Simple strategic approach to improve their lives
Motivation Books / / December 19, 2019
Locate the main life aspect, which requires changes
Most of the people without any hesitation, any strategic improvements they want the most, and the range of relevant aspects of life is extremely wide: from weight loss to romantic love, of harmony between work and personal life to the accumulation of wealth, from the busy social life and the joy of communicating to the ability to devote more time currently.
All these facets of existence is the only common feature: the one that is correct, produces a sudden insight: "Here it is, the coveted, that will give me the joy of life, dispel the clouds over my head for a long time and make absolutely happy. " Strategic aspects of life are deeply embedded in the soul, making it clear that it is their you wish improve. Below are questions that tell where to start looking for a strategic aspect of his life.
- Which side of your life you most want to improve? What are the first three things come to mind?
- What activities deliver you the most joy and give a sense of well-being? What you need to do is to devote more time to these studies?
- What aspects of your life cause you most fear, anxiety or worry? What would help ease these feelings?
- Look back at the past five years: Do you regret that you have not been able to change something in this time? What would you most regret, on his deathbed recalling past life?
- As for you have answered these questions one you trust, your life partner or lover? (It is useful to ask around about them.)
It would be nice to pick up not one, but several life aspects for improvement, since not all the simple rules are equally applicable. To start enough three to five desired improvements. In a first embodiment, the list usually appear very general values, such as family, wealth and health. It is perfectly acceptable for a start, but to detect the bottleneck easier if narrow down these concepts to more specific, measurable goals that can push your arrow.
At this stage, try to formulate your achievements as specific as possible. For example, the goal of "eat right", you can specify: "lose weight by five pounds," "become more energetic," or "at the expense of diet to control blood sugar levels." As you can see, it's all very different goals require different application of simple rules.
Find the stumbling blocks on the way to the objectives
Decide which side of life you would like to improve, continue to the next step - finding a bottleneck. Personal bottleneck as his "business" relatives - is a particular activity or decision that simple rules can have the greatest impact, extending your hand.
Bottleneck - is the true starting point for the application of simple rules, and applied to an associated regulations should improve your personal values.
Best personal bottlenecks deserve the title of strategic as well as working with them will help you to create stable personal value. Simple rules can be productively applied to dozens of various personal training, but you have to spend time and effort to these rules to formulate, test and hone. It is most advantageous to focus efforts on the business or decision that will maximize impact.
To determine the most promising candidates will help you answer the following questions:
- What matters or decisions prevent you achieve your goal?
- In relation to any aspect of the rules will have the greatest impact?
Productive bottleneck should not only create personal value, but also suitable as a point of application of simple rules. The best candidates will be periodically repeated actions (rather than one-off solutions), then put into drawing up the rules time and effort will pay off in the course of their repeated use.
Good bottlenecks - is, for example, the procedure for settling a married couple monetary dispute or the distribution of household duties - as opposed to a one-time choice of contenders, which should not marry.
The actions and decisions that you repeat daily or weekly, deliver test data to assess how effectively the rules and adjust them in the right direction.
Especially good simple rules apply in situations where the number of options exceeds the amount of resources needed for their implementation, for example when you think where to invest, how to make repairs around the house or what to spend the released several hours. Simple rules are best managed by solutions that require flexibility, such as when you choose a diet or educational measures for their baby. If you have a mechanical memory problems (for example, you always forget what things to collect myself on a business trip), it is appropriate to draw up a checklist than the city rules.
Finally, the simple rules to help guide the fine track will power and is therefore particularly suitable for diet, do exercises, save money and do other things in which you have to sacrifice for the sake of short-term temptations of big long-term payoff.
The bottleneck should not be required to meet all the criteria, but the greater the number of criteria it meets, the more will benefit from simple rules. Looking for bottleneck remember that you are looking for a stumbling block on the way to achieving one of your personal goals. Here are some key questions that will help you set the right priorities.
- How often do you take such a decision or do such thing?
- Whether the number of possible choices is greater than the amount of time, resources, energy, or attention that you have?
- Do I need to do things to show willpower?
- Do I need to do business or solve some flexibility?
- Is it possible to measure the results achieved, to test and improve the rules?
After evaluation of the importance and potential of those cases or decisions which may be particularly significant to achieve your goals, select a specific bottleneck that you need to expand. When choosing a bottleneck useful to exercise the utmost care and precision, because the data that you operate, can play a decisive role.
Learn more about how and formulate simple rules and why they work at all, read the book "Simple rules. How to succeed in a complex world. "
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