“The greatest habit you can ever break is the habit of being yourself.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza.
Success is really just getting who we used to be, out of the way long enough, to become who we want to be. The biggest interference with who you want to become is who you’ve been.
Every qualification for success is acquired through habit. People form habits and habits form futures. If you do not deliberately form good habits, then unconsciously you will form bad ones. You are who you are because you have formed the habit of being that person, and the only way to change is through new habits of thought and action.
We like to focus first on thoughts and feelings as the first priority because a basic Law of Nature is that…The Exterior is a reflection of the Interior. Our outer life experiences are a mirror of how we think and feel.
However, once you’re working on how to run your brain it is vital to work on your daily behaviour. “Inspired Action” is the link between your vision and results, between the dream and the achievement of lasting values in all the areas of your life.
It is seldom a challenge to come up with ideas and set goals. The difficulties arise when attempting to implement the plans of action in real life. People develop plans and people deviate from them.
RITUALISE TO ACTUALISE
Ritualise to actualise is dialling in and hardwiring in the habits for happiness and success.
Successful people have a purpose strong enough to make them form the habit of doing things they don’t like to do to accomplish their purpose. Merely supporting your family isn’t strong enough to make you form the habit of doing things you don’t like to do. Because it is easier to adjust to making a poor living than making a better one.
Successful people are influenced by the desire for pleasing results, and will practice thoughts and behaviours that bring them the results they desire. Whereas failures are influenced by their comfort zones and accept those results.
DON’T AGONISE: ORGANISE
The most common excuse for lack of living a balanced life is: “There isn’t enough time.” However, it is important to remember that you’re not going to be as young as you are now forever, and you don’t have forever to achieve balance.
The basis of all time organisation is a plan of action and the time you spend in planning will save time in execution.
When we look at the 8 AREAS OF “WEALTH” or areas of life ultimately not one area is expendable. For me none of the 8 areas are negotiable. There are many people who will argue that there are areas that are negotiable until they experience a problem in any one of the areas. Right now Leisure for you may not be important until you experience ‘burnout’ – mental collapse caused by overwork. Most people will neglect an area until it becomes a problem. But remember that: PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE.
TIME IS A CAPITAL ASSET
You can’t borrow time, you can’t hoard it, you can’t work hard and earn more of it. ALL YOU CAN DO IS SPEND IT. How you spend it is the difference between success or failure. Successful well organised people know well in advance exactly how they’re going to spend it. They know how important it is to organise their time and spend it wisely.
People say time is money and we say time is more valuable than money. Money is replaceable – time is not. Yesterday is gone forever and you can never get it back. You only have 24 hours a day, and you either plan it and use it, or you don’t plan it and lose it.
“Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed. The analyst of one’s time, moreover, is the one easily accessible yet systematic way to analyse one’s work and to think through what really matters in it.” – Peter Drucker.
TIME ROBBERS
“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: Time!” – Napoleon Bonaparte
These time robbers below may help you guard against situations that can steal your most precious commodity, Time.
Self Inflicted Time Robbers
- Fatigue
- Failure to delegate
- Personal disorganisation
- Lack of self-discipline
- Failure to listen
Inflicted On Us
- Poor communication
- Interruptions
- Too much work
- Unnecessary meetings
- Disorganised staff or managers
REWARDS OF TIME CONTROL
- More time for family
- More time for health
- More time for personal recreation
- Increased productivity
- Increased income
- Greater enthusiasm
- Eagerness to start the day
- Ability to handle crises
- Improved decision making
WISE GUYS
- “I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once” – Ashley Brilliant
- “The hurrier I go, the behinder I get” – Anonymous
- “It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst”. – William Penn
- “A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life”. – Charles Darwin
