Train your rational decision making

Practical example of applying OODA Loop for rational decision making

Training your fast, intuitive decision making

Often 2 types of decision-making methods (logic+intuition) intersect and work together.&nbsp;The combination of intuition with rational analysis gives the best decisions.&nbsp;

How we make decisions: 2 main types

Time is our most precious and golden resource.&nbsp;Most decisions don’t need to take much time to make.However, unfortunately, indecision paralysis can overwhelm us because we are not confident about the consequences of this decision.Indecision can lead to lost time and opportunities and waste life resources.In most cases, you can make decisions in 2 ways: use intuition (gut feeling) or rationally analyze.&nbsp;Each has its cons and pros.&nbsp;You have about an equal chance of making a good decision if you spend one minute as if you spend an hour once you have your intuition sharpened.&nbsp;But of course, it requires time to sharpen intuitive decision-making.Rational decision-making consists of logical analysis and conclusions.It can take us a few minutes to make a rational decision and days or weeks.To master a fast and correct decision-making process, you need to combine logic and intuition.In this guide, we will concentrate on an intuitive-based way of decision-making.&nbsp;It is based on subtle sensations and feelings, body reactions, and audial and visual pictures discovered during decision-making.&nbsp;

Close your eyes. Concentrate on your feelings.&nbsp;Remember some good decisions you made in your past.&nbsp;Decisions that brought you great results.&nbsp;It can be anything.&nbsp;What do you feel?&nbsp;Do you feel warmth or pleasure in your body?&nbsp;Maybe some mental pictures or audio memories appear? Write down your experience.

Repeat the previous action but with a decision that brought terrible results.&nbsp;Do you see the difference?&nbsp;Your body and mind have different neurological imprints of these experiences.&nbsp;Write down your experience.

Repeat these steps with other decisions a few times to quickly train yourself to analyze feelings associated with your past choices.&nbsp;The faster you do this, the quicker you make your future intuitive decisions.

Discover how your body reacts and remembers past decisions 

When you make some decision or think about some information, your body responds in some way to it.&nbsp;It creates neurological feelings in your body.Even when time passes, your body stores everything that happened in its memory.&nbsp;Suppose you will vividly try to remember your past decision or situation.&nbsp;In that case, you will immediately detect the exact feeling in your body.&nbsp;It is the feeling your body associated with past decisions.&nbsp;It can be pleasant or not… Exiting or awful…&nbsp;When you remind yourself about past decisions, you can even feel pain in some organ or the opposite: feel a positive energy flow.&nbsp;Your body is your barometer in intuitive decision-making.&nbsp;It is the detector of right and wrong decisions.&nbsp;These feelings can be not only in your physical body.&nbsp;It can be mental images that you start to see or audio memories or voices that can pop up in your mind when you think about some past or future decision.

<ul><li>Think deeply about the critical future decision you want to make. </li></ul>Come up with at least 3 ways you can act to solve this problem.&nbsp;Write them down.&nbsp;(For example. I want to rest for 7 days and spend my summer vacation. I am thinking about where to go. There are 3 possibilities: 1) France 2) Egypt 3) Thailand. I have not been to any of these countries, and I need to predict what journey will be better)<ul><li>Think about each of the ways you can solve your problem.&nbsp;</li></ul>One by one.&nbsp;Pay attention to your neurological feelings to each possible decision and action you can make.&nbsp;Don’t try to judge them.&nbsp;Write down your discoveries in each of 3 ways to solve the problem.<ul><li>Make a judgment about each possible decision you can make.&nbsp;</li></ul>Try to predict if this decision will be correct or incorrect.&nbsp;Compare each of the future neurological feelings to feedback from your past decisions.&nbsp;<ul><li>For example, I went to Greece in the past, and it was a wonderful experience.&nbsp;</li></ul>When I think about Greece, I feel the excitement and good vibes.&nbsp;Now I am thinking about Egypt.&nbsp;I try to visualize as I am already there. Immediately I feel pressure in my body.&nbsp;My exciting mood changed.&nbsp;But when I try to visualize that I arrived in France, I feel a similar vibration as I had when thinking about Greece.<ul><li>Based on these “gut” feelings, you can detect the best course of action for your task. Write your thoughts down.</li></ul>

How to make intuitive decisions based on “gut” feelings 

Now you know the differences in memories of your body.You understand how to interpret the feelings of past correct and incorrect decisions.&nbsp;This information can help you realize the difference between your future correct and incorrect decisions.If you think deeply about your future decisions, your body will sense some neurological feelings.&nbsp;You can analyze these feelings and detect the probability of correctness or incorrectness of future decisions.&nbsp;This method will help you to listen to your intuition before taking action.&nbsp;

<ol><li>When faced with a decision, you know that you have 1 minute to make a correct judgment and take action.&nbsp;</li><li>Your initial time limit can be 10-20 or even more minutes. It is essential not to put pressure on because it can result in incorrect decisions.&nbsp;</li><li>Slowly minimize the time limit, and in this way, you will train yourself to make fast, intuitive decisions in 1-2 minutes or even under 1 minute. </li></ol>

Make intuitive decision processes as fast as possible.

