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Increase your Productivity

Do you cringe on the bed or just laze around the couch (especially during weekends). Do you face these problems?

1. You have lots of productive work to do and yet you do not have the drive
2. You spend lots of time doing unproductive work such as watching TV, playing games on your computer etc
3. You just do not want to do anything that involves some amount of sweating
4. You have free time and yet you do not pursue your hobbies or things that you are passionate about?

Are you in control of these situations? Yes and No! Because your logic mind tells you that you better start doing things which are useful and more productive. However your subconscious mind, an inner voice which is the devil that says, “hey its ok, let me do it later”.

You allow the mental state to control your actions. However there are times that you must have to beat your emotions too. Emotional you know how charged up you must be and not be lazy and unproductive. If this does not give you want you need then you need to have certain amount of Discipline as I call it. Because there are times when you find it difficult to beat your own emotion and during those times the only thing that can possible help you is discipline. The only way you will come out of watching TV and wasting time is self discipline. You must have the will power to ensure that you do not even touch the TV remote. It’s a conscious decision that you make and you must have to live to it.

I still can hear the voice that comes from you saying, “I pretty well know that if I must have discipline I can fight anything that I want with discipline. But how do I create that discipline in me? how do I create that discipline and habit within me of not wasting time, being useful at all times (atleast majority of the times).

Every action of ours is a pattern inside the brain. If we understand these patterns and break them you start doing some other actions. Watching TV and playing games and wasting time are deep patterns inside the mind. If these patterns are directed patterns then it is easy and produces amazing results. However majority of the patterns are not so useful patterns.

Whenever I step into the Gym I read the placard that reads “No Pain, No Gain”. I also use it the right context sometimes. For example say you want to do something useful and you spend the time not so usefully and later you being a victim, you give excuses and some lame excuses to avoid the situation, you must control the system by taking in some pain.

For this I strongly recommended that you take a small rubber band that will fit into you hand. Wear the rubber band to create a new pattern by breaking the old pattern. This is a way to bring in some discipline too. As soon as you sit to watch TV or play games that bring down your productivity, you consciously know that you are supposed to be working and not being productive. It is quite easy to break out this pattern. Snap the rubber band immediately in your hand to remind yourself that you are supposed to be disciplined. If the pain is not sufficient to stop lazing around then snap it harder so that you will feel the pain and immediately come out of it. This is termed as Pattern Break in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)

Let me tell you, this technique will work only when you want to throw away some pattern and not for people who just want to test it out. If you want to truly increase your productivity you must have to follow this to avoid all the unwanted and not so useful habits.

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