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Article 1: Slay or Sleep with your “Giant”

The “Giant” is an event/activity that we know we MUST perform frequently, in order to create our desired future, yet because we feel uncomfortable doing it, we constantly look for reasons to resist it at that moment in time.

We procrastinate mainly because we know there is no immediate reward for doing it now and there is no immediate painful consequence for NOT doing it now. There’s no instant gratification and it won’t hurt if we leave it until later.

However, every time we procrastinate, our guilt over not doing it grows and we feel even worse. This in turn decreases our motivation and drive to do the other things we also need to do. It’s a downward spiral of despair and discouragement.

“Procrastination is an invisible disease which takes a talented individual with great potential and turns him/her, slowly, bit-by-bit, over time, into a complete and utter failure.”

So what is the solution?

The solution is the “MCR” Technique:

1. Develop the right Mindset
2. Create a Consequence
3. Create a Reward

1. Always focus on slaying your Giant first, as early as possible in the day, while you are the strongest. The longer you leave it to slay your Giant, the weaker you are and the harder it will get.

Repeatedly affirm to yourself and program your mind with these words;

“I always do first, that which creates my future.”

2. You must understand, deep inside your core, this absolute fact: You either choose to SLAY your Giant or you choose to SLEEP with your Giant. It’s YOUR choice.

At the beginning of each day, your Giant will jump up and climb on to your back with his arms around your neck and his legs tightly wrapped around your waist. If you don’t get him off your back as quickly as you can, you will exhaust yourself, dragging him with you every where you go.

If you don’t get him off by bed time, he’ll be joining you in bed. The Giant in bed represents the guilt you will feel for not doing what you know you should have done. He’ll still be on your back as you get into bed. As you toss and turn he’s still there, tossing and turning with you. Imagine the kind of sleep you will get with him there all night long.

Hopefully, having to sleep with your Giant is now a consequence big enough to motivate you enough to slay your Giant before you get to bed!

3. If scheduling to slay your Giant after dinner is not working for you, change it. Set the reward of, “I’ll only eat after I slay my Giant.” Now you have an immediate reward for slaying your Giant. Be creative and come up with your own personal “reward” solutions.

 

 

Article 2: There Is No Such Thing As Time Management

How often have you heard the phrases: “I don’t have time” or “I have to make time?”… I know what you’re thinking, “I just said that today.” We’ve all heard these words so often that we never take the time to listen to what we’re actually saying.

We hear and use these words so frequently that we never question their accuracy. Instead we convince ourselves, without a doubt, of their truth. I want to make a point here and now:

You cannot “make” or “manage” TIME. You can only create and manage personal events.

Webster’s dictionary says, “To manage something is to ‘handle,’ ‘direct’ or ‘alter’ something for a purpose.” You cannot manage time because you cannot handle, direct or alter time for any purpose. You cannot speed up time and you cannot slow time down.

You can only control and manage the events that you personally carry out in the time that already exists.

So, the next time you hear the words, “Time Management,” remember, there is no such thing as “Time Management.”

“Event Management” is the only way to successfully pretend that you are actually managing time.

By the way, organizing your daily events in segments of 15 minutes or less throughout the whole day will give you the perception that you are actually capturing and slowing time down.

The “Hidden” Principle Of Success

It is common knowledge that there are success principles that, when followed diligently, yield great success in any area of our lives. So why is it that so many people who have achieved obvious and significant success in ONE area of their life lack significant success in other areas of their life? If we truly knew how it was that we became successful in one particular area, would we not want to apply those same principles to all the other areas of our life?

We would be right in saying that if we are significantly successful in one area of our life and significantly NOT successful in other areas, then we either:

1. Don’t care about being successful in those other areas of our life.

2. Have accepted the false truth that, “In order to achieve significant success in any one area of life, we MUST sacrifice all other areas of our life.”

3. Perhaps we don’t really know exactly how we became successful in that one area. There may be other principles of success in action behind the scenes, of which we are simply not aware, apart from the obvious ones that have caused our success such as passion, determination, perseverance and focus of consistent effort.

If we assume that the real reason is point number three, what other possible principles of success are in action behind the scenes?...Ones of which we are not aware of or that we refuse to pay attention to.

On a daily basis, there are two types of “events/activities,” that we all engage in: Present-Based events & Future-Based Events.

Present-Based events allow us to maintain a certain level of comfort and happiness in our life. However, no matter how much time and dedication we put into these events, they will not cause any SIGNIFICANT change in our present life or lifestyle. These Present-Based events alone will not create a new and better future significantly different from the one we currently experience.

Future-Based events are the source of change in our life and lifestyle; they create our new and better future.

If we busy ourselves all day long with ONLY Present-Based events, we will be guaranteeing our future lifestyle to look exactly like the one we currently have in the present.

The key to success lies in truly understanding and differentiating between a Present-Based and a Future-Based event.

 

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