In As we play a number of roles simultaneously in our life, we do fail to achieve or maintain a balance between our professional and personal life. The same failure is experienced by a corporate house in terms of revenue leakage, employee retention, team management, sales graph and innovative strategies.
If you had to recall memories from your past your first day at college, your first boss, your favourite meal your mind instantly supplies you with images. The point here is that we want to achieve goals but how often do we supply our mind with an image to that goal.
The difference between how our conscious and subconscious mind works is that the former chooses, accepts, rejects, and it is where a thought originates. And the latter must accept, cant reject and cant distinguish between real or imagined.
Our conscious mind has the ability to think. Information and ideas flow from different sources and through our five senses, i.e., sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. They feed the conscious mind with information throughout the day and this often distracts our attention from our goals, which could be project delivery, team management, and risk analysis.
Science says we live 90 per cent of our lives subconsciously which means our habits are stored in our subconscious and thats why when we learn to write with the right hand, we continue to do so. If asked to write with our left hand, the shift in pattern doesnt allow us to do so accurately. The subconscious has stored the instruction to write with the right hand, and to do otherwise triggers the thought that it would be difficult and hence the inability.
The thoughts, ideas, expression, emotions our conscious mind chooses are accepted by our subconscious which doesnt have the ability to think. So, it cant reject a thought or an idea. And a thought, an idea or emotion we impose on it over and over becomes a habit.
While we are unaware of some habits, which are the hidden results of our failures, they do reside in our subconscious.
And they will stay there until we replace them with new thoughts and ideas (provided that moves us in the direction of our goal), chosen by your conscious mind. The subconscious is the basis for feelings and actions. If we feel bad, it means were having a bad thought about something consciously. If we think a positive thought, it helps us feel better.
Every activity we perform has three basic parts: thoughts, feelings and actions, when added up they offer the result. The equation is thoughts + feelings + actions = attitudes = results
To change the results we have to go back to the basics, i.e., thought which originates in our conscious mind first, which when accepted makes our brain cells work in that direction. Say you get a call from the CEO and he is very angry about a decision you made. The feedback is coming through your senses (hearing), if your conscious mind accepts his anger, it triggers feelings
We work with our mind but what makes all the difference
is when we know how our mind works. It often explains why we get results we dont want at all.
and the result would be frustration and tension.
But you can fool the conscious mind with a 17-second solution. As every thought has a frequency, it takes 17 seconds to mature, attract feelings and then action. The key is to shift conscious thoughts at that moment for 17 seconds towards another thought, for instance a goal you want to achieve. But you must have an image of the goal with you either on your desk, your cell phone, a small sticker on your watch or a goal card (like a visiting card) in your wallet or pocket. Focus on that for 17 seconds and it will change your mood, extend it to an extra 17 seconds and your neurons will change direction from anger, guilt, frustration to the joy, peace and love you would achieve after achieving your goal. The key here is the image as the subconscious mind accepts them faster.
But how does all of this help a CIO?
If a project is stuck, the project manager (PM) has to resolve the issue but at the same time s/he has family engagements and others tasks as well. This is a very real example of problems people face.
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