The Ultimate Doable Method To Succeed & Solve Your Problems
It’s stunning this isn’t a common human practice.
It will significantly help you solve your problems, overcome challenges, figure out your life and achieve your goals.
There are no negative side effects (OK, don’t do this while operating heavy machinery) and takes very little time to use.
And it costs nothing.
The cure is………writing. By hand.
That’s right, write and you will:
·????? Have a significantly higher chance of achieving goals
·????? Come up with new realizations and ideas
·????? Improve your thinking and clarity
·????? Discover things about yourself to embrace or rid yourself of
·????? Reduce habitual limiting thinking
·????? Gain self-confidence
·????? Increase your discipline and personal satisfaction
·????? Strengthen your memory
·????? Maintain and improve cognitive function
·????? …and much, much more.
It’s so simple we miss it
This is totally retro because of the way our brains have been wired for the past 200,000 years. Writing is something our brains love, and it pays us back immensely.
When we write by hand our minds slow down and our concentration and cogitation go way up.
On the other hand, when we just “think” in our heads, thoughts bounce around like a hyperactive multi-ball pinball game.
Writing by hand gives you focus with intent.
You think more thoroughly, deeply and honestly.
Your brain retains what you write down better than a thought.
It’s clearer thinking that delivers better results. Huge results.
Personal writing is a proven success factor
Most highly successful people journal every morning. It is a common thread.
From Leonardo DaVinci to Thomas Edison to Tim Ferris (who constantly extolls the virtues of it) highly successful people tend to journal every morning.
This is how they overcome internal and external challenges, come up with ideas, keep key thoughts in mind and enhance their mental and emotional health.
Tim Ferris does it first thing in the morning when he says he’s in his “monkey brain state”. A time before the onslaught of the day begins.
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They do it for all the dot points listed above as well to practice gratitude for all they have and will have.
Journaling five to 15 minutes each morning has helped me immensely. Some of my best ideas, solutions and self-realizations have come from it.
For one, I will sometimes review past entries thereby reminding myself of important things I had forgotten or complaints I keep writing about over and over again.
In the latter case, this helped me get sick and tired of being sick and tired and therefore doing something about it.
Achieving your goals
Studies have proven that those who write down their goals have a significantly higher rate of success in achieving them.
Some people review those goals every day and even trace their index finger along the words as they read them.
Writing and physical tracing trigger the reticular activating system which is a program in our brain’s processer the pre-frontal cortex.
This spurs your RAS to recognize things that support your goals, needs and desires.
Figuring out what you gotta figure out
I hate it when someone (including myself) says, “I gotta figure this out”.
To me, that’s the death knell of progress because we rarely actually pause and focus enough to figure it out.
Writing by hand changes that.
Writing out your thoughts, desires, needs, ideas, challenges or whatever, provides you with the focus and mental neurological function to figure it out and figure it right for you and only you.
When I was trying to figure out how to change my life into something completely new, I wrote a thank you note from my 95-year-old self to my current self.
I thanked myself for the wonderous life I have had in the intervening years. What I did, what I meant to others, how I lived and what I accomplished.
This forced me to determine what I fundamentally wanted in my life and therefore what I needed to do now to achieve it.
Writing and then re-reading (and re-writing) it over and over was fundamental in helping me discover a new way forward in my life which is to help others find a New Way Forward and take advantage of the new reality of longevity.
I don’t know if I would have found it without writing…by hand.
Writing can save your life
Tim Denning is now one of the most successful writers on Medium , Substack and LinkedIn .
Years ago, he had a failed business, a substance problem and “massive self-doubt and pitiful self-confidence”.
Then he started writing.
“There was a magic momentum that followed. Day after day, sentence after sentence, I felt better. My mood turned upward. My bank account stopped falling. My friends started talking to me again,” Tim writes.
Writing has made him a revered millionaire. He recently quoted linguist Walter Ong who stated that?“writing is necessary to help the human mind achieve its full potential.”
This is all so obvious, doable and successful that it’s stunning it’s not a common human practice.
But it can be for you for just a few minutes every morning, the cost of pen and paper and your intention to be as successful in life as you can and want to be.
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Owner @ Kraniak Consulting, LLC | Brand Development, Content Strategy, Digital Marketing
1 年100% spot on.
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1 年I agree that writing by hand is powerful. This is what I often recommend to someone who missed a partner or spouse that had died. I tell them to write them a letter, seal the envelope and store the envelope in a safe place. It is a way to empty the heart and the mind of precious thoughts and feelings. Once on paper, the individual can move on. This is very therapeutic. www.DementiaCarePartnership.com
Owner - MK Super Sessions Personal Training & Nutrition Coaching
1 年Paul you sound like me. I recommend this and always have to my clients. I do it everyday and also in advance so that I have a picture on paper and that means a picture also in my head of what I’ve got to do + pre-planned workouts. This means an almost guarantee that everything gets ?. Then I can, and I tell clients this, ‘pat myself (yourself) on the back’ so to speak.
Founder, Combilytics Corp | BioTech & Anti-Aging Student
1 年Writing it down by hand and then discussing it with someone, especially if they are not able to help is what I've been doing for many years. The people who aren't "experts" challenge how you are thinking and require a more extensive explanation. This explanation helps you to more fully understand the problem and you then sit down and write some more. Then I talk to someone who knows more than I do and write that down again. Eventually I might get it right ??. LoL!