TIME INFILTRATION

Hey Stellar Fans,

Since the dawn of sales management and personal effectiveness, you have no doubt heard of managing your time to increase productivity. For me, it started with reading Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography. In it, he details a system he devised to rid himself of undesirable habits.

My spin is not to manage time, but to infiltrate it. You must tear time apart and sew it back together to fit your priorities and availability. I comprised a simple system that is not unique in any way but requires the one thing that every time system does, doing it.

1.       Start off by buying a journal at the store. The ones I use are the composition notebooks that are fairly inexpensive. I choose to use the paper and pen method because it is always with me. Using a desktop or a phone presented limitations with how much I revise and scribble.

2.       Go to the last page of the journal. Typically your journal should last you from a few months to a year. Write out a master list. This master list is a form of goal setting. Your objective is to write out the tasks that you know must get done and in what time frame.

3.       Now go to the front of the journal. Write tomorrows date at the top of the first page. Repeat this action on the top of the next seven pages with the corresponding date following the first date you started with.

4.       Plan out tomorrow. Write down everything you can think of that you must get done.

5.       Prioritize the list. Whether you use numbers (1,2,3,) to prioritize or letters (a,b,c,d,) is a matter of preference. As long as you know what needs to be done and in what order.

6.       Keep the journal with you throughout the day. As you complete one of your tasks, highlight it. I prefer this to checking it off. I highlight green for done, pink for moved to the next day, yellow for delegated. You can expand on this method as you see fit.     

7.       From here, you can plan the next day and so on. Typically you want to map out a 90 day schedule at all times. As things come up, add them to the appropriate day.

Destry Brink

destry@stellarremix.com

www.stellarremix.com

Go homeless

Hey Stellar fans,

In light of the latest Charlie Sheen drama, I offer this suggestion. Go homeless. Some may  recognize that subconciously we tend to drag ourselves down. Nobody stands in the way of your dreams as big as yourself.

Mr. Sheen only had to keep quiet regarding the custody agreement. What did he do? Tweeted about it, smart guy. He placed his needs of belonging ahead of safety. According to Maslow, that is ass backwards (my verbal twist of course).

Maslow's theory suggested that human beings are motivated by unfullfilled needs (condensed). In the following order: physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, and self-actualization.

Do you constantly sabatoge yourself? Start taking away needs you already have met, you will have an immediate shift in motivation. It could be your turning point!

**I accept no responsibility for the actions of my readers, unless these actions lead to unimaginable success, fame, and fortune. Life is choices, start authoring your own.

Destry Brink
Address: unkown (currently taking my own advice).
destry@stellarremix.com
www.stellarremix.com

Blue Magic

It seems as though we are all after some sort of result. An action precedes a result. The following examples show work and paycheck as my subjects.

***Disclaimer, I am just providing an example. So don’t confuse the message to mean that because you go to work, the result you are after is only a paycheck. Geez.

Example:

WORK = PAYCHECK.

What if you desire to increase said result?

Example:

WORK = PAYCHECK.

Most people suffer from this problem,

Example:

WORK = PAYCHECK

 

Just for fun, some guy wrote a book called the 4 hour work week. It looks like this according to my current brain waves.

Example:

Wrk = PAYCHECK.

Far too many individuals look only at the actions that produce their results. How this result is produced is predictable prior to the actual action. Let me explain. Robert Greene has written some awesome books (48 Laws of Power). In a speech given at Yale University, he describes certain successful people, sharing a mindset/attitude about life. He gave classical examples and a contemporary one (50 Cent). Here is what it looks like.

Example:

ATTITUDE = ACTIONS = RESULTS.

To obtain best results start with your mindset. Start cultivating an attitude of a positive nature. A better attitude can lead to purposeful actions, as opposed to half-hearted attempts. Better actions lead to better results. Better results lead to better attitudes. Circle of life. It's like fishing with dynamite, it's not even fair.

Example:

ATTITUDE = ACTIONS = RESULTS = ATTITUDE = ECT.

May the wind always be in your competitor’s faces?

Destry Brink

destry@stellarremix.com

http://www.stellarremix.com/

DO YOU REALY HAVE TO?

Recently I find myself pleasantly disgruntled at people telling me “they have to”. I cannot work on Saturday because I have to (insert plausible reason here). I was under the impression that life is a choice. Isn’t prison a place where you have to? I’m free, living in a “free” country. What do you really have to do?

Let’s imagine that you are pointing a gun at me, and demanding my wallet. Do I have to give it to you, or am I presented with a choice? I would challenge you to start eliminating this from your communication habits. Make it a choice and you seem so much more confident, self-directed, and responsible.

“I will not be at work on Saturday because I choose to be with my children.”

Much better,

Destry Brink

destry@stellarremix.com

http://www.stellarremix.com/

Operation Mayhem

Hey Stellar Fans,

I love listening to Napoleon Hill, his messages are good  and I have applied his teachings so many times over the years. I will credit not so much his message, but the way he speaks. He has a fire in him, HE has IT. If you have not had the opportunity to hear Napoleon Hill speak, I suggest you use the following link to do so.

http://www.nightengale.com/

 

Here is my problem:

I noticed an amazing thing today while surfing the web and Facebook. The Napoleon Hill foundation has 1,698 “likes” on their Facebook page and Napoleon Hill, thanks to his Wikipedia Facebook page has 18,975 “likes”.  This is a man responsible for perhaps the greatest book on self improvement that the publishing world has ever seen. He wrote this book at the request of  Andrew Carnegie and used 20 years of research for its content (by the way he did this in the early 1900’s).

