How to Change your Life in the next 15 Minutes by Rahul Badami

Author:Rahul Badami [Badami, Rahul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SRB Concepts
Published: 2013-12-17T05:00:00+00:00

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TAKING TOUGH ACTIONS THROUGH SINGLE-TASKING

Whose dream are you living?

I am asking this question because taking action is easy when you are doing something that you inherently love.

If I look at my own life, for the first couple of decades I was living out my parent's dreams to see me graduate and be successful at a job. The next decade was spent in living my manager's dream of being the ideal employee. Only now I have started to break away and started doing something that I love. So I ask again.

Whose dream is it anyway? Yours? Your parents? Spouse? Peers? Kids?

My dream is to provide value to others through my writings. I have a dream of reading a billion words and writing a million. And to do that I will have to buckle down and spend consistent time everyday to both read and write. For me the tough action is neither reading nor writing; it’s the discipline to do the reading and writing on a daily basis without fail .

I floundered for months writing my first book. After eighteen months, I had only completed half of it. However, once I had disciplined myself through a daily ritual, I was able to complete the remainder of my book in just one month.

So what is your dream? Are you taking daily action towards it? Are your actions consistent? If not, why?

My personal experience has shown me that I don't take action when I am distracted. The average person has multiple responsibilities and tasks that distract them away from whatever they want. But I found one very simple technique to overcome my procrastination and stay focused.

I call it Single-Tasking.

Time-management gurus have been harping for decades about multi-tasking. Multi-tasking means being able to do multiple things simultaneously. However, recent studies in brain science have painted a completely different picture. Multi-tasking only works for subconscious or deeply-embedded habits like driving a car.

You cannot consciously multi-task.

In other words, you cannot do two things that require your complete attention at the same time. You cannot solve a crossword puzzle and create a grocery list at the same time. Your mind gets stressed out, and it reacts by going back into its comfort zone of subconscious habits. These habits then keep you where you are.

Give yourself a break. Make it easy for your brain to help you out. This can happen by gently nudging your mind towards just ONE activity.

Here's what I do: I don't keep a big list of things that I have to do daily. I take up only one major thing that I have to accomplish that day. The secret is that I stick to that activity till it’s completed. It may take one day. It may take a week. But the important thing is that I make more progress than when my mind is burdened with multiple tasks.

(Sidenote: To clarify, single-tasking means I allocate a significant chunk of the workday towards my major task. I do other things only if they cannot be avoided. Make sure that you do your major task in a continuous uninterrupted span of time.

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