How To Work Less and Achieve More - How to Achieve Your Goals

"All Work and no Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy!"

"To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious." -- Samuel Butler

The harder you work the less likely it is that you will get the results you desire.

You have probably heard of phrases like 'don’t work hard, work smart'. Or 'genius is 99% sheer hard work and only 1% inspiration'. Also you may have heard that 'only 20% of your efforts produce 80% of the results' in your life. 

So stop efforting, stop working hard, and first get in touch with that 20% that will produce all the results...

But if you follow this advice that is very commonly given by all the success and leadership gurus out there, you will face a 'What comes first... The Chicken or the Egg' kind of situation. For to unravel the mystery of the productive 20%, you first need to uncover it through the sheer mass of the 80%. How can you put the horse before the cart?

Here is how to plan and achieve a goal for maximum achievement:

• What you really need to do is get very clear with that inner urge that is making you do all that work. Is what you are doing in alignment with your inner beliefs? Is it something you really want to do? once your inner and outer  beliefs are in total alignment, there is no task so great that cannot be achieved... You can achieve your greatest dreams just by aligning your beliefs.

• Balance Your Life -- Are you totally and completely relaxed as you work?.. . you need to sleep well, do regular physical work outs. Make time to do something you intensely enjoy. Be physically healthy. Probably do some meditative deep breathing. Who knows but your 'Eureka!' moment might strike under the proverbial shower, so do take long, warm, relaxing showers/ baths.

• Have you developed success consciousness using the power of affirmations I can..., I will..., I am.... .

• Have you tapped into the creative power of your subconscious mind to obtain the right solutions/insights to your problems?

• Are you doing what you are really good at ... yes you need to focus more on your strengths rather than your weaknesses.

• Are you working smart and not hard? Here the tip is to simplify your life as much as you can. Delegate what you cannot do. Organize, sort, prioritize and focus on  what needs to be done.

• Learn to say no and eliminate diversions, people who demand your time unrealistically, excessive television, meaningless tasks, unnecessary telephone calls and meetings.

• Are your efforts geared towards the 20% of activities that will give you the 80% of results?

• Is what you are doing bringing you closer to your goals or taking you away from it?

Here to explain further how to leverage yourself with your inner potential, I will use an excerpt from Ben Sweetland's famous book 'Sleep Your Way to Wealth':

"Five rules are given here for you to follow in gaining full and satisfying cooperation from your Creative Mind.

1. Before retiring, relax thoroughly—both mentally and physically.

2. Think of your problem. Think it through—but do not fear it. If you were to give a job to another person, you would have to explain what you wanted done. This is true with your
Creative Mind. You are about to give it a special assignment, so it is necessary that you have clearly in mind just what it is you desire from your Creative Mind. Do not fear it, because you will be turning it over to an intelligence far greater than the intelligence of your conscious mind.

3. Gain a Success Attitude. If you have developed faith in your Creative Mind, it will be easy to have a success attitude. You will know that it is able, ready and willing to serve you.

4. After you have gone this far, remove all thoughts of the problem from your conscious mind, knowing that the solution will be forthcoming at the right time.

Let's say, for example, that you have an important appointment at ten o'clock tomorrow morning, at which time you must make a momentous decision. You are calling upon your Creative Mind this evening to help you to make the right decision. After you have progressed through the routine given above, merely turn the whole thing over to your Creative Mind—knowing that before ten o'clock tomorrow you will have the answer.

You'll be amazed to find what will happen. Tomorrow morning you will awaken and find thoughts coming into your consciousness as to what you should do, and with this knowledge will be the reasons why you should take such a step—or why you should avoid it. The succession of ideas will be so logical you will not be able to doubt it"

... Excerpt from Ben Sweetland Grow Rich While You Sleep.

So if you find yourself working extremely hard, steal a moment. Relax.  

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