`The Winning Strategies for a Successful Life`
Colin Thompson
Managing Partner Cavendish/Author/International Speaker/Mentor/Partner
Are you living your ideal life?
Do you have the things you desire?
Is your life totally successful and fulfilled in every context?
If the answer is NO and you want to change that, then read my communications and I will share with you ideas that may enhance your life.
The strategies and techniques will I believe benefit you in the following ways:
You will be able to learn things faster.
You will have more time in your life.
You will be more positive and take more action.
You will have a plan to reach your dreams and goals.
You will be more persuasive.
Start using one or two of these ideas at a time and gradually integrate them into your daily life. Then by the time you have read each idea and introduced them in to your daily life you will be a better person.
Positive Assumptions to live by
1. An assumption is the acceptance of something without proof. Some people choose to live life with a set of negative assumptions, which hinder and hold them back. Here are the first ten positive assumptions I believe to live your life by for the best results.
2. The meaning of your communication is the response you get. In other words it’s up to you to get others to understand your message. You have to take responsibility for your communication.
3. Every human being has their own unique way of understanding and interpreting the world. We all think differently, even identical twins! No one else will ever think?exactly the same as you. There is no such thing as failure - only feedback. Information you receive about?something you did is simply feedback. It’s about your actions and has nothing to do with you personally. You can use feedback to improve and develop yourself. Once the learning has been taken, leave the event in the past and use the feedback to improve the way you do it next time.
4. If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got. So if you keep doing the same thing in the same way and expect a different result, it will never happen! You need to change what you are doing to get a different result.
5. We cannot, not communicate. A long as you are awake you are communicating things about yourself without using words simply by the way you stand or sit or even breathe. It's impossible to have no communication in your waking hours.
6. You have within you all the resources to achieve what you want. Most of us can do most things we want. Sometimes we just need to be reminded of how to do them.
7. Behind every behaviour there is always a positive intention. Whatever a person's behaviour may be, they have a positive purpose for behaving in that way.
8. You create your own reality. There is no universal reality. Whatever reality is to you may not be reality to someone else.
9. Energy flows where attention goes. Whatever you put energy into thinking about, you will get. So think about the things you want rather than the things you do not want.
10. The people who are most flexible have the highest possibility of achieving the results they want. Be as flexible as you can in order to get the results you desire. That means having patience and a willingness to change time after time.
Learn anything faster, easier and better
The more you use your brain, the more connections grow between each brain cell. The more connections there are the greater your thought potential is. New experiences expand your brain so that it gets better with use - at any age!
11. Your brain has two sides, the left and right, which shuttle messages across to each other. To accelerate learning uses both sides of your brain at once with words and music; words and pictures; big picture and step by step detail.
12. You literally do have 2 minds! The conscious and the unconscious. Your conscious mind can hold 7 (plus or minus) 2 pieces of information at any one second, whilst the unconscious can hold 2 million pieces of information at any one second. Use your unconscious mind to learn everything by allowing new information to float in unnoticed.
13. Feed your brain. It needs energy and lives on oxygen, glucose and other trace elements. If you want your brain to perform well, feed it well and take physical exercise regularly to oxygenate your blood. Your body is an engine with a computer!
14. You have 4 different brain waves: Beta = wide - awake. Alpha = relaxed alertness. Theta = twilight zone between awake and asleep. Delta = deep sleep.
Alpha is the ideal learning state. Use Baroque music, which is classical music from the 17th - 18th centuries. Play it quietly and it will induce Alpha brain waves ideal for rapidly improving learning.
15. Use all 5 senses to learn - sight, sound, taste, smell and touch. You will have a preference to learn with one of your senses more than the others. To accelerate your performance engages all your senses. So, for example, by listening to DVD`s/CD's, doing activities and watching a Video/DVD on the same topic you will engage your 3 main senses in learning the new information.
16. Visualise and have mental rehearsals of what you wish to learn. Perfect visualisation makes for perfect results. Visualise over and over again.
17. Support your visualisation with positive affirmations about you as a successful learner. Repeating an affirmation to yourself internally or out loud for mental strength is like doing push ups for physical strength.
18. How well you learn depends on the state you are in at the time. A state is the sum of your thoughts, feelings, and emotions, mental and physical energy. Ask yourself what states enable you to learn fast and effectively, quickly and easily. Put yourself in a great state before you start to learn, by doing something you really enjoy doing.
