Thursday 29 December 2011

Hi Everyone!

We need someone to sign up for the meeting on Sunday, Jan 1st at 2:30 pm.

Start the New Year off right with a meeting to help clarify your goals and set yourself up for success!

Link is here:
http://procrastinators-anonymous.org/node/3775

READING

TIME TO CHANGE THE WORLD

It's what you do with your time that frees up more time and draws life into your world.

Are you doing what you're doing right now better than you have ever done it? Be truthful.Or is it just "as good as" or "good enough"? The "good enough" stuff we do is not good enough for the time warrior.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once observed, "If you write a better book, or preach a better sermon, or build a better mousetrap than your neighbor, the world will make a beaten path to your door."

Do you want to succeed at something? Good work RIGHT NOW will help you do that.

Most people want to to start by improving how they "market" their services. Maybe a new website or a better network of affiliates. But most of the time that's not where the answer lies. The answer is in the work itself.

LET'S SLOW DOWN. Let's write a better book, preach a better sermon or build a better mousetrap, because that's where the magic is. That's where your secret leverage lies.

But how do you master mastery by slowing down? How do you master time that way? Don't you fall behind?

NO, BECAUSE SLWOING DOWN GETS YOU IN HARMONY. You're not out of tune any longer.

Without slowing down, you get way out ahead of life itself. I'm only asking you to slow down to the speed of life. You want to dance with life, not race out ahead of life.

People who race out ahead of life are falling down on the dance floor. They are living in their own futures which is where fear lives. But when you slow down to master this present moment, life gets fearless.

Example: Chandler was coaching Ben who a large company had hired to give a 60 minute talk. Ben put it o the calendar and he knew what he was going to present. It was a talk he had given many times before. So now that it was set on his calendar, Ben spent his days racing around mentally and physically trying to get other new business. he was answering every call, checking email 30 times a day and living in a whirlwind of chaos. Ben was always in his own future, so Ben was always anxiety ridden (as all anxiety is about the future).

Chandler's job as Ben's coach was simply TO SLOW HIM DOWN. Down to the speed of life itself: because life was on Ben's side; he just couldn't see it. He saw life as a giant opponenet. Something that needed to be won over.

Once Ben relaxed and let himself take some deep breaths, Chandler asked Ben to go back to the client who had hired him for a talk. "What if someone passed a law," Chandler said to Ben, "that said you could only have one client for the rest of your life and you would have to make all your income from this one client, and this was your client, Ben. What would you do?"

Ben spent the rest of the coaching session thinking about this 1 client. To slow everything down, as if this client were the only thing that existed in his world.

Chandler was teaching Ben to go non-linear . . . to be a time warrior. The time warrior slows time to a standstill. Now there is no time. Ultimate victory. There is only timeless, eternal presence. Or "now."

Ben and Chandler began to list hte many other ways Chandler would LOVE to serve that company. He wrote a list of people in the company he wanted to go visit priof to his talk, to gather research oon the many problems and challenges Ben could help them with. 2 weeks later, Ben had converted a $3,000 1-time speaking contract into a  full year's program with more than 20 times that income.

JUST BY SLOWING DOWN AND APPLYING LASER LIKE FOCUS (what Bruce Lee says: "a warrior is an average person with laser like focus") -- that's the only difference between the average man and the warrior. The warrior has focus.

Remember that such focus cannot be frantic. It has to be relaxed and slowed down.

Notice when you're out on the boat and someone points out something on the shoreline for you to look at. If you strain your eyes, trying to force your focus, you won't see it. Only when you relax and let the image come to you will you see it.  

Chapter 10, Time Warrior by Steve Chandler 

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I want to thank my Higher Power for this program, this website, the telephone and online meetings, and my life.

I want to thank movingalong for starting this trend.

Things I have done today

1. Took shower

2. Ate brunch

Things I will do today

1. Get dressed

2. See my apartment manager

3. Go to group therapy at 9 a.m.

4. Go to individual therapy at 10:15

5. Go to grocery store

6. Go to the 1 p.m. telephone CLA meeting

7. Pick up more stuff off the floor

8. Clear bed

9. Go to the 3 p.m. telephone NA meeting

10. Wash and dry clothes

11. Put chothes away

12. Eat dinner

13. Go to the 8 p.m. telephone CLA meeting

14. Go to the 9 p.m. online EA meeting

15. Go to the 10 p.m. telephone CLA meeting

16. Do numbers

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