Mind matters

Steve Pavlina writes about 30 Days to Success which is a concept Steve borrowed from the shareware industry where you can download a trial and try it for 30 days. The concept is to try something out so you can, with your own experience, decide wether or not it is something you wish to keep in your life.

This can also be used to implement new strategies and behaviours and other stuff in your own life. By trying it out you get an inside perspective, you get experience, and you can use that to better guide your decision if it is something you wish to implement in your life. Also, when you wish to alter life long habits, the first weeks are the hardest. By trying it out for 30 days, you’ll be building up inertia that will make it easier for you to keep going if you decide it is something that you want.

There are some things I wish to change in my life, and here are the things I will be committing to for the next 30 days starting from monday 18/9 and ending on tuesday 17/10:

• Getting up at 7 am
• Eating breakfast at 8 am and lunch between 11 am - 1 pm
• Reading and answering e-mails for a maximum of 30 min per day

I’ll also be writing in my blog every day to document how this is affecting me. Wish me luck!

If this pans out, I have still more things I would like to try out. Some I nicked from Steve’s page I’ll be adding things to this list as I think of them, or if I get any good recommendations!

• Meet someone new every day. Start up a conversation with a stranger.
• Go out every evening. Go somewhere different each time, and do something fun
• Call a friend every day
• Spend 30 minutes every day to try implement Getting Things Done
• Meditate 30 minutes every morning and evening
• Giving up dairy products
• Drink a cup of tea at meals, instead of cold drinks like milk, water or soda
• Implement the idéa that the bed is for sleeping only
• Adopt the following mindset: Everyone you meet in your life — even total strangers — is already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and distinct beings is nothing but an illusion. We are all parts of a larger whole, like individual cells in a body. This is from one of Steven’s posts: Soulful Relationships.
• Train Qi Gong for minimum of 15 minutes each day.
• Pick up 3 cards, that have words or pictures on them, from a pile, and make a spontaneous speach for 1 minute that includes what they show
• Pick a subject to write a 5 minutes speach to
• For 10 minutes, relax my stomach since I tend to hold it in.
• In the morning, visualize how I wish the day to be.
• Implement a behaviour with which I will train on a friendly voice towards myself
• Do autokinetics for 15-30 min
• Listen to a photoreading lecture
• Listen to a Remote Viewing tape

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