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Sometimes it is better to allow an expert talk about tools that will help you transform your personal and professional life. Below is an article on time power by Brian Tracy.

The Seven Methods of Time Power

There are seven methods that you can use to help develop the habits of time management. The more you think about and practice these methods, the more rapidly you will program yourself to be efficient and highly productive.

First

Remember that your self-image determines your performance. You always perform on the outside in a matter consistent with the picture you have of yourself on the inside. Practice visualizing and imagining yourself as you want to be, not as you may have been in the past. You can actually change your self-image permanently by repeatedly visualizing yourself as someone who is highly efficient and effective.

Second   

Remember that it takes about twenty-one days of practice and repetition to form a new habit pattern. It has taken you your entire lifetime to become the person you are today, with the time management habits you have at this moment. It takes time and commitment to change, and for your subconscious mind to accept the new habits.

Third    

Promise yourself that you are going to become excellent at time management. Promise yourself that you are going to be punctual, and that you are going to concentrate on your most important tasks. Then, promise others that you are going to be more effective and efficient in the future.

Fourth

In developing the habits of time management, start in just one area where poor time management is holding you back. Don't try to change everything at once. Change just one habit or activity where you know that improvement could be very helpful to you.

Fifth

Launch your new time management habit strongly. Never allow an exception once you have decided that you are going to become excellent in a particular behavior. Never let yourself off the hook.

Sixth

Use the “trial and success” method rather than the “trial and error” method. The trial and success method requires that you learn how to succeed by failing, and then by learning from your mistakes. Analyze your reasons for poor time management. Ask yourself, “What are the obstacles to my operating more efficiently in this area?” Take some time to reflect on recent behaviors.

Seventh

You must absolutely believe that you can and will become excellent at time management. The Law of Belief says that “Your beliefs become your realities.” The more intensely you believe that you can and will become excellent at time management, the more rapidly this belief becomes your reality. If you hold to your belief long enough and hard enough, it will eventually materialize as new behaviors with regard to time.

For more articles and resources by Brian Tracy see  http://www.briantracy.com/

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How many of us are spending the last couple of days in 2011 thinking about and listing our New Year resolutions? Our top New Year resolutions are often around issues such as exercise, money management, weight loss, debt reduction and stopping a habit such as smoking. All these goals are about looking forward to making a change to something we are not happy about.

There are statistics to show that many people give up after the first few days or weeks. Not reaching our goals could be due to a variety of different factors , e.g setting unrealistic time frames, not having sufficient support, and not owning the goal. However this year, to improve your chances, here is an important key to success.

Don't look at reaching your goals as just changing what you are not happy about. Acknowledge that the present circumstances are ineffective, unproductive or not serving you well; but feel happy today. Feel happy today that you have made the decision to create a better 2012 for you and those around you, feel happy today that you are capable of putting a plan in place to achieve your goals, feel happy today that by the end of next year, you can look back and see how well you have done.

When you feel happy today, you go into the New Year with a purposeful and powerful mindset which makes you more likely to succeed.

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As we rapidly approach the end of another year, this is the time we look back at the past 12 months, and assess our success. How will we view our achievements?

A core presupposition in the neuroscience field is that there is no failure, there is only feedback. Another variation on that theme is that there are no mistakes; there are only outcomes. If that is the case we should accept and embrace our so called failures and mistakes and mine them for the learning they contain. We should also be aware that our setbacks and successes are simply two sides of the one coin.

The implication here is that the results we get when we attempt to reach our various goals in life may be interpreted in different ways. And so long as we are committed to learning and growing from each experience it doesn’t matter what a particular short term outcome may be because course correction is simply a normal part of what it is to be human. Depending upon the particular goal, it may require more effort or different actions to accomplish it. In many instances, our ultimate long term success is not a function of immediate results; it is a result of many short well focused sprints and an ongoing feedback loop of learning. And sometimes we may need to try something we suspect may not work in order to get the feedback necessary to progress further along the path.

So why is it that so many people adopt a sense of ‘failure’ if a particular action doesn’t work out? I am of the mind that it’s the result of our culture which seems to be more and more about the need for instant gratification. Because if we quit once it is then more likely that we will quit again and any behaviour that is continuously reinforced eventually becomes a conditioned aspect of our human experience. One way we can approach this issue of failure is to give ourselves permission to fail. In fact if we don’t allow ourselves to fail, failure becomes more and more loaded with meaning.

This prevents it from being part of our learning process, the trial and error learning we used as children when we first began to make our way in the world. It prevents failing from being part of the feedback process so vital to help us to refine our performance and eventually succeed. Suddenly failure becomes so loaded with emotion; our fear of it prevents us from succeeding. Giving ourselves permission to fail sidesteps any concern we might otherwise feel about performance. When we allow this, we don’t fail. It releases us from the fear of failure.

If we don’t allow ourselves to make mistakes, we will live a life that’s bland and grey. Acceptable risks can lead to incredible results. An amazing life can unfold if you allow it.

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If you don’t know who you are you can not know who you want to become.....

Sounds obvious but it is amazing how we go through and conduct our lives without truly knowing this. Ask yourself the question, who am I, and who do I really want to be? Answering this question could take as long as a couple of minutes to a couple of months. It depends on well you are in tune with yourself.

How can we truly know ourselves? It can only be by taking a self inventory. What do I like? What makes me happy? What would get me up in the morning if all I really felt like is staying in bed? In other words what motivates me? What would I like to achieve in life? Who w

would I like to have around me? These are questions that should hopefully get you thinking.

Sometimes when we answer these questions we need someone to reflect back. Find someone you trust who can tell you things about yourself that probably you have never thought about. Other people can 'see' us better than we can. Obviously be selective about this. Only accept the views that resonate or  'sit right' with you. People may have good intentions, but you do not want to be typecast or put in a mould that you would then struggle to break free of. Choose those who want the best for you!

Why do you need to do this exercise? You must because if you want to to be more, do more and live better, it all starts with you!  Make the choice today to do life better. At Julianmiles  we are committed to helping you live your best life.  With customised coaching and a whole range of resources, tools, and online help you will be able to live the life you create!

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