June 15th, 2008 | Tags: consciousness, goals, motivation, personal development, purpose
“My Conscious Life” - a game which helps people to improve themselves and live more happily, interesting and efficiently. Here is the game requirements.
My Conscious Life Game Requirements
Goals
- The game is different each time you play it.
- The game helps to follow the personal growth in real life.
- The game helps make real life happier.
- The game helps to understand and practice the Law of Attraction.
Rules
Center of the game is a person who pursues personal growth.
He develops 4 parts of himself – spirit, mind, body, heart.
Person has level of consciousness. Possible levels of consciousness: shame, guilt, apathy, grief, fear, desire, anger, pride, courage, neutrality, willingness, acceptance, reason, love, joy, peace, enlightenment.
The goal at the beginning of a game: raise the consciousness, develop 4 parts of yourself.
In game in different places showed inspirational quotes.
Define Current Personal Development Level
As starting point the person have to choose his current state of development spirit, mind, body and heart. He could enter values manually or answer the question: how I am doing in this area of my life? Later he reads his answers and describes the best of what he would like to see in each area of his life. Then he compare his current condition and the desired condition and set number from 1 to 10.
Person describe the best that there is in his life, match between what he has and what he want to have.
Discover Life Purpose
The following exercise is proposed to the player. During 20 minutes answer on a question ‘What is my purpose in life?”. The following recommendation from Steve Pavlina should be displayed:
Write down as many answers to the following question as you can think of. Don’t worry about writing in complete sentences — short phrases are fine. Start by writing the first answer that pops into your head, even if it seems totally wrong. Keep writing until you find the answer that makes you cry. It may require dozens or even hundreds of answers to reach that point, but have faith that you’ll get there. Feel free to return to this exercise whenever you wish to refine and clarify your purpose.
Life areas
- Mind: Financial, Character, Profession, Mental
- Heart: Emotional, Relationship, Social
- Spirit: Contribution, Spiritual
- Body: Home & Family, Health, Fun
If you have ideas about what would you like to see in the My Conscious Life game, please share them in comments.
November 27th, 2007 | Tags: consciousness, goals, success, time management
It is well known that human attention can be concentrated on not more than 7 objects at the same time, plus-minus 2 when it comes to each individual. It means that while solving a problem, making a decision we can concentrate only on 7 different thoughts and usually most of us cannot think about all of the objects simultaneously but we can switch from one thought to another. However, there is an approved method how to increase the possibilities of human thinking and how to gain control over 343 elements switching among them rapidly and not forgetting a single detail. Furthermore, this method helps a creative person to generate more valuable ideas, develop them and transform them into reality.
When we moved into a new apartment I started looking over my old documents, print-outs and notes. At one point of time I came across the notes that I had made before on detachable pages of a notepad. Having revised each idea carefully, I was stunned when I found a thought that I wrote down about 6 months ago and which still seemed very useful for me. It is ironic that the same thought about developing the methodology of gaining knowledge and skills came across my mind recently and appeared to be very new to me. I had been thinking about it for a long time because this idea was developed about 6 months ago but due to the peculiarities of human thinking it was well forgotten. At that given moment of time the idea was recorded in my mind but then I forgot it and did not return to it.
This is a distinctive feature of our thinking. Albert Einstein once said: “Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. People are incredibly slow, inaccurate and remarkable. Together they are an inconceivable force.” One of 10 commandments of effective lifestyle states “Think on paper” which I understand as using any type of device or resource that can “memorize” and then reproduce my thoughts. We can easily substitute paper with some software on the computer or a dictaphone.
It is good to think on paper because having written you thought, you can let it go and come back to it later. Would you like to know why? Both we and the world around us change very quickly and therefore a lot of our ideas lose their significance after some time. When we record our idea on paper we can come back to it tomorrow, look it over, correct it using the newly acquired information and knowledge. It means that after the thought is written down you have the freedom of consciousness, you can let you mind and creativity focus on the other goals and ideas.
It is very helpful to record only relevant ideas. Record your thought during the moments of inspiration, when you mind is clear, when your intentions are full of positive energy. A good idea itself can stimulate the inspiration. Having recorded you idea you retain your position and the energy of your thought on paper. What you write with your own hand can fully transmit the conception through handwriting, through the choice of words. Having looked over and rethought what you have written before, you can experience the feeling of enthusiasm again. When I was gathering the notes with my ideas at the end of every week, was sorting them out and rereading them I experienced elation and inspiration. The best moments of realization yourself and the surrounding world merged into a flow of energy. During this time I could better understand my true self. A lot of new ideas were generated then. It was very useful to record these ideas on paper.
