Don't "Go" In The Shower… Master This One Skill, Achieve All Your Goals!


by Julie Archibold - Date: 2006-12-17 - Word Count: 645 Share This!

What does "going" in the shower, having cravings at night, or getting sleepy when you pick up a book to read, have in common with reaching your goals or not?

This phenomenon suddenly hit me a couple days ago standing in the shower having the urge "to go". I thought to myself: why do I always have this feeling as soon as I step into the shower and turn on the faucet? On the other hand why do I feel like having some macaroni and cheese or eat a big ice cream cone at night, yet when I wake up the following morning I don't feel like having breakfast?

Then I realized that in my case and many people I know, it's a matter of having certain impulses at the wrong time. Somewhere along the way I gave into them and a psychological pattern was created in the brain.

But what if you could sever the connection between the action and the time you chose to do it, and make the right connection, place the right anchor? After all, we all have "to go" we all have to eat to live. Yet there is such a thing as doing the right thing at the wrong time. And it's a pattern that can be easily translated from eating between meals to talking out of terms. Fall asleep as you settle down to read a good book to pass by on a great opportunity.

So how can you break this unproductive pattern? I believe 5 simple steps could help in this respect:

1- Recognize it: Stop yourself in the act and ask yourself if what you're about to do is beneficial for you, for your environment whether short or long term? Will it get you closer or further away from your goals?

2- Make a decision: Make up your mind to turn around and go in the opposite direction. It won't happen automatically by just recognizing it. You must stop and make up your mind. That decision is the beginning of the new pattern.

3- Do something right away: If all you do is recognize it, make up your mind but decide to address it "latter" you make it more difficult to create change. Your mind will have enough time to come up with imaginary obstacles and excuses. If you take action immediately, you graphically show the brain what the new desired pattern is.

4- Practice the new habit often: Don't avoid the situation. As often as you can, you must practice the new pattern that it can create the new "automatic path" as quick as possible. You need to create that path by repeating it as often as you can in order to replace the old prints with new ones.

5- Go in with positive thoughts: Enter the situation always thinking positive thoughts. Think of overcoming, of overriding. Be aware when you are entering "the zone". Don't let it take you by surprise, especially before the new pattern is completely seared in the brain, this could make it slip automatically into the old mode. The time will soon come when it will remain in the new pattern. Until then, be always on the alert.

To learn to do the right thing at the right time and do it consistently is the one skill that will make you achieve all your goals. Not mastering it, is almost a guarantee of missing all the opportunities that come your way. You end up being one of those people who always recognize the bus from behind when it already left. Then make magnificent plans to catch the next one, although most likely they'll be distracted or "won't feel up to it" when the next one comes around.

But if you make it a habit to recognize it, decide to get on, actually "do" get on, do it all the time, and always with positive thoughts. Then you can be sure to always reach your destination.

Now go!


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Julie Duncan-Archibold is the author of The Brainstormer. Think, Imagine, Create. A book that suggests over 120 product and business ideas that appeal especially to women and also offers keen suggestions on how to bring them to life. She was named woman of the month, for the month of July 2006 @ 4realwomen.com. For more information about The Brainstormer click at the end of her 75-seconds women-empowering animated clip @ http://www.brainstormerthinkimaginecreate.com

For further reference search for: Julie Duncan Archibold or The Brainstormer. Think, Imagine, Create.

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