old British prime minister.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair agrees:
in last month’s issue, i made the case for scrapping the tired and outdated left/right dichotomy to restore the true meaning of “liberal” and “progressive.”
Now i see tony Blair agrees with me in his new book, “a Journey: a political life.” He supports a return to “liberal economic poli- cies, market reforms in welfare and public services...” My kind of guy — he uses “liberal” the way it ought to be used.
He states, “i profoundly disagree with the statist, so-called Keynesian response to the economic crisis.” and he adds, “the market did not fail... government failed. regulations failed. politicians failed. Monetary policy failed. Debt became way too cheap. But that wasn’t a conspiracy of the banks; it was a consequence of the apparently benign confluence of loose money policy and low inflation.”
According to The Economist:
“Mr. Blair insists that left/right distinctions are outdated (in a world of globalized capitalism, he prefers to define policies on trade, immigration or the rise of emerging powers, for example, as ‘open’ or ‘closed’).”
amen.
Now I am very skeptical of anything that such a high level politician as Blair would say. It's not likely that such a blackened soul (for example from supporting the War in Iraq), could so readily turn to the light.
But maybe he really has taken a long journey, explored his guilt and is becoming a reformed spokesman for reason and liberty.
Organized Home | Who Lives Here?
Look Around Your Home And Ask 'Who lives here?'
Featurs of this article:
* Forget about scheduling chores to time * Combine and overlap activities for efficiency * Organize Home by balancing Self-Image * 10 minute get-on-track reviews * Weekend take-charge sessions
How To Organize Your Home
(whether you're a parent, single professional, or student)
To Organize Your Home is important isn't it?
In fact, having a disorganized home is a great source of depression and general dissatisfaction.
It?s as if you carry your home with you wherever you go. When the home is pristine, generally speaking so is your attitude and mood when you?re out and about, right?
In the current article I reveal my top tips geared towards your [tag]organize home[/tag] ability and efficiency.
Having looked after my self basically since I was 11 years old, combined with my absolute obsession for getting the most out of life, even though I'm MALE, I know how to run a ship shape home.
Just picture Einstein with a feather duster and apron..
I have studied business management and evolved it to organize home, [tag]organize closet[/tag], [tag]organize garden[/tag], you name it.
Apply these Permanent Principles of How to [tag]Organize Your Home[/tag], come quiet time or come hordes of visitors, and within just a week or so, you?ll wonder how anyone manages any other way.
Here are my 6 "organize my home" tips
1. Who Lives Here?
I had the pleasure of meeting Rosa Maria of Neo-Tech Publications who gave a talk on personal appearance and home organization.
I always remember how she explained that we can ask ourselves the question 'who lives here' in our own home, and so question ourselves objectively about how we would judge the person that lives at this home.
Try it be looking over your own home and asking yourself about the kind of person you would judge must leave there.
2. Forget about trying to schedule your home chores to time.
This is one of the worst things that people attempt with the very best of intentions.
Trying to time-schedule chores to organize home does not last because of distractions and changes in mood and preference.
Then we beat ourselves up about the mess and that we really should be doing such and such to organize home, and we become even less motivated and things become less tidy than before! Yes?
It actually usually works much better to just wing it than to try scheduling home tidying activities to time, and along with the other Tips you will start enjoying your home more whilst being much more effective too.
3. Do similar activities at home in one place, and organize activities by combining them.
Alternatively said: ?Do your make-up in one place!, and set up your personalized cock-pits'.
I know I need to explain about the cock-pits, but need I explain about the make-up?
Similar activities (like applying all your make-up) should be done at one time and one place, as much as possible.
It's amazing how people get this about something like make-up, or getting dressed, but miss it for things like vacuuming, grocery shopping, kitchen utensil placement, etc.
Do similar activities together in one 'mini-day'. Arrange to do all the weeks shopping (including clothes, food, electrical items, presents, etc) on the same visit to the shops.
Now to explain the cock-pit. Well the visual is that of an airplane cock-pit, with hundreds of lights, buttons, dials, knobs, to give the pilot efficient control and use of all that he might need.
Organize your home in a similar way. Well not quite so intricately as a real airplane, but in general, work out ways to save time, or make best use of time, by having things exactly where you need them.
Do you have an envelope opener next to where you open your mail?
Do you have a clutter free desk draw for those things you often want access to whilst at your desk? Like headset for computer conversation, telephone, current frequently referred to books, stationery case.
Every room should be so arranged: the bathroom should be ready for efficient use, and you could take it that much further by having speakers in there so you can listen to talking CDs to learn something whilst you shave and wash in the morning.
The kitchen too could have speakers. What I've got are my worksheets for vocal exercises and physical exercises that I often do whilst I cook. Food tastes better when I?ve done some quick exercise.
Personalize your environment, be aware of making optimum use of your time by arranging things just how you like and want them.
Take pen and paper and slowly go around your home with these questions:
What's the worst area I?ve got set up right now?
How much time would it take to get a couple of key areas better organized?
What's the best areas right now?
What would make this area more organized so it?s faster and easier to use?
Is there anything in the way of getting to things quickly that I use regularly?
4. Organize Home Status depends on your self-image
The degree of your organization at home is comparable to the degree of your self-image.
In other words, if you see yourself as on top of things and well organized at home, you probably will be.
But which comes first (chicken or egg story I know)?
Well, by becoming emotionally involved with areas that you have got set-up as your personalized cock-pits, you will soon start feeling proud of your environment, and capable to organize home in all areas.
Suddenly you'll find things running much smoother, because you internalize and automate and become a person who sees yourself as well organized at home.
5. 10 Minute get-on-track reviews
When your home starts to feel disorganized, do a 10 minute organize home review.
And it?s so simple. Just walk around the home with pen and paper, and jot down any areas that are not organized to your satisfaction. Please don?t fix anything whilst you do this 10 minute review. Otherwise the review itself will become a daunting task because you?ll have in mind that it will take ages because you have to go ahead and fix everything there and then.
Instead, just take 10 minutes to storm the house and jot down what needs better organizing later.
It's the very best method to access the experiences of abundance, control, and growth for an organized home.
6. Weekend Take Charge Session
In just one hour per week you can tidy up all the finer details at home to give yourself an incredible satisfaction that everything at home is organized.
"Home, for the next hour, it's you and me bucko!"
Dedicate 1 hour, every weekend, to digging in to those painful, boring, nit-picking, areas that you generally don?t consider. It?s like a mini-spring clean once a week where you tidy and organize and straighten out any areas that seem to have got disorganized over the past short while, that you have either not noticed or tried to ignore.
Acting on this final tip, once you have all the others going, will provide a larger-than-life confidence and enjoyment of your home, guaranteed. But you need to go back to the first tip, and start there now, and be diligent.
It?s your home we?re talking about here.
Recommendations to Organize Home
See the Organized Living Stores for all manner of gadgets, items, tools, etc for keeping a totally organized home in a beautiful modern way.
Why I developed the Life Direction Clarifier
Here's why I developed the workshops:
Age 15 I thought...
"When I grow up, I'm going to be a Business Man... No wait, a Lawyer... no a racing car driver! - Yeh!"
I went through quite a few occupational fantasies when younger, and I'm sure you can relate to that.
At 18 I found myself working in the London Investment Banks earning more money than any of my friends...
But the banks were a major bore, so by 21 I was in the health industry.
By 22 I was in the construction industry as a marketing executives.
At 23 I was back to the investment banks (cos they paid better :)
So I knew how to change career directions, but I was still dissatisfied... What do I really want to do with my life? I asked myself many times.
And in between all that 'official' work I was attending public speaking clubs... trying my hand at mail order marketing... involved in network marketing... plus reading quite a bit on politics, philosophy, health, etc.
I have collected a very big range of resources that I have either looked at or used myself.
You know full well you can never really get organized
As soon as you use the kitchen you've got a mess.
Getting organized is an old fashioned idea that only last year did I break free of, and I've been teaching 'how to get organized' for years.
The trick. The key. The secret. Is something else.? I've revealed all in my free report for how to get organized now using 7 simple steps.
How boring and pointless would a life be spent trying to get organized.
Live your life fully with something other than getting organized.? You can [tag-tec]organize[/tag-tec] as much as is worth doing, quickly, and then live your life to the max.? Getting things done can be far easier than struggling to be organized all the time.
Members update (get free membership if you don't have it)
On the spiffing new homepage we now have 3 sections: Personal, Productivity and Professional.
Where do you need to focus?
For those of you in business, see the Professional section for 2 white papers I have released on marketing strategy and team performance... or see the new super-tip for online marketers.
For those of you more focused on creating and enjoying your life's adventure, there is a surprise waiting for you in the Personal section.
