Evidently my previous post was yet another false start.
In the meantime, I've taken up yoga, I've committed myself to my morning ritual of calisthenics, I've been reading up on and applying the principles of a frequent, small meal diet, and I've been reading up on Zen:
Good reads on Yoga:
Yoga mind & body /
by Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center (London, England)
Great Illustrations
Journey into power : how to sculpt your ideal body, free your true self, and transform your life with yoga /
by Baptiste, Baron
Very well written
Bikram yoga : the guru behind hot yoga shows the way to radiant health and personal fulfillment /
by Choudhury, Bikram
The previous author's mentor, also very good read
Hatha yoga illustrated /
by Kirk, Martin
Great layout and complement to the above
Good reads on Zen:
Discover Zen : a practical guide to personal serenity /
by Fontana, David
Perfect for your morning ritual's inspirational reading time
The Three pillars of Zen : teaching, practice, and enlightenment /
by Kapleau, Philip, 1912-
Pithy and authoritative no nonsense book on Zen
Great Diet Read:
Maximum fat loss /
by Broer, Ted
Great all round Diet and Fitness book from a biochemist's excellent perspective -- must read
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Revised List of Goals
It seems I made a false start. Here's my revised list of goals, in what I think is the most rational order of achieving them. Please leave your comments.
Basic Goals for Self Actualization
Goal 1. Presence, Being in the Now: Achieve a measure of Presence, or total attention to the present moment for a large part of your day, free from the incessant mental chatter of your mind, especially the negative stuff. Spiritual exercises to achieve this have been described by Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now and The New Earth. Natural Tim also offers some insight. He refers to this as your Soul Baseline Level, or SBL. Maxwell Maltz councils us to focus our attention on what is happening in the present situation. This goal was tougher to achieve than I thought, and I am still working at keeping a measure of Presence throughout my day, working at not backsliding into the machinations of my ego. Sounds simple but is a tough one, indeed, and clearly the place to start because it liberates you from the fears and snares of your ego that can impair your progress towards any goal.
Goal 2. Concentration and Focus, or honing your ability to focus and concentrate your attention on a single image. These skills help to unleash the power of your subconscious mind, to activate what Maxwell Maltz calls our Creative Success Mechanism.
Goal 3. Learn relaxation techniques. Another key tool for achieving goals.
Goal 4. Adopt a physical training routine. The goal is integrate this permanently into your lifestyle. A real catalyst for achieving goals.
Goal 5. Ensure proper nutrution. No more muck. Another catalyst, while sweets and junk food are poison when it comes to achieving goals.
Goal 6. Learn, hone and grow your visualization skills. Lots to learn here, and ties in with the five goals above.
Goal 7. Adopt a visualization routine. Yes, there are some visualization exercises you will want to adopt into your daily routine, once you experience their power.
Goal 8. Adopt a morning Ritual. This is where you consolidate the first seven goals.
Goal 9. Adopt a nightly ritual. This is the time to prime your mind and subconscious to propel you forward even while you sleep.
Goal 10. Find your Purpose, Direction, Destiny and Passions. With so much goal striving powerfrom the first nine goals, you need to set yourself in the right direction for you.
Goal 11. Adopt and internalize the One Goal at a Time mindset. No more multitasking!
Goal 12. 21 day rule for habit formation, with an example habit, the Happines Habit.
Goal 13. Keep a pocket notebook to record both success and corrective feedback experiences, and all of the great ideas that ambush your mind.
Goal 14. How to develop a deep driving desire.
Goal 15. Process corrective feedback to your best advantage.
Goal 16. Elicit / access optimal mental emotional states using NLP anchors
Goal 17. Develop the habit of spending at least 50% of your time in action towards your goals. Yes, there is life beyond goal setting --- achieving them!
Goal. 18. Start listing goals that stem from your passions from Goal #10.
Goal 19. Review Goal: Honing your ability to commune with your Soul, the Source, the Universal Consciousness
Goal 20. Self Image Goals: basic attributes
----to be continued---
Basic Goals for Self Actualization
Goal 1. Presence, Being in the Now: Achieve a measure of Presence, or total attention to the present moment for a large part of your day, free from the incessant mental chatter of your mind, especially the negative stuff. Spiritual exercises to achieve this have been described by Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now and The New Earth. Natural Tim also offers some insight. He refers to this as your Soul Baseline Level, or SBL. Maxwell Maltz councils us to focus our attention on what is happening in the present situation. This goal was tougher to achieve than I thought, and I am still working at keeping a measure of Presence throughout my day, working at not backsliding into the machinations of my ego. Sounds simple but is a tough one, indeed, and clearly the place to start because it liberates you from the fears and snares of your ego that can impair your progress towards any goal.
Goal 2. Concentration and Focus, or honing your ability to focus and concentrate your attention on a single image. These skills help to unleash the power of your subconscious mind, to activate what Maxwell Maltz calls our Creative Success Mechanism.
