A Midwest Journal » Personal Improvement http://robertworstell.com Rural Living, Raising Grass Fed Beef Cattle, De-Mystifying Personal Improvement. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:12:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 How to Implement Personal Time Management http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/personal-time-management/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/personal-time-management/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:49:47 +0000 robertworstell http://robertworstell.com/?p=2359 The Key to a Better Life

Time management is basically about being focused. The Pareto Principle also known as the ’80:20 Rule’ states that 80% of efforts that are not time managed or unfocused generates only 20% of the desired output. However,  80% of the desired output can be generated using only 20% of a well time managed effort. Although  the ratio ’80:20′ is only arbitrary, it is used to put emphasis on how much is lost or how much can be gained with time management.

Some people view time management as a list of rules that involves scheduling of appointments, goal settings, thorough planning, creating things to do lists and prioritizing. These are the core basics of time management that should be understood to develop an efficient personal time management skill. These basic skills can be fine tuned further to include the finer points of each skill that can give you that extra reserve to make the results you desire.

But there is more skills involved in time management than the core basics. Skills such as decision making, inherent abilities such as emotional intelligence and critical thinking are also essential to your personal growth.

Personal time management involves everything you do. No matter how big and no matter how small, everything counts. Each new knowledge you acquire, each new advice you consider, each new skill you develop should be taken into consideration.

Having a balanced life-style should be the key result in having personal time management. This is the main aspect that many practitioners of personal time management fail to grasp.

Time management is about getting results, not about being busy.

The six areas that personal time management seeks to improve in anyone’s life are physical, intellectual, social, career, emotional and spiritual.

  • The physical aspect involves having a healthy body, less stress and fatigue.
  • The intellectual aspect involves learning and other mental growth activities.
  • The social aspect involves developing personal or intimate relations and being an active contributor to society.
  • The career aspect involves school and work.
  • The emotional aspect involves appropriate feelings and desires and manifesting them.
  • The spiritual aspect involves a personal quest for meaning.

Thoroughly planning and having a set of things to do list for each of the key areas may not be very practical, but determining which area in your life is not being giving enough attention is part of time management. Each area creates the whole you, if you are ignoring one area then you are ignoring an important part of yourself.

Personal time management should not be so daunting a task. It is a very sensible and reasonable approach in solving problems big or small.

A great way of learning time management and improving your personal life is to follow several basic activities.

One of them is to review your goals whether it be immediate or long-term goals often.

A way to do this is to keep a list that is always accessible to you.

Always determine which task is necessary or not necessary in achieving your goals and which activities are helping you maintain a balanced life style.

Each and everyone of us has a peek time and a time when we slow down, these are our natural cycles. We should be able to tell when to do the difficult tasks when we are the sharpest.

Learning to say “No”. You actually see this advice often. Heed it even if it involves saying the word to family or friends.

Pat yourself at the back or just reward yourself in any manner for an effective time management result.

Try and get the cooperation from people around you who are actually benefiting from your efforts of time management.

Don’t procrastinate. Attend to necessary things immediately.

Have a positive attitude and set yourself up for success. But be realistic in your approach in achieving your goals.

Have a record or journal of all your activities. This will help you get things in their proper perspective.

These are the few steps you initially take in becoming a well rounded individual.

As the say personal time management is the art and science of building a better life.

From the moment you integrate into your life time management skills, you have opened several options that can provide a broad spectrum of solutions to your personal growth. It also creates more doors for opportunities to knock on.

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What next after you get all the wealth, happiness, health, and general success you want? http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/wealth-happiness-health-general-success/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/wealth-happiness-health-general-success/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:06:04 +0000 robertworstell http://robertworstell.com/?p=804 personal development How to Implement Personal Time Management

Boy, that was a mouthful. Good thing I don’t have my titles that long all the time – Twitter would ban my updates for sure (or people would think I never finish anything…)

OK, the reason I got inspired to write this was exactly what was in my in-box – another endorsement (read: affliliate link) for someone I hadn’t heard of before and how many glowing testimonials with some incredible, don’t-pass-now offer reduced for a limited time

Like I’d never seen these before.

Actually, I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’ve been opting out of way more mailing lists than I join now days. Usually right after the first worthless offer.

