Turbo Charge Your Personal Development
You have just purchased your next personal development program /
book and now what do you do? They say only 10% of the people
even get past the first CD/ Tape/ chapter, let alone finish.
Would you like to know how to get at least 90% more from all of
the personal development programs you have just purchased? And
no, I won't tell you to just listen to them 5 times.
Yes, that would increase your results, but not as much as what I
am going to share. Besides who has the time to listen to their
programs 5 times? How about getting more out of the first time?
Let's say you are one of the few people that actually gets to
the end of one of those personal development programs. How would
you like to have a system to guarantee that you implement all
the great stuff you just learned? How many times have you heard
some really great ideas, only to find yourself 4 weeks later not
applying any of it?
Your first step is to setup a system to insure you actually
finish the program. It will do you no good if you never hear the
message. These steps might seem cumbersome, however at the end
of this article, I will introduce you to a tool that will make
these steps easier.
The first step is to get Accountable to someone that you will
finish the program. Now this is a very easy step to brush off,
but committing to someone else will send a very powerful message
to your subconscious mind and clear away a lot of the future
mental hiccups.
Tell your Accountability Buddy when you will complete this
program and that you will be giving them weekly updates on your
progress. I will explain what you will put in those weekly
progress reports below.
Now you have a system in place to give you the best chance at
completing your personal development program. It is time to
start. Choose a schedule of when you want to learn the program.
Each day you scheduled yourself to listen to the program, write
down a Yes or No to the question, "Did I listen to my personal
development program today?" Next, write down the most important
piece of information about the program you learned.
These two pieces of information are going to be what is in the
progress reports you give your Accountability Buddy each week.
Once you complete the program, review your progress reports and
celebrate your victory with your Accountability Buddy.
Why does this work?
There are a couple of forces at play here. The first is being
accountable to someone else. We all want to look good to our
friends, so being on the hook to complete the program will
definitely get us to extend ourselves. We might not be 100%, but
we will definitely get much more done then if we didn't employ
our Accountability Buddy.
The next force at play is tracking what we are doing. No longer
will life be a blur of events that get lost in the past. We will
have a very specific history of where we are slipping and we
will have the chance to make course corrections along the way.
We all make mistakes and slip up sometimes. It is only when we
have no clue as to when it is happening that we can find
ourselves in deep trouble.
Lastly, you are employing a system of super learning called
spaced repetition to lock the new information into your long
term memory. First, you listen to the material. Later that day,
you write down the most important point anchoring that
information in your mind.
Upon completion of the program, you lock the information in your
long term memory with you're a final review, not to mention, it
is always there if your need a quick refresh.
After you finish your personal development program and it is
locked in your long term memory, it is time to put it into
action. Follow the exact same system you used to finish the
program in the first place.
1. Find someone to get accountable to implementing the new
information in your life.
2. Set up the days you will work on implementing the system.
3. Write down the key thing you did to implement the new
information on that day.
4. Share your progress reports with your Accountability Buddy.
5. Celebrate your success and review your progress reports when
complete.
If the new information you learned will take a long time to
implement, feel free to break it down into parts so you can
celebrate on the way and review your progress. Now get
accountable and get yourself going.