The more often you do previous steps, the faster you detect and predict correct and incorrect decisions.&nbsp;To facilitate fast decisions, you can set a time limit for them.&nbsp;Suppose these are daily work decisions that don't require strategic thinking. In that case, you can minimize your fast decision process to a few minutes.&nbsp;Ideally, it can be 1 minute.It is essential to turn off your logical mind for a moment and pay attention to the first feeling you detect when you listen to your 'gut'.Most often, this first feeling can be correct.&nbsp;The time limit also helps to minimize thinking time to concentrate on your body's reactions and feelings.

Three 80/20 mindset hacks for top productivity

Whatever you want to do, set aside some time at the start.Think about what appears to be vital to master and what looks to be a waste of time?What will move the needle? Writ it down.

More effort does not equal more reward - focus only on what is crucial and ignore the rest.

Here's the crucial lesson: YOU WILL NOT BE REWARDED FOR JUST YOUREFFORT.&nbsp;Efforts are essential, of course, but people are considerably more concerned with how important and fulfilling your work is than with how long you spend at it.No one will notice if you spend 50 years digging a trench in the Sahara desert.&nbsp;But, everyone will be watching if you spend those 50 years doing anything like planting1000th of trees in low, unplanted, or burnt woods.You'll almost certainly have an incomplete list until you get started and learn as yougo, but getting your "Focus-On" and "Not-To-Do" lists in place from the start may saveyou have much time and work in the long run.

Think in the same manner about your work, tasks, or projects and apply this in your situation. How can you hack your activities and create the most effective use of time? Write down what activity you want to work on and a new approach you would like to try to make a significant effectiveness shift.

Hack activities based on the 80/20 rule

Next time you will do something before rushing to start, stop for a moment and think about a different approach.Make decisions on allocating time, resources, and effort to each activity based on the 80/20 principle.&nbsp;Think about these examples:&nbsp;● Spend 10 minutes brainstorming different ideas instead of 1 hour composing one perfect letter or a social media post you're not convinced is needed.&nbsp;Then dedicate 50 minutes to writing the post on the most excellent idea you got.&nbsp;Another example:● Instead of struggling for 3 hours on a single room interior design, make six fast sketches (30 minutes each) and pick your favorite you want to implement.&nbsp;● Don't spend 3 months reading three random books in depth.&nbsp;Spend 1 day just looking through the 10 best books in a field of your interest.&nbsp;Then put just 15-30 minutes on each book - it is around 3-5 hours.And then spend a month on each of the 3 best-selected books.&nbsp;

IF YOU CHASE TWO RABBITS, YOU WILL NOT CATCH EITHER ONE.

Write a list of activities you want to eliminate in your life.

Learn to apply 80/20 in different areas of your life

IF YOU CHASE TWO RABBITS, YOU WILL NOT CATCH EITHER ONE.We can’t do everything.&nbsp;Think about different commitments, events, and triggers in your life and look at them through an 80/20 prism.&nbsp;For example:&nbsp;<ul><li>Relationship. What relationships are most fulfilling in your life and give the most value? Try to minimize the rest.</li><li>Email subscriptions. Unsubscribe from email newsletters you don’t read or give low value.</li><li>App notifications. Disable everything that distracts you from your 20% of activities.</li><li>Events and meetings you are visiting. Eliminate social gatherings that don’t add to your 20%</li><li>Projects you are working on. Abandon not profitable or not promising projects.</li><li>Phone calls you have. Don’t try to please everyone by being 24/7 available on the phone.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Setting Goal In a Right Way And Preparing Your Mindset To Achieve It

Think and write down what target goal you want to achieve and what dream you want to make true. Don’t be afraid to dream.