And no matter if your focus is personal or professional, you'll find the 'principles of productivity', now 8 of them, in the Productivity section.
Come on over to the homepage for a visit and hopefully you'll find something new and interesting that will serve you.
Thanks for being part of this evolution. I'd be thrilled to hear from you.
The essence of success comes from controlling thought.
Because from thought comes action.
From action comes results.
We convert our thoughts into words that shape our plans, manage our activities, and create the marketing funnels that make us money.
And how quickly we control our thoughts and actions means how fast we achieve the results we want.
It's a choice.
A choice involving our own biases, preferences, personality type, background, aspirations, lifestyle, skills, resources, obstacles, and more.
But still a choice.
A choice to focus.
A choice to gain clarity on what we want to do, have and become.
A choice to prepare.
And a choice to act.
Think of your life as having 7 dimensions of success:
Personal Dimensions (autodidactic???)
1. Focus and attitutde 2. Decision and direction (backwards and forwards) - See the Life Direction Clarifier 3. Organization (3 dimensions of space) See The Folderarchy Solution and the 7 Steps of Organizing 4. Time management (4th dimension of space-time) - See InstaTime 5. Mind control and creation (the conscious control of existence) - See the Mind Control Handbook
Social Dimensions
6. Synergy and influence (collaboration and impact on people we directly contact) 7. Contribution (what we create for others and society through business, art, science, etc)
For dimensions 6 and 7, I have published 2 resources, for teamwork training program and for marketing project management, with more personal resources to come later.
Visit the Members Access page for all of these resources.
Higher Awareness for Lifestyle Design - Recommended Resource
Know yourself & Grow yourself - the 2 journeys to self awareness and personal growth
You're reading the right books. You're taking the right courses. But is your life getting better?
Learn the steps to actually bring change to your life. Take the awareness and consciousness journeys to Know & Grow Yourself...
My friend is writing a book on Law of Attraction (wanna help?)
Only a handful of people can be involved with this...
...but that's fine as the 'Law of Attraction' may not be of interest to you at this time anyway.
If you are personally interested in the lessons passed down through the great industrialists such as:
"I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of? my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest." - Andrew Carnegie
"Whether you think you can or can't, either way you are right." - Henry Ford
"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney
...If you are interested in the application of those ideas for abundant modern lifestyle engineering...
Then here's what's up:
Either by email or by phone, my friend has a few questions to ask you as part of his research to write a new report (which may later become a book) on a specific new contribution to the field of Law of Attraction.
It's an exciting project and one that I will be involved with.
If you're interested, just reply to me now (use the contact form) and let me know.
I'll then send further details as soon as I have them.
Gavriel
PS. Oh one last thing...
If you do help out by answering the few questions, I'll be able to arrange for you to receive the report or possibly even the pdf version of the book at no charge.
So if you have any interest in 'LOA', do hit me up by replying to this email (use the contact form) right now so I can include you on the survey contact list.
Having enough energy to get everything done (my photo from Thailand)
In 2006 whilst in Thailand on business, I dabbled in a bit of Thai Boxing training to help me keep fit...
Here´s a pic:
...Standing in the middle of the boxing ring, drained of adrenaline... panting like a hyena... not enough energy to raise my arms in defense anymore... through the dizzyness I remembered this quote:
"Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance"
That quote was written in reference to business professionals, athletes, super moms, and everyone else...
And I never appreciated how true it was until that moment in the ring!
Later that week I fortuitously received an email from Mark Joyner about boosting energy, stamina, muscle tone, and general health by taking something called L-Glutamine (the most abundant amino acid in the body).
If you know Mark Joyner then you know how seriously to take his recommendations.
So I went straight to the local pharmacy and happily discovered a tub of L-Glutamine (a fine soft white powder that looks more like something other people would snort than something you would mix with juice and drink)... I bought it on the spot.
And I don´t make enough fuss about Mark Joyner...
...he really is one of the most enlightened and helpful sources of information that I know of.
And if you don't know about his Simpleology system, it's famous, fantastic and free...
...customers of my products such as the 7 Steps of Organizing and InstaTime Natural Time Management say that combining them with Simpleology creates great synergy. It does.
Value Identification: First identify your broadest values, these are the categories of life that you want to spend your time on.
Key Results Areas: Then break down those life categories into key areas of your life.
Projects and Processes: From there break down those areas into specific projects and ongoing processes.
Physical Activities: And break projects and process down into physical activities.
Then you will have everything prioritized for running a successful schedule that keeps you on track.
Here's an analogy of filling a bucket with large rocks to help make the point.
1. Rocks
These are the big categories of everything important in your life. Strong guideposts that represent your values.
As examples it can include:
Health
People
Creativity
Learning
Career
Tailor the list to yourself, of course. These are the big rocks of your life.
In our bucket analogy, these rocks are the large items that fill your bucket of time. This is what you wish to maintain focus and progress on in the broadest sense.
Anything not related to the important large rocks of your life are things you have no time for. All time is accounted for already. The projects and activities you have time for now come only from those important values of your life.
And so the bucket is full. It can hold no more large rocks. Yet despite being full, there is still room in there for...
2. Pebbles
We break those big areas of life into key result areas that contribute towards success of those 'big rocks'. Consider these as pebbles that will fit down into the bucket between the rocks:
Key result areas that contribute to your 'health' for example would include your exercise regime, your diet, sleep, etc.
The big category of 'People' would break down into key areas for different relationships you have, for children, parents, romance, etc.
3. Sand
Each key area divides into specific completable projects and ongoing processes. This represents the fine granular level of time management.
As examples, perhaps you want to visit the gym 3 times per week. Perhaps you want to create and publish a new report for work.
4. Water
And there is one more step. And yes there is still some room left in the bucket despite it being full of rocks, then filled to capacity with pebbles, and sand poured into every crevice.
That extra space is available to water. And this represents the actual flow of action that you.
Here we identify something on the size of an immediate activity such as choosing and joining a gym... or writing the reports introduction.
These are the physical daily activities that relate to your sand (projects and processes) pebbles (key life areas), and rocks (value categories).
The big projects will only get done by the little next step activities, and so it's all vitally ‘important', but this is how to prioritize from the top level to the bottom level of your life and work.
User Reviews - Organize Your LIfe with Folderarchy
Organize your life with this simple technique using your computer...
...with a permament collection of all your hobbies, projects, interests, responsibilities and memories.
Easily achieve full grasp on all important areas of your life, auto-magically organized, and always available at the click of a button.
Ana White's experience up to Day 18 of using Folderarchy:
Day 1
"It would seem to offer me precisely what I need... and possibly pull threads in other areas of personal interest into a cohesive practical system.
You also emphasize the simplicity of its application. Simplicity sounds appealing especially since I am still hovering around different states of stuckness... and I am also at times bursting with frustration...
I also look forward to sharing these projects and moments of personal growth and achievements."
Day 8 - Results After 1 Week
"It is very exciting as I always instinctively knew that the computer was the key to getting organized, but I could never get it quite right."
Day 18 - Results After 2 Weeks
"Yes I can see the Brilliance of the system! It's the missing link! I was taxed to know what else it was I needed to do...so .. Thank you. Thank you for your wonderful work.
Travis Musgrove, Cranial Osteopath, USA
"I want to thank you for your “Folderarchy” concept. Are you the originator of this concept? How did you come up with it?
I have been using it for about four weeks now and am noticing a marked improvement in my productivity.
You were not exaggerating about the power of the Folderarchy concept. It has made me much more effective in using the resources that I have.
I can’t wait to see where it will take me."
Caroline Coronel, NLP Practitioner, Musician and DJ, London UK
Day 0
"Thank you! I am really excited about this.
I read the course description and it sounds very compelling and encouraging. I cant wait to get started.
I am so sick of being in limbo."
Later in the month
I think this course is really excellent so far, I really like how its coming along and I'm excited to continue to Module 3.
8 months after starting with Folderarchy Caroline writes:
"I have been thinking about Folderarchy a lot recently, it really makes a lot of sense.
Things that you said in it are starting to sink in at a deeper level.
I have been paying more attention to the blocks that disempower me and now I see the huge importance of some of the questions you ask in that first webform.
Without getting through these you really get stuck.
If you aren't absolutely loving the process of what you are doing, there really is no point."
Barbara Nwosu, Detroit MI
Barbara wrote on day 75
"Day by day, my Folderarchy is becoming more streamlined and effective. Using Folderarchy has allowed me to feel like I am finally making purposeful and permanent life progress without sacrifice."
Approximately 3 years after beginning with Folderarchy she writes:
"I am extremely organized right now. I am in the present moment, handling my short-term goals and all activities are in line with my long-term life direction.
