Monday, July 20, 2009

The 3 Most Powerful Ways to Get Yourself to Achieve ANYTHING Despite Pressure, Deadlines, and “Procrastination”

The 3 Most Powerful Ways to Get Yourself to Achieve

ANYTHING Despite Pressure, Deadlines, and

“Procrastination”

By Kacper M. Postawski of PowerfulSleep.com

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How free and energized would you feel if you had the power to motivate yourself to do

ANYTHING, stop procrastinating, and achieve all your goals in record time?

Have you ever had a concrete plan to succeed at something, but for some “inner” reason

what you planned to do never got done? We all have plans and huge dreams when we’re

young, but very few people ever get past the point of taking ACTION on those dreams?

Is it because people are lazy? Or is there an inner science to achievement?

My mission is to deliver you cutting edge information to help you super-charge your life,

not just your sleep system. So in this issue of the Peak performance newsletter, I’d like

to deliver to you 3 of the most powerful and impacting ways to conquer self-sabotage

and get you to where you want to be in your life at lightening speed. I have personally

used these tools in my life and the results have been mind-blowing. Here we go!

What is Success?

People have many different definitions for success and failure. I’d like to give you my

own definition before we move on.

Success happens whenever you decide to do something and you DO IT. Or whenever

you decide to NOT DO something and you DON’T do it.

I know it sounds simple, but 99% of people can’t even do just that! Sure, everyone talks

a lot about doing things, but hardly many people actually take action on what their

supposedly high priority goals and dreams are. I know I’ve been in the same place!

One of the most important concepts I’ve learned in my life is that 90% of Success is

taking ACTION on the goal you have. 10% is the mechanics, knowledge, or resources

you need to succeed. Whatever you want in your life, you have the power to acquire the

knowledge, to get the mechanics or resources you need, it’s taking action on that goal

that is the biggest obstacle on the road to success in most people.

If anyone can succeed, and all it takes is ACTION, why doesn’t everyone take action to

achieve their goals everyday?

Power Method #1) Pain and Pleasure

If you learn nothing else this year but this concept, your whole life will change. The

person who has popularized this concept and changed thousands of lives with it most is

Anthony Robbins. (www.tonyrobbins.com)

The human mind is consciously and subconsciously motivated by two basic forces.

1. The need to AVOID PAIN

2. The need to GAIN PLEASURE.

If you think about it, every single action you take in your life is driven by the need to

avoid pain, and the need to gain pleasure. The need to avoid pain is always STRONGER

than the need to gain pleasure.

For example: If you have $10,000 and you have two options

Choice a) Go for a 4 day trip to Hawaii.

Choice b) Pay $10,000 to remove a tumor from your brain.

Allow me to give you a powerful example of how to instantly apply this into your life to

start creating results TODAY. Here’s a personal example of how I used this concept to

create the Powerful Sleep system.

I had been planning to finally write an eBook about my research in sleep for about a

month, but I kept on putting it off, why? Frustrated with a lot of things in my life, I

decided to give this Pain & Pleasure concept a Try. I drew a PAIN and PLEASURE

graph like the one below of my current situation, and then drew one of the outcomes I

wanted.

Current Situation:

PAIN PLEASURE

1. Writing the book would take too much time… I don’t have time

2. It would be super stressful, I would have to stay up at night and do even more

research on how to create and write this so it’s perfect.

3. What if I write it and no one will read or buy it? It will be a waste of time

Pleasure

1. When the book is finished I could help a lot of people with the information and

improve other’s lives.

2. When the book is finished, I’ll have extra money coming in.

As you can see, my need to AVOID PAIN was pushing me in the direction not taking any

action. It’s also known as “procrastination”. The only difference between people who

procrastinate and people who succeed with taking action, is the associations of PAIN and

PLEASURE they have with doing something. I look at my pain and pleasure sheet, and

thought of how I could focus my associations to push me into taking action instantly.

Here was my new sheet.

Write new sheet here.

As you can see, I created immense pain around NOT DOING the tasks, I clearly wrote

out and visualized how this would look and feel. The pain of NOT WRITING the book

was now greater than the one of writing it. My values of contributing to the world and

creating something special were now at stake. To further hammer the nail in, I clearly

described the immense pleasure visually, emotionally, and kinesthetically of how it will

feel when the task is done. With all the arrows in my mind pulling me away from pain

and into pleasure, I was on my way that very same minute.

You’re reading this article now as a result of that PAIN & PLEASURE sheet I wrote

down! This concept is so powerful, I urge you to do it as soon as you’re done reading

this article.

Take at least one action you’ve been putting off in your life, whether it is a goal to lose

weight, to create more money, or improve a relationship. Take that action, create a pain

and pleasure sheet like the one above and see how rapidly motivated you will be to

achieve that goal.

Here’s another example of someone trying to lose weight.

Power Method #2) Chunking

The second reason why people don’t take action on what they want to achieve TOO BIG

inside of their head. Often a simple goal like going to the gym to work out becomes a

number of PAINFUL things.

