100% Commitment – the secret of improving your life and becoming more productive

"If I'm going to play, it's going to be 100-percent commitment." -Brett Favre

Do you want to accomplish more daily? Do you want to improve your life and succeed at whatever you do? Here’s what you need:

100% Commitment

You already possess the ability to be at least 2X more productive. If you remove distractions, your life will immediately improve.

How to Remove Distractions & Become 100% Committed

Here’s a 3-step technique to improve your concentration. It’s a very powerful technique that will immediately improve your ability to concentrate and achieve more in less time.

The best part of this technique is that you do not need prior practice. It just works. Better yet, your ability to concentrate will improve the more you use it.

3-Step Distraction Remover

Before you start your task:

• Set the countdown timer on your phone to 15 minutes
• Start working until the timer stops you
• Restart the timer as many times as you need to get the task done. Or, go do something else

That’s it! Three simple steps to radically increasing your concentration ability. Follow those three simple steps and I guarantee you will be surprised by the result.

NOTE:
For the 15 minutes, ignore every other distraction - every other thing can wait.

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How to Concentrate Like Einstein

"If I'm going to play, it's going to be 100-percent commitment." -Brett Favre

Do you want a trick you can use to become 100% focused at will?

Here it is:

Two Basic conditions for success 2

If you haven't done so, read Two basic conditions for success Part One.

Answer these questions:

• How do wives get their husbands to do "difficult chores" like washing the dishes, taking out the trash...?
• How do parents get their kids to clean their rooms?
• How do teachers get their students to read?

Repetition, Repetition, Repetition.

Others - friends, co-workers, family members, routinely make us do things simply by repeating their requests. Even we don't want to, we eventually give in and do it.

On the other hand, there are things we want to do but we keep on procrastinating. Do we need more willpower? Maybe not.

Here's how I used the power of repetition to create action.

A few months ago, I created an Anki deck with 30 great quotes. It took a few hours and I was done.

Before the quotes, I used to tackle my easiest decks first. However, after a few weeks of memorizing the quotes with Anki, I changed. I started doing the hard ones first and here's why.

One of the quotes I memorized was by Dale Carnegie, "Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs would take care of themselves."

I started to mentally hear this command, "do the hard jobs first." I wanted to ignore the voice and do the easy ones first but i couldn't. I had two choices:

1. Delete the offending quote
2. Obey and do the hard tasks first.

I chose the second.

I know it seems like a minor change in behavior and you may be right. However, it's awesome what repeatedly reading and reciting a few quotes through Anki could do.

In conclusion, if you haven't done so, download my Anki deck of success quotes free of charge. Start reviewing them daily. It only take a few minutes per day.

Next time, I'll talk about using Anki to remember what you read in articles. 

Two basic conditions for Success

Basic conditions for success

(Proverbs 19:8)  Do yourself a favor and learn all you can; then remember what you learn and you will prosper.

From the quote above, there are two basic conditions for success.

1. Learning all you can.
2. Remembering what you learn.

If you....

I've been an avid reader for as long as I can remember. 

In primary school, I'd read story books with my best friend Steven. We didn't have worries or responsibilities. Oh, those were the good days. I dreamt about owning businesses like Lex Luthor (the enemy of Superman). 

Secondary school.

Although I no longer had my reading partner Steve, I kept reading anything that interested me. Of course, I kept increasing the magnitude of my dreams. Now, I wanted to own cities - just like Luthor.

Just after secondary school, I read two books that changed my life forever. They were given to me by my Dad. He just came back from work one day and handed them over to me. He said, "Read them. We'll discuss them when you're done."

Read them I did. I carried the books along with me for chores, errands, even to the bathroom... until I'd guzzled them completely. I was excited. I could see myself succeeding if I just followed the principles I learned from the books. Dad didn't review them with me but I didn't mind.

University came - computer science at Covenant University. I kept on reading books. I remember finding a black-covered text book on Computer Viruses in my university library. I skipped a couple of classes, food, cartoons... to make sure I finished the book. 

It took about four days but I finally finished it. Oh... when I finished, the world looked different! Stories like how computer viruses spread through the air, or create  themselves... were completely false. 

I got confident, deleted my antivirus software and began successfully hunting viruses down. I got so good that I could tell if a computer was infected with just a glance at the screen. Cool right?

Now I've forgotten where I was going with this. I remember. 

My life hasn't exactly turned out the way I pictured it yet. It always bothered me. I began to question myself, "What if I don't become as successful as I'd dreamed?" "What if I end up jobless?"... 

For years, I did not have an answer. I had no explanation for why I couldn't develop the skills I needed. Now, I have a part answer to my questions.

I'd fulfilled the first condition for success - I learned all I could. However, I failed the second condition for success - I quickly forgot what I learned.

Forgetting the principles from the many books I read kept me in chains. It's like having a gun in my house but not remembering where it is. If an armed robber comes, well... use your imagination.

With many lost opportunities, my self-confidence suffered.

Yes, to forget is Human. We are not computers. We forget. I should have fought the forgetting curve by re-opening those books and spend countless hours re-reading. 

I don't know about you but, I really don't want to open a book I've just read. It's boooooring! There were so many books and too little time that I didn't want to spend any of it, rereading the old stuff you know?

So what can be done about this forgetting thing? Luckily, I have found a neat tool that helps me remember almost everything that I learn. 

If you know what SRS and Anki are, then congratulations. Good job. 

Otherwise, I'll continue this post soon. To my 2 visitors. Don't know who you are but I appreciate it. Thank you and keep visiting.