I have been able to work on multiple projects without getting distracted.
I have a higher and clearer understanding of personal organization which leads to enhanced personal power and greater happiness.
Thanks to you, this is the most exhilarating time in my life."
Back in 2003 I gave the method to Shahana:
"Wow, I think I've just amazed myself! I've started adding bits to my Folderarchy... everything seemed to just flow out – like I knew exactly what points I wanted to put down.
I can feel the wonder already. I've always wanted it all to be structured, and it fits to do it like this."
In 2004 she said:
It's so great having Folderarchy which has made my life much easier and enjoyable!"
Then in 2006 (3 years since starting with Folderarchy) Shahana surprised me with an email saying...
"By the way, Folderarchy's wicked! (by this she meant 'really good'). It's the most consistent thing that I refer to and use pretty much daily.
Not sure if I've ever truly thanked you for your influence on my life. If I haven't then thank you and if I have then thank you again.
With the Life Direction Clarifier you have a comprehensive program to:
...identify exactly what will make you super-happy...
....detoxify negative elements in your life...
...and help manage your focus towards the lifestyle you want and deserve.
Here's some user feedback on the Life Direction Clarifier...
From Craig Trafford, Music Educator:
"I'm still working my way through... having a great effect on my consciousness and actions. There's something amazing about writing all the details down.
The rest of me, even the inert parts, just seem to 'magically' step into line and after that initial input of hard thinking and planning, all the disparate parts work together to make the action steps seem easy. In fact, they are easy."
Later Craig wrote again:
"I'm really getting my teeth into the process you've set up.
At first, your activities can appear to be tedious and 'demanding of too much commitment' - but that's the mysticism kicking in.
I've experienced this writing down the details and getting under the surface as a huge release...
If you make this stuff any simpler and easier for people you'd be doing it for them".
Later Craig wrote again:
Your illustration of the current reality point and how necessary it is to understand it finally made a piece of my personal [life] jigsaw fit into place.
Having read it just today, I took a break, went to the library and tried a little experiment. I wrote my desired realities and my current realities.
Immediately I could s e n s e the creative tension between the two. Brilliant.
But, more than that.. It makes me think I can do it .. I can achieve my desired ends because now I intellectually understand the Structured Tension facts and can emotionally feel them too.
...that was the missing piece for me.
And you're right, I feel somewhat lighter now. Calmer. And have more faith in my capabilities. thank you. Craig.
Caroline Coronel, Musician and NLP Practitioner, London UK
"Things that you said in it are starting to sink in at a deeper level.
I have been paying more attention to the blocks that disempower me.
And now I see the huge importance of some of the questions you ask in that first webform."
Dolores Lawrence, US wrote:
"Gav, 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."
Barry Martin wrote:
"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."
Darrell Thompson wrote:
"..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 Gav, great stuff!"
Shahana Yasmin, Basketball Coach, London UK wrote:
"Wow, I think I've just amazed myself! I've started adding bits to my Road-Maps, 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 the Life Direction Clarifier which has made my life so much easier and enjoyable!"
Or if you want a real-life example of how asking questions helps to get things organized, read on...
My Chat With Audrey
Here’s a genuine conversation I had by instant message on the Internet which illustrates the point of getting organized as being tied to asking questions.
Audrey realized the solution to her problem herself, simply from me being open to listening to her and asking a few questions about her situation...
Audrey
Oh my god I am so unorganized. But it doesn’t really bother me, UNTIL i have company.
I still know where everything is , but when I clean up, it's like I have no clue what I did with anything. Help.
Gav
Hello Audrey. If you were to be given $1000 for coming up with the best answer to your own question, what would your answer be?
Audrey
Either that if it doesn’t bother me don’t worry about it or something quirky. I also work a full time job, go to school full time and I am a single parent
Gav
ok do you regularly feel overwhelmed?
Audrey
i used to, i almost had a breakdown until i realized that everything is temporary and subject to change
Gav
ok i have 3 questions: do you feel you have a small or fair sized living space? do you think you own too much 'stuff'? have you sat and made a list of your rooms, and the ideal stuff you'd keep in each room, including each storage area?
Audrey
I do think I own too much , But I don’t want to give it to the salvation army because they will only resale the things . I want to GIVE them away but I have no one to give to. And I think I do not have enough storage space.
Gav
ok, do you know anyone with a garage that they wouldn't mind you putting a couple boxes into for the time being until you figure out who to give the stuff to?
Audrey
nope. I’ve tried to organize but I only scatter things again
Gav
who would you give the stuff to? You either need to keep it where you have it at home and create storage for it, put it somewhere else for safekeeping, or get rid of it pronto. can you see any other possibile option?
Audrey
When? - i need like 30 extra hours in my week.
Gav
throwing things away can be tough. clarity of life direction will help with what to keep in your life.
Audrey
what do i do to throw them away? how do i let go even though I thought I did?
I COULD GIVE THEM TO THE BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER!!!!
Duh. I feel so retarded right now.
Gav
sitting alone with pen and paper can allow you to find many solutions to all sorts of problems
------------------ Audrey
u ask good questions
Gav
and asking yourself questions
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Gav
wow we just had the same idea… yes, it's all about the questions.
Audrey
so… If i ask it will come to me.
Gav
It may well do. if not, read my articles or use the 7 Steps until the right question or the right answer appears
Audrey
I write a lot of songs and poetry, but not a lot of questions
Gav
then you already have good creativity and flexibility of thinking, just apply the same skill to questions about how to organize things in your life.
Audrey
WHOA thats a real job right there.
Gav
Audrey that will have to be all for the time being, its been nice speaking to you.
Audrey
You too. Peace. ------ Ok that was the end of the conversation. So...
...how can YOU use questions to get organized?
Good question...
(couldn't resist that one)
You and I are constantly evaluating things in our environment.
Which means we are constantly asking ourselves questions, about our surroundings and about our options.
So the good news is that asking questions is something you are already really good at.
There are 6 main types of question
I’m certain that you are familiar with them all ;)
What? Why? When? Where? How? and Who?
Rudyard Kipling put it into a neat little rhyme that goes like this:
"I have 6 honest serving men, they taught me all I knew: There names are what, and why, and how. And where, and when, and who."
So turn your skill of asking questions to the task of whatever you want to organize. Don’t be shy about using pen and paper either. Writing your thoughts out make them so much easier to organize.
By now you should agree that asking questions is indeed the provable solution to getting organized.
This is an excerpt from my ebook "Life Management for the New Professional - Get Organized. Be Efficient. Manage Time". Get the full ebook FREE with a membership to the 7 Steps of Organizing program which shows you exactly what questions to ask and when to ask them to organize anything that you want to.
1. Felt your mind glaze over from avoidance, 2. Felt a mild anxiety in the pit of your stomach, or 3. Your eyes have brightened focus and conviction.
……Those (I think) are the ONLY 3 physiological reactions you could have just had.
If you did something else, I’d love to hear about it. Reply to me. But I highly doubt it.
Here’s what they mean:
Did you glaze over?
If you’re mind glazed over then you may in fact be pessimistic that a new life direction is possible for you. If that is the case, I would like you to email me your concerns about changing your life direction, what difficulties you have had so far, and I will do my best to help.
Did you feel anxiety?
Or… if you felt a mild anxiety in the pit of your stomach by the idea that ‘you are in control’, then you and I share one thing in particular. A deep yearning drive for fulfillment.
Your anxiety is a healthy sign that you’re ‘awake’, that you’re consciously aware of the struggle and opportunity in life.
Did you feel conviction?
And if you brightened with focus and conviction, then you and I both share something too. We have a positive expectation, an optimism about our personal power and confidence in our decision making abilities to progress on our ideal vision.
Any which way, you and I are here because of destiny. Not the mystical destiny of ‘fate’, but the rational destiny of choosing the next step in our journey through life.
Would a road-map help?
Obvious isn’t it?
I invite you to correspond with me whilst you work through the Life Direction Clarifier.
….On the report page you can read the heart felt testimonials I’ve received about how these methods help people genuinely advance their position in life.
By taking the steps in the Life Direction Clarifier, you combine your personal interests, career development, and current life frustrations – to get organized so that everything in your life flies in formation.
It's not a great secret that modern life is tough work.
Even cooking dinner has become a rush job.
50 years ago it was a great leisurely family activity.
Now it's 'Can you chuck the veg on so I can change that light bulb plus Sarah just called because the kids are missing."
You don't want to get organized, you just want to get stuff done in the best and fastest way that gives the greatest benefit for the least amount of effort.
Efficiency goes beyond getting organized to put us in the driving seat of modern life.
Getting Organized is impossible. You are overwhelmed by the information age. But is organized living important for you?
