• A Simple Technique to Experience Amazing Productivity Gains

    by Alexander Becker

    You plan your objectives in written form. You live Getting Things Done and the accompanying struggles.

    That is the easy stuff; mindsweeps, making lists of things, organizing and structuring the always up-to-date lists into contexts and working according to the circumstances, the environment, and the available energy. You will most likely end up with lists that grow longer and longer without even the slightest chance to ever satisfactorily complete any one sub-list.

    Enter the advanced stuff.

    Since you're working with and alongside intentions anyway, let's try to build a somewhat idealistic, but nevertheless fully functioning, productivity model based on only the best intentions.

    1. Start with the ubiquitous mindsweep.
    2. Recognize and accept the Must Do tasks.
    3. Collect your intentions for the desired outcomes of the Must Do and the Want-To-Do Really Badly stuff.
    4. Inject as much positive thinking as possible into your mental process. Sanitize every thought of potential auto-sabotage.
    5. Feel the synchronicities and the manifestations show up in waves depending on your faith in the actual reception of the intended goal or subject of desire.

    It is as simple as reaping what you sow, only more elegant.

    You act in accordance with your intentions, you set out your intentions and everything flows naturally, almost effortlessly, you take occasional glances at your plans and lists and you select instinctively, without much conscious thinking, the most appropriate and highest value-yielding task to subsequently accomplish in your sequence of events.

    Now that is productivity, where the world seems to run in slow-motion while you are, in high-speed mode and fully alert, observing the fulfillment of your laid out plans and the arrival of your results.

    The next -- and the last -- project you are going to tackle the old-school way will be the raising of your consciousness to the level where the magic becomes possible in the first place.

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  • The Transition from Eating Mindlessly to Eating Consciously

    by Alexander Becker

    You commonly start with mindlessly eating what's being served to you. We all do. Most people don't think about their food throughout their whole lifetime, they just eat.

    At some point you may notice that what's being served is probably not what you'd really like to eat and you shop around and find the convenient stuff that is available at the corner. You end up being seduced by fast food, hamburgers, fries, sweets, and candy. Sounds familiar? I can relate to the satisfaction that comes after the seduction.

    You may or may not gain weight but somehow you begin to notice that a certain sense of well-being or lack thereof must be related to the food you eat. You still enjoy hamburgers with french fries but you are aware that it's not the ideal solution for that hunger and your bodies' wants and needs.

    Now, being aware that what you are currently eating is probably not the most healthy food available, you start noticing how other people's eating habits are even worse than your own and you feel much more healthy and generally better and more advanced than those mindless junk eaters. They are just not aware of their wrongdoing and you have to tell 'em.

    With your newly aquired knowledge -- remember, you're still on fast food -- you just have to point out that what I am eating, -- researched, composed and designed around principles of nutrition, digestion, and added value for the brain -- is possibly not the holy grail. (I appreciate that, I am constantly experimenting and optimizing.)

    Also because I feel like saving animals from being killed for my meal, you just have to point out that I may be, at some point in the future, lacking some protein because you maintain that animal protein is the most important thing in the world. You tell me about mineral deficiencies, and lack of iron, ... don't get me even started about milk and butter.

    Please, only one thing, ... please refrain from talking about nutrition while holding a hamburger in your hand, with cheese.

    P.S.: I'm still sucking up every piece of information I get, even with two hamburgers in your hands do I evaluate your well-meant advice -- it's just that you look so funny.

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