Wakeup Productive: Introduction

Inner game and outer game  of time management and productivity.

Promise: If you do the program you will wake up  at least TWICE productive.

What are we  looking for: Success.

Success is:

Inner: Feeling good. Happy. Feeling that we are making a difference. Joy. Contentment.

Outer: Achievement. Making a difference. Getting things done!

We need both:  Inner and Outer.

RoadBlock to success: Feeling out of control. Is one of the core issue.Happiness directly related to feeling in control. Getting things done leads to control which leads to success and happiness.

Productivity is HUGE leverage.

Productivity styles doesn't work for everyone.  For example: Some are list makers and some are not.

Most of the methods will work for most of folks.

Eben has been more productive he is ever been.  Unlimited stuff is happening  in his life. Why he is not overwhelmed.

Change happens when you are at the edge of your comfort zone.

He is happy. He is enjoying life.

Format of the program:

18 sessions: Intro. + 5 fast start sessions(5 days) + 12 sessions( One per week).

What is preventing us from being productive?

1. We are overwhelmed by choices. For example: Which car to buy?

Internally we don't have many personal choices.

Skills to develop: Narrowing options when there are too many and generating more options when there are not enough. FOCUS

For example: Todo software. So many of them but not one we need.

2. Culture of distraction.  Phone ringing, web surfing, jumping from one thing to other. Controlling distraction and interruption is the highest priority.
3. Obsessive snacking culture. Instead of eating full healthy meal. We  snack.  Snacking of attention. Switching.  Jumping from one thing to other. Go from one course to other. Go deep. And Focus. Go deeper on the things which are important to us.
4. Multitasking.  It is very inefficient.  Focus on one thing for a chunk of time then disconnect. Get out of Grey Zone.  When work work when play play when rest rest.  No grey zone.
5. Culture of entertainment then getting results. For example: Movie we watch. Eating. Not taking care of health.  For example eating candy instead of salad. Candy is entertaining but will not make you grow. Feeling and energy we get from healthy stuff is lot more fun than getting entertained by candy for the short term. Don't distract ourselves too much with entertainment instead focus more on results.
6. Culture of magic pills. This is really hurting us. There are no quick fixes. You have to put the time. Put the effort.  No one software . No magic pill.  This is immature.
7. Short term vs long term results of an action are typically different and often opposite. 

For example:

Eating chips. Short term: yummy. Long term: Health. Low energy. Weight. Disease.

Eating broccoli . Short term: Yucky. Long term: Energy. Health. Focus. Feel better.

"Life is hard if you live it the easy way. Life is easy if you live it the hard way"

"Change the system not the symptom".

11 principles of personal productivity ( Mindsets. Beliefs.)

1. Everyone can be productive. Not just productive but can be  creative as well.  Some are not productive/creative in a structure and some outside of a structure ( Blank canvas). Understand when you are most productive.

Use your talent and develop skills and strengths. For example: Tiger Woods. He is talented. But he developed skill by practice.

2. Managing time is about managing yourself.

"Time Management is a misnomer. Challenge is managing yourself" - Covey

Time just flows..  When you say managing time it's external. When you say managing myself it is taking more responsibility. Getting control of my mind , emotions and body and directing towards the right place.

Controlling yourself is really hard.  We are almost like robots. We believe we are in control but actually we are not. For example: Fast for 36 hours. 

Good news is there are techniques for managing yourself.

3. We have three brains.

Brain stem. Limbic system . Lizard brain. Physical.

Amygdala . Mammalian brain. Emotional.

Cortex (Intellectual). Human brain. Mental.

Old brains (Lizard and Mammalian) are more in control.

Three brains are not well connected. So a lot of

Physical. Emotional. Mental.

4. Habit is destiny.

First you shape your habits then they shape you.

We have physical, mental and emotional pathways.

Habits pave paths. Muscle memory. Poor posture.

Routines. Habits.

5. Internal Chaos creates external Chaos.

Inner butterfly effect. Butterfly flapping it's wings in Hong Kong  can trigger  storm in Kansas.

