3/5 rule: you quickly will understand with your thoughts

We all want to put things in order in my mind to think and perceive the environment is clear. Teacher and coach Yakomaskin Andrew shares a simple rule that will help cope with the noise in my head.

In one book, Isaac Adizes (Ichak Adizes), a famous American business consultant, I met an interesting fact:

I asked the people who filed for divorce, at which point they have this idea, and they made the final decision was born in my head about it? It turned out that this was on vacation or on sick leave when they had nothing to do. It was then that they took the time to think about the past and build for the future.

Many of the really important ideas do visit us in the moments of silence and solitude. However, in order to hear your inner voice is not enough just to get away from distracting surroundings. What you need to do this time productively?

Find the 5 minutes of calm

The pace of modern life is so frantic that we still have less and less time to spend it alone with myself and deal with your thoughts. This is the reason many of the problems that prevent us from moving forward in the relationship, personal development, career.

The first thing to do to bring thoughts in order, - is to find a suitable place for it. The two easiest ways for a few minutes to be alone with yourself - a walk and meditation.

The main thing - to choose a certain time to walk down the street or immerse themselves. The best option - the morning, when we still do not begin to fall affairs and concerns of the coming day. This may be a useful alternative to the run, which sometimes do not have enough time.

So you went out into the street, or take a seat on a mat in the lotus position. What next?

Set the 3 main questions

Question - a great way to better understand themselves and find a solution to long-torturing internal contradictions. Sometimes we are so passionate about samoedstvom, accusations or criticism that we forget about the simple solution: to ask a question that will help to clarify the situation. Most often, these questions are only three:

1. What is currently happening?
2. Everything is happy with me?
3. What can I do about it?

The main danger that lies in wait for you when you asked yourself these questions, it is best formulated in the dialogue of the movie "Inadequate people":

- This is not an answer.

- No, is the answer. It's just not what you want to hear.

Detachment and lack of outside influence will certainly help you to deal with any situation. The most important thing - to take this answer, even if you do not like. Why? Because at this point you'll be completely honest with yourself.

We all want simple answers to complex questions, not realizing that for each of these answers will be different. These 5 minutes of calm, spent alone with his thoughts important to you, make it possible to move away from that tells us the environment: our friends, our family, the books we read, the movies we look.

You can devote your 5 minutes to all three questions, or think only of one of them. It does not need to have concentration of the Dalai Lama, you only need to ask the right questions.

Draw conclusions

Very few people can really do nothing. Free your mind from annoying thoughts, while not blocking their voice, or a TV phone. Adizes wrote:

Nothing - literally nothing. At this point you have no plans, no goals and nothing does not load your brain. Thoughts are in free flight.

In order not to make hasty decisions after the morning exercise for the brain, just make conclusions. You have spent their five minutes alone with him, to find answers, not just a break from the annoying noise. It is best to fix them on paper or directly converted into the problem to date.

You can not get the right answers if you do not ask the right questions. But, having received an answer, you his vote, because he is the most honest possible.

at last

3/5 rule helps to spend 5 minutes of free time and put things in order in his head. It is only necessary to escape from the hustle and ask 3 simple key questions. Why them?

As George Bernard Shaw said, "the most difficult to answer that question, which is obvious." These issues are very difficult, but we are too rarely consciously Asking them for himself. It's time to fix it and make conclusions.

I wish you success!