Chapter 8 Flashcards
Name a tool that can help you ignore distracting thoughts.
Another trick involves using meditation to help you learn to ignore distracting thoughts.
Practice ignoring distracting thoughts by simply letting them drift past.
When your attitude is troubled, how can you reframe your focus?
If your attitude is troubled, reframe your focus to shift attention from the negative to the positive.
Name a tool that can help you make changes.
The most important idea here is that keeping a written history over several weeks appears to be critical in helping you make changes.
What can you do weekly and then daily that will help you control your habits?
The best way for you to gain control of your habits is simple: Once a week, write a brief weekly list of key tasks. Then, each day, write a list of the tasks that you can reasonably work on or accomplish. Try to write this daily task list the evening before.
What “Eat your frogs in the morning” means?
Do the unpleasant tasks, that need to be done, first thing in the morning.
What is equally important as working?
Planning your quitting time is as important as planning your working time.
Who outperforms the constantly working person?
Time after time, those who are committed to maintaining healthy leisure time along with their hard work outperform those who doggedly pursue an endless treadmill.
What should you do with distant deadlines?
It’s important to transform distant deadlines into daily ones.
What should you do when setting goals? What about the occasional roadblocks?
Keep your eye on the goal, and try not to get too unsettled by occasional roadblocks.
When setting goals what should you have in mind about being able to achieve them?
Have reasonable goals.
How can you plan the success of a task?
Plan where and when you will tackle that portion of the task. Just planning how you will implement what you need to do makes it far more likely that you will succeed in the task.
By putting yourself in a place with less interruptions what do you accomplish?
Put yourself in a place with few interruptions, such as a library, to help with procrastination.
What should you do, if you loose focus to the task at hand?
Focus on why do you want to achieve this goal.