Organized Living is one of the most important considerations of modern times. How well is your life organized?
Do you really know how to organize things, such as learning new skills, organizing events, your career development, and your home?
Getting organized defeats it's own purpose by being a waste of time. Get past the struggle for getting organized with something different. Something new.
The idea of being efficient.
A major revolution is coming by 2010 that I've coined the Efficiency Age. Past revolutions include the industrial, technological and current information age.
The old dictum 'knowledge is power' seems to have become obsolete. Too much knowledge causes confusion. Today's information age is overwhelming.
We want an organized life. A new approach to life has to emerge through careful selection and efficient application of world knowledge.
This points us to an Efficiency Revolution.
Organized Living can only be achieved through efficiency.
And there are 5 categories of Organized Living you absolutely must not be without for another day.
Do you know where your life is headed?
Happy with that so far?
Waiting for the right time, place and money to be able to really get your life headed in better directions?
How can you achieve organized living?
The key to organized living is to successfully combine your career development with your personal life.
David Allen's Getting Things Done is truly excellent when applied to career development. For your personal life though, it still becomes overwhelming.
Consider these 5 levels of organized living.
1st. Understand how to organize.
2nd. Look at what your life values are, what's important to you and your life direction.
3rd. Begin to organize your life towards those things.
4th. Time management systems that support your organized living.
5th. The final level for organized living is the control of your own mind and emotions so that you put your energy and effort into succeeding.
One example of effective organized living is with employing handymen to help you organize the home.
If something needs to be done in the home, and you earn a medium to high level income, working full time.
Then you can calculate the value of your hour, and pay a handyman to do household tasks, giving you more time to live your life, and/or work at your career.
Efficiency Services like this will sprout up more and more as we all move towards an organized living society.
Why do the dishes for 30 minutes when you earn $30 per hour at work and can employ home help for $10 per hour.
Aren't the few hours of your evening more important than house hold chores?
The mind set of organized living requires having the skill of organizing, prioritizing everything in your life, and successfully organizing your affairs to spend your time where it gives you the greatest benefit.
Mind Tools - Recommended for Leadership and Control
Quite possibly the best all round collection of professional grade products on leadership, time management, stress management, and professional development.
Normally that would include the same old same old goal setting, self-esteem, and public motivational seminars.
I think it should involve a consistent step by step road-map that takes you through a tailored approach to personal and career development that you stear.
Wouldn't it be great if it was an easy thing to get your hands on?
The Personal Development Road-Map Workshops combine simplicity with thoroughness. Just what the Organize Doctor orderred.
But first we need to explore...
What is the difference between self-help, self-improvement, and self-development?
Words have effects based on the meaning we give to them, our thought is what gives words meaning.
The meaning in words are used to make decisions on our actions, and to create an emotional experience of our life.
My distinction between self help and self improvement probably won't be accepted at large by the self development industry. But that's ok, they need something new.
Try this on for size yourself. The difference between 'help' and 'improvement'.
Help suggests being deficient and needing something.
Improvement does not represent the same neediness as help. Improvement is about positive progress, looking forwards to bigger better.
Improvement is more positive then help. More in control, 'intenral locus of control', more responsibility. (scary for some so they continue floundering for help their hole lives).
Ask yourself: Do I need to improve (more by my own design) or do I need help (do I need more input from someone else - e.g. coaching/training)?
Personal Development
Development can be seen both in terms of accenturating (strengthening) the positive and eliminating (weakening) the negative.
So what I have done is use ther term Personal Development as an umbrella term that incorporates the 2 aspects of Self-Help and Self-Improvement.
Self-Improvement being a higher level of progress. Self-Help being necessary only when there's particular problems.
Self-Help
>>> Visit the Self-Help section.
Self-Esteem and Confidence
self-esteem and confidence often involves emotional healing and dealing with introversion.
Introverts may not lack personal self-esteem or confidence, may in fact merely dislike the typical loud-mouth party scenes, yet should still be of a relaxed emotional state when in those settings. Personal self-confidence and social self-confidence are different things. Self-esteem (self-worth) relates to competence.
To overcome lack of self-esteem or confidence in social settings one does not need self-help per se, one needs self-improvement, to improve social skills, to find a purpose on social settings, and to practice exercising that purpose.
>>> Self-Esteem and Confidence
Life Coaching vs Self-Help Books
Life coaching is a form of self-help where what you're lacking is clarity, or motivation.
Self-Help books is a slow way to personal development, because the nature of help is that it's external. To seek inside for guidance when what you think you need is help, is a difficult quandry.
So if in fact you feel pretty much self-sufficient, then I suggest you lean more towards Self-Improvement than self-help, as I have defined them above.
Self-Improvement
>>> Visit the Self-Improvement section.
Improvement of Skill (competence)
Personal development, beyond emotional self-esteem needs, becomes one of improving personal power and effectiveness. This comes from mixing attitude with improving skills.
>>> Skill Improvement
>>> Personal Power through Attitude
Communication in Leadership and other Relationships
There is also a section on dealing with others through communication in leadership and other relationships.
>>> Communication in Leadership and other Relationships
Finding Yourself vs Creating Yourself
You don’t need to ‘find’ yourself.
The mystery of ‘finding one self’ is that people ignore where they’re standing.
Surprise surprise you are wherever you are.
When you describe in full detail the current reality of your life, you will have ‘found yourself’.
George Bernard Shaw said:
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
The key is to fully appreciate where you are, emotionally and practically. From there we have the foundations to build your new Life Direction.
Only by knowing where you’re starting from can you plan a route to where you want to get.
So first write down all the categories and areas of your life.
Then fill in the detail of exactly what fills your life, at present, in each of those categories.
Remember to include your career experiences and skills you have got.
Include the current status of your health.
Your travel experience.
Your current living environment.
Connections that you’ve got, people you know that might be valuable to you for future projects and career. Etc etc etc.
It’s a big process, but obviously so worthwhile doing.
This must include the what’s, why’s, where’s, who’s, how’s and when’s of your life situation.
Quite a task, but vital for your Life Direction.
Of course it’s easy to do with the actual Life Direction Clarifier.
“Things that you said in it are starting to sink in at a deeper level. I have been paying more attention to the blocks that disempower me. And now I see the huge importance of some of the questions you ask in that first webform.” - Caroline Coronel, Musician and NLP Practitioner, London UK
I ask because when you're working on changing your life direction, you will most certainly be experiencing a level of stress that is uncomfortable, urgent... and actually quite easy to reduce...
Stress effects even the highest caliber business executives.
But often they stubbornly refuse to do anything about it.
It can cost them their health, their happiness. And even their lives (heart attacks are often caused by stress - and always come 'unexpectedly').
I recommend the following product to help you Minimize Stress and maximise control...
As well as introducing you to relaxation techniques, its unique approach shows you how to win control of your job and career, build positive relationships with powerful people and co-workers and thrive under the intense pressure of a successful career.
The Stress Management Masterclass has been designed, researched and tested in collaboration with stress experts at University College London.
I recommend it for dealing with the stress that results whilst changing life directions.
... Because there is more to you than just work, business, and marketing.
There's more to me too...
I'm going to share with you a lot of new ideas, resources, and experiences, that I'm transferring from my various other websites, covering 4 key areas of 'personal adventure' that lends itself to a 'work life balance'.
What's more, I'll soon be traveling -- and I'm taking you with me.
So check out the 4 new sections below, and stay tuned for more as I gear myself up for another year of flashpacking!
There are so many websites proposing to show you how to achieve various desires and dreams aren't there?
Why is this one different?
Because Organized Living World crunches a massive amount of information and topics such as:
* Personal Development * Negotiation * Time Management * Meditation * Goal Setting * Personal Organisation * Values * Dreams * Projects * Business Development * Creativity * Mindfulness * Health / Anti-Ageing * Love * Investments * Relationships * Technology * etc
And organizes all that information so you can benefit from it instantly.
One of my own great goals is to find ways to reduce the time it takes to add life values (things important to me that I enjoy) into all of the main areas of my life.
I used to break it down into these 6 main areas of life management:
1. Abundant Wealth 2. Superior Intelligence 3. Total Security 4. Romantic Love 5. Stimulating Career 6. Optimum Health
And now you can see an enhanced version available in the Lifestyle section.
Do you need a mental and emotional detox?
We are already familiar with people going on week long physical health detoxification holidays.
They'll line up in droves and pay a fortune to be put through army like exercise regimes...
...put on a drip (called a health detox fast)...
...let themselves be prodded and probed...
...and find relaxation sitting in a hot room of steam for 20 mins that brings them near to passing out.
And even invite their friends for the shared torture of a detox 'holiday'.
But what about a mental and emotional detox?
