Harnessing the power of day-tight compartments October 8, 2012
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Solving Problems.Tags: achieving goals, day-tight-compartments, ego management, personal development, self discipline, self-improvement, Seth Godin
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The ability to live in day-tight compartments, rather looking backwards to yesterday, and/or forwarding to tomorrow, can give us increased peace of mind.
Generally, we can all deal with, cope with, or manage the challenges of one day in our lives. This approach allows us to live our lives without burdening ourselves with regrets from the past, or forebodings about the future.
Acquiring the ability to live one day at a time is not easy, however, as it requires significant self-discipline, or in more psychological terms, a lot of effort in ego management.
One of the “problems” people sometimes see with the one-day concept is in mentally saying to themselves, “Yes, but what can I really accomplish in one day” towards solving my overall life challenges.
Seth Godin, who writes on marketing, recently did a short, but insightful post on his blog titled, “The simple power of one day.”
In his brief article, Godin provides a marketing example and observes, “There are at least 200 working days in a year. If you commit to doing a simple marketing item just once each day, at the end of a year, you’ve built a mountain.”
If you look at the example of having a personal blog, and using Godin’s 200-working-days example, if you did one post a day, just on weekdays, at the end of one year you will have published 200-plus articles on your blog.
The same approach can be applied to dealing with short, medium and long-term problems and goals.
Ego and mindset management: Focus on the task at hand October 6, 2012
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Ego Management, Goal Setting and Realization.Tags: achieving goals, controlling ego, ego management, managing the ego, personal development
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One of the difficulties in controlling our mindset is in trying to deal with our ego’s tendency to fill our heads with all of our problems at the same time.
This can lead to our mindset focussing on the overall results we want in our lives rather than concentrating on dealing with immediate tasks on hand that could help in achieving those results.
For example, we might be in more debt than we want and the overall result we want is to remove that financial worry.
In this case we should be looking at finding one step, or one task at hand that we could do to work towards that goal.
Mentally dwelling on our entire life situation and its problems will not accomplish much; but taking one action towards solving one of our problems, and doing this every day can lead to a sense of optimism and accomplishment, and eventually a solution.
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