I use Microsoft Outlook to manage my small business. I discovered a really powerful way to use the “all day event” feature in the Outlook Calendar.

If you’re (quite logically) just using this for things that take all day, you’re really missing out.

With this simple technique I never miss a follow-up call, and I’m able to relax knowing my system will remind me about the when and the what! Check out the quick video below where I reveal this super-duper technique.

Love it, hate it? Have a better idea? I’d love to hear from you.

ClearMind Lesson 10: The ClearMind Habits

In this lesson we introduce the ClearMind Habits. By combining the ClearMind Habits with the ClearMind Tools you will experience a new level of focus, clarity, and productivity.

Habit 1:  The Morning Mind Clear

Habit 2:  The “3C” Lifestyle

Habit 3:  The Weekly Review

The Morning Mind Clear is a quick planning session that will leave you grounded in your values and focused on your goals. This 30 min daily habit will empower you to maintain a clear mind, utilize your productivity tools, and start each day off right.

The Morning Mind Clear is powerful, but it won’t prevent you from being inundated with interruptions, emails, new projects, and meeting requests by lunchtime.

That’s when ClearMind Habit 2 saves the day…        The “3C” Lifestyle.

The 3C Lifestyle keeps you clear, focused, and productive even under chaotic and fast-changing circumstances. Like in our physical health, success in organization and productivity results from a consistent lifestyle rather than from an isolated event.

Habit Three:     The Weekly Review

The Weekly Review serves as a productivity and effectiveness checkup.

Each week you will refine your goals, projects, and actions. You will observe what is working and what is not.

Like the Morning Mind Clear, the work to be done in your Weekly Review will vary based on your personality and specific goals. And once your Weekly Review is designed for your unique needs it should be completed consistently each and every week.

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

ClearMind Lesson 8: The Formula for Success

The ClearMind formula for success is so simple, you may be tempted to overlook its genius. The formula for success is.

Clear Goal + Straight Path + Focused Power=
The results you want.

Let’s look at a common goal that many of us share - losing weight.

OK, so let’s look at “losing weight” through the ClearMind formula for success.

In this case our “clear goal” is losing weight. Volumes have been written on how to set goals, we won’t recreate those here. I will share a few simple tips that work for me.

1)    Write your goal from beyond completion

2)    State your emotion upon completion

3)    Briefly state what you did to get there

4)    State the difference it has made in your life

I did it! It is now July 4th of 2010. I am thrilled that over the past 6 months I lost 15 pounds. With my own determination and lots of support from family and friends I formed new habits of healthy eating and exercise. I now have vibrant energy at home and at work, and I’m setting an example of healthy living for my children to follow.

If the path isn’t obvious we may need to do some research or ask for help. But, don’t delay until you have a perfect plan. The clear goal allows us to proceed one step at a time, knowing exactly where we’re headed.

Focusing our power means leveraging our money, energy, and time completely on the action at hand. We complete actions by focusing sufficient power until the action is complete.

Completed actions lead to… Completed projects, which lead to… Completed goals, which lead to… The life you want!

“Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.”
C.D. Jackson

ClearMind Lesson 4: Your 3 Sources of Power

A quick review…

Lesson 1:  The Life You Want
Lesson 2:  A New and Different World of Work
Lesson 3:  The Reality of Constant Action

You are already, “always in action.”

To get what you want, you can simply complete the actions that get you closer to your goal, and avoid the actions that don’t.

Lesson 4 states that the only way to complete these actions is to use your “power.”

So, for our purposes, power is simply the capacity to complete an action.

Your 3 sources of power are:

1)    Money

2)    Energy

3)    Time

In order to get the results you want, you must personally invest, or leverage, various combinations of those resources. You invest and leverage these resources through your moment-by-moment choices.

Just like the world is always changing, our 3 sources of power are always in flux.

Your choices are always either strengthening your power, or weakening your power. The ClearMind Habits will help you make “strengthening” choices in all three areas:
Everything builds upon these ClearMind Habits.

You’ll build a framework from which you can transform your life and your business.

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

Seneca

ClearMind Lesson 1: The Life You Want

Do you find “staying organized” difficult?
Most of us do.

In fact, some people believe it’s no longer possible to stay organized in today’s fast-changing, chaotic, crazy world.

Well, it is possible. In fact, organization and clear thinking are essential to creating the life that you want.

OK, so how do we do it?

How do we stay organized, clear-minded, and productive in the face of constant interruptions, new opportunities, and rapid change?

Well, that’s the purpose of this site and the ClearMind Program.

You’ll get the tools and habits to thrive in today’s business world. You’ll live and work with a clear mind and relaxed control – even in the middle of our over-committed, multi-tasking, culture.

The great news is, you already have all the wisdom necessary to achieve this high-performance state. Trust me, you do.

However, if you’re like most people, you could apply your wisdom in a much more consistent and systematic way.

Throughout this program you’ll make subtle, but powerful, changes in the way you clarify and honor your commitments.

You’ll begin to think about organization and productivity in a whole new way!
Get ready to live the life you want, and hit your goals faster than ever before!

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
Annie Dillard