Goal 3. Learn relaxation techniques. Another key tool for achieving goals.
Goal 4. Adopt a physical training routine. The goal is integrate this permanently into your lifestyle. A real catalyst for achieving goals.
Goal 5. Ensure proper nutrution. No more muck. Another catalyst, while sweets and junk food are poison when it comes to achieving goals.
Goal 6. Learn, hone and grow your visualization skills. Lots to learn here, and ties in with the five goals above.
Goal 7. Adopt a visualization routine. Yes, there are some visualization exercises you will want to adopt into your daily routine, once you experience their power.
Goal 8. Adopt a morning Ritual. This is where you consolidate the first seven goals.
Goal 9. Adopt a nightly ritual. This is the time to prime your mind and subconscious to propel you forward even while you sleep.
Goal 10. Find your Purpose, Direction, Destiny and Passions. With so much goal striving powerfrom the first nine goals, you need to set yourself in the right direction for you.
Goal 11. Adopt and internalize the One Goal at a Time mindset. No more multitasking!
Goal 12. 21 day rule for habit formation, with an example habit, the Happines Habit.
Goal 13. Keep a pocket notebook to record both success and corrective feedback experiences, and all of the great ideas that ambush your mind.
Goal 14. How to develop a deep driving desire.
Goal 15. Process corrective feedback to your best advantage.
Goal 16. Elicit / access optimal mental emotional states using NLP anchors
Goal 17. Develop the habit of spending at least 50% of your time in action towards your goals. Yes, there is life beyond goal setting --- achieving them!
Goal. 18. Start listing goals that stem from your passions from Goal #10.
Goal 19. Review Goal: Honing your ability to commune with your Soul, the Source, the Universal Consciousness
Goal 20. Self Image Goals: basic attributes
----to be continued---
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Strategic List of Goals -- One at a Time Goal Program
Here is the value I have to offer you, a program which spells out the nuts and bolts of life's greatest adventure:
Self Actualization
In today's post I am going to list the first several goals -- stepping stones -- on the path to actualizing our full, awesome potential. These first few goals will take us through the next few weeks.
Two preliminary guidelines:
One. You can make best use of the awesome, unestimal, hidden power of your subconscious mind by feeding it one goal at a time. Maxwell Maltz (Psycho-Cybernetics) described an hour glass that lets one grain of sand though at a time, basically a feed-hopper or funnel that gets jammed if you try to cram to many goals into it at once.
Two. In general, it takes 21 days of dedicated practice to make a habit out of anything new you do. Many of the following gaols provide you with a set of new practices exercises that are meant to become good habits. So give yourself 21 days to assimulate them before feeding in a another goal into your goal-hopper.
Top Tip: Go to Amazon and get your copy of Psycho-Cybernetics --- a true classic for your self help library.
And remember, don't jam your goal hopper. Also remember
Part I. Foundation Goals
1. Become present. Focus all of your attention on the present moment. I will go into more detail on this one in my next post. Basically, this goal is meant to clear and reset our minds, to free our minds of all the negative , habitual thought patterns that have resulted from our past conditioning. It's a way of defeating the limitng belief system --- a kind of safety interlock network that we learn in life, but turns out to be overkill and needs to be left behind.
How to achieve this goal? For 21 days (it took me six weeks and I'm still working on it) do the spiritual practices that Eckhart Tolle described in his various books, including The Power of Now and A New Earth.
2. Adopt a morning ritual, similar to those described by Natural Tim and Eben Pagan (both on the web).
3. Adopt an evening ritual, like that described by Matt Furey, in 101 Ways to Magnetize Money.
4. Define your purpose and passions in life. This will reveal the best direction for our respective future goal setting.
5. Daily relaxation through visualization.
6. Daily goal visualization.
7. Learn and adopt the Path of Mastery.
8. Adopt a new self image, unfettered by your previous limiting beliefs.
9. Learn and adopt concentration and mental focus.
10. Learn the techniques to elicit higher mental/emotional states.
11. Eidetic Visualization.
12. ?
II. Sucessful Mental / Emotional States
1. Gratitude
2. Eliminate the negative (relates back to goal I.1)
3. Abundance
4. Magnetize money (Matt Furey)
5. Masculine intent (Real Social Dynamics -- RSD)
6. More references to RSD
7. ?
III. Skill Goals
IV. Action Goals
Self Actualization
In today's post I am going to list the first several goals -- stepping stones -- on the path to actualizing our full, awesome potential. These first few goals will take us through the next few weeks.
Two preliminary guidelines:
One. You can make best use of the awesome, unestimal, hidden power of your subconscious mind by feeding it one goal at a time. Maxwell Maltz (Psycho-Cybernetics) described an hour glass that lets one grain of sand though at a time, basically a feed-hopper or funnel that gets jammed if you try to cram to many goals into it at once.
