Comments on: Quick Tips To Boost Your Productivity http://www.scrappybusiness.com/quick-tips-to-boost-your-productivity.htm From Cents to Sense! Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:45:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Hypnosis for Real Life http://www.scrappybusiness.com/quick-tips-to-boost-your-productivity.htm#comment-2681 Hypnosis for Real Life Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:31:51 +0000 http://www.scrappybusiness.com/quick-tips-to-boost-your-productivity.htm#comment-2681 Josh - great advice, and one recommendation. As often as possible, eliminate the word "try" from your vocabulary. This is general advice for everyone, absolutely NOT criticism. I love your blog, and your giving attitude. The word "try" implies failure. Either it implies that you will fail, or that you might fail. You don't really "try" to get 7 hours of sleep. You either DO it, or you DECIDE not to because something else was more important. "Try" kinda makes it seem like you are not the one in control. It's more productive and positive to use different words. Have you ever asked somebody if they would be able to make it to a certain social function you invited them to, and their reply was "I'll try" ... we all know what this really means. So instead of "trying" to be more productive, just actually do it instead. This advice came to me from my NLP coaches a few years back, and it has stuck with me ever since. Onward and upward ... Josh - great advice, and one recommendation. As often as possible, eliminate the word “try” from your vocabulary. This is general advice for everyone, absolutely NOT criticism. I love your blog, and your giving attitude.

The word “try” implies failure. Either it implies that you will fail, or that you might fail. You don’t really “try” to get 7 hours of sleep. You either DO it, or you DECIDE not to because something else was more important. “Try” kinda makes it seem like you are not the one in control. It’s more productive and positive to use different words.

Have you ever asked somebody if they would be able to make it to a certain social function you invited them to, and their reply was “I’ll try” … we all know what this really means.

So instead of “trying” to be more productive, just actually do it instead. This advice came to me from my NLP coaches a few years back, and it has stuck with me ever since.

Onward and upward …

]]>