What to do about the confusions and distractions that block our success…
One ‘cute’ technique that can help you keep focused and on-track is to carry with you, inside your pocket or purse, a little piece of card with something on it that represents an emotionally compelling achievement, responsibility, or desire.
- Perhaps a photo of your wife or husband or that car you are saving up for.
- Perhaps it’s a word such as ‘Freedom’ or ‘Peace’ or ‘Power’ or a phrase like ‘Health & Happiness’.
Whatever it is to you that can act as a genuinely motivating reminder of what you want to have, do or be. And thus something that will help guide your daily actions and choices.
As an example:
If you are on a weight loss program and walk passed an ice-cream parlor, you can have with you a card that emotionally represents your desire to lose more weight and thus not eat the ice-cream.
Perhaps it’s a picture of your daughter in her wedding dress, and with the wedding just 3 weeks away you are losing some weight so you look your best in the wedding photos alongside your daughter.
So the principle of the ‘this or that’ card is that whenever you feel the internal struggle of making a positive decision against other enticing but negative options, you take out your card and make the decision by asking yourself…
“Do I want this (looking at the card) or do I want that (looking at the distraction)?
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