Because these guys are in the same ego trap as their customers – and you can tell in the way they are writing.

You have to ask yourself – what’s all this money for? Sure, having good health is a near necessity – but are you trying to be perfectly healthy all the time, or would minor aches and pains every now and then (like sore from playing a long game of tennis, or being tired after tromping around in the woods all day keeping up with grand children – would those be acceptable?)

Charles Haanel held that money was only a symbol, and that chasing a symbol would cause it all to disappear. Money only stands for what you did to get it. Earl Nightingale said at least once that money only says how much value you’ve been giving others.

Figure that people who only are telling people how to get all the money they want, all the success they can stand – these people are caught up in the same trap.

They’re all symbol-chasing. Why? So the people around you will think better of you?

When you don’t have to take any medicine, and all your bills are paid for months at a time, then what?

And when you get along with the people you like and the other ones mostly leave you alone, then what relationships are you still needing to improve?

The question you want to ask yourself is: “What happens when I get there?”

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Online World Peace Plan – lecture, video, site, everything but a book… http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/online-world-peace-plan-lecture-video-site-everything-but-a-book/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/online-world-peace-plan-lecture-video-site-everything-but-a-book/#comments Sat, 22 May 2010 11:36:19 +0000 robertworstell http://robertworstell.com/general-interest/online-world-peace-plan-lecture-video-site-everything-but-a-book/ The Key to a Better Life

Time management is basically about being focused. The Pareto Principle also known as the ’80:20 Rule’ states that 80% of efforts that are not time managed or unfocused generates only 20% of the desired output. However,  80% of the desired output can be generated using only 20% of a well time managed effort. Although  the ratio ’80:20′ is only arbitrary, it is used to put emphasis on how much is lost or how much can be gained with time management.

Some people view time management as a list of rules that involves scheduling of appointments, goal settings, thorough planning, creating things to do lists and prioritizing. These are the core basics of time management that should be understood to develop an efficient personal time management skill. These basic skills can be fine tuned further to include the finer points of each skill that can give you that extra reserve to make the results you desire.

But there is more skills involved in time management than the core basics. Skills such as decision making, inherent abilities such as emotional intelligence and critical thinking are also essential to your personal growth.

Personal time management involves everything you do. No matter how big and no matter how small, everything counts. Each new knowledge you acquire, each new advice you consider, each new skill you develop should be taken into consideration.

Having a balanced life-style should be the key result in having personal time management. This is the main aspect that many practitioners of personal time management fail to grasp.

Time management is about getting results, not about being busy.

The six areas that personal time management seeks to improve in anyone’s life are physical, intellectual, social, career, emotional and spiritual.

  • The physical aspect involves having a healthy body, less stress and fatigue.
  • The intellectual aspect involves learning and other mental growth activities.
  • The social aspect involves developing personal or intimate relations and being an active contributor to society.
  • The career aspect involves school and work.
  • The emotional aspect involves appropriate feelings and desires and manifesting them.
  • The spiritual aspect involves a personal quest for meaning.

Thoroughly planning and having a set of things to do list for each of the key areas may not be very practical, but determining which area in your life is not being giving enough attention is part of time management. Each area creates the whole you, if you are ignoring one area then you are ignoring an important part of yourself.

Personal time management should not be so daunting a task. It is a very sensible and reasonable approach in solving problems big or small.

A great way of learning time management and improving your personal life is to follow several basic activities.

One of them is to review your goals whether it be immediate or long-term goals often.

A way to do this is to keep a list that is always accessible to you.

Always determine which task is necessary or not necessary in achieving your goals and which activities are helping you maintain a balanced life style.

Each and everyone of us has a peek time and a time when we slow down, these are our natural cycles. We should be able to tell when to do the difficult tasks when we are the sharpest.

Learning to say “No”. You actually see this advice often. Heed it even if it involves saying the word to family or friends.

Pat yourself at the back or just reward yourself in any manner for an effective time management result.

Try and get the cooperation from people around you who are actually benefiting from your efforts of time management.

Don’t procrastinate. Attend to necessary things immediately.

Have a positive attitude and set yourself up for success. But be realistic in your approach in achieving your goals.

Have a record or journal of all your activities. This will help you get things in their proper perspective.

These are the few steps you initially take in becoming a well rounded individual.