In the Life Direction Clarifier we see to it that you go beyond the information and the thoughts about your life... as we dive into your emotional pressures, overwhelms, frustrations and disappointments.
That's an important part of changing and improving your life direction. To get emotionally involved.
Some people can't handle it.
But those are the people who aren't ready to harness their Life Direction.
They're not ready to combine their personal aspirations and career into a mature road-map of development.
I'm assuming that you'll accept putting yourself through some mental pain in this Mental Detox workshop just like you might put yourself through physical pain of a physical detox?
Are you prepared to do that at this point in your life?
Pure diamond comes from a great amount of pressure against coal. So if you're feeling overwhelmed and pressured by life, that's ok.
We just need to harness that energy in the right direction.
All you need is the road-map which we're going to build to move beyond your current overwhelm, frustrations and pressures.
But first we've got to draw all that mental poison out of your system, and put it on paper.
Do you know that probably 80% of your frustrations are caused by just a handful of things?
Once you've detoxed it all out on paper you'll feel quite shocked and also empowered.
And the Life Direction Clarifier shows you the right way to go through this important process.
Here's what Craig wrote me...
"I'm really getting my teeth into the process you've set up.
At first, your activities can appear to be tedious and 'demanding of too much commitment' - but that's the mysticism kicking in.
I've experienced this writing down the details and getting under the surface as a huge release...
If you make this stuff any simpler and easier for people you'd be doing it for them".
Craig Trafford, Music Educator.
>>> See the Life Direction Clarifier.
Time Management With InstaTime
In 2006 I conducted a small time management system seminar on a tropical island in Thailand.
It was a 30 day dedicated frenzy of testing all manner of time management techniques on myself, and reporting my findings, successes and failures, to the group of clients involved.
Then in 2007 I released the TimeLattice Time Management System. A new paradigm in time management that I stumbled on through doing that gruelling 30 day attempt at getting old time management techniques to work.
I really did discover some incredible and insightful things. I doubt it was my intelligence. But just the fact of 30 days total immersion and dedication to time management.
But now again around the turn of 2008 I have found an even simpler way of delivering the same natural time management results from the Time Lattice.
I've called it InstaTime.
And this blog will chronicle the journey of tying InstaTime into every other time management system, along with the evolution of InstaTime with modern personal organization software, new time management books that are published, and my battle with traditional time management techniques that I have exposed as obsolete, and even dangerous, to your time management success.
On the website homepage you can get the FREE InstaTime Report.
It's great to finally be starting a new time management blog.
Self-Help Books
Recommended Self-Help Books
My Road-Map Workshop will do you wonders (check it out at Life Direction through Personal and Career Development), and I can also suggest just a few good self help books.
Anything and everything by Ayn Rand, including her fiction.
Neo-Tech literatures, if you're lucky enough to get your hands on any.
The Efficiency Factor e-courses via www.OrganizeDr.com for Organized Living.
More Traditional Self-Help Books
Steven Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People seems to be rather popular ;)
I'll add everything soon and I'll send you a list of books if you've got my Free report available on the home page. Life Direction through Personal and Career Development
Let's go over to the Self-Esteem and Confidence section.
Esoteric musings about life and society and Biological Immortality
We stand at a new precipice in history...
...at the promontory overlooking Biological Immortality in our lifestimes.
Biological Immortality?!
Yes, of course, the commercially available technologies that extend our lives indefinitely, for as long as we might come to wish for.
What a great profit opportunity...
The baby boomer generation seek life extension technologies, skin rejuvenation, to maintain their health long into old age, and extend their old age long into the incredible future of our age of super rapidly advancing new technology.
But only a few today recognise the importance and reality of this opportunity.
And the idea of Biological Immortality spreads quietly via a gradual subconscious undermining of today's Establishment.
The precipice is about finding the leverage point to escape death...
Helping the mass market integrate beyond pinch-minded perspectives of living to die, collecting toys along the way, giving up their control and creativity to the powers that be...
... moving beyond the reality of Earth's past:
Where death and taxes were inevitable.
Now, perhaps, neither are inevitable.
"Hoh hum sigh Earth's bored citizens distracted by anticivilisation insanities" - Frank R Wallace
But for those excited by the prospect of profiting in the age of depoliticization and liberated technologies of health and human experience…
...for those standing at the Promontory, looking beyond the precipice...
...I invite you over to the somewhat esoteric sections of the site:
A day later and I find myself thinking for the first time ever in 10 months of travel:
'why the heck am I still doing this?'
I thought for the first ever in 10 months of travel... standing in the midst of a manic bus station, the disorganization, the pushing and shoving and the disregard of my backpack by the station attendees, dragging it along the oily rough concrete floor…
But reaching the remote tropical village of Villa Tunari was worth it...
4 hours from Cochabamba, where, by coincindence, the 70s drug lord Sosa's jungle mansion was set in the film scarface that happened to be playing at the restaurant where I had dinner.
…now 2 days later in another crazy bus station my bus has actually exited the station as the frantic attendee waves a clipboard at me pointing to the bus, which I must make a dash for.
The 10-hour journey some how managed to wind up at 14.5 hours.
But Santa Cruz is surprisingly nice so I'm glad I stuck to my plan to reach it despite the troubles.
With great relief of my new surroundings, a sunny open courtyard at a quiet hotel, with wifi, new tropical fruits...
...plus an uninhibited Toucan who seems fully committed to eating laptop cables...
...I can get down to work:
The global situation is... well... perplexing:
The recent Bernanke interview is extraordinary.
His nervousness is apparent, I guess due to the precipitous promontory of purgatory at which he now stands. 'Not printing money' he claims. "100% confident of his ability to control the US economy", he stutters.
Europe and the US are heading for greater trouble.
...Not without Political Marketing heading deeper still into the original manipulative public relations experiments of Edward Bernay's in the 1920s, with a new bussword now 'Nudging'. See Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness. I'm not judging it. I'm a marketer myself. But people should know what is going on. Survival of the smartest.
With 3.5 million views, this cartoon explanation of Quantitative Easing is a must-see:
As of 9 December 2010 for investments: Silver looks good in the medium and long-term (just my own opinion and not advice). Looks like a bit of choppy short-term volatility. Check out this Silver investment related article <<< every cloud has a silver lining.
Traveling helps one understand market opportunities, and I have investments in a couple of south america banks, plus Chinese companies although I've never been to China but would like to in the next couple years.
I morally support Wikileaks in exposing Governments.
This weekend I'm heading into Argentina and I look forward to it. I may have the opportunity to visit Doug Casey's ranch, vineyards, spa, etc under development (see www.laestanciadecafayate.com)
I find myself obsessive about the stock market at present, where the news of political / economic upheaval mix with opportunities for profit.... or loss.
Back to it...
Poem: Clinging To The Pole Of My Carousel Pony
by Gavriel Shaw, first draft June 2007
Around and around I go, my head in a spin.
I look at the crowd standing in line, Eager to join me on this double bind.
Clowns appear all around me, I've discovered their false reality.
Their true colours hidden by bright painted smiles, surrounding their victims with balloons, fatty foods and Coca-Cola - stuffing their faces, distracted by entertainment; Hollywood blockbusters, MTV, false grace - and blind dignity.
Clinging to the pole of my carousel pony... Hidden by this complimentary mask and its own false painted smile, I still cling to the dream of excitement and bounty,
But beneath my mask my eyes have opened to an alternate reality, turning on its head this carousel dichotomy of frozen sighs and fantasy.
The reality is that I’m bored. My carousel goes round and round, but I’ve outgrown its bind and false sense of security.
I look into the crowd for the architects of this plastic carousel, I'm tired of being just another cog in the wheel, of their system, the system -- of government and hell.
As I cling to the pole of my carousel pony, must I wait till it stops or can I escape early… Perhaps there is something more alive and more real? But what is our fate?
Like children we are treated by the elitist powers that be.
How can I be rid of them… How can I be free?
Alas, I see in the crowd, the next line of carousel riders, How can I show them the truth of this charade?
What possibly can I say to make them see, That even though my mask carries a smile of glee… I cling here to my carousel pony, trapped as can be?
30% of Brits polled said 2010 worse year of their life
"Money and job worries"
They should see what's coming in 2011-12...
What to do:
I think 'Where's Gavy' for 2011 looks likely to be South East Asia. I know how things work out there as I travelled 14 months in 2010.
But I won't travel around much. I'll find a wifi powered cave in the mountains. Probably North Thailand, Chiang Mai.
I need to concentrate on research and writing projects, experiments in mind control and keep living expenses low...
...so I can keep my humble size pot-of-gold working for me in the precarious stock market -- with hawk-like oversight.
