Changing The Brain For Better Productivity
June 17, 2009 by
Filed under Coaching
Why Is Change Hard To Achieve?
The latest research in neuroscience confirms what we have already learned, that is, our brains are hardwired to resist change.
That’s the bad news…
The good news is that this hardwiring can be changed and there are specific ways to do this.
The brain is very good at making connections, it does it by literally hardwiring itself. When repeated and reinforced over time, these connections become very strong. Most of them support us in living our daily lives in things like walking, talking, driving a car etc.
Limited Memory
Because we only have a very limited amount of working memory, these regular tasks are done by the subconscious. Who hasn’t driven home on occasion when tired and couldn’t remember the drive home?
It is built to detect changes and is constantly dividing, comparing, contrasting and differentiating everything it comes across. Again, most of it done under the surface, subconsciously.
We know that these automatic and programmed actions and thoughts serve us well in most cases but some do not and can cause common problems such as self sabotage, procrastination, relationship issues and many others.
What Can I Do About It?
That’s great to know, but what can you do about unhelpful programmed hardwiring?
Well, as I mentioned earlier the brain is constantly hardwiring everything it can, good or bad, and it usually sees change as a threat, especially as you get older. Trying to remove unhelpful habits, beliefs etc. can be extremely hard work and can take years to achieve.
Making new connections however, is relatively easy to do but it is not so easy by yourself. How many people (maybe even you) have read the books, attended the seminars, know the theory yet still resist taking real action?
Gaining new insights and developing your focus on where you are going rather than what is wrong is best done by working with someone else, like as an experienced coach who is familiar with these principles and has a proven methodology for effective behaviour change.
Committed to YOUR Personal Productivity,
James is a productivity coach specializing in working with people who are procrastinators and those who want results quickly. His ability to get brilliant results with his clients is quite amazing…
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Tips to Stop Procrastination
May 30, 2009 by
Filed under Procrastination, Productivity
You Already Know WHAT To Do
Procrastination isn’t so much a matter of poor organization as it is a psychological block:
Trust me, procrastination is not a time-management problem. It’s a complex problem involving personality, situations and motivation.
Here are three psychologically sound tips to help procrastinators overcome this problem.
1. Just get started. Don’t waste time over-planning and over-thinking; research shows that once you actually begin a task, your perceptions of that task change. And making even a little progress boosts your well-being, which in turn gives you more motivation to work.
2. Suck it up. It is a distastesful task? It is difficult? Would you rather be doing something — anything! — else? Tough. You need to just plunge in and deal with it. It’s a hard-nosed approach but necessary with procrastinators, who tend to avoid dealing with the negative emotions associated with unpleasant tasks.
Don’t Give in
Don’t “give in to feeling good” such that you focus on short-term mood repair. Keep your focus on long-term progress on your goal.
Brutal Honesty
3. Be honest with yourself. Stop the self-deception. You might argue that you’ll feel more like doing it tomorrow, that you work better under pressure, or that it can wait. As Pychyl notes, you won’t, you don’t, and it can’t. Instead of giving in, recognize these thoughts as red flags that signal your desire to procrastinate and go back to tips 1 and 2.
Action First, Feelings Follow
One can liken procrastinators to 3-year-old’s who don’t want to do something, arguing, “I don’t feel like it. I need to feel better in order to act. First, I need to feel better.” Wrong, he says; in fact, your feelings will follow your behaviors, so progress on that task will actually improve your mood.
While tips aren’t a sure-fire recipe for success — after all, tips are only useful if you follow them — I think these three could really make a dent in your procrastination habit.
Committed to YOUR Personal Productivity,
James is a productivity coach specializing in working with people who are procrastinators and those who want results quickly. His ability to get brilliant results with his clients is quite amazing…
“Fast Tracking YOUR SUCCESS… SuccessFULL Living!”
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Why We All Need A Coach
March 29, 2009 by
Filed under Conditioning, Productivity
The one critical reason why we all need a coach is that sometimes our perception of a situation is skewed and one dimensional. We all could do with someone to assist us to obtain a more balanced perspective in life.
It can be like riding a tobbogan down a hill in the snow again and again. There are many ways to get to the bottom but if you keep going down the same path you’ll make deep tracks that make you go faster but seriously limit your ability to change direction.
You get comfortably stuck in a rut.
If that rut is your life then the tracks that cause your problems are your fears, beliefs and habits.
Counter-Productive Belief
For a long time I ran my business with the belief that I should really look after my customers.
“Nothing wrong with that” I hear you saying to yourself. Perfectly true. But it wasn’t until someone helped me see what I couldn’t. That yes, I was looking after my customers but I wasn’t looking after me. There was an awful lot I was doing at my expense while thinking I was doing the right thing.
I was unable to see both sides of the equation.
Once seen from this new perspective and acted upon, it made a huge difference in terms of profit and self confidence.
Sport and Life
Having a coach to help you with your goals, beliefs and to develop empowering habits really does make sense. How many top sports people do you know that don’t have a coach? I’m certainly not aware of any.
You are participating in the most important game of all, your life.
Make the most of it.
Committed to YOUR Personal Productivity,
James is a productivity coach specializing in working with people who are procrastinators and those who want results quickly. His ability to get brilliant results with his clients is quite amazing…
“Fast Tracking YOUR SUCCESS… SuccessFULL Living!”
To Find Out the “5 Secrets of REALLY Successful People” go to…
P: 0421 210 444