As the say personal time management is the art and science of building a better life.

From the moment you integrate into your life time management skills, you have opened several options that can provide a broad spectrum of solutions to your personal growth. It also creates more doors for opportunities to knock on.

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The Key Data Behind Valid Self Help Books and Materials http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/valid-self-help-books/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/valid-self-help-books/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:16:50 +0000 robertworstell http://robertworstell.com/?p=2528 personal development How to Implement Personal Time Management Of all the work I’ve done to date, this is perhaps the most important – and potentially the most damning.

None of this is an easy walk in the park. But it is vital that I tell you at this point.

There are a handful of metaphysical principles which all successful self help programs contain. I’ve already gone over a checklist to see if any particular self-help guru isn’t delivering the goods. So now I hope to tell you what they do need to contain.

  1. Thoughts create your reality.” See Huna principle 1, Earl Nightingale’s “Strangest Secret”, Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich”, Haanel’s “Master Key System”, etc.
  2. “You can connect to a Higher Intelligence/the Universal to get answers and intuitive suggestions.” See Haanel, Hill (Chapter 14), most religions and philosophies cover this point. The Silva Method.
  3. “Self inspection and personal analysis is your real path – if you need one.” This is the key point to Buddhism, especially Zen. As well Jesus gave many examples of his own meditating in the wilderness. Lester Levenson’s release technique.
  4. “Your persistence and faith determine your progress toward enlightenment.” See Hill’s talks on “Burning Desire”, and other New Thought authors’ comments on concentration.

Now you will also see that they have a set of programmed steps to follow, but any system being sold or promoted right now have these, so that’s a given. This separates real self-help from poetry or artwork or mere “inspirational quotes”.

When you get down to the bottom-line basics, you’ll see that the real push and drive is to get the individual up to the point where they can let their own abilities shine out and manifest. It is at that point where anything they could need or want simply shows up around them. All these other goals work are simply the process of getting them confident in their own abilities so that they can and will – on their own.

These four points above are the common theory points which have to be present for any real self-help progress to be made. If they don’t tell you these points pretty quickly, you don’t have a path to follow – except to keep paying their salaries with your “donations.”

But money is another trap and only useful as an introduction to the broader subject of self-actualization.

It’s whether they actually tell you that self-actualization is possible which will tell you their intent. And then you will know everything about them.

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Oh, and if you find someone who isn’t searching, who is completely calm and at peace with everything – and while meanwhile being quietly confident of themselves enough to be only interested in you and the people around them – realize you just met one of the real, rare, genuine articles. Treasure them and help them as you can. Don’t try to keep up with the help you’ll be getting from them, because they really and factually only exist to serve.

Those are the real deals. About one in ten million or more. Cherish them. And learn so you can “do greater things than these.”

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What Makes A Self Help Guru Really Successful? http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/self-help-guru/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/self-help-guru/#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:26:49 +0000 robertworstell http://robertworstell.com/?p=2520 personal development How to Implement Personal Time Management Unfortunately, most of these guys and their marketing firms have this backward.

You only have to study my Scam-Free Book and the Preamble to Covey’s 7 Habits to find out why:

Most guru’s and “success coaches” are out there to sell benefits.

They can and will give you a dozen solutions to any want or need you think you have. But Covey found in his study of a couple hundred years of success material in the U.S. – that the last 50 years were devoted to just attitude adjustment instead of actually working out the underlying causation and eradicating it.

Of course, I did my own study and completed most of it before I found Covey’s work as a side-check on that research. I only took dead authors whose works were still being widely circulated, then looked for commonalities (crossovers) in them.

This wound up in my “Go Thunk Yourself” series.

But as I knew in follow-up research that something was missing. And only found that recently.

And in reviewing all this for my last book in this area then brought up the fact that I pull my own success from a wide-range of material – but only four main subject areas.

The point today is to cover how you can tell a real deal from a fake.

I mention (probably too much) that you need to be familiar with Maslow, Cialdini, and Levenson to know that  you are scam-free (see the book on this, as well as the scam-free checklist).

While a scammer and an honest practitioner can be separated by finding their actual intentions (but you still can’t separate them from their money, different than the fools they ply) – even the people having great financial success in their marketing may not understand what they actually need to do to be the “real deal.”

