Comments on: How often do you decide not to brush your teeth?

By: adult ADHD treatment

adult ADHD treatment — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:00:50 +0000

I agree that having goals is a huge part of successful personal development and also helps with motivation. I loved your “teeth brushing” analogy as well. This all relates to my personal issues related to having adult ADHD.

Thanks for another well-written, thoughful article.

By: Armen Shirvanian

Armen Shirvanian — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:36:18 +0000

Hey Srinivas.

Great point here. I just made a comment earlier today about getting to our goals being like pushing a ball up a hill. If we cut back on our routine for a day or days, the ball rolls back down the hill. This matches in line with what you are saying here. It reminds us that it is not worth it to start doing something if we plan to continue it with wacky consistency.

Solid material here.

By: Gilbert Ross

Gilbert Ross — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:54:31 +0000

Hi Srini,

This is probably the shortest and most effective post I read in months. Well done!!

By: shirland

shirland — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:20:26 +0000

What are examples some of the power questions? Visualization is one the best way to see yourself achieving your goals. The more detailed oriented you get the better. When you give attention and focus to achieving your goals then you are more likely to attract them to you.

By: Josh Hanagarne

Josh Hanagarne — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:55:54 +0000

Always good stuff here. Dan John is my favorite strength coach, and one of my favorite people in general. He always says, “if something is important, you do it every day.”

He said it talking about certain movements the body should perform every day, but the applications obviously go much deeper.

Good habits start early. So do bad ones, unfortunately.

Great post.

By: srinirao

srinirao — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:20:36 +0000

Hey Ken,

I actually wrote a post about power questions. But the concept is pretty simple. Every morning you wake up and you ask yourself empowering questions (i.e. What is it about me that is freaking awesome?, etc, etc). The brain is very literal in that it will give an answer no matter what question you ask it. The problem is we normally are not consciously aware of this. You ever done something really stupid, and then you find yourself saying something like “Why am I such an idiot?” While that seem small, when you do that your brain comes up with answers to reinforce it. So, with a power question you just take 4-5 empowering questions, and after 30 days, eventually your mind will associate being awake with the state created by those questions you ask.

By: Ken Kurosawa

Ken Kurosawa — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:37:34 +0000

Srini,
I really like the ideas you presented in this post.
Could you expand on the idea of Power Questions?
Maybe an example of one.

Thanks!

By: srinirao

srinirao — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:31:27 +0000

Gordie: Thanks for the recommendation on the book

Dani: Glad you liked it . I noticed something really interesting last night. I actually was having dreams about some of my goals and how to accomplish them.

By: Positively Present

Positively Present — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:18:27 +0000

BRILLIANT post! That last part — “Treat your mind like you treat your teeth. Clean all the crap out if it EVERY SINGLE DAY.” — was perfect!

By: CrystalsQuest

CrystalsQuest — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:23:07 +0000

Uh oh. I’m in trouble. Everyone talks about making habits as routine as brushing your teeth.

I never learnt that routine. One parent was working 3 jobs to make ends meet, so never there. The other one didn’t care. I (we) were never pushed to do it. Being kids, that meant more often than not we didn’t.

I’m stuffed, aren’t I?