19. Use peripheral vision to read and make notes as you are learning. The way to do this is, instead of bringing individual words into sharp focus, soften your eyes and, therefore, your sight so that your peripheral vision expands and the whole printed page comes into view at once.
20. Review you're learning just as you fall asleep at night. Your unconscious mind will more easily process and store the new information ready for fast, effective recall.
Have fun, learn heaps and may all your feedback be fun and successful!
Success is a Journey, not a destination.
Planning the time to plan
There is no such thing as a perfect time management system, but there is a time management system that is perfect for you!
Weave one or two of the following ideas into each day and remember it takes 21 days to develop a new idea into a habit.
21. Start each day with 30 minutes of thinking time to focus on the most important goals for the day. Write them down and tick them off as you perform.
22. Think with a Dictaphone by your side or pen in your hand.
23. Ask yourself “what am I doing right now that I do not need to be done by me?" Then stop doing it.
24. Master your delegation skills and manage the people you delegate to.
25. Learn to say no when a request is not vital and say no often. Set some boundaries.
26. Hire a personal assistant to take care of personal projects that need to be done during your working time.
27. Undertake your most important projects/tasks at the time in the day when you have highest energy.
28. Set a deadline for every task and keep to that deadline.
29. When working on a large project or task start with the big steps first and use this momentum to complete the smaller steps.
30. Go to bed early and wake up early, seven days a week, because your body loves a consistent schedule, like the whole of life.
31. Your mind and body are part of the same human system. Establish a regular exercise programme as a healthy body makes for a healthy mind and increases time efficiencies.
32. Simplify everything in your life. Give up at least one goal, role or project that is not working for you. That will create time and space for you to be successful.
Putting off procrastination
Procrastination is an insidious little beast that scampers around in life, undermining purpose and passion and planning seeds of self-sabotage as it goes.
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Here are five reasons why we procrastinate and five tips for how to get on and take action.
33. Paralysis. "I do not know where to start. I will think about that tomorrow". Pick small pieces of the overall project, complete each and give yourself congratulations along the way.
34. Perfectionism. "If I cannot do it perfectly I will not do it at all! You are never going to be perfect because you are human. When we are imperfect it shows there is room for growth.
35. Perceptual Problems (Issues). “I have got plenty of time. It is not even due until…. (Next month). "Work backwards; create a time chart with your outcome at the top. Add a deadline to each step and start climbing.
36. Permission. "But I do not feel like it." Dedicate a period every day to being a grown up, willing to do what it takes to get what you really want.
37. Peculiar Priorities. I will plan that trip/do my personal finances right after… (Whatever) "You are expending more energy on avoiding the task than it would take to complete it. So just do it.
Setting great goals
People who reach high levels of achievement have been shown to have very clearly written down their own gaols at a fairly early age. There are some specific keys to setting goals, which become irresistible for the individual setting them.
38. State your goals in the positive. What specifically do you want to achieve?
39. Be specific, in detail, about your current situation. Where are you now in relation to your goal?
40. Set the context of your goal. Where, when and with who do you want it?
41. What is your evidence for having reached your goal? How will you know when you have got what you want? What will you be seeing, hearing and feeling?
42. Make sure your goal is initiated by you. In other words check that you do have to rely on everybody else. Or expect anybody else, to change for you!
43. Check your goal is worthwhile. Does your goal represent who you are and who you want to be?
44. Is your goal in keeping with the environment, in which you live and operate? What will happen if you get it? What will not happen if you get it? What will happen if you do not get it? What will not happen if you do not get it?
45. What resources do you need- physical, emotional, financial and people resources? List these.
46. What is the first step you have to take now, to achieve your goal?
47. Remember to check through your goal to make sure it is SMART. Specific and simple. Measurable and meaningful to you. Achievable in all areas of your life. Realistic and responsible. Timed and towards what you want.
Have fun, learn heaps and may all your feedback be fun and successful!
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1 个月Thank you for sharing Colin. Very useful content with nice wrap up: Success is the ability, first to recognise opportunity, second to form plans and strategies that leverage opportunity, third to develop the necessary skills and knowledge to execute those strategies for your success.