Entries: Blogs, Eat that Frog, Flow, Franklin, Learned Optimism, Phil McGraw, Power of Optimism,
=======================================================
A
Blogs:
http://criticalthinkingmatters.blogspot.com
http://sylviayvonne.blogspot.com/
http://virtualsylvia.blogspot.com
Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy is a management/personal development speaker. Eat That Frog is a simple method to prioritize your work. Simply put, evaluate what needs to be done, prioritize, and then don't stop till you finish the most important one. Repeat.
Notes on Eat That Frog
1. Set the table.
1a. Decide exactly what you want.
1b. Write it down.
1c. Set a deadline on your goal.
1d. Make a list of all substeps.
1e. Organize the list into a plan.
1f. Take action on the plan immediately.
1g. resolve to do something every day that moves you towards your goal.
2. Plan every day in advance.= Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance.- Master List- Monthly List- Weekly List- Daily List
3. Apply the 80/20 rule to everything.- Pareto principle 80/20- Resist the temptation to clear up small things first.Time management = Life management.
4. Consider the consequences.- Long term thinking improves short-term decision making.- Future intent influences and often determines present actions.- Failures do what is "tension relieving", while winners do what is "goal achieving".
5. Practice the ABCDE method continually.
A = must do tasks
B = should do tasks
C = nice to do tasks
D = delegate tasks
E = eliminate tasks
6. Focus on key result areas.- Why am I on the payroll?- Your weakest key result area sets the height at which you can use all your other skills and abilities.
7. Obey the law of forced efficiency.- "There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.
8. Prepare thoroughly before you begin.- Clean work area- All the required tools.
9. Do your homework.- "Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field."
10. Leverage your special talents.- Focus on your best abilities.
11. Identify your key constraints.
12. Take it one barrel at a time.- Oil drums to cross the desert - one step at a time.
13. Put the pressure on yourself.- You have to leave for an all-expense paid vacation tomorrow!
14. Maximize your personal powers.- Sleep enough- One day a week: absolute vacation.
15. Motivate yourself into action.- Look for the good.- Seek the valuable lesson in every setback.- Look for the solution to every problem.
16. Practice creative procrastination.- You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower value activities.
17. Do the most difficult task first.- List everything you have to do.- Review with ABCDE, 80/20- Select A1- Assemble everything needed- Clear workspace- Eat that frog.
18. Slice and dice the task.- Salami slice - fixed units of work. at a time- Swiss cheese method - fixed units of time at regular intervals.
19. Create large chunks of time.- Set aside time for specific work.
20. Develop a sense of urgency.- Get that mental state of "Flow"- Develop a bias for action.
21. Single handle every task- Start a high-priority task and persist till its 100% done.
Franklin's 12 Rules of Management:
(1) Finish better than your beginnings
(2) All education is self-education
(3) Seek first to manage yourself, then to manage others
(4) Influence is more important than victory
(5) Work hard and watch your costs
(6) Everybody wants to appear reasonable
(7) Create your own set of values to guide your actions
(8) Incentive is everything!
(9) Create solutions for seemingly impossible problems
(10) Become a revolutionary for experimentation and change
(11) Sometimes it's better to do 1,001 small things right than only one large thing right
(12) Deliberately cultivate your reputation and legacy!
Top
RULE = Future intent influences and often determines present actions! (Eat That Frog--Brian Tracy)
==========================================
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A book that's based on scientific study of people when they are in "flow" or in the "the zone". Read it; evaluate your own experiences (at work or play) - when you are in flow - and then, use that information to make more of your life in the flow. All work and play - even the most mundane tasks - can be turned into flow. The trick is to make it a game with most of the components of flow.
Flow - Eight Components of Flow Experience1.
1. A Clear Goal - Knowing what you want to do in any given moment is a key element of the flow experience. 2. Feedback - You need to be able to tell if you are getting closer to your goal or not. 3. Challenges Match Skills - It is important that what you do matches your ability to do it. 4. Concentration - Total attention onto one task. 5. Focus- Focus on only one task. 6. Control - When you are in flow you feel that you can be in control of your actions and experience. 7. Loss of Self-Consciousness - There is no room for relentless self-monitoring. 8. Transformation of Time - Time seems to adapt itself to your individual experience.
Top
G
H
I
J
K
L
RULE = Long-term thinking improves short-term decision making!
======================================================
Learned Optimism by Dr Martin E P Seligman
Summary
Dr Seligman scientifically proves two vitally important points.
1. Optimists lead a better life - live longer and are happier with their actions and choices.
2. Optimism can be learned.
Explanatory Style is the term Martin Seligman uses for the manner, learned in childhood and adolescence, in which we explain our setbacks to ourselves.
There are three crucial dimensions to your Explanatory Style :
1. Permanence People who give up easily believe the causes of the bad events that happen to them are permanent. The bad events will persist, will always be there to affect their lives. People who resist helplessness believe the causes of bad events are temporary.
Permanent (Pessimistic) // Temporary (Optimistic)
"I'm all washed up." // "I'm exhausted."