1. Real guru’s aren’t concerned with themselves as an example. The best will actually try not to bring their own successes up, since this then builds resistance by giving you a “hidden standard” to measure your own progress against.

2. Real guru’s are interested more in your self-actualization than anything they say or do – or even in the materials they offer. (“…ye shall do even greater things than these…”) They aren’t just offering to help you cure physical ailments, get rich quick, have an incredible sex life, or “attract” that luxury car/huge house/expensive trinket you’ve “always” wanted?

3. There is no dogma or hyper-compartmented teachings to swallow wholesale. Real teachers will insist that you work this out for yourself and only accept something if and when you’ve proved it for yourself.

4. And while it’s necessary to “make money” to survive in this culture, it’s more to the point that people won’t value something unless they have to contribute something first or as a result. Money, especially hard-earned income, is one way to do this. CEO Space requires people to go out and learn by getting people to get investors contributing to their success.

And so this really gives you a four-point checklist to see if you have a fake or the real deal in front of you:

- Look up their website and see if it’s personality and approval-driven. Does it have a lot of pictures of the principles with other celebrities?

- Do you have to buy extensive packages of materials which can only be used under certain conditions and agreements? Are you forbidden from improving on these materials or teaching your own version?

- Are these guru’s and their staffs only really interested in how you are progressing with these materials? Do they give you a testimonial form to fill out?  Or are they simply giving you solutions to insatiable desires – how rich is rich?

- Are you constantly being asked for more money every time you turn around. This can also be insidious, as they are putting pop-ups on their site to get you to sign up for their email course – then claiming they have XXX,XXX subscribers or “millions of satisfied customers worldwide!”

Now, take it as a given that since the vast majority of people on this planet are running on 95% subconscious habits, you are going to attract people into a real self-help study which can let them achieve enlightenment only by first telling them that “your lumbosis can be simply alleviated with high-powered and unique methods we have.” As well, that they can “live more abundant and prosperous lives” if they start doing such-and-so at such-and-such price per hour. Only when you tell them that the reason they want all these things also has to be addressed – that is the first time you are bringing up the point that self-actualization is the higher goal to really shoot for. Because only when they’ve had success in dealing with these relatively minor problems of having abundance or happiness or good health in their lives (which are actually native to everyone anyway) will they be able to see that there is something higher that they can and should be reaching for.

The final point – do they deliver the goods? Scientology (not to beat a dead horse that doesn’t know it) has the problem of having promised their people that they can attain super-high personal states, but not having those actual courses and processes ever written up by Hubbard before he passed on. Zen Buddhism says at least that while many people have become bodhi/achieved satori, others might take several lifetimes before they do – while some can get there in minutes, per Alan Watts. When you study up on a self-help guru, look to see if they are delivering a finite set of goods that is here right now.

If they are just selling you the “next great thing” with no end in site – realize you are their income source. And little else. Move on. Find yourself another guru, or become your own.

Hope this helps.

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Napoleon Hill discloses Carnegie Commission http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/napoleon-hill-carnegie-commission/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/napoleon-hill-carnegie-commission/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:35:31 +0000 robertworstell http://robertworstell.com/?p=2533

Napoleon Hill talks about the wisdom the billionaire Andrew Carnegie shared with him some hundred years ago. This discloses the secret behind his “Think and Grow Rich” and “Law of Success” – how they became bestselling self help classics. En joy.

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Personal Improvement Crossovers and Compartments http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/crossovers-compartments/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/crossovers-compartments/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:05:10 +0000 robertworstell http://robertworstell.com/?p=2514 personal development How to Implement Personal Time Management All life, at least our humankind version of it, is severely compartmented. People live their lives in cloistered cubicles, even when they are right next to a person. Each of us lives very unique experiences – so much so that when a set of witnesses watch an accident happen, no two people have the same report.

And we keep our knowledge and our beliefs running in this same manner. Sciences are kept uniquely different in different fields. Medicine is even more refined – specialists for everything. Cancer treatment is by area of the body, not by type of cancer. (Even though all cancer has commonalities of causation and treatment.)

So we can take this to extremes, and live very individuated lives. It’s even remarkable nowadays when people share the same thought simultaneously. Or have pets who “know” when you are sick or feeling down. People who are “empathetic” are valued highly.

