Time Power by Brain Tracy

Do you feel there aren't enough hours in the day to do everything you want and need to do?

Would you like to accomplish ALL of your work or business goals, spend quality time with family and friends, pursue a hobby or interest, and still have a few minutes to relax?

If you're like me you answer "YES" to questions like these. But the truth is - you have more time than you think. What you need is a reliable way to manage that time more effectively.

What you need is strategy that will literally give you 2 to 4 extra hours of time – every day.

Imagine how much more you will accomplish with the extra hours you will gain when you become the master of your time.

Learn to Master Your Time

In this book Time Power he presents you with a proven, practical system guaranteed to help you get more done in less time.

Filled with hundreds of powerful, practical, proven strategies, tools, and techniques, Time Power will help you take complete control of your time.Get More Done in Less Time than You Ever Thought Possible

When you read Time Power will learn how to:

• Gain two extra productive hours per day!

• Make better, faster decisions

• Set clear goals and concentrate your energies on high-value activities

• Manage multitask jobs more efficiently

• Overcome the people problems that can sap your time

• Lear the psychology of outstanding time management

• Use the five tools and techniques that will make you more productive for the rest of your life

• And much more

Time Power gives you a new approach based on more than 25 years of research into time management strategies of the most powerful and successful people in every conceivable field, including sales, business management, politics, and the entrepreneurial arena.

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Success,Famous people have about 24 hours in a day and poor people had 24 hours in a day. Both have equal time but it’s the outcome that is different.

So what made the difference? Time management.

I don’t like to use the word time management. You can only manage something you can control. You can’t control time. You can’t add more hours or control what’s going to happen. I like to use the term time maximizing.

Maximizing that 24 hours. Time is more valuable then money. It’s your most important asset. We all start the day with 24 hours. No more...No less.

It’s what we do with that 24 hours that will shape our lives. Once it’s gone, you can’t go back and get it. You can always get more money but never more time. There is no time bank to lend you time. You invest it, spend it or waste it.

The moment you begin to think of time as precious, a resource and that it has a price, the successful you’ll become.

Here are ten suggestions to help you start maximizing your time:

1. Learn to say NO
This is the most effective time maximizing word.

2. When you work—work and when you play—play
Don’t mix the two. Give it your all while working but once your business obligations are done, take the time to play.

3. Know your peak hours
Discover your most productive time. Schedule your most demanding business activities during your peak hours.

4. The telephone is for your convenience
There is no law that says you have to answer the phone or give out your cell phone number. If you don’t have a secretary, use caller ID, answering machine or voice mail to screen you calls. Return them at your convenience. This applies to both business and family time.

5. Use one calendar - Day Planner
Make your day planner the central location for your information. Keep track of business expenses, both personal and business appointment, telephone conversations, meeting notes, to do list etc.

6. Know the value of an hour
Take the total amount of hours you work a week and multiply them by 50. Now take your current yearly income and divide it by those hours. That is your hourly worth.

For example: You work 30 hours a week. 30 x 50 = 1500. Your income is $100,000. Divide $100,000 by 1500 and you get $56.67. Your working hour is worth $56.57. Repeat this for your desired income.

7. Hire somebody or delegate it
Are you really saving money doing it yourself or is costing you money?

8. Have a game plan
Always plan your day before you start. This is going to take great discipline. Once you’ve mastered that move to planning your week, then a month, 3 months, 6 month, and than a year.

9. Manage Interruptions
Put a do not disturb sign on your door. If some on insist on interrupting you with a problem, have them write it out with 3 possible solutions before seeing you. Don’t forget to turn the TV off. TV is a great time interrupter. Actually it’s a great time stealer.

10. Organize your work space and home
Disorganization and messiness can weigh you down. You’ll get more done if your organized. This may take more time up front to set it up but will save time in the long run.

Either you run your day or your day will run you, which do you choose?

When I read this article I decided to implement them,so I started to prioritize the things that are of major value and minor values ,I started to say “No” to the things of less values,I tried to avoid the time interrupters .I concentrated on the Things that create more value.Initially I felt little difficulty in saying NO to people and reduce the time spent with others. even some people started to have different view regarding me. as generally change is not accepted by people, This states that this technique works. You try it to see the changes in your Life.

Reframing: The Art of Changing Meaning-Adam Khoo

So, how we represent (frame) our experiences determines how we respond and the outcomes we achieve. Therefore we must learn to constantly frame experiences ways that empower us, and empower the people around us.