Now, the Mayhem character in the Allstate commercials has 202,336 “likes”. What the %#@*? Are we so addicted to drama and humor that some marketing guy in Chicago can hire an actor, put together a marketing campaign, and get over 10 times as many “likes” in a matter of years then Napoleon Hill has? Ok, ok, I know. Napoleon Hill was a different day and time. However, I argue that because his books are still there at Barnes and Noble, his message is still sound, and his message is still producing millionaires to this day!

It is all about marketing, Allstate created a brand and message that spoke to this generation, and it is very funny. Napoleon Hill is a brand, and a very recognizable one. When it comes to getting his message out, I am left to wonder if the people running the Napoleon Hill Foundation are being as effective as someone that follows his teachings would be.

Destry Brink

destry@stellarremix.com

http://www.stellarremix.com/

What's Next?

Hey Stellar Fans,

Do you know what is next for you? If not, why not? Since having goals is constantly littered inside most self-help literature, I should cover it too. There is a lot about goals you can learn by reading up on the subject, and I would advise that you do.

So I will assume most of you have participated in New Years Resolutions, right? Good, that is somewhat of a start. I have learned that a lot of those resolutions consist of "give up" goals.

Examples:
"I'm gonna lose XX pounds"
"I'm gonna pay off XXX debt"
blah, blah, blah, blah

There is a part of your brain that brings to your awareness things that you consistently think about. Have you ever bought a car, or wanted a particular type of car? And then, began noticing that car everywhere you went? Those cars did not just appear. They were always there. However, in the past, your brain filtered that information out of your conscious awareness because it didn't think it was important for you to know about it. Once you put that thought in your brain though, the filtering process changed and began showing you how that car is in abundance.

So what does this have to do with the goals? Well, look at them again. POUNDS, DEBT, ECT.

1. Think about what you do want, not what you don't want. Your brain took the subject and started working on it. So you thought 4 door Chevy Cavalier, now you are seeing a bunch of cavaliers. Your start talking about debt, even though you want to get rid of it, you're still talking about debt. That is what your brain will start working on, showing you more debt.

2. Infiltrate your life with it. Thinking about it is not enough. Make a poster board of pictures that represent already having achieved the goal. Get them off the Internet or find a magazine. If you want to lose weight, you are not going to cut out pictures of fat people. Put this poster board somewhere visible to you throughout the day. Make numerous copies. Have one on the bathroom mirror, at work, in the living room, kitchen, ect. Put it as a banner on your phone! Cover the interior of your car with it. There is no extreme here, any passenger in your car should LITERALLY be questioning your sanity. (find out what happened to Guglielmo Marconi)

3. Reverse Engineer It. Start from the point of having it totally achieved and start working backwards. If I would have achieved (insert goal here), what would have happened right before? So on and so on. Keep working backwards until you arrive at where you are today (you now know what is next).

TIP: Your brain is very intelligent (actually beyond your capacity). Use this last process in helping you reach your goals:

1. Pick someone that already has, is, represents what your goal is (dead or alive, does not matter).

2. Ask them, imagine asking them, or read about them!

You will get the answers.

One final note. Making a plan, poster boards, and all that jazz will not carry you to your goals. YOU HAVE TO GET UP GET OUT AND GO GET SOMETHING! YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING EVERY SINGLE DAY, NO MATTER HOW SMALL, THAT LEADS YOU TOWARDS YOUR GOAL.

Now go do something about it.

Destry Brink
destry@stellarremix.com
http://www.stellarremix.com/

Keep Your Cool

Hey Stellar Fans,

From time to time we all lose control of our emotions. Allowing something to take root in your mind and control you in a negative way is a disease. Avoid it at all costs. 

High Emotion = Low Intelligence

Just today, I fell subject to this transgression. I am human, and as a human I tend to be a prideful creature. It seems so natural. In thinking over my experience I had earlier today I came to this realization……..

When another person speaks or acts out against you, it is because they are hurting inside. If this person sets in motion an act or deed that arouses your negative emotions just laugh it off. Just pretend, (and I literally mean pretend, DO NOT DO THIS) asking this person if their mother held them too much, or not enough? Then laugh about it. They are the ones hurting! Giving into their passive aggression only shows you’re weakness, not theirs.

Think of emotions like this:

Positive emotions of passion, desire, and love will propel you too the top. You cannot get to the top of any endeavor with out emotions that serve you.

Now….

Negative emotions do the exact opposite of positive ones. They will drag you down to the bottom just as fast as positive emotions take you up.

If you have found yourself already “reacting” to a situation with negative emotions, do the following…. and I know this may be hard, do it anyway.

Apologize and walk-away. It will be the smartest decision you could make. It may not feel right, and that’s fine. That is only your negative emotions not wanting to be shut up. Your negative emotions will act as a sickness that grips your entire body. They change how you think, act, make decisions and your overall level of biochemical functioning. Apologize and walk away, you are not giving another person power by apologizing but you are taking it away.

I inherently believe we are put here for achievement and success. So few people reach those things. I have learned, a contributing factor to failure is the inability to control your emotions.

Below is my actual reply to someone that had aroused my negative emotions today:

XXXXX,

I know this is getting to be a bit much. I just want to apologize. This is not the life I want to lead. I'm sorry if I ever slighted you, believe me it was not intentional. I harbor no ill feelings toward you and if you hate me, then that is your choice. 

Destry Brink

destry@stellarremix.com

http://www.stellarremix.com/