Greetings my brothers!
In The Greatness Journey - Man School Masterclass, I talk about one of the most powerful mind exercises I have ever encountered. I would like to remind you here of its efficacy, and hopefully inspire you to put this into consistent practice if you are not currently!
I want to recommend that you devote just one hour a day, five days a week, to exercising your mind (You don’t even have to do it on weekends)!
Pick one hour a day that you can count on fairly regularly. The best time for me is an hour before the others are up in the morning. During this hour every day, take a completely blank sheet of paper. At the top of the page, write your present primary life goal – clearly and simply. Then, since our future is greatly influenced by the way in which we handle our work, write down as many ideas as you can for improving that which you do now. Try to think of 20 possible ways in which the activity that fills your day can be improved (You won’t always get 20, but even one idea is good)!
Now, remember two important points with regard to this: (1) This is not always particularly easy, and (2) many of your ideas won’t be any good. When I say it’s not easy, I mean it’s like starting any other habit. At first, you’ll find that your mind is a little reluctant to be hauled up and out of the old, familiar rut. But as you think about your work and ways in which it might be improved, write down every idea that pops into your head, no matter how absurd it might seem. Let me tell you what will happen. Some of your ideas will be good and worth testing. The most important thing this extra hour accomplishes, however, is that it deeply imbeds your goal into your subconscious mind and starts the whole vital machinery working, the first thing every morning. And 20 ideas a day, if you can come up with that many, total 100 a week, even if you skip weekends. An hour a day five days a week totals 260 hours a year and still leaves you approximately 3,740 hours of free leisure time. Now, this means you’ll be thinking about your goal and ways of improving your performance – increasing your service – six-and-one-half full, extra working weeks a year! Six-and-one-half 40-hour weeks devoted to thinking and planning! (Can you see how easy it is to rise above the so-called ‘competition’?) And it will still leave you with seven hours a day to spend as you please!
Starting each day thinking, you will find that your mind will continue to work all day long. You will find that at odd moments, when you least expect it, really great ideas will begin to bubble up from your subconscious! When they do, write them down as best you can.
Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your work and, as a result, your life!!!
“...Where there is no vision, the people perish…” Proverbs 29:18
God Bless You all!
Bill
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