TIME POWER (Part II)
By Brian Tracy
The Practice of Mental Rehearsal
The method is simple. First, you sit or lie in a quiet place where you can be completely alone in the silence. You then imagine yourself going through an important upcoming experience, such as a meeting, a presentation, a negotiation or even a date. As you sit or lie completely relaxed, create a picture of the coming event and see it unfolding perfectly in every respect. See yourself as calm, positive, happy and in complete control. See the other people doing and saying exactly what you would want them to do if the situation was perfect. Then, breathe deeply, relax and just let it go, as if you had sent off an order and the delivery is guaranteed, exactly as you visualized it. The best time to practice mental rehearsal is at night in bed, just before you fall asleep.The last thing you do before you doze off is to imagine yourself performing at your best the following day. You will be amazed at how often the upcoming event or experience happens exactly as you imagined it.
In becoming excellent at time management, practice mental rehearsal by continually seeing yourself as you would be if you were one of the best organized and most efficient people you could imagine. Eventually these pictures will “lock in.” When they do, you will find yourself easily and automatically using your time efficiently and well in everything you do.
3. Act the Part
The third mental technique you can use to program your subconscious mind for efficiency and effectiveness is to act the part of a highly efficient person. Imagine that you have been selected for a role in a movie or stage play. In this role, you are to act the part of a person who is extremely well organized in every respect. As you go through your daily life, imagine you are an actor who is playing this part, who is already very good at time management. Act is if you are already using your time efficiently and well.
Pretend that you are an expert in personal efficiency. Fake it until you make it. When
you pretend that you are excellent in time management, eventually the action, which is
under your direct control, will develop the mindset or the belief in your subconscious
mind that is consistent with it.
4. Benchmark against the Best
The fourth mental technique you can use for becoming a highly efficient person is called “modeling.” Modeling requires you to pattern yourself after someone you know who uses his or her time well. Think of someone you admire for good time management skills. Use that person as your standard or your model. Imagine what he or she would do in any given situation, and then do it yourself. Many of the most effective men and women in America reached their positions by modeling themselves in their earlier years after someone who was already extremely effective, someone whom they admired and respected for qualities they wanted to develop in themselves. Because of the Law of Correspondence, you always tend tobecome on the inside what you most admire in other people.
5. Become a Teacher
The fifth technique for programming your subconscious mind is to imagine that you are going to be teaching a course in time management one year from today. This technique comes from the discoveries in the field of accelerated learning. What the experts have found is that if you think about how you would teach new material at the same time you are learning the new material, you seem to absorb it and internalize it far faster than if you just thought about learning it and using it for yourself.
As you take in these new ideas on time management, think of how you would teach them to someone else. Think of someone in your life who could benefit from practicing what you are learning. Just as you become what you think about, you also become what you teach. Just thinking about teaching something to someone else increases the speed at which you learn it yourself. And you always think about teaching those things that you most want or need to learn for yourself.
One of the fastest ways to learn new ideas and techniques permanently is to share them with other people immediately after you learn them. Each time you come across a good idea in this report, take a few moments to share it with someone nearby, either at home or at work. The concentration you require to explain the new principle in your own words to another person seems to drive the information deeper into your subconscious mind where it becomes a permanent part of your long-term memory.
6. Be a Role Model for Others
The sixth technique you can use to program your subconscious mind is to imagine that others are looking up to you as an example of excellence in time management. Imagine that you are setting the standard in your company or your organization. Imagine that everyone is looking to you for guidance on how they should plan and organize their own time. If others were watching you, what would you do differently each day? How would you behave in your daily work? How would you organize your time if you felt that everyone was looking up at you to set the standard, to be the role model?
When you see yourself as a model, an example of excellent performance, you will always do better and accomplish more than if you just thought of yourself as personally trying to be more efficient. The more you think about yourself as an excellent time manager, the more excellent you become. The more you see yourself as a role model for others, the better you become in organizing your own time and life.
Twelve Proven Principles for Peak Performance
Here are twelve proven principles you can practice every day to get more out of yourself and improve your results in everything you do.
getting back. The greater the contribution you feel that you are making to your company and to your family, the greater will be your self-esteem. Good time management enables you to greatly improve your ability to contribute more and more value to whatever you are doing.
Principle Number Two: Your rewards, both tangible and intangible, will always be equal to the value of your service to other people. The more you put in, the more you get out. By the Law of Sowing and Reaping, time management enables you to sow more and better, and therefore to reap more and better in every area of your life. If you want to increase the quality and quantity of you rewards, you need only seek ways to increase the value of your service. This is very
much under your control.
Principle Number Three: Good time management requires that you see yourself as a “factory.”
A factory has three phases of production. First of all, it has inputs of raw materials, time, labor, money and resources. These are the “factors of production” that are necessary to create the end product. Second, inside the factory there are activities that take place. These are the production activities or work that are necessary to produce the product or service. The efficiency of operations within the factory determines the productivity of the factory, and the
productivity of each person involved in the production process. Third, what emerges from the factory are the outputs or production of the factory. The value of the factory is determined by the quality and quantity of its outputs relative to its inputs. The central purpose of the management of the factory is to increase the quality and quantity of outputs.
One main difference between highly effective people and people who seem to produce very little is that top performers always focus on outputs or results. Average performers focus on inputs. Top performers focus on accomplishments; medium or low performers focus on activities. Good time management requires that you continually ask yourself, “What outputs are expected of me? What am I expected to produce? Why exactly am I on the payroll?” The more you focus on the required outputs of your position, the better and more effective you will become. As a result, you will create greater value and make a more important contribution. You will become more productive and therefore more valuable to yourself and to your company.
Principle Number Four: Everything you accomplish, or fail to accomplish, depends upon your ability to use your time to its best advantage. Your levels of achievement and performance, in every area, are determined by your ability to think through and to apply the very best time management techniques available to you. You can only increase the quality and quantity of your results by increasing your ability to use your time effectively.
Principle Number Six: The practice of time management skills develops judgment, foresight, self-reliance and self-discipline. These are the qualities of leadership and character. It is time management that enables you to get things done, and your ability to accomplish the tasks that are assigned to you is the chief measure of your value to your company, and to your world.
Principle Number Seven: A focus on time management forces you to be intensely result-oriented. Result-orientation is the key quality of men and women. Your ability to focus single minded on the most important results required of you is the fastest and surest way to get paid more, promoted faster and to eventually achieve financial independence.
Principle Number Twelve: Now, this minute, is all the time you have. If you manage yourself minute by minute, the hours and days will take care of themselves. The more tightly you manage your time, the more guaranteed you are that it will translate into a great life, hallmarked by purpose, power, control and worthwhile accomplishments.
Action Exercises:
1. Select one area where better time management skills can help you to be more effective and get more done. Resolve to go to work on yourself in that area immediately.
2. Think back on a time when you were performing at your best. Recall and replay the picture of this experience on the screen of your mind whenever you approach a new task.
3. Talk to yourself positively all the time. Repeat affirmations like, “I use my time efficiently and well!”
4. Imagine that everyone around you is looking up to you as the role model of personal efficiency, and that they were going to organize their days the way you organize yours. Act accordingly.
5. Think about teaching a course in time management to your friends and colleagues. What would be the most important things you would want to teach them?
6. Determine the areas of your work that give you the most satisfaction and make plans to become even more productive in those areas.
7. Resolve today that you are going to work and practice until you become one of the most efficient, effective and productive people in your field. Take action immediately on your resolution.
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