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Issue No: 099 - May 26, 2010
This Week's Personal Development Article
So-called "normal" people are crazy - so says 70 years' research. But open your eyes and you can see the nonsense all around you - most days of the week. Each Wednesday we take a peek! TIME MANAGEMENT: FOCUS ONLY ON WHAT IS IMPORTANT
Physician Heal Thyself!!
Do you have enough time to do all the things that you really should be doing today? Have you ever noticed how some people’s names Or, like most people, do you find yourself labouring under a mountain of “to dos”, are an exact match for what they do and how never getting through it and then find that you simply haven’t done some of the some people are simply no advertisement for things that you really wanted to or should have done? Are you a slave to others’ themselves? For example, many years ago, demands at work? Are you trying to juggle job and family responsibilities and finding when I was a tax consultant, a client received a that you’re getting neither done properly? Are you one of these people who has to letter from the Inspector of Taxes informing him take home work at the weekend to “catch up”? that his claim for medical expenses exceeded the statutory ceiling – the letter being signed by a Ms. C. Lyng! I also remember my first visit to our One of the biggest problems with the modern pace of life is that we don’t seem to village post office after we moved to France – I have enough hours in the day to get everything done. One of the most frequent was greeted by the postmistress, a certain questions that I am asked, when I propose that people slow down, “smell the roses” Madame Bellelettre! And I must mention my and give themselves the space and time to be inspired is “are you seriously good friend Georges Doux – one of nature’s suggesting that I slow down when I don’t even have the time to do what I’m supposed to be doing at the moment?” Yes, I am – we all need to give ourselves abnormal. He has often joked that, over the extra time to do the important things and let the things that you should not be doing years, people have complimented him on the fact just pass us by. How much time are you wasting on stuff that should never be given that he wears his name so well. His family your attention in the first place? How many emails do you read that you shouldn’t bother reading at all? How many emails do you receive that don’t require your attention – as you know, particularly in large organizations, the majority of emails you receive are either not worth reading or shouldn’t have been sent in the first place But then there are those who, as I said, are quite – how many emails in large companies are CCed to everyone in existence in what amounts to compulsive ass-covering! And how many of us get a kick out of feeling First of all, we have the local expert roofer – his important because of the number of emails that we have to deal with? own home is probably the most poorly roofed house in our village. Passers-by will seem him constantly on his roof patching up holes in a Many years ago, in the days before mobile ‘phones or emails, a good friend, the corrugated iron roof that must date back to the Executive Chairman of a well-known company, went through a difficult divorce which left him, one Friday afternoon following the final court hearing, with sole custody of two children aged 9 and 11 years. That Sunday evening he decided that his children were his first priority. He called his fellow Board members and told them that he But that’s not what this normal people story is all wouldn’t be in on Monday – for three months! Three months later, he arrived back about – I’m leading up to the main event which to an office piled high with paper (remember, this is pre-email), left the office again, concerns our local mason. He specializes in the returned with a roll of trash bags and dumped every single thing. Of all the paper in construction of the concrete ground floor of alpine that room, only one issue came back to bite! The moral of the story – he spent chalets where the “superstructure” is wooden. most of his time on things that did not require his attention. He has spent the last couple of months constructing a large ground floor construction for himself which will house his garden shed and, Not only do we allow others waste our time, we’re experts at wasting our own time. because of the slope of the land, a garage will be How much time do you spend on negative gossip – the sort where you revel in at first floor level. All progressed beautifully, the others’ bad news or misfortune? I will readily admit that chit-chat is useful – we concrete structure was completed and topped off often learn important things at the water cooler that we’d otherwise never find out. with a beautifully smoothed garage floor. The But negative gossip is a waste of your time and energy. How much time do you great day arrived as he reversed his pickup truck waste wallowing in the bad news on the inside pages of the newspaper – who into the new garage only for the concrete floor to murdered, assaulted or raped whom? Not only is this a waste of your time, it collapse into his garden shed – as we drove past, actually confirms to you that your normal “not-too-bad” life is OK! How much time the nose of his pickup truck was pointing do you waste surfing the ‘net or joining groups on Facebook like “I’s sick of people skywards from the rubble of his creation! cheering every time I go out on my balcony”?! How much time do you waste If we ever build another chalet, I don’t think we’ll channel-hopping at night? How much time do you waste thinking negative thoughts, worrying, imagining the worst scenarios? 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Cut out the crap and you’ll find that you’ve got lots of time to do the important things – with some left over for a little reflection, meditation, self improvement and, most importantly, to do some of the things that really turn you on. How will you know what’s crap and what isn’t? Well, a clear and present mind is as sharp as a razor’s edge – it knows the difference between something worth doing and something that you should simply let pass. Indeed, a clear and present mind is the one sure way of ensuring that, not only do you cut out the crap, but that, while you’re doing what you’re supposed to be doing, you’re fully doing it. In other words, you should fully do one thing at a time. The female of the species We so often know the important things we should often says to me “but what about multi-tasking” (perhaps, as modern neuro- be doing - and we so often end our day with the psychology progresses, we’ll find out that this gendered ability is more myth than uncomfortable feeling that we've done the exact fact – but that’s another day’s work)? Well, when you’re multi-tasking you might be opposite. Normal people drift throught their day - doing three things in one minute. That means, perhaps, one thing each twenty allowing other normal people divert their attention seconds – that means that, for those twenty seconds, you fully attend to what you’re into not only the unimportant but the downright destructive. However, if you start each day with a few reflective moments - moments in which you Life is made up of moments – each moment a unique opportunity to fully do what can, as a grown adult, determine just what needs you’re doing, to fully focus on that moment and to disregard the things and people to be done today, then you break the cylce of that have a habit of diverting us from the opportunity of the moment. The reactive behaviour and give life to a new reality - opportunity? To live life to the full, be fully present, be more effective, more productive and more turned on, moment to moment. When you do that, not only will Watch today's "5Minute" Seminar on how to focus you get all the important things done, you might just find that there are even more important things that the universe can do for you. Click to Unsubscribe from the Gurdy Ezine file://C:\Users\willie\Website\Personal-Development-Ezine\2010-05-26-Personal-Develo. 25/05/2010 Free Personal Development Videos and Articles file://C:\Users\willie\Website\Personal-Development-Ezine\2010-05-26-Personal-Develo. 25/05/2010

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