If you want to accomplish a task, say you desire to identify few tasks to do, then ask yourself to come up with one and only one task to do, that is it. If you get one task to do, then ask yourself to come up with another one and so on. Notice the sequential nature of this process. Initially it may not be easy to find a task, but soon you will. The mind, or at least part of the mind, say the left brain, likes to work in sequential fashion; whereas the right brain likes to work in a holistic fashion. It wants things done fast. Now, you have a lot of things to do and it is time to say this: I have enough things to do, but I need, circumstance permitting, a way to do the first one and only the first one, that is it. You may face a little bit of difficulties in the beginning, but soon you will find a way to get the first one done and then go ahead and do it. Proceed in that fashion: one thing at a time. At this point you have tasks to do and a way to do them To start and to stop anything is not easy but to maintain them is easy. Experiment it. I judge this to be one of the greatest principles of all times. It allows one to make new habits and by implication determine fate. In psychology, this phenomenon is known as foot- in-the-door technique. Sales people use it. Plenty of research is available to evidence its effectiveness. As with anything else in in life, it works in negative ways too. Internet and TV stations use this principle to facilitate movement, say, from one channel to another. The good news, however, is that the principle that imprisons you, sometimes, can set you free. You have a choice, but you ought to understand the dynamics that you are up against. It is difficult to start and stop projects, I cannot emphasize this point enough, but it is easy to maintain them once you get started, that is why they say don’t get me started or this is non-starter and so on. To circumvent this difficult, use foot-in-the-door technique. End.
Posted on: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:47:10 +0000