Two. In general, it takes 21 days of dedicated practice to make a habit out of anything new you do. Many of the following gaols provide you with a set of new practices exercises that are meant to become good habits. So give yourself 21 days to assimulate them before feeding in a another goal into your goal-hopper.
Top Tip: Go to Amazon and get your copy of Psycho-Cybernetics --- a true classic for your self help library.
And remember, don't jam your goal hopper. Also remember
Part I. Foundation Goals
1. Become present. Focus all of your attention on the present moment. I will go into more detail on this one in my next post. Basically, this goal is meant to clear and reset our minds, to free our minds of all the negative , habitual thought patterns that have resulted from our past conditioning. It's a way of defeating the limitng belief system --- a kind of safety interlock network that we learn in life, but turns out to be overkill and needs to be left behind.
How to achieve this goal? For 21 days (it took me six weeks and I'm still working on it) do the spiritual practices that Eckhart Tolle described in his various books, including The Power of Now and A New Earth.
2. Adopt a morning ritual, similar to those described by Natural Tim and Eben Pagan (both on the web).
3. Adopt an evening ritual, like that described by Matt Furey, in 101 Ways to Magnetize Money.
4. Define your purpose and passions in life. This will reveal the best direction for our respective future goal setting.
5. Daily relaxation through visualization.
6. Daily goal visualization.
7. Learn and adopt the Path of Mastery.
8. Adopt a new self image, unfettered by your previous limiting beliefs.
9. Learn and adopt concentration and mental focus.
10. Learn the techniques to elicit higher mental/emotional states.
11. Eidetic Visualization.
12. ?
II. Sucessful Mental / Emotional States
1. Gratitude
2. Eliminate the negative (relates back to goal I.1)
3. Abundance
4. Magnetize money (Matt Furey)
5. Masculine intent (Real Social Dynamics -- RSD)
6. More references to RSD
7. ?
III. Skill Goals
IV. Action Goals
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Getting Started -- One at a time Goal Program
Blog about your passions.
My passions revolve around exploring and learning. For 22 years, I pursued a career in science as an experimenter. For much longer, I have been passionate about art, philosophy and outdoor activities such as scuba diving, wind surfing, sailing, hiking and nature photography. More recently, I have grown passionate about understanding how people interact in challenging social situations, and about the psychology of success.
My Handy List of Passions:
1. Celebrating life with attractive women of high standards
2. Gaining mastery in my social skills through massive social interaction
3. Traveling and exploring nature through marine and wilderness adventure sports
4. Designing, recording, creating and capturing beauty through art and technology
5. Mind expanding discovery and self improvement
6. Exploring and discovery through experimenting and scientific investigation
In this blog, I intend to put one of my passions to work for me -- 5. Mind expanding discovery and self improvement -- by laying out a practical program of goals for self improvement, and self actualization... ...and following it.
The program is really a series of goals, goals that I intend to achieve one at a time. It's a series of goals that I have painstakingly sorted and arranged over the last few months. Also, I believe that my choice of goals and the order I've arranged them in is what will work best for how we're hard-wired.
In my next post, I'll list the goals in my program, as I see them now (i.e. the list is subject to revision).
Over time, based on the journey I take with you in this blog, I hope to learn enough and refine my program to the point where I can condense all of the material into an ebook. Publishing this ebook will put me on the path of starting my own internet publishing empire. Along the way, I hope to offer excellent value, and make some money.
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, paraphrased, from Faust, by John Anster
My passions revolve around exploring and learning. For 22 years, I pursued a career in science as an experimenter. For much longer, I have been passionate about art, philosophy and outdoor activities such as scuba diving, wind surfing, sailing, hiking and nature photography. More recently, I have grown passionate about understanding how people interact in challenging social situations, and about the psychology of success.
My Handy List of Passions:
1. Celebrating life with attractive women of high standards
2. Gaining mastery in my social skills through massive social interaction
3. Traveling and exploring nature through marine and wilderness adventure sports
4. Designing, recording, creating and capturing beauty through art and technology
5. Mind expanding discovery and self improvement
6. Exploring and discovery through experimenting and scientific investigation
In this blog, I intend to put one of my passions to work for me -- 5. Mind expanding discovery and self improvement -- by laying out a practical program of goals for self improvement, and self actualization... ...and following it.
The program is really a series of goals, goals that I intend to achieve one at a time. It's a series of goals that I have painstakingly sorted and arranged over the last few months. Also, I believe that my choice of goals and the order I've arranged them in is what will work best for how we're hard-wired.
In my next post, I'll list the goals in my program, as I see them now (i.e. the list is subject to revision).
Over time, based on the journey I take with you in this blog, I hope to learn enough and refine my program to the point where I can condense all of the material into an ebook. Publishing this ebook will put me on the path of starting my own internet publishing empire. Along the way, I hope to offer excellent value, and make some money.
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, paraphrased, from Faust, by John Anster
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