We need to manage inner chaos.

6. Focusing our talent and strengths on our biggest opportunities. 80-20 principle.

7. Your future can be extension of the past or something new you create.  Don't live in the past focus on future.
8. Focus on what you want to create. Not what you want to avoid. Unconscious mind  don't have concept of negative. Don't think of the color blue. Don't smoke. Subconscious mind: SMOKE SMOKE…
9. Choose don't decide.

Decide: Cut off possibilities.

Choose: Having multiple options and choosing one.

I have to vs I choose to.

Choose is more positive.

10. Balance organization with  flow.

Where could you use more structure? Where you could be more in flow?

11. If you want to wakeup productive. You must go to next level. You must become You 2.0.

Look at someone who is 10-15 years ahead of you. Who has seen this. Model. Learn from the experiences from other.

Wakeup Productive

WakeUp Productive  by Eben Pagan is one of the best personal development and productivity course I have gone through.  Unfortunately I didn't implement anything from it. :-)  Now is the time for action!
For reinforcement  I am planning to go through the course videos again. I will take notes and post it here.

I will also use this thread to held myself accountable and track my actions and habits....

I am jumping a bit... On first week of the course Eben talks about having a morning success ritual.... First hour is the rudder of the day! It sets the direction and of the day.
 If we have great  beginning of the day...we will have extraordinary day.. Great day means extraordinary week.. Great  week means extraordinary year...  and life!
I will post notes when I reach this section of the course ... But here is what I am committing to starting tomorrow?

My "Morning success ritual":

 5:30-6:00:

Alarm goes off  on my iphone at 5:30 AM  (Keep the iphone  near the bathroom)
Wakeup and jump out of bed! Switch the alarm off!
Wash eyes and face and other stuff. Check weight.
Drink a glass of water.
Make tea.
While drinking tea post on the forum. (Accountability)

6:00-6:30:

Exercise...
Tuesday. Thursday. Saturday:

25 minutes running on treadmill.

Monday.  Wednesday. Friday:

Exercise with weights

( Sort of like Body For Life  by Bill Phillips regime..)

 6:30-7:00:

Brush. Bath. Shave.

7:00-7:20: 

10 minutes Pranayama  (Breathing exercises)
10 minutes Meditation

7:20-7:30:

Superfood smoothie breakfast.

And all set for a great day!!!!!!!

Toughest challenge will be the first 2 minutes to drag myself out of bed... Strategies to help with this:

1. Post it on the forum every morning. No excuses!
2. Sleep on time. To bed by 10:00 PM. And sleep by 10:30. Trying to wake up at 5:30 while going to bed at 1:30 is foolish... And that's what I have tried to do in the past and failed miserably multiple times.
3. And to be able to sleep by 10:30. I need to make sure no internet at 9:30 PM. No caffeine after 6:00 PM.
4. Plan the next day on PAPER  before going to bed. 
5. Visualize for 1-2 minutes every night imagining myself jumping out of bed at 5:30 PM. Think about the benefits of waking up early.
6. Keep alarm clock away from bed.  I have a timer to switch on plug... Attach it to the table lamp which will ON the light  at 5:28 AM.
 7. Find an accountability partner??

Anything else?


Time for MASSIVE ACTION!

Success Principles

1. Happiness
 
• Always be happy and  blissful, which is the goal of all other goals.
• Be HERE NOW!
• Be in a state of Passion and Euphoria!
• Live every moment of your life to it's fullest.
• Always be in peak state.
• Always be in flow state.
• Always think good and positive.
• Make life a piece of passion, art and fun.
• Consciousness and present moment awareness.
 
2.  Strength
 
• To be strong and powerful. To keep strengthening my will power.
• Know that you are responsible for everything that happens to you and you are in IN-CHARGE!
• Build your muscle one step at a time, like strands of a rope. Add one thread to the rope each day until it becomes unbreakable and POWERFUL.
• Perseverance and Self Discipline.
• Formula:
• Decide what you want to do.
• Develop burning desire using pain and pleasure principle.
• Make a plan.
• Split plan into small chunks
• Work on the plan every single day!
• Bring the task to completion.
• Celebrate!
 
