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Organize Tomorrow Today
Eight Ways to Retrain Your Mind to Optimize Performance at Work and in Life
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- Contains 9 key ideas
Synopsis
Organize Tomorrow Today (2015) is the definitive guide to achieving a successful career and fulfilling life. These blinks offer you valuable information, giving you the tools to unlock the power of your mind, increase your self-confidence and become your most productive self.
Key idea 1 of 9
It’s just not productive to focus on more than one goal at a time if you want positive results.
Have you ever felt the need to make a positive change in your life? Maybe you’ve already made a list of all the small things you’d like to alter. But making a long list isn’t the most effective way to go about making improvements.
Why? It’s a fact that our conscious mind can only process between five to nine concepts, or pieces of information, at a time. This phenomenon is called channel capacity, and was first identified by psychologist George A. Miller in 1956.
No matter what you’re reading or looking at, from words to colors or numbers, your working memory can only store a limited amount of data at any given time. And working memory is all a person has from moment to moment, whether making an argument or trying to solve a math problem.
So given this limitation, it makes sense that trying to tackle too many tasks at once can be overwhelming. This also holds true when you try to change too many things at once in your life.
Since every task you try to complete requires its own amount of data, your working memory can suffer from information overload when you try to juggle multiple tasks. When this happens, important data can get improperly processed and you might make a mistake, or worse, your conscious mind will shut down. You can think of this like a computer freezing when you’ve opened up too many applications.
The author has witnessed this dilemma firsthand. People have told him that when they try to change two or three things in their life at the same time, they get stuck. But when they focus on only one thing, the results can be unbelievable.
So the best way to improve your life and get positive results is to commit yourself to changing just one thing at a time!
Key ideas in this title
- It’s just not productive to focus on more than one goal at a time if you want positive results.
- Prioritizing tasks and organizing tomorrow is the key to better time management and productivity.
- Maximize the time you have by finding ways to structure goals and increase meeting productivity.
- Create a ritual of your new lifestyle goals to avoid procrastination and stick to new, positive behaviors.
- Self-evaluation is effective as long as you focus on the process, not just the results, of your work.
- How you think and talk to yourself can either build you up for success or let you down toward failure.
- By writing thoughtful speeches, practicing often and speaking calmly, you’ll get your message across.
- Being a normal person can get in the way of achieving greatness. Seek to be abnormal!
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