Vision is essential to success. Yes, you can encounter a great idea without knowing where you are going, but in our experience, mentoring thousands of people, it rarely happens that way. Successful people look ahead, to imagine the future they want, so make it happen through a combination of passion, commitment and intuitive vision.
Recognize any vision you need to get quiet. Remove clutter and turn down the volume. When you consciously eliminate widespread noise, silence awakens your imagination. Make it a goal to eliminate clutter from your mind, your days and your life.
As with most ambitious efforts to remove all the clutter in your life can be overwhelming at first. The trick is to start small:
1. Clear y
our space.
Clean up your physical environment at home and work. Take 10 minutes each day to the Court that the stack of papers that have been sitting on your credenza in several months. Devote 15 minutes a day to clean up in a closet or a room that is only slightly less attractive than the city dump. Do not tackle the whole ceiling. Start with one corner, then move on to another until it is done.
2. Clean up your mind.
Remove an outside stimulus, a television broadcast or a chatty telephone call. Then eliminate another. Instead of reading three newspapers and magazines, reading one. While driving, replacing Talk Radio with inspirational CDs or music that stimulates ideas and provides a space for success. Meditate while you fall asleep or reading something relaxing, which brings you peace, not agitation.
Be equally selective in how you spend time with friends and family. You could not think of a relationship as root, but it can be. Is casual, unsatisfactory relationships will keep you from your vision? Would fewer and more meaningful relationships to be more helpful? Assess whether a relationship is one that you value. If not, remove it, or at least, reduce exposure. Uncluttering is about making choices in all areas of your mind, space and time.
3. Postpones hesitation.
Procrastination leads to concern and anxiety as mental clutter. You are anxious for the next meeting because the report is still raw at best. You worry about overdrafting your bank account because you have put forth to balance your checkbook. Rather than simply deferring hesitation.
Remove an area of hesitation each week. Schedule it in your calendar as you would any important appointment, and when the time comes, do what needs to be done. Your mind will feel refreshing and clean the alarm.
But exposure is not always bad. we hear people say, "finish what you start" or "you had the idea, where did you mean?" Every day we wake up with new ideas, but like you we have only 16 waking hours a day to do it all. Untimely obstinacy, as in "I started it, I have to finish it," exhaust you as you wade further in the wrong direction. Selective-intuitive-delay allows the best ideas to rise to the top and keeps you focused.
In all emergency nurses learn the value and skill of triage. When several patients come in at once, nurses treat the sickest first. That's triage. You can triage ideas. All ideas are not equal, then match your ideas to your intuitive vision to decide what to develop first.
Selective delay also eliminates unnecessary busyness. Imagine a low priority-perhaps starting a routine project or write a letter. You procrastinate, and at the end of days or weeks that the situation resolves itself. The project is canceled or the subject of the letter will be solved with a two-minute call. Selective hesitation, or triage, combined with your intuitive vision can remove the clutter of unnecessary tasks.
Ditching clutter enables you to tune into your intuitive vision and connect with future success. In return awakens your senses incipient your passion. You not only see into the future you want, you are ready to implement the goals and strategies to make it happen.
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