2012 is already a busy one

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I don't know about you, but 2012 has jumped on me like a spark on dry grass.  A day hasn't gone by where I'm not juggling more demands than I care to admit. Getting up earlier to find more time in the day has it's limits.  A friend of mine recently told me that there are "24 Hours in the day...then there is the night." While he was joking with me about my attempt to find more time in the day, it makes a sarcastic point when it comes to the short-term productivity spike of just not sleeping.  No sleep only seduces you into thinking you are more productive. So what now? My demands aren't going away, but in actuality are they all really do at the same time? No. The key is to be present minded with each waking moment so that those folks who are depending on you can have your best. So how do we do that?

Information without application just tends to add to the clutter. While great information may trigger us for short-term action, it usually winds up in a fizzle since there isn't any practical planning for the change. Today I came across an article regarding a new book titled "Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life," by Margaret Moore and Harvard psychiatrist Paul Hammerness.  In it, the book outlines a practical plan for de-cluttering our brain for follow-through action.

While we may feel like life has got us boxed in, our brains are still driving us. Having a method of organizing our thoughts, in order to attain a more functional and effective position, is key to managing the moment. Moore and Hammerness have taken the discoveries of neuroscience and created a plan that appears to  the give the reader an action orientated mental map for arriving at a place of mental focus.  After reading the plan, it is apparent to me that the work of neuroscience is maturing to the point of producing applicable and practical information for the real-life tasked and time crunched folks like you and me.  Like any other behavioral adaptation, this plan takes some change equity. However, the cost of reorganizing our thoughts appears worth it after reading the article. See article here.

Win Today!

Victor