How Much Time Are You Wasting UN-Creating? Part 2
In the last post we talked about how 17 seconds of unfocused, non-contradicting thought it equal to about a workday, and that about 2 hours worth would amount to about a year, working every day of the week. (If you could somehow work 24 hours a day, it would be more like 6 hours.) It’s not a theory I can prove, nor do I know where to find evidence. All I know is that thinking things out first works really well for me. A friend in my Mastermind group also told me this works on a larger scale, in his experience, as in actually Doing a project, not just the planning stages. Let’s do an experiment of our own to see if we can improve our lives with this theory. That would mean we have to find out the meaning of “focused, un-contradicting thought“. Let’s break it down. Focused thought is when you keep your mind on one thing only. Think of a goal you want to accomplish in the next week, or better yet, an item from your to-do list that’s not to-done. For this exercise, accept whatever comes. Get a stop watch or alarm, and set it to go for 17 seconds. When we’re done, scroll down to the next part of the exercise. . . . . All done? What was your experience?. Before I taint you with the idea of what normally happens, take a minute to write yours down, if it helps, do the