We will exit the eye of the global economic tornado at some point over the coming few years.
Won't be pretty.
But there is lots of opportunity, and for those that 'whether the storm' better than others, through attitude, effort and rational decisions:
Marketers must learn to encourage and support the reality of human experience.
Business owners must learn to build a community bond to their personal brands.
Individuals must find happiness in their work, so as not only to keep their job, but to excel. If you're not going forwards... if you're not growing creatively, spiritually, and wisely, then you're going backwards...
Individuals I might suggest, should consider how they make, save and give-away money very carefully.
I'm buying Commodities, including Silver.
Why?
Because paper money from the government's are eroding and will be replaced... by commodities.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - Thriller, Love Story, Tear Jerker
I'm re-reading Atlas Shrugged (recommended to all) and watching the global politico-economic events unfold.
The parallels are uncanny. The blindness amongst men staggers the imagination.
The writing is on the wall, this house of cards is going to fall.
I remember reading an article…
(perhaps it was an audio file as I remember the emphasis in the speakers empassioned voice)
…saying that if only people would read Atlas Shrugged they would 'understand'.
"Just read it, that's all they have to do."
Well I'm reading it fort the third time now (first time when I was 18), and
I never realised what a TEAR JERKER it is!
Below I list the pages and quotes that have literally brought tears to my eyes, lumps to my throat.
I loved Atlas since the first read - and it all seemed so very obvious to me then - in a 'rational without life experience' kind of way…
But now having gone through life experiences of love, companionship, business management, shared struggle and defeat… I feel deeply stirred by Ayn Rand's genius story…
…and I also better appreciate Eric Savage's words.
"Just read it, that's all they have to do."
WARNING: These clips obviously reveal a little bit of the storyline, so if you have not read it but have already firmly made the decision to do so, perhaps you will not want to spoil any surprises by reading the clips below. On the other hand, if reading them may help encourage you to actually pick up a copy of Atlas Shrugged from Amazon or your local book store, then I hope these brief clips serve that purpose.
P 80 Each night, she drove the five miles from the country house to Rockdale. She came back at dawn, slept a few hours and got up with the rest of the household. She felt no desire to sleep. Undressing for bed in the first rays of the sun, she felt a tense, joyous, causeless impatience to face the day that was starting.
p82 The floor of the station trembled., and glass rattled in the windows. She watched the train's flight with a smile of excitement. She glanced at Francisco: he was looking at her, with the same smile.
p86 The plea of his first smile had not been a plea of weakness; he had acquired an air of determination that seemed merciless. He acted like a man who stood straight, under the weight of an unendurable burden.
p88 He shuddered suddenly, he threw off the blanket, he looked at her naked body, then he fell forward and buried his face between her breasts. He held her shoulders, hanging onto her convulsively. She heard the words, muffled, his mouth pressed to her skin: "I can't give it up! I can't!"
p91 She realized suddenly that playing with those marbles was not a deliberate affectation on his part; it was restlessness; he could not remain inactive for long.
p112 Rearden's startled glance at him was like the involuntary thrust of a hand grasping for support in a desperate need. The glance betrayed how much he wanted to find the sort of man he thought he was seeing.
p131 He pointed at the column of smoke. "There's your new sunrise. It's going to feed the rest." "If it's not stopped." "Do you think it can be stopped?" She looked at the rail under her feet. "No," she said.
p132 "We've done it, haven't we?" he said. In payment for every effort, for every sleepless night, for every silent thrust against despair, this moment was all she wanted. "Yes. We have."
p153 "You see, I can't believe that you're really gone . . . because I know that you're still able to hear me. The way you live is depraved. But the way you act is not. Even the way you speak of it, is not. . . . I had to try . . ."
p154 In the moment when she thought that she had seen this look before, that this was the way he had looked against the night glow of the city, when he lay in bed by her side for the last time—she heard his cry, the kind of cry she had never torn from him before: "My love, I can't!"
p155 He reached for his fountain pen, wrote at the bottom of the list "Henry Rearden, Rearden Steel, Pennsylvania—$1,000,000" and tossed the list back to her.
p156 The line of her shoulders looked taut, yet thrown back easily, as if poised for flight. Tension seemed natural to her, not a sign of anxiety, but a sign of enjoyment; the tension of her whole body
p160 The wrinkles of her soft chin trickled into a shape resembling a sneer. "What are they, your mills—a holy temple of some kind?" "Why . . . yes," he said softly, astonished at the thought.
p162 Mr. Ward looked quickly away from him, but Rearden had caught a glimpse of his face. It's so much for him, thought Rearden, and so little for me!
p165 What? . . . I can't hear you. Have you caught a cold? . . . What are you thanking me for, as yet? Wait till I explain it to you."
p177 "Dagny, I think you'd better come over." … The anteroom of the office was full. Men stood jammed among the desks, against the walls. As she entered, they took their hats off in sudden silence. She saw the graying heads, the muscular shoulders, she saw the smiling faces of her staff at their desks and the face of Eddie Willers at the end of the room. Everybody knew that nothing had to be said.
p178 She added casually, as if it were a last-moment decision, but it fooled no one, "Oh yes, tell him that I'm going to ride with him in the cab of the engine on that run." An old engineer beside her grinned and said, "I thought you would, Miss Taggart."
p183 In a voice of quiet authority, the voice of a vice-president, he ordered, pointing at the cameras, "Stand back—way back. Take one shot when I cut it, then get out of the way, fast."… He held the scissors ready over the white ribbon. He took his hat off and tossed it aside.
p185 A solitary figure stood at every mile post. Some were young schoolboys, others were so old that the silhouettes of their bodies looked bent against the sky. All of them were armed, with anything they had found, from costly rifles to ancient muskets. All of them wore railroad caps. They were the sons of Taggart employees, and old railroad men who had retired after a full lifetime of Taggart service. They had come, unsummoned, to guard this train. As the engine went past him, every man in his turn stood erect, at attention, and raised his gun in a military salute.
p189 She shook the hands of the men of the train's crew, without words, with the seal of the grins on their faces.
p190 "I've always been curious to see what you're like." "I've never had a chance to be what I'm like—except "Do you live here alone, like this, miles away from Wyatt pointed at the window. "I'm a couple of steps everything."
p191 Ellis Wyatt picked up his glass, looked at their faces and said, "To the world as it seems to be right now!" He emptied the glass with a single movement. She heard the crash of the glass against the wall in the same instant that she saw a circling current—from the curve of his body to the sweep of his arm to the terrible violence of his hand that flung the glass across the room. It was not the conventional gesture meant as celebration, it was the gesture of a rebellious anger, the vicious gesture which is movement substituted for a scream of pain.
Entries only recorded so far up to page 191.
Overcoming Resistance To Change - Isn't It Obvious?
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Hi this is Gavriel Shaw, and I want to demonstrate how to overcome resistance to change...
Because, if your colleagues only saw what you saw...
Then you could really get things moving!
Right?
Well here's what most managers and influencers miss...
The Obvious.
This simple matrix reveals why people often resist change, and illustrates the pretty darn obvious solution for...
How to ensure that your change initiatives gain rapid acceptance -- without resistance.
Top left box is the pot of gold, where change is perceived as beneficial.
Top right box shows accident crutches... where change is seen as having potential risks and burdensome effort.
Bottom left is the magical mermaid of any 'creature comforts' that already exist without making any changes.
And bottom right are the alligators that exist without change that cause problems, fears, frustrations, etc for people right now.
And with that matrix, the solution of overcoming resistance to change becomes obvious.
Although I didn't say it's easy...
First you must understand what comforts exist for people not to take action. (the mermaids)
You need greater leverage, so you identify problems that actually exist without change that could be eliminated WITH change. (the alligators)
Plus you identify other positive benefits of making the change. (the pot of gold)
And finally, you need solutions to any potential risks of making change.
Demonstrate the gains.
Eliminate the pains.
Reduce perception of current comforts.
Emphasise perception of current dis-comforts.
Baring those 4 factors in mind will help you put together an irresistible change offer.
Isn't It Obvious?
I recommend Eli Goldratt's book by that title. Here's his company's video on the subject of change resistance from which I took the above matrix:
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You can also get my white paper:
How To Invisibly Force Your Team Into Maximum Performance
August 2006 I virtually took a small group to a tropical island in Thailand. I was committing myself to a 30 day Time Management Training month. 33 personal productivity software programs were put through their paces.
And this cartoon by the living legend Mark Joyner sums up what I found with most of the personal productivity software programs I reviewed, even the most popular ones.
The last frame shows the guy expressing 'yeh, so what, what's the big deal?'
That's what I felt going through all the fancy-smancy popular personal productivity software programs.