You need to have a target goal

You want to view your target before letting your arrow fly -&nbsp;Zen master.&nbsp;If you want to strike a target, you must first choose what you want to hit!Without knowing your target goal, nothing will help you to get what you want.It mainly can be beneficial to have a goal that makes something else possible in your life.For example: don’t go to get a degree in university for the sake of just getting a degree.&nbsp;Instead, receive it to get the job you desire and become financially independent.Most people don’t have goals and swim in the sea of life like a ship without a captain.&nbsp;Imagine you come into the airport and tell the ticket seller that you want a ticket to some beautiful place. Don’t be surprised if the ticket he will sell to you will not bring you to your desired destination. Same with goals.

Make your goal to find a target goal. Write down what you will do to find your way to your goal.

What to do if you don’t have a target goal?

"Go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you'll be able to see farther." - J. P. Morgan.&nbsp;Set a target to search and find your essential goal where you want to go. If you don't have a big target, then select something tiny. Possible helpers to search your target: <ul><li>a) read a book,</li><li>b) ask people, </li><li>c) ask a mentor or friend to help </li><li>d) think about what you were dreaming about when you were younger and had not done before</li></ul>

Take your initial target goal from step 1 and transform it into a SMART goal and write it down

Transform your initial target goal into a SMART goal

SMART stands for the following terms:<ul><li>Specific: What do you want to accomplish, and what will you do to achieve this goal? Be clear with every part of your SMART goal.</li><li>Measurable: What data will you use for goal measuring? Making your goal measurable will help you track your progress.</li><li>Achievable: Is achieving this goal possible? Making your goal attainable ensures its success.</li><li>Relevant: Why is this goal important? Making sure your plan is applicable ensures it relates to your other broad or, rather, ultimate goals.</li><li>Time-bound: When does the goal need to be completed?&nbsp;Take into account the period you need to achieve your goal.</li></ul>Let's take a general target goal and transform it into a SMART goal.General goal: "I want to get more YouTube subscribers. "SMART goal: "I want to get 1000 new subscribers in 2 months by posting one new video daily so more people will know about my service and will have the business of my dream."This goal is Specific + Measurable + Achievable + Relevant + Time-bound.

Does the goal you wrote before encourage you? Write down on a level of 1-10 how this goal motivates you. If it is on levels 1-3, you need to think harder and select a better destination or get a more profound reason: what getting to this goal can give you.

Make sure your target goal encourages you

Your target needs to pique your interest.One that brightens your life and makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning because you know you're making daily progress toward something special.If the target does not motivate you and resonate deeply, your journey can be tedious or destructive.&nbsp;Your goal can be hard to achieve.Nevertheless, the results need to inspire you.And your goal should be yours - not someone else's goal. You have your life purpose and destinations. Be careful not to live someone else life... &nbsp;

To achieve a goal, you need to commit yourself. Remind your goal every day and remind yourself about the course correction process to get to your destination. And, of course, acting. Think and write down how you can do this. 

The two reasons why most people fail to meet their goals

Most individuals are "wandering generalities, not significant specifics," - Zig Ziglar.&nbsp;<ul><li>They don't have a definite destination, which is the first reason.&nbsp;</li><li>Second, even those who begin with a clear objective blow off course much too fast.&nbsp;</li></ul>Even a plane does not fly in a straight route. It may get into a storm. It might get into a tornado or be pushed off track by strong winds.But as a captain, if you have a clear, precise destination and evaluate your objective and strategy for getting there. In that case, you will get back on course and finally arrive where you want. Attention: Too many individuals will continue going in the wrong direction for the rest of their life if their jet blows off course. It happens since they don't recall checking their goal, getting back on track, and continuing acting in the needed direction.&nbsp;&nbsp;

How to Use Your Subconscious Mind To Achieve Goals Easier

5-6 hours before sleep, write down the problem or question you want your subconscious to help you with. 

Reread and repeat it three times - right before falling asleep. Then say: "I'd like it if I could receive an answer on this by tomorrow morning." Now go to sleep.

Discover an easy exercise to access your subconscious mind

Your subconscious mind is a colossal force within you.&nbsp;Creative and successful people often leverage the power of the subconscious mind to solve problems and challenges that are difficult or even impossible to solve only with conscious efforts.&nbsp;The easiest way to access your subconscious is at night.&nbsp;Think about the biggest challenge you have now.&nbsp;A challenge you have no idea how to solve.&nbsp;Before going to sleep, say to yourself, "I'd like it if I could receive an answer on this by tomorrow morning."&nbsp;Then just put any thoughts aside and let your subconscious work. Don't think about your challenge anymore.&nbsp;Frequently the answer, an excellent idea, is there for you the next day when you wake up.&nbsp;But sometimes, it will not work from the first try.&nbsp;Next time repeat your task to the subconscious mind and try to visualize the problem/task.&nbsp;With each repetition, your subconscious will give you essential suggestions easier and faster. It also can be during the nightdream.&nbsp;Be prepared to wake up and write down ideas that come.