When you change the way you represent (frame) something, you totally change the meaning and the emotions associated with that experience. As a result, you change the decisions you make and the actions you take.

You must learn how to create resourceful meanings out of every experience. Successful leaders and entrepreneurs do this to empower themselves and others to reach their goals.The process of turning a negative experience into a positive one is called reframing.

There are two ways you can do this, Content Reframing and Context Reframing.

Content Reframing…
Content reframing is the process of changing a negative experience into a positive one by changing the meaning of the experience. Remember, every event has multiple meanings. The meaning we choose to focus on is what becomes real for us. The best way to do a content reframe is to ask the question,‘What else can this mean?’ ‘How can this benefit or empower me instead of depressing me?’

For example, if the recession hit when you were about to start your business, you could content reframe it by saying,‘Good! This means that business costs, like rental and salaries,will be lower and allow us to break even faster’.Or you could say, ‘Good! This means prospective clients will be more open to listening to suppliers who offer better value for money.’ There are multiple reasons why starting a business in a
recession will be a positive experience!

Context Reframing…

Another way to reframe an experience is to do a context reframe. A context reframe is the process of changing a negative experience into a positive one by changing the context from which it is perceived.

Have you ever had a negative experience only to look back at it five years later and say, ‘That was a blessing in disguise?’ In a different context (i.e. the future), the meaning of that experience changed from bad to good.
In doing a context reframe, you must ask the question, ‘In a different time or place, how would the meaning be beneficial?’ You see, everything that seems bad now, when put into a different time or place, could appear beneficial.

Going back to the first example of starting a business in a recession, you could use a context reframe by saying, ‘When the economy picks up, the company will be positioned to do very well as it has been tested and strengthened by the recession’.

Now, imagine that you, or someone you know, are experiencing the following scenarios. How would you reframe each negative experience to empower that person or yourself?Take some time and think of as many ways as you can to reframe each experience.

There is No Meaning in Life, Except the Meaning We Choose to Give It.-Adam khoo

What we must understand is that all meaning is context dependant. In other words, there is no meaning in life except the meaning we choose to give it.When we look at things (an experience, an incident, an event) from one perspective, it may seem totally bad. However, when we change the way we look at the same thing (i.e. from a different perspective), the meaning completely changes. It could become totally powerful… for you.

You can also see that any experience in life carries with it multiple meanings. Anything in life has the potential to be either good/positive or bad/negative. It depends on your perspective, the frame in which you are seeing it from.The meaning we choose to attach to an experience is the meaning we create. When we interpret an experience as negative or bad, we will get into a miserable state, take lousy actions (even inaction is a form of lousy action) and produce negative results. At the same time, when we interpret an experience as positive, we get into resourceful states, take positive action, and eventually create positive results.

This can be summarized in a formula that goes

Event+Response=Outcome.

I first came across this wonderful formula in a seminar given by Jack Canfield (co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul). Many people believe that it is the events around us that shape our outcomes. They believe that people who are happier and more successful just happen to experience better events in their lives.

E + R = O (Event + Response = Outcome)

You and I both know that this is totally untrue. It is not the things that happen to us, but rather, how we choose to respond to happenings and external circumstances that ultimately shape our outcomes.

Retrenchment is one of the most commonplace experiences faced by people, in the ups and downs of life. As we saw in the true-life experiences narrated earlier, how a person chooses to responds can either put him in an un-resourceful state, and ultimately create a lousy outcome for him, or he can respond in an empowering way and come out with a positive outcome.

As you well know, we cannot control every single thing that happens to us, but we can control how we choose to respond to it.

For example, if you go sailing, you cannot control where the wind is going to blow. You can complain and blame the wind all you want but it is not going to be of any use. However, you can control how you maneuver the sails, and that will control the outcome of your boat’s direction.

People who succeed and live fulfilling and enriching lives don’t experience better events, they just represent things and respond in a much more powerful way.

We have heard so many stories of people who were born with all kinds of handicaps and despite all the odds stacked against them, they managed to create a life most others can only dream about.


At the same time we know people who, despite being born with all the money, advantages, resources and opportunities chose to make nothing of themselves. In fact, many of them end up destroying their lives.

Continued in next blog Reframing: The Art of Changing Meaning

Is Your Wish a ‘Should’ or a ' Must’ ?

