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"Fascination is one step beyond interest.
Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how
it works." Jim Rohn
Today's issue includes:
1. Ending Procrastination by Jim Rohn
2. Vitamins for the Mind - Emotions by Jim Rohn
3. Hung by the Tongue by Gary Eby
4. Power Principles for Peak Performance Plus 2 Bonuses!
5. More Information
1. Ending Procrastination by Jim Rohn
Perseverance is about as important to achievement as gasoline is to driving a
car. Sure, there will be times when you feel like you're spinning your wheels,
but you'll always get out of the rut with genuine perseverance. Without it, you
won't even be able to start your engine.
The opposite of perseverance is procrastination. Perseverance means you never
quit. Procrastination usually means you never get started, although the
inability to finish something is also a form of procrastination.
Ask people why they procrastinate and you'll often hear something like this:
"I'm a perfectionist. Everything has to be just right before I can get down to
work. No distractions, not too much noise, no telephone calls interrupting me,
and of course I have to be feeling well physically, too. I can't work when I
have a headache." The other end of procrastination - being unable to finish -
also has a perfectionist explanation: "I'm just never satisfied. I'm my own
harshest critic. If all the it's aren't dotted and all the t's aren't crossed, I
just can't consider that I'm done. That's just the way I am, and I'll probably
never change."
Do you see what's going on here? A fault is being turned into a virtue. The
perfectionist is saying that his standards are just too high for this world.
This fault-into-virtue syndrome is a common defense when people are called upon
to discuss their weaknesses, but in the end it's just a very pious kind of
excuse making. It certainly doesn't have anything to do with what's really
behind procrastination.
Remember, the basis of procrastination could be fear of failure. That's what
perfectionism really is, once you take a hard look at it. What's the difference
whether you're afraid of being less than perfect or afraid of anything else?
You're still paralyzed by fear. What's the difference whether you never start or
never finish? You're still stuck. You're still going nowhere. You're still
overwhelmed by whatever task is before you. You’re still allowing yourself to be
dominated by a negative vision of the future in which you see yourself being
criticized, laughed at, punished, or ridden out of town on a rail. Of course,
this negative vision of the future is really a mechanism that allows you to do
nothing. It's a very convenient mental tool.
I'm going to tell you how to overcome procrastination. I'm going to show you how
to turn procrastination into perseverance, and if you do what I suggest, the
process will be virtually painless. It involves using two very powerful
principles that foster productivity and perseverance instead of passivity and
procrastination.
The first principle is: Break it Down.
No matter what you're trying to accomplish, whether it's writing a book,
climbing a mountain, or painting a house the key to achievement is your ability
to break down the task into manageable pieces and knock them off one at one
time. Focus on accomplishing what's right in front of you at this moment. Ignore
what's off in the distance someplace. Substitute real-time positive thinking for
negative future visualization. That's the first all- important technique for
bringing an end to procrastination.
Suppose I were to ask you if you could write a four hundred-page novel. If
you're like most people, that would sound like an impossible task. But suppose I
ask you a different question. Suppose I ask if you can write a page and a
quarter a day for one year. Do you think you could do it? Now the task is
starting to seem more manageable. We're breaking down the four-hundred-page book
into bite-size pieces. Even so, I suspect many people would still find the
prospect intimidating. Do you know why? Writing a page and a quarter may not
seem so bad, but you're being asked to look ahead one whole year. When people
start to do look that far ahead, many of them automatically go into a negative
mode. So let me formulate the idea of writing a book in yet another way. Let me
break it down even more.
Suppose I was to ask you: can you fill up a page and a quarter with words-not
for a year, not for a month, not even for a week, but just today? Don't look any
further ahead than that. I believe most people would confidently declare that
they could accomplish that. Of course, these would be the same people who feel
totally incapable of writing a whole book.
If I said the same thing to those people tomorrow - if I told them, I don't want
you to look back, and I don't want you to look ahead, I just want you to fill up
a page and a quarter this very day - do you think they could do it?
One day at a time. We've all heard that phrase. That's what we're doing here.
We're breaking down the time required for a major task into one-day segments,
and we're breaking down the work involved in writing a four hundred-page book
into page-and-a-quarter increments.