 
 
3. Courage
 
• To Do the things you fear and the death of fear is certain.
• That which doesn't kill be makes me stronger.
• I can handle anything which comes my way.
• Life is an Adventure.
• Mentally salivate on seeing the unknown.
•  I can do all things through God who strengthens me. I can handle anything.
• Jump into the unknown. It's magical.
 
4. Focus and Hard Work
 
• Be a highly focused ACTION oriented person!
• JUST DO IT! DO IT NOW!
• Be in a flow state of productive work and relaxation.
• Pick up a thing ; Finish it ; Celebrate ; Then move to next thing.
• Never waste time, because it’s the stuff life is made of.
 
5. Love
 
• Love yourself. Love your family. Love your friends. Love everybody.
• Always ask how can I help and make myself and others happy.
• "Do not do unto others what you don't like to be done unto you"
 
6. CANI!
 
•  Constant and never ending improvement.
•  Become a life long learner.
• Mentally salivate whenever you have new thing to learn.
• Again pick a learning task, Give all of yourself to it. Attack it from various learning styles (Read, thing, feel, see, teach).
 
7. Organization
 
• "Order is heaven's first law".
• Be planned and organized.
• Keep things clean, current and complete.
• Be clutter free."Cleanliness is holiness". "
•  Collect - Process - Organize - Review - DO".
 
8. Communicator
 
•  Become a clear, confident, compassionate, charismatic, graceful, loving and effective communicator.
• Become a networking superstar.
 
9. Relaxation
 
• Always be calm , cool , centered, meditative and relaxed.
• Be like Buddha.
• Acceptance without judgment .
 
10. Self realization
 
• "That art thou". Self realization. The ULTIMATE GOAL.
• Consciousness Expansion.
• Samadhi
 
11. Dream Big Dreams
•  "I can do anything through God who strengthens me".
• I have unlimited potential. What your mind see and believe it can achieve.
• Be clear about your purpose, goals and mission.
 
12. Health:
• Keep my body and mind in optimal shape.
• Boundless energy and vitality.

My crappy version 1.0

Before I plan for me version 2.0... let's see what is the current state of Me version 1.0 (Which is worse that Windows Vista. :-)) :

Health and fitness:

I am 30-40 pounds overweight.
I have high  blood pressure and high cholesterol.
I am always tired and sleepy.
I don't have any routines.
I don't exercise
Not much energy

Productivity:

I spend bulk of my time surfing web and jumping from one thing to other
I have serious procrastination problems. I keep putting of things until the end.
My house and office is mess.
Work haphazardly on urgency bases.

Emotional and Mental:

Anxiety and anger issues
Happiness quotient missing
Not much self confidence
No mental clarity
No clear goals
Not many hobbies or fun in life.

Carrier / Financially:

Don't manage my fiances well.

Enough  to make myself feel bad. :-)

 To be fair version 1.0 is not totally crap... I am grateful that:

I have lovely and loving wife and son and family.
Good paying and fulfilling job.
Living in one of the greatest places on earth.
I have good knowledge and incredible amount of resources to transform my life.

In the next post I will talk about my vision of version 2.0 and the steps I am going to take for this.

Bye....

Hello World!

Hello World!

This is a blog of journey towards You/Me  Version 2.0.
This is a mission of  human transformation  towards next level of evolution. 

Transformation:

• Physical
• Mental
• Emotional
• Financial 
• Spiritual

First something about myself:

My name is Anish and I am from California.  I have been self help junkie for the last 20 years. Reading and listening to  self help and personal development books is my hobby/passion. Unfortunately the problem is I haven't put too much of what I have learned  into practice. :-)  Now is the time to change that!

We will be covering following areas in this blog:

Health and Fitness
Productivity
Self Disciples
Habit-formation  and 30/60/90 day trials and experiments
Learning
Book summaries
Courses summaries
Meditation
Mind Hacks
Happiness
Self Confidence
Networking and public speaking

... and so on....