1. I have to go get the keys to my car.

2. I have to put my work out clothes on, and iron them because they’re all wrinkly.

3. I gotta go to my car and drive there through traffic.

4. Once I get there they’ll make me sign up for a membership.

5. Once I am signed up they’ll give me a 2 hour tour of the place and try to upsell

me even more membership options which I don’t want!

6. Then I gotta work out for an hour, and I’ll get all sweaty.

7. I have to drive home with all that sweat on me.

8. Once I’m home I’ll have to shower, and by then I’ll have no time to do anything

else!

“Forget it! I’m watching TV! Going to the gym is too complicated and too painful”

Chunking, and the Rule of 3s

Our conscious mind can usually hold only a number of things to do at once. Whenever

there is more things to do than the conscious mind can handle, we feel overwhelmed and

stop everything completely. What I realized after a while is that nothing is really as big

as we make it out to be. We just have a habit to make things bigger than they are.

The above gym example could be brought down to three simple steps:

1. Go to the gym

2. Work out

3. Feel great and energized!

Whenever you find yourself feeling blocked or procrastinating, think of the way you are

chunking down the goal into steps? Are you thinking of ALL the things you have to do,

and how PAINFUL they will be? If you are, chunk them down into 3 steps. As you

focus on these steps, you’ll find you’ll feel much more balanced and relaxed about the

goal!

Power Method #3) State Management

“I’m not in the mood today, I’ll do it tomorrow.”

“I really don’t FEEL like doing that right now.”

Have you ever heard someone say these things? Perhaps you say them to yourself on a

regular basis? The bottom line is that if you wait around to feel in the right mood or

emotional state to do something, it’s most likely never going to happen.

99% of people in the world have no control over how the feel. They either wake up

happy, or they don’t. They have a “bad day” or a “good day.” To these kinds of people it

seems that the way we feel is some kind of mystical enigmatic force that we have no

control over.

Part of success is being able take ACTION despite FEAR, PAIN, and UNCOMFORT.

Taking action even when you’re not in the friggen moooooooooooooooooood.(*whiny

voice*)

Instead of waiting for an emotional state to come to you, use state management methods

to create the emotional state you need to achieve your goals.

Super-Charging Your Emotional State

Your emotions are dependant on 2 primary factors:

1) What you focus on

2) What you do with your body

1. Changing Your Focus

Example: Jill’s goal is to lose 50 lbs, after a week of working out 3 times per week and

changing her eating habits, she steps on the scale and notices that she only lost 1 lb.

Feeling like she isn’t moving towards her goal fast enough, she instantly begins to feel

disappointed and discouraged about continuing her quest to lose weight.

“Don’t let the present moment determine your outcome!”

One of the biggest secrets of success I’ve learned over time is that the current moment

has nothing to do with your outcome! Often we get caught up with a depressing situation,

we focus on it to the point where the emotions get strong enough to stop us.

At this point, instead of focusing on what seems like a failure to Jill, she could change her

focus to the actual OUTCOME she wants. Which is feeling great, sexy and attractive.

Feeling free and healthy.

As you change your focus in critical times that would usually stop you emotionally, you

create incredible power to move despite discomfort!.

2. Using Your Body to Create Energy!

In the Powerful Sleep system I write about using this method at specific times of your

day to optimize your inner sleep system to lessen your sleep and create an abundance of

energy in your life.

Changing your focus is just “positive thinking”, until you add this method into your state

management arsenal.

The fastest and easiest way to create an emotional state shift in your mind, and to give

your body the energy it needs to propel you to your goals, is to make a drastic change in

what you’re doing with your body.

You’ve got to move fast, you’ve got to get your heart rate going, and you’ve got to make

it impactful!

Example:

Often times when I’m faced with several writing deadlines for books, articles and

interviews, I spend a lot of time sitting at my desk thinking. Getting work done on the

computer is great, but there’s only one challenge: My body isn’t doing anything!

It gets to the point where my emotional drive begins to drop. At this point, instead of

stopping my work an taking “a break” like most people do, I run into the back-yard, and

jump for 10 minutes on my trampoline while thinking of all the things I want for my life

and the lives of the people I affect with my work! By the time I get back in front of my

laptop, I am supercharged with energy, ideas, creativity, and emotional drive!

What ways can you think of to create more energy and a better emotional state at key

points during your day?

Because your emotional state is so critically important to achieving your goals, and the

overall quality of your life, I urge to start using this technique in your life. Changing what

you’re doing with your body doesn’t have to be as drastic as jumping on a trampoline

whenever you’re in a down state. It could be as simple as getting up and clapping your

hands for a minute while visualizing your goal. It can be going outside for a breath of air

or a short jog, a stretch, or even just putting on a smile

When you combine all three of these methods: Leveraging your pain and pleasure

associations, chunking down your processes, and managing your emotional state, you’ll

find that you become unstoppable in your journey to success.

“Dreams and goals are only vapor until you take action on them.”

– Mark Joyner, Internet Marketing Millionaire

Your Friend,

Kacper M. Postawski

Co-Founder

PowerfulSleep.com

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