The technology is beautiful, the functions are endless, the prices were reasonable given how important personal productivity software could be for us, and in many cases the software was totally free.
But as I discovered, most of the options and functions are cumbersome, unnecessary, and conflict with the new paradigm of time management systems. [tag]Mark Joyner[/tag] has created a system of personal productivity and time management using all the latest and greatest developments in software development. Mark's software focuses on boosting your energy whilst helping you to organize your life day-by-day. This will rid you of a lot of procrastination because it's so easy to do. It now includes a few personal productivity software programs, along with multi-media videos, and guidelines that are very encouraging, motivating and easy to do.
What's more is that it's 100% Free. Until you want to take extra modules for health and what not inside what will become one of the most incredible [tag]organized living store[/tag]s. But the software and course for time management and personal productivity really is Free and here's the thing...
...It's miles better than any single personal productivity software program I reviewed in my dedicated 30 day search through popular software. And my clients have taken a strong liking to using it with my programs such as the organize your life with Folderarchy solution.
"I'm intergrating my Folderarchy with Simpleology. This will be very interesting!" - Teddy Antoine
Look back over the cartoon. Step beyond the norm of what everyone else is clapping and frapping about online. Put [tag]Simpleology[/tag] 101 self-improvement software to the test along with my 5 stage approach for [tag]Organized Living[/tag] that you'll find in the right column of the Organized Living World web site. There are very few software programs that I recommend. Most of them cost something. Mark Joyners Simpleology software has really helped me to provide something everyone can and 'should' use every single day. And incredibly, it's 100% Free!
Anxiety and Influence - My Plan For 2011 - Please Read
At the risk of sounding corny, crafty or crazy...
...the purpose of life is to be happy -- to increase the excitement, wonder, peace and love that happiness is made of.
It's what you want.
It's what your customers want.
Look:
I have 2 creative loves...
Marketing… or more specifically Copywriting (writing promotional information)
Lifestyle engineering (getting organized, time management, personal adventure)
They go hand in hand. You'll learn a lot from both topics. BUT only if you're sensitive to several crucial ideas.
Consider this:
There are 7 dimensions of lifestyle that give us happiness.
The first 5 dimensions relate directly to ourself (in a nutshell):
Attitude to life.
Life direction.
Organized living.
Project and priority management.
Mind control.
And beyond the self there are 2 external or social dimensions:
Synergy, collaboration and influence
Contribution and value creation for others
As a marketer and copywriter, I seek to help good companies innovate and distribute experiences that raise customers happiness by providing them with values.
Legendary direct response marketer and copywriter Gene Schwartz said:
Everybody you're out there writing to is a good soul. They really want to be nice, honest and successful. They want to be happy.
And he also said that a copywriter (which includes decent marketers) must seek to carefully understand their market, even to the degree that you:
Read everything in the world except your business. Read junk. Very much junk. Read so that anything that interests you will stick in your memory. ... Get all the very low stuff. Low culture makes big money. There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use.
Painful but alas, true. Low culture is not the only culture or the only marketplace of course.
Gene's point was that we must be careful to:
Listen. And every time they say something, you nod. And memorize specific statements, so you can feed them back to them in the same conversation. In that way, the person goes into a talking frenzy.... People become hypnotized by their own stories.
Kind of alarming if you think about it.
Gene is saying that by listening to the views in the marketplace, by really listening, people will open up and reveal the stories that they tell themselves which actually hypnotise them.
Hypnosis is a state of learning, where we learn good things and bad things.
Consider kids hypnotised by violent computer games that become aggressive be repeating the behaviours they have observed.
Consider the late night horror flick which spooks us in our own house.
In fact, with the advent of the 'experiential consumer' age…
…where the consumer marketplace expects far more than just access to a service such as Disney Land, but increasingly expect a specific set of emotional experiences… even if they are unrealistic, again as Gene stated:
He may logically know he can't do that, but he would love to do it... People want to believe.
So I am putting myself into market research and experiential experiment mode for 2011...
... in my quest to become a better copywriter and a better happier person.
I will still maintain my client list, but my personal life and my blog will reflect a broader investigation of human experience.
Even mind-control, willpower and discipline.
So I set sail in a new direction, and hark a few more words from Gene Schwartz:
Copywriters are crazy. And you want them crazy. They go for the big kill.
During 2011 (as one of my new year resolutions) I intend to write a report titled Anxiety & Influence, focusing on dimensions 5 (mind control) and 6 (synergy and influence) as alluded to above.
IF you are motivated by honest business, industry controlling marketing, the deep psychology of copywriting, your own mind-control, political freedom and your financial and even romantic success in 2011...
...then stay with me as we journey down the rabbit hole like I haven't done for almost a decade.
Corruption in media, business and politics will be exposed.
Investment recommendations will be made.
Spooky techniques to control your own mind - and even other people's minds - will be revealed.
For example:
Did you know that the root's of Public Relations (PR) comes from Nazi propaganda via Edward Bernay's in the 1920s who learned from Freud about the manipulation of the subconscious:
Is Obama Having A Mental Breakdown? (Pure Marketing Genius)
I've never been so rivetted to global news as I am right now.
It's better than any Hollywood Blockbuster.
Better than any best seller tear jerking, romantic thriller.
It's real life. But it's utterly absurd.
The riots beginning to sweep through Europe, like the 100 monkey effect, and will only get worse in 2011.
I've also just discovered these articles by Richard Salbato who seems intelligent, studious, clear thinking, and dedicated to the truth.
Although I may disagree somewhat on his version of truth in terms of spiritual philosophy, he does a great tear-up of the past, present and future political situation.
The more a government gives you the more it owns you. And of course where the governments gets funds to give hand-outs is from you in the first place. So you give the government (or rather, government takes from you by force or threat of force) so that the government can 'give' to you, and subsequently own you all the more. Go figure.
On Personal Investment Opportunities
Silver seems to be forming a trading pattern that looks similar to the one before it jumped from $20 to $30 an ounce, so maybe it will make another jump up soon.
Well, another inflection point in history seems to be upon us.
The EU will try to morph into something else (watch out for talk of a 'Euro-mediterranean'), and so will the USA, but as they stand right now, I believe they are coming to an end.
Watch this:
Business, careers, lifestyle, finances - everything is shifting.
Stay tuned. Get involved. Live and prosper forever.
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So just think of the most complicated thing you need or want to organize at this time.
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Project Lists for Everything
Organize Your Life Tip | Project Lists For Everything Keep a Project list updated all the time to Organize Life
Write down all the big important things in your life at present.
Fact established by Brian Tracy: This will automatically move you to the top 3% of the population.
Fancy being among the elite of men and women?
Maintain an active list of all your projects (including responsibilities and time consuming tasks)
Review this [tag]project list[/tag] as part of your weekly review.
You'll be amazed at how the little simple exercises like that add up to organized living.
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Google Mail smashes my old organize email [tag]tips[/tag] article right out the blinkin ocean.
Here's my previous tips on organizing email that has a few current useful tips.
To [tag]Organize Email[/tag] is important. These simple tips might help.
Here are some simple tips that might help you organize email if email is currently a big pain.
First get the email folder structure organized
Have you lost out on 2 or more hours worth of your valuable time in the past week because you have not established the following simple and easy organize email disciplines?
When you [tag-tec]organize[/tag-tec] email you gain massive leverage between the time it takes to set up, and the time it will save you for the months and years into the future.
Question: Email that you receive regularly; subscriptions etc? do you open them as soon as you see them in your main inbox and then either action them, file them, or delete them? Is there too big of a collection of emails in your main box?
I've read advice to keep the email inbox as empty as possible. But with the amount of spam and newsletter subscriptions I get that just isn't practical.
What I do is let my inbox get larger and larger and I have no guilt over that.
When email hits my inbox it either gets filtered or stays in the inbox. I look over all new email and if I want to keep it, then I set up a new filter for it so from then on it will not go to the inbox.
That way, the inbox fills up with stuff that's not at all important, but I keep it just in case I miss something or if I want to search through them like having my own personal web info directory.
When I get a couple thousand emails in the inbox, I move them to an archive. This way I can make sure not to delete anything just because it hits my inbox and I don't immediately recognise or value it. But my inbox stays at a size that the computer still runs efficiently.
I have got the following Mailboxes set up.
Mailboxes Main boxes ACTION Later
Topic specific such as:
Health Property People Newsletters *** Anything from Nathan Shaw *** (well ok that might be a slight over emphasis)
Filters
Learn how to get your incoming email to automatically be filtered into the appropriate mailbox.
Whitelist
Learn how to quickly add an email address to your white list, so that the spam filter doesn?t throw it out.
Flags
Outlook uses a great flagging system so that I can colour code the email that comes in and set up a filter that groups those colourised emails together.
