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Author: Sergey Dudiy Article source: http://www.time-management-guide.com/. Used with author's permission.
The biggest time management mistake you can ever make is
forgetting your closest partner in life. The one who stays
with you all the way from cradle to grave. The
one who drives you through your daily and nightly routines,
who runs all your habits. You want it or not, this partner
of yours is the real manager of most of your time. His name
is Your Subconscious Mind.
You and Your Subconscious Mind make one tightly bound team
in everything you do. Whatever big or small project you
undertake, you two depend critically on each other. And
unless you both work in the same direction, your team hardly
makes any big progress.
But how do you align those directions? Like in any team,
communication is the key. You need to communicate to Your
Subconscious Mind the specific target you want to hit and in
what time frame. Of course, you can take the lead and set
the direction to go. Yet, you still need to convince Your
Subconscious Mind to follow you in that direction and hit
your target.
The challenge is that Your Subconscious Mind has a stubborn
and inert personality. If you just tell him what to do, he
does not listen you well. He already has strong opinions
about what you should be doing instead. After all, he is the
one who holds all your beliefs that you absorbed throughout
your life up to now. And he has a comprehensive toolbox of
routines and automatic reactions to get you through your
day.
But don't give up on this challenge. If you manage to
convince Your Subconscious Mind to drive you in the
direction you want to go, he has the power to make you
unstoppable! The power that can keep you on course through
the storms of every day distractions and interruptions.
But how? How do you convince Your Subconscious Mind to help
you? You need to learn how to communicate in the way he
accepts and understands. That special way of communication
with Your Subconscious Mind is what goal setting techniques
and skills are really all about.
While there are finer points that you can pick up in books
or on my site, here is the core essence of goal setting
techniques as a way of communicating with Your Subconscious
Mind.
The most critical element of goal setting is WRITING your
goals. For a number of reasons, this writing process is
absolutely necessary for Your Subconscious Mind to take them
seriously. Writing is the basis of the communication.
Anything less than a clearly written goal will be discarded
as unimportant noise.
Note that the goal writing process is a two way
communication. When you write your goal, if Your
Subconscious Mind does not accept that goal as reasonable,
he will try block your hand until you actually write
something more realistic.
The second critical element is about the way you formulate
the goal when you write it. You want to get your point
across to Your Subconscious Mind most directly and
effectively, in the language he understands best. That's why
you need to follow certain rules of goal writing.
In particular, formulate your goal in present tense, as a
complete sentence that starts with "I". Make the goal as
measurable and specific as you can. Correct and rewrite it
until it is crystal clear.
Set a specific time frame. Set it by finishing your sentence
with a deadline that you honestly think you can meet.
Keep those notes in a safe place and come back to them
often to review and correct your written goals. Keep
thinking about them throughout your day.
Finally, take a few minutes right now and actually write
down three to five of your most desirable goals. Reconnect
to that important partner of yours and start communicating.
Right now, and from now on. Sergey Dudiy, Ph.D., is a time management writer and
web entrepreneur, founder of
Time-Management-Guide.com, the definitive guide to
personal time management and goal setting.
He also publishes free
Time Management Fortress newsletter, dedicated to
building a stronger foundation for your success skills.
Subscribe today and get a free copy of his report
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