Keep this up for one year, and you'll write the book. Discipline yourself to
look neither forward nor backward, and you can accomplish things you never
thought you could possibly do. And it all begins with those three words: break
it down.
My second technique for defeating procrastination is also only three words long.
The three words are: Write it Down. We know how important writing is to goal
setting. The writing you'll do for beating procrastination is very similar.
Instead of focusing on the future, however, you're now going to be writing about
the present just as you experience it every day. Instead of describing the
things you want to do or the places you want to go, you're going to describe
what you actually do with your time, and you're going to keep a written record
of the places you actually go.
In other words, you're going to keep a diary of your activities. And you're
going to be amazed by the distractions, detours, and downright wastes of time
you engage in during the course of a day. All of these get in the way of
achieving your goals. For many people, it's almost like they planned it that
way, and maybe at some unconscious level they did. The great thing about keeping
a time diary is that it brings all this out in the open. It forces you to see
what you're actually doing... and what you're not doing.
The time diary doesn't have to be anything elaborate. Just buy a little spiral
notebook that you can easily carry in your pocket. When you go to lunch, when
you drive across town, when you go to the dry cleaners, when you spend some time
shooting the breeze at the copying machine, make a quick note of the time you
began the activity and the time it ends. Try to make this notation as soon as
possible; if it's inconvenient to do it immediately, you can do it later. But
you should make an entry in your time diary at least once every thirty minutes,
and you should keep this up for at least a week.
Break it down. Write it down. These two techniques are very straightforward. But
don't let that fool you: these are powerful and effective productivity
techniques that allow you put an end to procrastination and help you get started
to achieving your goals.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
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2. Vitamins for the Mind by Jim Rohn
Emotions
Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.
Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know
how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.
Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions.
Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point.
Women have an incredible ability to pick up on emotional signals. For example,
there are some wolves that are so clever they have learned to dress up like
sheep. Man says, "Looks like a sheep. Talks like a sheep." Woman says, "Ain't no
sheep!"
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3. Hung By the Tongue by Gary Eby
Some people just have a knack for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. They
are being, "Hung By the Tongue!"
A state trooper pulled a man over for speeding on a deserted road. Since the
road was clear and the weather fine, the trooper had indicated that he may not
give the man a ticket, and let them off with a warning. He even complemented
both the man and his wife for wearing their seat belts. At that point the woman
leaned over and said, "Well, officer, when you drive the speeds we do, you have
to wear them." That's when the trooper wrote the ticket. Hung By the Tongue!
Gene and Carolyn were entertaining for the first time since the birth of their
baby. Everything ran smoothly until one of Gene's buddies arrived with his new
girlfriend-a woman whom Carolyn did not particularly care for. She beckoned her
husband upstairs with the excuse that they had to check on the baby. In the
privacy of the nursery, she spoke freely of her disdain for the new guest. When
they went downstairs to rejoin the party, they were greeted with an awkward
silence-except for the occasional murmuring of the sleeping baby that came from
the infant monitor sitting on the table. Hung By the Tongue!
There is an ancient Japanese proverb that says... "A tongue three inches long
can kill a man six feet tall."
If you are continually being "hung by your tongue", you can be "loosed from the
noose" if you would just learn to engage your mind a little bit before you
speak! Here's the process... think... then speak! I believe that we need to make
our words sweet... just in case we have to eat them!
The words of your mouth are a creative force. They play a big part in
predestining your future. Your words are the architects of your life. The tongue
is like a tool. We need to use our tools of the present to build our future we
desire.
You see, your future will someday be your present. Your present will someday be
your past. You can chart the course of your future by your compass... your
tongue. It will guide you like a rudder... into either troubled waters or a calm
sea. But, don't be misled... it WILL guide you.
If you can change what you think about, you can change what comes out of your
mouth. What comes out of your mouth will someday be in your future.
The words you speak create an atmosphere. If you are going to have a meeting and
you really pump it up and build it, what happens? People come with expectancy!
They come excited. Your words have set the stage for success! One of the
foundational revelations of a wise leader is to learn to control his or her
words!
Remember, Samson slew 1,000 Philistines with the jawbone of an ass. Way too many
businesses, lives, and relationships are destroyed with the same weapon...
Be loosed from the Noose! Refuse to be... Hung By the Tongue!
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