The Secret To Getting Better And Better

It is generally a good idea to use “the secret” in the title of an article to make the point that something is valuable and not often used.  This one relates to how you can get better and better.  During your day, you have ups and downs.  What you want to do is, the next time you have an “up”, is not fully absorb it.  Take some of the “up” energy and channel it into your next effort-based activity.  It will be easy at that time, and you will later have a launch point ready to go.

You Can Do Much More At Your Times Of Strength

Why would you want to spend two hours struggling to do something during a period of time when you are not energetic, when you could do it in twenty minutes at a positive time in your day?  This doesn’t mean to wait for that time if you have the desire to do something, but for those items you have put off for later, the best “later” is your hour or two of energy and vigor.

The Process Matters To You, But The Results Matter To Others

No one else will be concerned if you do their project at 11 AM or 2 PM, as long as you get it to them by 5 PM.  Also, someone won’t care whether you take care of a project in two hours or twenty minutes, as long as it gets done.  This sounds obvious, but we often think that spending more time on something add value to it, and often mention the time spent like it makes the result better.  This is not the case, and only helps to make you look less focused or diligent, as the other person will remember that you took that long for something that should take less time.

You want to find your sweet mental spot or time of production and work during it.  This includes matching up with your circadian rhythm times of energy, as well as positive points during your day due to incoming results or random surprises that came to you, or that were caused by you.

There Is Much Potential In Your Good Times

While you always have the opportunity to fully absorb your good times and forget about priorities until you head back to a regular mindset, you can treat yourself at that point like an electron that is excited to a high energy state.  Your energy will fall back to a lower energy state, but until it does, you can do work at a higher rate, and likely with more enthusiasm and enjoyment that you can pass on to others.  In other words, you can passively go from a positive state to your regular state, or you can actively use the energy you have to propel further before it diminishes.  You could theoretically keep this cycle going and going, but that is only doable once you have started the process.

Don’t Let Your State Of Energy Cloud You Into Short-Term Behavior

If you just won an online writing contest, you could use up all your time of happiness telling others about it, or just absorbing it, or you could take that great result and then search for another contest to take part in.  If it is around 6 PM, and you are starting to feel energetic, that would not be the time to use that great feeling to watch a TV show.  Although the show would be more enjoyable to watch during that energetic time, you would probably be more than glad to watch that show later.  That time of energy could be used to start a project that you wouldn’t have enough drive to start later on.  As you can see, in one scenario, you could do the project and watch the TV show in a 4 hour span, but in the other scenario, you would enjoy watching the TV show even more, but never get to starting the project.  You want to match your energy level to activities so that you can do more of them.

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