Dr Lisa Turner, personal transformation expert,
explains her top tips for becoming more productive by changing your
mindset.
2010 has left many people feeling less than great. But with the
right mindset and strategies, 2011 could be your best year ever. It
is possible to make the most of any situation, to capitalise on
past success, and learn from past mistakes. Everyone has an inner
threshold which determines how much stress they can manage. When
circumstances push you above this threshold you will feel stressed.
Provided the total of this stress is less than our inner threshold,
we will be okay.
1. Heal up emotions from the past. Although in
business we don't normally like to talk about emotions, they do in
fact impair our ability to think clearly and make good decisions.
Healing up unresolved emotions vastly increases your inner
threshold.
2. Stop the spinning plates. Unfinished
projects or tasks take up a lot of memory and block thinking space.
The solution: do or delete. Write a list of all the unfinished
projects and tasks. Then review the list and make a decision.
3. Limiting beliefs will stop you taking action that
could lead to success. If you think there is no point
calling that client because they won't want to buy something now,
then even if you do 'force' yourself to make the call, your mental
attitude will come over in your voice and language - so you will
create a self-fulfilling prophecy of failure. If you believe the
opposite, then you will create success.
4. Take good physical care of yourself
and get regular exercise. The mind and the body
affect each other so increasing the health of the body will
increase the health of your mind.
5. Make a list of all the things that
you achieved in the last year. No matter how big or small
the achievements are, if you are proud or pleased with them then
put them on the list.
6. Make another list of all the things
you failed to achieve in the last year. What goals or
milestones did you set yourself that did not happen?
7. Look at each of the lists and identify the difference
that makes the difference. What did you do or not do that
caused you to achieve what you did or what you didn't achieve? You
are looking for the difference that makes the difference, and these
will form your personal rules for success. Believe it is possible
and stay 100% positive - even in tough times, let go of the 'how',
notice opportunities and act on them.
8. Just like traffic in rush hour, it
is always easier to be going the opposite direction to the
crowd. Business is just like that, but it takes planning,
investment and courage to go against conventional
thinking. Most people in business don't experience the kind of
success they would like. But most people seem to look at other
struggling businesses and do exactly the same as whatever they're
doing! Doing the OPPOSITE - going against the flow - leads to
long-term success.