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Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential
Issue 4.4 - January 22, 2007 - ISSN: 1551-6571
Just 30 Minutes a Day – The Value of a Half Hour
Want to change your results this year? Want to reach a new goal? Want to get a promotion, be healthier or happier? Want to improve your work performance?
Give me 2 minutes to read this article and 30 minutes a day and you can achieve any of those things – guaranteed.
You read it right; you can change your life in just thirty minutes a day. What you do in those thirty minutes depends on what you want to achieve, but let me give you ten suggested ways to spend those 30 minutes . . .
- Reading positive, uplifting or spiritual materials
- Reading material that will help you learn something important to you – from team building to trap shooting, leadership to learning to garden
- Exercising
- Praying or meditating
- Writing or journaling
- Reflecting
- Listening with those you love
- Working directly on your goal
- Serving others
- Planning your next day or week
As you read this list I expect you had two thoughts . . .
- There is some great stuff on this list.
- That is what I should do!
My advice is to listen to your intuition, and pick that one thing to do. You can’t do all of these things each day, but you can do one. Pick one, and starting tomorrow, do it consistently every day; seven day a week preferably. Do it when you feel like it and do it when you don’t. The key to the power of these thirty minutes is consistency.
And then you had another thought . . .
“What is this guy, crazy? Doesn’t he know how busy I am? How am I going to find 30 minutes a day?”
I anticipated your concern, so I have made another list for you. This list is of 10 ways you can find the 30 minutes a day to devote to the task you selected above.
You could find your 30 minutes by reducing any one of these activities by the 30 minutes you are looking for. You could . . .
- Watch less television
- Read less of the newspaper
- Turn off the email
- Browse the internet less
- Sleep less
- Shorten your lunch “hour”
- Complain less
- Blame less
- Gossip less
- Watch less television (I know it is on the list twice, but it might the easiest one of all!)
You may be thinking, but I like the local news, or I love my New York Times Crossword puzzle, or I need my sleep. That is fine, pick a different one, there are plenty of items to choose from. But ask yourself this question: Which of these items would I give up in order to reach my goal?
Listen carefully to your answer, and then give it up.
You don’t even have to pick the same one every day, but the best way to change your habit will be pick one; otherwise you are trying to “find” your 30 minutes everyday.
It will just take 30 minutes a day, every day, to get something extremely valuable to you.
The clock is ticking, your future awaits.
Potential Principle – How we invest our time will determine how much of our potential we unleash!
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Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude: How to Find, Build and Keep a YES! Attitude for a Lifetime of SUCCESS
by Jeffrey Gitomer
I’m an unabashed Jeffrey Gitomer fan.
I have recommended his books here before. Last year I recommended The Little Black Book of Connections, and a couple of years back I recommended The Little Red Book of Sales. Some day Jeffrey will run out of colors, but until he does I will likely recommend each new book in this series.
Each of these books is fun to read – the writing style is blunt, a bit in your face and extremely practical. This one focuses on creating and maintaining what he calls a Yes! Attitude. While this is a book about positive attitude with timeless principles, he brings ideas out in new ways, challenging you to look closely at your beliefs and, well, your attitude!
Beyond thinking, though, he encourages the reader to take action, and gives you many practical ways to improve your attitude.
Fun, practical and a quick read.
Should you buy a copy? By all means, Yes!
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