Results

Think Less. Achieve More

Jamie Smart

• Publisher: Capstone
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9780857087126
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Crescita personale
• Subtopic: Successo personale

Life can be a bit overwhelming sometimes, right? It can be difficult to clear your mind of a million different anxieties and focus in on the one thing you need to get done.

Bestselling author of Clarity and The Little Book of Clarity goes one step further with Results by using his Clarity Coaching Model to help you de-clog your mind so you can make better decisions, prioritise and focus on achieving those important goals. Develop a deeper understanding of why you act the way you do and awaken your inner potential.

Jamie's transformational coaching techniques will help you improve in all areas of your life, from developing your listening skills during meetings at work to reducing the levels of stress in your life. These techniques will see you through three important changes – your personal transformation that will see you gaining confidence and understanding your own behaviour, your interpersonal transformation to guide you in having an impact on those around you, and lastly your commercial transformation to get your professional life moving in the direction you want.

Results is full of helpful examples and exercises to get you on the road to the results you need.

Learn how to:

• Prioritise and focus on the right goals at the right time
• Achieve the results you want by following the Clarity Coaching Model
• Improve your overall performance to gain better relationships with your colleagues, close friends and family
• Add more purpose to your life by allowing time for creativity and innovation
• Encourage others to follow in your footsteps!

PART ONE
GROUNDING Your Personal Transformation

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

George Gurdjieff
Philosopher, composer, teacher

The brain can only assume its proper behaviour when consciousness is doing what it is designed for: not writhing and whirling to get out of present experience, but being effortlessly aware of it.

Alan Watts
Philosopher, author, speaker

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You're Built for Reality; You're Optimized for Results

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

A.A. Milne
Novelist, poet, creator of Winnie-the-Pooh

‘This system uses your innate capacities and instinctive abilities, developed by evolution over hundreds of thousand of years…’

I'd never thought of myself as a fighter, but just a few hours into the experiment, I was hit by a sudden realization about our nature as human beings…

You're built for reality.
You're optimized for results.
You've evolved to survive, transform and thrive.

The experiment was Krav Maga, a powerful self-defence system invented in the 1930s to help Czech Jews protect themselves against Nazi thugs. I was doing a weekend workshop designed to train ordinary people to respond quickly and effectively in dangerous situations. And why is it so effective? Because it runs on the ‘operating system’ of your innate capacities and instincts; pre-existing abilities that show up automatically, without you having to think about it consciously. I'd never thought of myself as a fighter, but in just a few hours I was introduced to the fighter that had been right there within me, my whole life.

You're going to be introduced to the ‘operating system’ of your innate capacities and instincts for creating meaningful results and living a life you love. As you discover the results-creator that's been right there within you your whole life, your ability to create the results you desire and enjoy the process is going to increase exponentially.

You're built for reality, optimized for success, with the factory-settings for creating results. By definition… Whether you believe it or not. There's a built-in quality check that nature has performed on every one of your ancestors going back millions of years: were they fit enough, resilient enough, attractive enough, creative enough, aware enough, courageous enough and wise enough to get safely to breeding age, have children and pass on their genetic material? The fact that you're here means the answer to that question was ‘yes’, hundreds of thousands of times in succession.

You are a state-of-the-art results-creator, tempered in the furnace of millions of years of evolution.

This means that the hardware and software that comprises you have been through countless iterations, beautifully tuned, improved and adjusted for living in this world. You're built for being, walking, talking, loving, learning, playing, working, resting, thinking, making, growing, appreciating, reflecting, realizing, transforming, creating and much more. And one of the most valuable gifts that helps you survive and thrive in reality is your innate capacity for realization and insight.

You have an innate capacity for realization and insight

A realization is a fresh new thought; an insight that brings your understanding more closely into alignment with the truth of some aspect of life. History has numerous examples of dramatic realizations that have changed the world, for instance…

• Isaac Newton's insights into the principle of gravity that transformed our understanding of the material world and paved the way for the Industrial Revolution.
• The realizations about ‘invisible matter’ on doctors' hands that prompted Ignaz Semmelweis' pioneering of antiseptic procedures.
• James Watson's breakthrough discovery of DNA's double-helix structure, leading to numerous modern-day applications including agriculture, pharmaceuticals and forensics.

Realizations reveal pre-existing facts about the reality you're built for

In each case, the realization revealed the existence of pre-existing facts about some aspect of life; principles or laws behind how life already works. There are many more examples that make the history books, but it may surprise you to learn that you've had countless realizations and insights in your own life…

Let's start with a universal example: walking. You spent the months before you were born in a near-weightless environment. Then you emerged into this world and started learning about the implications of gravity; a pre-existing fact of life. As you started exploring this new domain, you effortlessly processed the megabytes of data pouring through your senses and had realizations about the fact of gravity. These realizations came automatically, without you even having to think about it consciously. By the time you were able to stand on two feet and walk freely, your realizations had given you a deep ‘embodied understanding’ of the implications of gravity. Today, your ability to walk is built on that embodied understanding; an understanding you developed without even knowing you were doing it.

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