But to study ancient philosophies and religious texts, our modern world is the anomaly. These books and scrolls and verbal traditions tell us that we are all connected. All interconnected. We can actually find out anything we want to whenever or wherever we choose.

Quantum Physicists have been some of the first scientists to discover this – that the presence of the operator causes the outcome of the experiment, no matter how well shielded. And so many of these have gone back to study philosophies, especially ancient Eastern texts, in order to understand what they had just ran into.

This is another indicator of scam or fraud – when they won’t let you look at other data. Wide open studies like Huna tell you to use any part or all of what you find workable for yourself and improve on it or combine it with other studies. Corporations like Scientology tell you not to “mix practices” and that studying related fields or authors is “squirreling”. (While Hubbard himself crafted his work based on a wide variety of texts ranging from Aleister Crowley and Qabalah to Psychology and “past life regression”. He then called these by his own nomenclature and slang, creating his own ivory tower you weren’t supposed to step foot out of.) It’s no small wonder that Scientology has long had the moniker of “cult”.

Internet Coaching and Marketing guru’s have this same problem. Once they train people to get out on the Internet for themselves,  their consumers will find that they don’t have all the answers and then leave – and might even demand their money back. (The most petulant of these can’t stand to be blogged about, either.)

But the answers to any questions can be found simply when you look for crossovers from other fields.

The more I look for answers, the more I find. As long as you keep a truly open mind and are testing everything you find for workability, you find amazing material that can radically improve your life. You’ll also find where studies and systems are missing huge chunks which would make them more workable.

My own results in looking for crossovers lead me to the four core studies which interacted as a “tetrad” and would result in real increase of personal ability, prosperity, and freedom: Huna, Silva Method, Levenson Release Technique, and New Thought bestsellers.

That’s more or less documented with my post on 4 Goals to Achieve…

I invite you to study these four resources and find the crossovers for yourself – not just to accept what I say here.

And I can only tell you that by being truly open to the world around you, and seeing it for what it is – not what you think it should be or would like to change it into – only then will you see a remarkable world around you and be able to take advantage of the vast amount of opportunities ever present.

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How to Find a Scammy Personal Development Guru http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/personal-development-scam/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/personal-development-scam/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:38:18 +0000 robertworstell http://robertworstell.com/?p=2475 personal development How to Implement Personal Time Management Not that you’re actually looking for one. But if you’re like me, and you’ve got bookshelves full of authors and stacks of CDs – and all of them you only listen to once (if you actually do get through them) – then you want to know if you are getting your money’s worth.

Or are you just making other people income while you spend yours?

What makes a real, classic, evergreen, bestseller, self-help authority?

Classic books, like Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, or Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People – these books are based on years or a lifetime of experience and study.

Hill personally interviewed over 500 successful people to boil down his pragmatic and easily-applied success system. And he wrote up what he found exactly 20 years after that, in a less-known 16 volume series called “Law of Success”. But it was another 13 years before he would take that understanding and bring forward his epochal success, “Think and Grow Rich”. It became a book which has sold so many that there are disagreements on how many tens of millions it has sold.

Carnegie worked years as a speaking coach and trainer. Ripley’s reported that he had critiqued over 150,000 speeches – which would take ten months of 24-hour days, if the speeches lasted only 3 minutes. It was this “laboratory” as he called it that gave him the broad study of humankind activity to boil down his understanding and grow his books. He worked from what people commonly found as stumbling blocks to their interpersonal relations. It started as simple crib sheets, grew into pamphlets, and as he kept studying and refining the basic data – full books. “How to Win Friends” is built on that extensive research.

Of course, we see the reverse in the Internet Marketing field – where people with no money, but a lot of chutzpah can start promoting “the latest thing” and get some instant income. But only they get that income. Because what they are pushing is a fad, a gimmick, and has no long-lasting success. You’ll also see them fly from one product to another, constantly changing their operation.

One “big name” I studied once does this exact thing to this day. If you study his career, you’ll see that he’s done major shifts in his operation. What he’s good at is keeping subscribers paying him money every month – and then taking that hope they’ll someday break into the big time, and translating that into a following into his “next big thing”. Unfortunately, most of the others don’t ever get the income he does.

