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If you know me at all, you know I'm a busy man--from teaching my weekly coaching calls, giving seminars, working up lesson plans for the Persuasion Factor to spending time with my family and friends and working with the religious organization I am involved in. I wish there were more hours in a day. On top of all that, I'm undergoing some personal transitions that require a whole other list of things to do. . . With all this I know the main thing that has kept me on target has been the ability to organize.
With change and upheaval (and life in general) comes chaos. I don't have much patience for chaos so in an attempt to minimize its effect on me, I like to shape it into something simple and portable.
I'm sure you're busy as well. Maybe your tasks are high priority, requiring deadlines and follow ups that simply have to be met. Some of them are probably less important--getting the dry cleaning, getting a car wash, remembering Secretary's Day. One thing that I find invaluable in this high tech world is a pencil and paper and a very easy thing called a list. Yup. The ever faithful 'to do' list. I suppose it could be that I'm just very process oriented. I like a 1-2-3 way of doing things. As I've discussed before, the conscious mind can only hold seven plus or minus two pieces of information at any one time. When we transfer the information that we don't need immediately onto a piece of paper (or into our Blackberries, if you're so inclined), this frees up space to concentrate on the present.
I typed the words "to do list" into Google and was given a variety of resources for online listing. Remember when a pocket note book and pen were all we needed? I happen to prefer the old-fashioned handwritten list, but if you have a Blackberry, why not put it to use?
One site that seemed especially easy to use is http://www.rememberthemilk.com/. It also has the bonus of being free. Also free is http://roughunderbelly.com/user/login. This one is persuasive for reward oriented people in that it gives you points when you finish something and it makes you charts and graphs of how productive you are as you complete your tasks.
I've also become reacquainted with a tool I used to use but which I lost track of. Ironically, it's a tool to keep you organized (helping you to remember) the things you need to do. It's called Thought Office and falls under the heading of brainstorming. It's a creative and organizational tool that I simply love and for which I have found various uses.
When we take small steps to clear up our internal clutter and organize our thoughts, then we're on our way to accomplishing bigger things.
So what does this all have to do with persuasion?
Well, I've said this before and I'm sure to say it again many times. . . once we can persuade ourselves, whether it be something as involved as stopping smoking or losing weight, or something as "easy" as dropping off that bag of clothes at Goodwill that has been sitting in the trunk of your car for three months, when we create an internal environment where we are saying what we do and doing what we say, we are working with our other than conscious minds to achieve amazing results.
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