For most people, achieving anything is rarely a must.They would like to lose weight, but it is not a must. They would love to make more money, but it is not a must.. They wish they could take charge of their lives,but it is not a must ,The moment something becomes a ‘should’ instead of a‘must’, you will rarely achieve it. You will always find a way to put it off or to quit the moment you meet resistance.

People like Sylvester Stallone, Steven Spielberg or DonaldTrump who achieve success are not born more focused, more disciplined or more lucky than the average person. What makes them different is that they make their goals a must for themselves.They are not willing to accept anything less than the best.So let me ask you a question. Are your dreams and goals an absolute must or are they just weak desires that you can live without? Have you been truly committed to do whatever it takes in the past or have you quit and given yourself excuses along the way?

Anything You Ever Achieved in the Past, Was a Must.If you have achieved nothing of ‘worth’ up till now,then nothing has ever been a ‘must’ in your life.

Have you ever put off doing certain important things in your life? I’m sure you have. However, have there been things you have put off that you eventually got round to doing? Like writing a report, filing your tax returns or signing up for an exercise program. But one day, you finally finished that report,filed your tax returns, and began that exercise program.Well, what made you get them done eventually? Was it because things got to the stage where it became a ‘must’ for you? You had to get that report done or risk losing a contract and being fired,you had to file your tax returns or risk being fined and sent to jail. You had to lose weight or risk a heart attack.Think about it, all the times in your past when you finally managed to do something really tough that you were proud of,was it a must for you at the time? I’m sure it was.Unfortunately, we end up doing only what is necessary to survive and live a mundane life. Since living an exceptional life is not a must, we never take enough action to do it.

Now, think of all the things you always wanted to do and achieve but never managed to. Think of all the desires and dreams that you’ve put off to a point that you have given up on them.Be honest with yourself. Was it a must for you to have achieved, or something that would have been ‘nice’ to have?Was it achieving an ideal weight? Starting your own business?Achieving a career performance target? Learning a foreign language? Working in a foreign country? Aiming for an MBA?

It should be very obvious that the reason you have not taken action and done whatever it took was because these goals never became a must for you. They were never a necessity that moved all the way up your list of priorities to kick you into action.The only way we will ever achieve our dreams and live an exceptional quality of life is when we raise our ‘level of acceptance’.

                  I here by share some experience how this has worked for me ,this is about how I learned to read the Language (Tamil), Though I am from the Tamil community I was educated in the English medium. There were many Tamil magazines in my home which my father used to read ,Since I was not able to read tamil only I used to see the pictures in the magazines During my studying period in mysore ,I came through books of swami Sukhabodhananda through my roommate. while going through the book I read a sentence-greated history in Tamil Literature by selling millions of book by the Title ”Manase Relax Please”, coincidently the part II articles used to future in the one of the Tamil magazines .As I was much influenced by his books, I was very much eager to read, but I didn’t Know how to read Tamil. I used to think how to read those articles.

                  During my vacations one day I decided to learn  Tamil and I brought How to learn Tamil in 21 days.I started with total involvement and used to read the Day and night. ,used to write and read frequently I used to visualize the letters and when ever there was Opportunity I would try to read the magazines letter by letter,skiping here and there. I used to eat ,drink and sleep with the Language ,After 21 days I was able to read little ,whenever I see any magazines ,books,newspaper, film posters etc I would try to read them after some months of practice I was able to read with ease .Now whenever I see any Tamil Magazines , newspaper my mind would start reading automatically. Now my subconscious has been activated to read automatically.

                         I think I have used many of of the ideas presented in my earlier blogs with out being aware about them earlier like the Thought vibration,Law of attraction,visualisation, Autosuggestion, wish or should to Must laws etc. I am very Fortunate to be motivated  by swami Sukhabodhananda and use must law to learn the Tamil Language .

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Auto-Suggestion

What is auto-suggestion?

 An auto-suggestion is a statement made in the present tense, of the kind of person you want to be. Auto-suggestions are like writing a commercial to yourself about yourself, for yourself. They influence both your conscious and subconscious mind which in turn influence attitude and behavior.

Auto-suggestions are a way to program your subconscious mind. They can be either positive or negative.

Examples of negative auto-suggestions are:
¨ I'm tired.
¨ I'm not an athlete.
¨ I have a poor memory.
¨ I'm not good at math.