Personal Development guru’s are a lot like this. Their toolkits are filled with gimmicks and the “next big thing”, constantly riding fads. Because they are simply selling what’s popular, marketing to lemmings.

Marketing is very, very close to scamming.

They actually use the same buttons to get you to buy their goods. Exact same psychological triggers. Advertising and all broadcast media is exactly like this. Do a study of their layouts and key words they repeat over and over – you’ll find that they are working to simply get you go buy their stuff. They aren’t really interested in you or what you want. They are after their own bottom line and keeping that going.

All personal development marketing isn’t this way. Most of it is, however.

Now I’ve already gone over this as a checklist which you can find as a scam-free checklist (see link).

But Personal Development is a bit different.

Because it has to do with you. Your dreams, your faith, your life. And that’s why it hurts more when you find you’ve been let down.

And the many, many “guru’s” out there are mostly very charismatic. Meaning that they know how to empathize with people and appeal to their basic needs and wants, even more than the person knows his own. And they make very, very good sales people.

So it is so easy to get taken in by them and their organizations. You then find yourself lead down their “sales funnel”, buying more and more stuff, always hoping that the next one will do for you what you always wanted. And you can see charts of scales of benefits, filled with special jargon that makes it all very special and authoritative.

There’s just one real question:

What has it done for you?

Did you lose that chronic fear or illness? Were you actually able to deal with people as themselves – instead of putting on a “front” to meet with them? Are you constantly having to repeat special phrases in order to build up your personal confidence? Do you have to have “support calls” to keep you going – or some reminder program that gives you “motivational lifts” every day, just so you can make it through? Most key:If someone took all those books and CD’s and DVD’s away tomorrow, would you be able to make it on your own for the rest of your life?

If you answered most of those questions No, particularly that last one – you are an addict. And they haven’t helped you get over that addiction.

But relax. the vast bulk of humankind is stuck in that same addiction. That’s why marketing and sales work. All these marketers and guru’s haven’t handled the basic problem all people have depended on to make their own lives meaningful and fulfilled.

If you have read this far, then you can actually make that shift yourself. It won’t necessarily be easy. It may or may not cost you more money. You might take the rest of this life to achieve it – or it could happen in minutes.

And it boils down to this one question:

Does what you’re doing, how you’re acting, the result of it all – does this bring you more lasting peace of mind?

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And no, I’m not going to sell you something here. Sure, I write books. And you can get them if you want – but most of these are on the Internet either in one of my blogs or “escaped” in digital form. So you can get all my stuff free.

No, I don’t give lessons or “personal coaching”. I farm for a living.

But I can tell you that after over 35 years of research and half a decade of living, I know what’s fake and what’s real in people.

The fakes are trying to impress you or are insecure, or are trying to control you in some fashion. The real ones are there only to help you and could really care less what you think of them. They aren’t easily influenced by anyone or anything they meet or happen into in their lives. They aren’t themselves looking for something better – they’ve already mastered life and have arrived to their own Peace.

And if after meeting someone or reading a book or listening to a recording or watching a video – if any of these activities doesn’t give you a permanent increase in your personal peace of mind – it’s not improvement. Drop that author or lecturer like a stone. Even if it’s me.

Because I’ve been there, done that. Been scammed, gotten out of it.

How you measure your own peace of mind is different person to person. But you’ll know it in your heart when it changes.

The next time you pick up something to read or watch or listen to – view it with your heart. And then you’ll know for sure.

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New book and it’s all about you, as usual http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/carnegie-nightingale-wattles-haanel/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/carnegie-nightingale-wattles-haanel/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:44:39 +0000 robertworstell http://robertworstell.com/?p=1934 The Key to a Better Life

Time management is basically about being focused. The Pareto Principle also known as the ’80:20 Rule’ states that 80% of efforts that are not time managed or unfocused generates only 20% of the desired output. However,  80% of the desired output can be generated using only 20% of a well time managed effort. Although  the ratio ’80:20′ is only arbitrary, it is used to put emphasis on how much is lost or how much can be gained with time management.

Some people view time management as a list of rules that involves scheduling of appointments, goal settings, thorough planning, creating things to do lists and prioritizing. These are the core basics of time management that should be understood to develop an efficient personal time management skill. These basic skills can be fine tuned further to include the finer points of each skill that can give you that extra reserve to make the results you desire.

