Benefits of Setting Limits
Limits simplify your life, making it more manageable and meaningful. |
Limits focus you on what's actually important. |
Limits make you more effective and helps you stay on the path to achieving your projects and goals. |
Life without limits is weak and diluted, by learning to focus yourself within your limits, you will increase your mental strength and efficacy. |
6 Principles of Applying Limitations
P1: |
By setting limitations, we must choose the essential. So, in everything you do, learn to set limitations. |
P2: |
By choosing the essential, we create great impact with minimal resources. Always choose the essential to maximize your time and energy. |
P3: |
Once you have determined what is essential, work to eliminate everything that is not essential. |
P4: |
Focus is your most important tool in becoming more effective. Learn to harness your focus like a laser on one task at a time. |
P5: |
Create new habits to make long-lasting improvements in your life. |
P6: |
Start new habits in small increments to ensure success. Large, enduring change must be built gradually. |
Areas to Simplify
Commitments |
Any agreement you make or obligation you take on is also a burden on your time. Time is precious. |
Goals & Projects |
Which Projects will have the most immediate, highest impact? |
Finances |
Financial awareness and discipline are skills that can and should be developed. |
Internet Usage |
With the constant distraction of the Internet readily available, it is important to be aware and manage our internet usage and media consumption. |
Clutter & Belonings |
Living in an untidy space and owning too many things that are unnecessary detract from peace of mind. |
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Choosing the Essential
Start by examining your projects and task lists and asking "What among these are the highest-impact, important, positive, and of long-term relevance to my life and path towards success?" |
Compile a list of your projects that meet this core criteria and work to focus your efforts on these. |
Simplification
Start with writing down all of the "essentials" you have identified in your life. These should be congruent with your values, goals, and passions. |
Once you have really decided what is important in your life, simplication is theoretically easy: Simply cut out everything else! |
Habit Building
Choose the biggest-impact habit and resolve to focus on it for 21 days. |
Write down your plan: What are you doing each day? When? What will trigger the behavior? Who will you report to? |
Post your habit publicly and tell as many people as possible! |
Report on your progress daily! |
Celebrate your new habit! 21 days of success = a habit formed. |
One Goal System
Limit yourself to fewer goals and you will achieve more. |
Concentrate on one major goal in your life at a time. |
Break this goal down into concrete steps: Take it from 5yrs -> 2-3yrs -> 1yr -> 90 days -> 30 days -> 7 days -> 1 day. |
Make sure you are taking some action on your goal every day! |
Simple Projects List
Select only 3 projects at a time to focus on. Write these on a "Focus List" while all other projects are on an "On Deck" list. |
At least one project should be closely tied to your Mission. |
Finish what you start! Focus solely on these three projects and do not add new projects to the "Focus List" until you have seen all three to completion. |
Select 3 Most Important Tasks (MITs) at the beginning of each day and resolve to finish them. |
Complete other small tasks only after the MITs are completed. |
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Focus
Focus is the determining factor in completing a project, achieving a goal, or creating a new habit. |
In an age of endless multi-tasking, we must train our mind to focus on the present and the ask at hand, to single-task instead. |
Single-Tasking
Focus on your Most Important Tasks first thing in your day. Don't do anything else until these are completed. |
When working on a task in a time block, eliminate all other distractions (phone, internet, etc). |
If you feel the urge to switch to another task, stop yourself, take a deep breath and refocus on the present. |
If things come up that you may need to address, simply record them in your "stuff" to be processed later. |
Process your "stuff" to empty regularly so it does not build up and weigh on your mind. |
If something urgent pulls you from your current task, leave a quick note so it is easier to transition back to where you were. |
Take deep breaths, quick breaks, and stretch every now and them. Stay sane! |
Practice Being Present
Like any habit, being fully present requires effort and time before it becomes your natural state. |
Do one thing at a time, what you are doing right now and nothing else. When you eat, just eat. Pay attention to taste and texture, take your time. Every activity is practice. |
Be aware! When your mind drifts from the present, that's ok. Gently allow those thoughts to pass and then return to what is at hand. |
Put up physical reminders, post-its, and other things to remind you of your goal. |
There is no failure, only setbacks. Focus on celebrating doing, on every small success. |
Keep Practicing! |
Keys to Successful MITs
Set your MITs first thing in the morning (or at the beginning of your productive time). |
Limit yourself to three tasks with at least one being tied to your Mission |
Focus on accomplishing these tasks above and before all else. |
Eliminate distractions and Single-Task! |
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