Time Management

Gone In 60 Seconds

I was up this morning looking over the things to do for the day, and I became overwhelmed for a moment. The large to-do list loomed over me, threatening to drag me down into the icy depths (still on the Halloween dramatical kick, yes).

Have you ever been in a similar situation… All of the things in your life are screaming out for your attention and the stress just gets to be too much and what usually happens is you just don’t do anything, or you spend all your time thinking about what you need to do, instead of actually doing it.

I was trying to decide what to write about today, when I remembered a great piece of advice from Steve Pavlina — Give yourself 60 seconds to think about a decision… Any decision in your life, and then decide, and immediately begin doing whatever it is you have decided.

Practicing this will greatly improve your decision making skills, productivity, time management, and a whole host of other things that will add to your success.

Try it out.

I’ve been practicing this way of making decisions for about three weeks now, and I can tell you that I’ve been crossing things off my list, left and right. In fact, I usually find that I’m so productive, that I run out of things to do for the day, and I’m left trying to figure out how to spend all my extra time.

But as they said on Reading Rainbow… don’t take my word for it. Try it for yourself.

Do Something, Do Anything

Talkers! Everybody knows at least one of them. They flap their gums all day long without ever managing to say much of anything. You might even be one of them. I know I was.

I was the kind of person who would go on and on about what I really wanted to do with my life, while at the same time whining and complaining about how my life really was. I knew all about what I didn’t want, and I even began to think and talk about what I did want.

I would get all excited about what I was going to do and I would talk to my friends about it, and then a few days later my excitement would be gone, along with whatever momentum and motivation I might have had. Does this sound familiar? Do you know someone like this? Is this someone maybe, You? Don’t worry if it is. The solution is fun and simple: Do Something!

It doesn’t matter if you don’t know everything you need to yet… just do something, Do Anything but sit there and talk and think about what you want to do. It’s called the Ready, FIRE!, Aim method. At some point you will need to take aim, but start doing something today. Do that thing you’ve been putting off, or start writing that book you’ve been talking about. Start your online business, or begin getting in shape and feeling good about yourself.

A good attitude and outlook, and healthy, powerful thoughts are necessary, but if you never take any action then the Universe will never manifest what you want. The other part of the Secret that no one ever talks about is Action! For instance, have you ever noticed that when you’re busy doing something, you don’t have time to be un-Happy.  It’s when you’re sitting around doing nothing that you want to do that un-happiness occurs.

In his book You’re Broke Because You Want To Be, Larry Winget says, “What you say you want means almost nothing. When every action you make contradicts your words, your words don’t mean a damn thing.”

Words do have power. What you say does matter, but unless you are a person of Action, your words are robbed of their power to change lives. If you’re not acting in accordance with your desires, than any actions you are taking are contradicting what you want.  And what do you think speaks louder to the Universe?  Actions or Words?   So by all means, talk and dream and think, but do something, any thing at all… The river will flow all by itself, you just have to jump in it.

The Pursuit of The Way

Most of us have heard of the scripture where Christ refers to himself as, The Way, The Truth, and The Life. As a young boy, I became fixated on this idea. I began searching out what this Way entailed. In my journey, I’ve been led through various religions, beliefs, mindsets, and all sorts of wack-jobs, and kooks, most of them claiming to be the end-all-be-all of whatever they were trying to sell. In the end, I’ve found that there is no end. The Way is not a destination, it’s a path, a journey if you will. To that end, I have created johnkowalsky.com to share what I have found and will find. In the hope, that maybe I can help someone else along on their journey of Self Evolving. It will be a broad experience, as life too covers a multitude of topics. Stay tuned for regular updates and if there is a topic you’d like to see addressed please send your requests to john@johnkowalsky.com Thank you dear Reader, I shall see you soon.