Only the very important has the right to be recorded on paper. The most important in our life is the life itself, our destination, our life path, and our goals. Having recorded our goals on paper we can perfect their formula, look at them from different angles. We can also fully evaluate how the potential achievement of the goals can affect different aspects of our lives, how these goals correspond to our values and beliefs. When we put our goals in words we have a unique opportunity to observe it at any moment of time, in any state regardless of what is your mind occupied with. Now we see our goals in that very state in which we would like to accomplish them. If our desires are not recorded anywhere, don’t have a precise structure and change very often they remain in the form of desires and nothing more. On the other hand, the goal that was carefully recorded will every day advance you toward its achievement helping transform your dreams into reality.
Let’s say, you decided to start making more money. For example, you current salary as of April of 2008 is 3000$. You set a goal to double your monthly income by the current month of next year (it is better to specify the amount of money and the time, for example, 6000$ by June of 2009). The goal is recorded. Now you need to find the ways to achieve it. It is clear that you can think about it without the help of paper, computer or dictaphone but by doing it you will limit yourself because you will probably concentrate on a couple, or maybe even just one, of possible solutions. “Thinking on paper” you can generate a page worth of ideas just in couple minutes. Then take a look at what you’ve written. Get rid of ideas that can have a very little impact on your income. Look at what is left on the list; find the solutions that can maximize the outcome with minimum efforts. Then once again get rid of the thoughts that conflict with your values and beliefs. In such a way using 20/80 rule you can determine the easiest and the most positive way of achieving your goal. It is very unlikely to do the same thing while “thinking in your head”.
Such simple things as a notepad and a pen can incredibly widen the potential of your thinking. For example, you can define 7 vitally important goals in different spheres of your life such as Family, Profession, Relations, Personal Development, Finances, Health, and Society. Having written them down, you can create a list of important long-term tasks in every direction; let’s also make 7 of them. Then you might analyze every task applying to your subconsciousness and find 7 most effective ways of its accomplishment. Thus you have created your life chart, that very direction by following which you can become the happiest person on Earth perhaps even helping others on your way. The most important feature of the chart is that you can always make corrections and additions to it after acquiring new knowledge and new details. The existence of such chart and especially its dynamic editing is impossible in your head. Do you have this type of chart? I do. It is kept in Action Outline. I always refer to it when making important decisions in order not to be carried away and to retain my true self. I wish you also build you own perfect life while thinking on paper!
Thinking on paper raises your consciousness ;).
November 13th, 2007 | Tags: goals, motivation, purpose, success
What is success? Success is when you bask the glory. It is definitely success when you are getting some remarkable results. How to become a successful person? I do believe there are three important things: to know definition of your purpose, to know what your goals is and have a burning desire to accomplish that goals.
Do you know, what is your pre-encoded purpose? It is simple to know it from your context. E.g. if you handle something well and like to do it the most, it seems that it is your purpose to do it. If you still have not found your purpose, seize any opportunities to try something different from what you do everyday. If you find it, you will know and can loudly say to yourself: “This is my purpose to do this”. You can also refer to method proposed by Steve Pavlina in post “How to discover your life purpose in about 20 minutes” - I have tried it, and it works! Write down your propose and refer anytime you are setting goals and doing important decisions.
Do you know exactly what you want? What do you want to achieve in 5 years? How do you imagine yourself in one year? What will you do, if you know that in 6 months a thunderbolt will kill you? Is it the same thing which you are doing right now? If it is not so, you have to change your life. Set yourself a target you want to achieve and start going right now! You can refer to “How to Set Goals” manual at wikiHow. And even if you are not certain about is it the best target you can set or not - set it anyway. To have any goal set by yourself is better that not to set anything. If you do not do this, somebody else, like your boss, friend, partner, stranger or society will do it for you.
When you know your purpose and you have set a goal, do not procrastinate - do it now! Don’t play it safe, every day take any chance to move to your target. Imagine how you will feel, when you achieve it. Everyone should see a fire in your eyes. Feed yourself with motivation material, like this post, every morning on breakfast - and success will come. You can inspire youself by ideas from article “Cultivating Burning Desire“.
So if you want to be a successful person - now you know what to do. If it is still not clear - possibly you have to reread this again :). Do it now!