Stuart’s Philosophies

6 Comments on “Procrastination vs Purpose”

1. Thomas
   June 27th, 2006 at 8:16 pm

   Hi Stuart,

   Basically what I gathered from this podcast is how one can get rid of procrastination, by focusing on a higher purpose. I believe the technique used is visualisation. Visualisation is a very effective technique for success.

   My question is, can visualisation really take you to mental states which you’ve never experienced before? Isn’t it true that only after one experiences the true feeling of doing something, can he imagine it happening again?

2. taymastery
   June 27th, 2006 at 10:37 pm

   Visualization alone does not help in the long term. If you want to continually be able to summon that peak emotional state, you’ve got to (NLP) anchor it into your nervous system… sounds scary huh
   ;-) … it’s actually quite simple. Get yourself into a peak state and at the peak of that emotion, apply a unique stimulus at least 5 times (some people prefer pounding their chest to trigger the peak emotion… emm… Tony Robbins…) and then do an ecological check by firstly breaking the current state you’re in and reapplying that same unique stimulus and see if it instantly gets you into a peak state again… ;-)

3. Stuart
   June 27th, 2006 at 11:46 pm

   Liming, I have to burst your bubble here. There’s no such thing as whether visualization ‘works’ or not. It just ‘is’. You mean to say you can’t imagine a picture of your mother? Of course you can. In fact, because you are talking about anchoring, an anchored state will always generate images related to that state. It’s natural, even if you are BLIND (that’s fact).

   As for Thomas, when you say visualization is an effective ‘technique’, I think it’s not a technique. I prefer to think of it as a ‘process’. The process of how you visualize is simple - focus on your outcome. This is the single most important element in visualization. Harv Eker, the author of “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind” said: If you don’t KNOW what you want, you can’t GET what you want. Plain simple as that. The great Napoleon Hill once said “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve”, and I subscribe to that til this day.

   I attribute the process of visualization to my success! It’s just a pity few people know how to really do this. I did it for multiple high profile modeling projects with the Singapore Armed Forces, and I did it for my championship win in the Toastmasters Evaluation championships at District level. It’s essential, in my opinion.

   You get what you pay attention to.

4. taymastery
   June 28th, 2006 at 12:29 am

   eh yah stuart speaking of visualization why is it that I find it tough to visualize? The images in my mind are in bits and pieces

   could it be that my strategy for visualization begins at a kinesthetic level which means I’ve to feel in order to see… is there such a thing?

5. Stuart
   June 29th, 2006 at 1:02 am

   Liming,
   You haven’t had enough practice.
   Stuart

6. shazana
   July 2nd, 2006 at 12:31 am

   haha, didn’t think you’d actually record an audio podcast based on my post though.
   but thanks a bunch Stuart! :)

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