Red means priority so I flag them as soon as they come in and then I know exactly where to go when I?ve got time to deal with the priority emails that need my fast attention.
It?s well worth spending the time to learn about flagging your emails for priority status.
Spam folder check.
Perhaps once a week, open the spam folder and scan to see any emails that you didn?t want filtered as spam.
The spam filters are great but do cause problems too because wanted email often can be filtered there. When you see one you want, add that email address to your white list.
I know it's a pain to figure these things out. But do it once, and it will streamline everything you do from now on.
And what's more, it will relieve you of all those niggling sinking stomach churning feelings of an overwhelming uncontrolled email inbox.
Resources to Organize Email
Just go grab yourself a gmail account with google. It's the future of email management.
It's the Economy, Stupid
…was a phrase widely used during Bill Clinton's 1992 US presidential election…
…who then proceeded to stupidly sink America even closer to its current collapse.
But the market place is changing. Free Market principles are seeping into mainstream media and mass awareness.
Already, the video has been viewed a half million times and has made international news. Aside from its high production values, what's remarkable about it is its theoretical accuracy and transparency. It has brought Austrian business-cycle theory from the background to the forefront of debate.
"A growing economy consists of prices falling, not rising."
The whole system of inflation is solely for the purpose of theft and wealth redistribution.
Government spending harms the economy and forestalls its healing.
"What is most needed during recessions is for the economy to be allowed to get worse — for it to flush out the excesses and reset itself on firm footing."
The fact that we have to save for the future is, in fact, an outrage. Were no money printed by the government and the banks, things would get cheaper through time, and we would not need much money for retirement, because it would cost much less to live each day then than it does now. But we are forced to invest in today's government-manipulated inflation-creation world in order to try to keep our purchasing power constant.
If you are a business owner or marketer, or 'concerned citizen', be ready for some great politico-economic shifts coming to a town near you.
Focus on value.
Value to the business (real bottom line profitability) via
Value to your customer (anything that genuinely improves physical, emotional, psychological, intellectual, spiritual wellbeing)
And watch out for a return to the gold standard. Real money rather than paper money.
Business's that meet the coming changeover will be in an excellent position to profit and build a stronger brand.
It might take a few more years yet, but we'll get there.
Chat with Jamie about How To Organize Yourself
Real Life Conversation About How To Organize Yourself Real Conversation | Organize Yourself
OrganizeDr. (that's me): Are you going to talk to Lynn McTaggart soon, or i can?
Jamie: soon, i just need to feel settled
OrganizeDr.: but do you really think you will?
OrganizeDr.: i mean until you're in the other Holborn flat in 2 months
Jamie: i honestly don't know yet
Jamie: it's all so up in the air
OrganizeDr.: what is?
Jamie: life!
OrganizeDr.: what do you mean, exactly?
OrganizeDr.: bring it back down from the air.
Jamie: i mean moving around all the time, packing, unpacking etc
Jamie: yes wish I could catch it all and sort it out!
OrganizeDr.: let the flurry of environmental conditions whirl around you, whilst your consciousness remains in the quiet eye of the tornado, choose your focus and purpose, and take the simple obvious steps that are next
OrganizeDr.: what do you think?
OrganizeDr.: easier said than done?
OrganizeDr.: well obviously, but too difficult to do?
Jamie: hmmm well I'm all for staying centered while the tornado whirls around
OrganizeDr.: so never mind the baggage and bags, that will get done
OrganizeDr.: there must be a few things important to your actual development
Jamie: it's doable but not easily learned in a day!
OrganizeDr.: there's nothing to learn
OrganizeDr.: listen to your heart, sit in quietude, right out a little list of priorities, and get it done
OrganizeDr.: that's it
Jamie: yes, sensible
OrganizeDr.: just obvious
OrganizeDr.: and easy
OrganizeDr.: how long would it take to arrange the mailing with lynn?
OrganizeDr.: what actually needs to be done?
Jamie: if so obvious then why so many people all lost & helpless?
OrganizeDr.: because they say to themselves that they're up in the air, and so they never look at the next two steps in front of them
Jamie: hmmm
OrganizeDr.: which comes down to the person, not the circumstances
Jamie: yes
OrganizeDr.: obvious
OrganizeDr.: and we think things are more complicated than they are
OrganizeDr.: hence we look for complicated answers
OrganizeDr.: we're loonytunes
OrganizeDr.: the answers are simple and obvious, and the steps are easy
OrganizeDr.: go with the flow
OrganizeDr.: in the quiet eye of the tornado
Jamie: hmmmm very succinctly put
–end of conversation–
Ultimately, you must define what success means to you.
What would it be like to organize yourself?
I myself lived with the pain of failure for a long time until I realized that success is something we must choose to live moment to moment.
This creates the initial requirements to [tag]organize yourself[/tag].
The choice must be made to live an organized life.
When you make that choice to organize yourself and your life, magic seems to occur.
Perhaps you already made it and hence found this article, or perhaps you are just beginning now by thinking of how Jamie?s experience compares to your own.
As you read that dialogue, and you might want to skim over it again, did you see yourself reflected in any personal situations, especially at the points I highlighted?
In this bizarre anti-civilisation we live in on Earth we cause our own failures when we allow difficult or trying situations to distract us from what we hold as important.
Jamie was in the middle of moving twice, and allowed that to sabotage all of his important creative projects.
It doesn?t need to be like that. But without a system or self organization, that is how things turn out.
To organize yourself requires firstly making a definite choice to [tag-tec]organize[/tag-tec] yourself, your life, your home, your circumstances, and to make choice to not let difficult circumstances stop you from activities that are highly important to you.
I invite you to make that initial choice in the journey to organize yourself.
Resources to Organize Yourself
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When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world
Excerpts from Gold Anti-Trust Action committee here:
"When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world."
- Jim Rickards, director of market intelligence for the Omnis consulting firm in Virginia
That's because gold is a currency that competes with government currencies and has a powerful influence on interest rates and the value of government bonds.
This close correlation among gold, interest rates, and government bond values is why central banks long have tried to control -- usually suppress -- the price of gold. Gold is the ticket out of the central banking system, the escape from coercive central bank and government power.
As an independent currency, a currency to which investors can resort when they are dissatisfied with government currencies, gold carries the enormous power to discipline governments, to call them to account for their inflation of the money supply and to warn the world against it.
The profit potential in all this...
But GATA believes that the central banks may have to retreat farther with gold than anyone dreams, and far more abruptly than they have retreated so far. We believe that when the central banks are overrun in the gold market, as they were overrun in 1968, and the market begins to reflect the ratio between, on one hand, the supply of real gold, actual metal, not the voluminous paper promises of metal, and, on the other hand, the explosion of the world money supply of the last few decades -- as the market begins to perceive the difference between the real and the unreal -- there may not be enough zeroes to put behind the gold price.
They mean that there is a currency war going on between countries and their central banks, and a war being waged by central banks against the people of their own countries. There has been such a war for many years, only the victims were not really fighting back. Now some of them are, countries and individuals alike, by buying and taking delivery of the monetary metals. (Now all we need to do is find a safe planet to keep them on.)
Excerpts from Gold Anti-Trust Action committee here.
Personal time management rather than for your work
How does time management at work differ from time management for your personal life?
Personal time management is easier to be lazy with than work isn't it?
At work, you have to perform, or you get the sack.
At home, in your personal life, you can pretty much take it easy, coast along, and no one will tell you off.
Except, there's the misses, and the bills, and the kids, and the car repairs, and the taxes, and 101 other daily, weekly, monthly, yearly tasks and chores that must be managed.
You seem to get by quite well already, so what is it that you feel is missing that you need to come looking for a personal time management solution?
Managing personal time can be done when you know the areas of life advantages revealed on some of my other sites.
The Spanish company interview went great. I enjoyed the day in Mallorca (picture taken in Palma, Mallorca on the day trip). But I don't think the company had the budget to take me on and get a team for me to manage. It didn't work out.
Organize your life with this simple technique using your computer...
"I want to thank you for your “Folderarchy” concept. Are you the originator of this concept? How did you come up with it?
Day 0
"Day by day, my Folderarchy is becoming more streamlined and effective. Using Folderarchy has allowed me to feel like I am finally making purposeful and permanent life progress without sacrifice."
"Wow, I think I've just amazed myself! I've started adding bits to my Folderarchy... everything seemed to just flow out – like I knew exactly what points I wanted to put down.
The single most important skill for getting things organized is the ability to ask good Questions.
. I'm not judging it. I'm a marketer myself. But people should know what is going on. Survival of the smartest.
or your local book store, then I hope these brief clips serve that purpose.
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