When we repeat to ourselves a negative auto-suggestion, our subconscious mind believes it and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and starts reflecting in our behavior. For example, when I am talking to someone and I forget what I had to say, I tell the other person, "See, I forgot what I wanted to say. I have such a poor memory."

People who come into contact with crime the first time, hate it. With constant exposure they get used to it and if the exposure is long enough, they may embrace it. And they become creators of their own misfortune.

When a person repeats a belief long enough, it sinks into the subconscious and becomes reality. A lie repeated long enough becomes accepted as the truth.

Positive auto-suggestions are being widely used in the field of sports and medicine. Why make positive statements? Because we want to create a picture in our minds of what we want to have rather than what we don't. Any picture that we hold in our mind becomes reality. Auto-suggestions are a process of repetition. A person who repeats a statement long enough lets it sink into the subconscious mind. For example, I am relaxed. I am cool, calm and collected.

Auto-suggestions should not be practiced in a negative way I am not tense. I won't be angry.

Positive statements are made because we think in pictures and not in words. If I say "Don't think of the blue elephant," what is the first picture that comes to your mind? The blue elephant.

If I say "mother," what comes to your mind? A picture of your mother. Did you start spelling m-o-t-h-e-r? Of course not! When a negative word comes in the auto-suggestion, it forms a negative picture which we want to avoid.

Why in the present tense? Because our mind cannot tell the difference between a real experience and an imagined one. For example, parents are expecting their child to come home at 9:30 p.m. but the kid is not home and it is now 1 a.m. What is going through the parents' mind? They are probably hoping everything's okay. "I hope the kid didn't get into an accident." What is happening to their blood pressure? It is going up! This is an imagined experience. The reality could be that the kid is having fun at a party, is irresponsible, and did not get home when he was supposed to.

Now reverse the scenario. Supposing the kid was very responsible and was actually coming home at 9:30 p.m. but got into an accident, and still didn't get home at 1 a.m. What is happening to the parents' blood pressure? It is still going up! The first scenario was an imagined experience. The second one was a real experience but the body's response in both cases was identical. Our mind cannot tell the difference between a real and an imagined experience.

Prepare the Subsconscious
How can we use auto-suggestions to eliminate negative habits and develop positive ones? We have all used auto-suggestions unconsciously. For example, when you have to catch an early morning flight, you automatically tell yourself that you have got to get up. And invariably, you do (sometimes, even without an alarm clock). A prepared subconscious mind has hunches and gut feelings.

Auto-suggestion is a way to program and condition our mind to make a statement into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Auto-suggestion is a repetitive process through which we feed our subconscious with positive statements which translate into reality. Repetition alone is not enough, unless it is accompanied by emotions and feelings.

Auto-suggestions without visualization will not produce results. The first time our mind receives an autosuggestion it rejects it. Why? It is an alien thought, contrary to our belief system. Success would depend on our ability to concentrate and repeat the process.

Steps to follow on auto-suggestions.

1. Go to a spot where you won't be disturbed.

2. Write down your suggestions.

The self-discipline to finish what one starts, is imperative. Auto-suggestion is a powerful character building tool.
Translating Auto-Suggestion into Reality

1. Make a list of your auto-suggestions in the present tense.

2. Repeat auto-suggestions at least twice a day: first thing in the morning and at the end of the day. This is because in the morning, the mind is fresh and receptive and at night you deposit the positive picture into your subconscious overnight.

3. Repeat it consecutively for 21 days until it becomes a habit.

4. Auto-suggestions alone will not work. They need visualization.

VISUALIZATION
Visualization is the process of creating and seeing a mental picture of the kind of thing you want to have or do, or the kind of person you want to be. Visualization goes hand in hand with auto-suggestion. Auto-suggestion without visualization is mechanical repetition and will be ineffective. In order to see results, auto-suggestion must be accompanied by feelings and emotions (visualization).

CAUTION! Auto-suggestion may not be acceptable to the mind the first time you do it because it is an alien thought. For example, if for the past few decades I have believed that I have a poor memory and now all of a sudden, I tell myself, "I have a good memory!", my mind will throw it out, saying, "You liar! You have a bad memory!" Because that is what it has believed up to this point. It will take 21 days to dispel this notion. Why 21 days? Because it takes a minimum of 21 days of conscious, consecutive practice to formulate a habit.