Brian Tracy shares four mental techniques to balance work and life: positive affirmations like "I use my time well", visualizing past high-performance moments, mentally rehearsing upcoming events while relaxed, and role-playing as an expert at what you do.
Hello there. I want to give you four time management tips for work life balance. I know how busy you are and even watching a video on time management like this is something that you seldom have the time to do. So I promise that you'll learn more practical and immediately usable ideas and methods and strategies and techniques for getting more done to have a work life balance and improve your quality of life. Now, time management behaviors are very much matter of choice. You choose to be efficient or you choose to be disorganized. You choose to focus and concentrate on your highest value tasks or you choose to spend your time on activities that contribute very little to your life. You choose to be positive or you choose to be negative. And you're always free to choose. Now, the starting point of overcoming your previous programming, eliminating the mental blocks to time management is for you to make a clear, unequivocal decision to become excellent at the way you use your time. You must decide right here and now that you are going to become an expert in time management to improve the quality of your life. Your aim should be to manage your time so well that people look up to you and use you as a role model for their own work habits. There are four time management methods that you can use to program yourself for peak performance to improve your work life balance. Here they are. The first of these methods for programming your subconscious mind is positive self talk or the use of positive affirmations. These are commands that you pass from your conscious mind to your subconscious mind. Positive affirmations are statements that you say either out loud or you say to yourself, but with the same emotion and enthusiasm that drives the words into your subconscious mind as new operating instructions. So to improve your time management, you can continually repeat positive affirmations such as I have beautiful work life balance or I concentrate easily on my highest payoff tasks. My favorite time management affirmation is I use my time well. I use my time well. I use my time well and I repeat this to myself over and over again. When you repeat positive affirmations over and over, they're eventually accepted by your subconscious mind as part of your new programming. You will then find that your external behaviors will start to reflect your internal programming to improve your work life balance and quality of life. Now, the second technique that you can use to program your subconscious mind is through visualization. Mental pictures most immediately influence your subconscious mind. In self image psychology, the person you see is the person you will be through positive affirmations and clear mental pictures. So begin to see yourself as well organized and efficient and effective in time management, recall and recreate memories and pictures of yourself when you were performing at your best, when you felt very efficient and effective and in control. Think of a time when you were working efficiently and effectively and getting through an enormous amount of work. Play this picture over and over of yourself in the screen of your subconscious mind until your subconscious mind accepts this as your reality. Now, the third time management technique is simple. Sit or lie in a quiet place where you can be completely alone in the silence. Through positive affirmations, imagine yourself going through an important upcoming experience such as a meeting or a presentation or a negotiation or even a date that would improve the quality of your life. As you sit or lie completely relaxed, create a picture of the coming event and see it unfolding perfectly in every respect like a movie of your mind. See yourself as calm and positive and in complete control. See the other people doing and saying exactly what you would want them to do if the situation was perfect. The fourth mental technique will change the quality of your life through experience of time management. Imagine that you have been selected for a role in a movie or stage play. In this role you are to act the part of a person who is extremely well organized in every respect. As you go through your daily life, imagine you are an actor who is playing this part who is already very good at time management. Act as if you are already using your time efficiently and well. Pretend that you are an expert in personal efficiency and time management. Fake it until you make it. When you pretend that you are excellent in time management, eventually the action which is under your direct control will develop the mindset or the belief in your subconscious mind. In other words, you can act yourself into feeling and believing yourself to be excellent in time management. For extra help with time management and work life balance, click on the link at the bottom of this screen and download my free time management report based off of my best selling book Eat that Frog. I hope you've enjoyed this video on time management for a better work life balance. And if you did, please subscribe to my channel by clicking on the button you see on the screen.