But there is more skills involved in time management than the core basics. Skills such as decision making, inherent abilities such as emotional intelligence and critical thinking are also essential to your personal growth.

Personal time management involves everything you do. No matter how big and no matter how small, everything counts. Each new knowledge you acquire, each new advice you consider, each new skill you develop should be taken into consideration.

Having a balanced life-style should be the key result in having personal time management. This is the main aspect that many practitioners of personal time management fail to grasp.

Time management is about getting results, not about being busy.

The six areas that personal time management seeks to improve in anyone’s life are physical, intellectual, social, career, emotional and spiritual.

  • The physical aspect involves having a healthy body, less stress and fatigue.
  • The intellectual aspect involves learning and other mental growth activities.
  • The social aspect involves developing personal or intimate relations and being an active contributor to society.
  • The career aspect involves school and work.
  • The emotional aspect involves appropriate feelings and desires and manifesting them.
  • The spiritual aspect involves a personal quest for meaning.

Thoroughly planning and having a set of things to do list for each of the key areas may not be very practical, but determining which area in your life is not being giving enough attention is part of time management. Each area creates the whole you, if you are ignoring one area then you are ignoring an important part of yourself.

Personal time management should not be so daunting a task. It is a very sensible and reasonable approach in solving problems big or small.

A great way of learning time management and improving your personal life is to follow several basic activities.

One of them is to review your goals whether it be immediate or long-term goals often.

A way to do this is to keep a list that is always accessible to you.

Always determine which task is necessary or not necessary in achieving your goals and which activities are helping you maintain a balanced life style.

Each and everyone of us has a peek time and a time when we slow down, these are our natural cycles. We should be able to tell when to do the difficult tasks when we are the sharpest.

Learning to say “No”. You actually see this advice often. Heed it even if it involves saying the word to family or friends.

Pat yourself at the back or just reward yourself in any manner for an effective time management result.

Try and get the cooperation from people around you who are actually benefiting from your efforts of time management.

Don’t procrastinate. Attend to necessary things immediately.

Have a positive attitude and set yourself up for success. But be realistic in your approach in achieving your goals.

Have a record or journal of all your activities. This will help you get things in their proper perspective.

These are the few steps you initially take in becoming a well rounded individual.

As the say personal time management is the art and science of building a better life.

From the moment you integrate into your life time management skills, you have opened several options that can provide a broad spectrum of solutions to your personal growth. It also creates more doors for opportunities to knock on.

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How I thrive in these uncertain times. http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/thrive-freedom-peace/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://robertworstell.com/personal-development/thrive-freedom-peace/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:15:00 +0000 robertworstell http://robertworstell.com/?p=1306 personal development How to Implement Personal Time Management

You basically have to know where you’re going and where you are at.

A friend sent me this cute story which basically tells off all these people with their drive to “make money online” and “become a millionaire overnight”.

An older blog post I wrote asked the question “What if their is no mountain?

And as well, you may have noticed my continuing posts on the Sedona Method release technique.

The point of all this is coming out in my new book, “Freedom Is — (period).All the Happiness, Peace, and Freedom you could ever want is already in you. You just have to let it out.

And while you are releasing all these negative thoughts to just be yourself, you also meanwhile learn how to get all the wealth, success, and loving relationships you could ever want as well. But the trick is to get beyond the “get rich quick” mindset (which Sedona helps you to do) and really concentrate on that peace of mind which money can’t buy.

All religions and philosophies (even those the money-hungry Wall Street bankers use) – all these point to the same thing: you only get peace of mind from yourself. And how you get it is to start getting really accepting and grateful for what you already have.

This is what I’ve learned over the past year, in all my various escapades. People aren’t really working against you, unless you are working against them. But the joke is that since we are all connected, you are just working against yourself.

Here’s where the Golden Rule really points out the humor in our lives. All this work with politicians and lawyers in order to “make money” when you already have all the abundance in your life you could ever ask for… You just have to treat others as you want to be treated. And then they will. Because you are “they”.

Or, look at it this way: there are a great deal of people out there who want to help you – if you will only let them.

Cheers!

PS. This also works for the “Law of Attraction”. Same ‘diff…

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