"Diets never work." // "Diets don't work when you eat out."
"You always nag." // "You nag when I don't clean my room."
The boss is a bastard." // "The boss is in a bad mood."
"You never talk to me." // "You haven't talked to me lately."
Optimists think about bad things in sometimes's and lately's and NOT always's and never's. The optimistic style of explaining good events is just the opposite of the optimistic style of explaining bad events. People who believe good events have permanent causes are more optimistic than people who believe they have temporary causes.
Temporary (Pessimistic) // Permament (Optimistic)
"It's my lucky day." // "I'm always lucky."
"I try hard." // "I'm talented."
"My rival got tired." // "My rival is no good."
Optimists explain good events in terms of permanent causes: traits, abilities, always's.
Pessimist explain good events in terms of transient causes: moods, effort, sometimes's.
2. Pervasiveness: Specific vs. Universal Permanence is about time. Pervasiveness is about space.
Some people can put thier troubles neatly into a box and go about thier lives even when one important aspect of it - their job or thier love life - is suffering. Other bleed all over everything. They catastrophize. When one thread of thier lives snaps, the whole fabric unravels.
People who make universal explanations for their failures give up on everything when a failure strikes in one area. People who make specific explanations may become helpless in that one part pf their lives yet march stalwartly on in the others.
Universal (Pessimistic) // Specific (Optimistic)
"All teachers are unfair." // "Professor Seligman is unfair."
"I'm repulsive." // "I'm repulsive to him."
"Books are useless." // "This book is useless."
The optimistic explanatory style for good events is opposite that of bad events. The optimist believes that bad events have specific causes, while good events will enhance everything he does; The pessimist believes that bad events have universal causes and that good events are caused by specific factors.
Specific (Pessimistic) // Universal (Optimistic)
"I'm smart at math." // "I'm smart."
"My broker knows oil stocks." // "My broker knows Wall Street."
"I was charming to her." // "I was charming."
3. Personalization : Internal vs. External When bad things happen, we can blame ourselves (internalize) or we can blame other people or circumstances (externalize). People who blame themselves when they fail have low self-esteem as a consequence. They think they are worthless, talentless, and unloveable. People who blame external events do not lose self-esteem when bad events strike. On the whole, they like themselves better than people who blame themselves do.
Internal (low self-esteem) /// External (high self-esteem)
"I'm stupid." // "You're stupid."
"I have no talent at poker." // "I have no luck at poker."
"I'm insecure." // "I grew up in poverty."
The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: lt's internal rather than external. People who believe thay cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.
External (Pessimistic) // Internal (Optimistic)
"A stroke of luck ..." // "I can take advantage of luck."
"My teammates' skill ..." // "My skill ..."
Personalization is the easist dimension to overrate. Personalization controls only how you feel about yourself.
Pervasiveness and Permanence - the more important dimensions - control what you do : how long you are hopeless and across how many situations.
The ABCDE Method of Learned Optimism:
A - Adversity - Define the problem.
B - Belief - Define the belief system that is interpreting that adversity.
C - Consequences - Define the consequences arising from the adversity and the (in)action.
D - Disputation - Argue the core belief and effectively dispute the belief that follow the adversity.
E - Energization - The positive feelings that overcome the negative thoughts after the disputation step.
Top
M
Phil McGraw offers the 10 "Laws of Life" and strategies to deal with them in his TV-trademark colloquial style. There is a grain of truth in all of them and most of them have been stated differently by others.#1. You either get it, or you don't.(Strategy : Become one of those who gets it.)
#2. You create your own experience.(Strategy : Acknowledge and accept accountability in your life.) #3. People do what works.(Strategy : Identify the payoffs that drive your behavior and that of others.) #4. You cannot change what you do not acknowledge.(Strategy : Get real with yourself about your life and everybody in it.) #5. Life rewards action.(Strategy : Make careful decisions and then pull the trigger.) #6. There is no reality; only perception.(Strategy : Identify the filters through which you view the world.) #7. Life is managed; it is not cured.(Strategy : Learn to take charge of your life.) #8. We teach people how to treat us.(Strategy : Own, rather than complain, about how people treat you.) #9. There is power in forgiveness.(Strategy : Open your eyes to what anger and resentment are doing to you.) #10. You have to name it before you can claim it.(Strategy : Get clear about what you want and take your turn.)
Top
N
O
The Power of Optimism by Alan Loy McGinnis 12 Characteristics of Tough-Minded Optimists
01. Optimists are seldom surprised by trouble.02. Optimists look for partial solutions.03. Optimists believe they have control over their future.04. Optimists allow time for regular renewal.05. Optimists interrupt their negative trains of thought.06. Optimists heighten their powers of appreciation.07. Optimists use their imaginations to rehearse success.08. Optimists are cheerful, even when they can't be happy.09. Optimists think they have an almost unlimited capacity for stretching.10. Optimists build lots of love into their lives.11. Optimists like to swap good news.12. Optimists practice the art of accepting what cannot be changed.
Top
P
Q
R
S
U
V
W
Z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
No comments:
Post a Comment