Commit yourself that you will use the power of your subconscious mind to support your goal achievement. Don’t rely only on your conscious mind to get where you want. Both can work together for your best result. Try to stay calm under pressure. Don’t become a slave of your goals. Leveraging your subconscious mind can help you to get to where you want faster and easier. 

Write down a situation in your life where you tried to overthink a solution or tried too hard to achieve something without any significant results or progress. It can be an example of using only a part of your brain to achieve what you want.

Why do most people fail to use a subconscious mind in goal achievement and struggle?

A metaphor: let’s say an airplane is a human mind. The engine with a plane is subconscious mind (~90% of total aircraft), and the pilot with his cabine is conscious mind (~10%).&nbsp;The engine of the plane gives you a real lift.&nbsp;Unfortunately, people frequently try to reach their goals, utilizing only conscious minds - letting the pilot drag the plane.&nbsp;This often happens when there is significant pressure on the subconscious mind.For example, there are impossible deadlines or too demanding requirements or goals.&nbsp;This situation can lead the pilot to get concerned, climb out of his pilot cabin, and drag the jet to the desired destination.&nbsp;Such a case can cause many hardships because you don’t leverage your full possibilities.&nbsp;The conscious mind, which is only 10% of your mind, is responsible for logical decisions and tries to make an additional 90% of the decisions in your life.&nbsp;

Don’t blame yourself for anything. Prepare yourself to accept whatever happens. This attitude will let your subconscious mind support you in your wildest goals. 

Remember a time when you blamed yourself for not achieving something significant. Or a situation when it took too much time or effort. Write down one or a few cases in your life when this happened.

Ask yourself if this blaming helped? Or could you achieve the same results (or even better) in a piece of mind and joy? Write your answer.

Why your subconscious mind can be scared and sabotage your goals?

Subconscious primary function is to keep you safe at all times, no matter what happens.&nbsp;It is afraid of punishment, retaliation, or guilt.When such an attitude happens, it closes up to protect you.&nbsp;A subconscious mind will stop supporting your goals if you are going to use punishment against its efforts.&nbsp;This case can be noticeable when plans don’t work as expected.&nbsp;Also, this is the primary reason why individuals are in doubt about pursuing large ambitions.&nbsp;Their subconscious is scared of failure, so they won't even try.&nbsp;And when there is a lot of pressure and guilt from a person after some unsuccessful attempts, the subconscious mind can stop supporting and lead to the constant fear of doing something.

Write down your visualized goal in precise detail. Use present language to describe it. In this way, your subconscious mind clearly understands what you want and helps you to get it. 

Unlock the secret language of your subconscious mind to achieve your dreams

Your subconscious mind understands clear visualizations happening right now.Vivid mental images are your subconscious's language. Your inner wizard will immediately know what you desire and then develop various recommendations and support to bring those experiences to reality.&nbsp;Use vivid mental images you created as though your goal is in the process of realization.Now.It understands only the present. It would be best if you envisioned these things as though they are already happening.&nbsp;Clarity.For example, if you want to buy a new house for your family, don't say:"I want to buy a new house."&nbsp;Instead, say, "I picture myself buying a new one stair house with four rooms and a small garden. This house locates in our city around 200 meters from transportation."&nbsp;And don't even give it a deadline not to make immediate pressure. All you have to do is say, "I picture myself buying that house..." But remember to set realistic, achievable goals.﻿And at the same time, don't be afraid to dream.

Take the most important goal you have now in your life and go through the four steps from the “How To” section to make a pact with your subconscious mind to support you on your way.

The secret method of freeing your subconscious to fulfill your commands

To leverage the full power of your subconscious mind, you need to strike a pact with your subconscious mind's ability.&nbsp;Because there is no punishment in this pact, you'll be astonished at how much new force emerges from your subconscious mind.Say something like this:&nbsp;<ul><li>"Let's work something out. You're my life's best buddy. I want to ask for your assistance in achieving the aim I'll discuss in a moment, which I'd like to accomplish. But please know that no matter what happens, it's fine if we don't make it. It's a normal situation. Our endeavor will have no negative consequences. I'm so proud of both of us just knowing that we tried, and regardless of the outcome, I'd like to see that you assisted me. Is that acceptable to you?"</li><li>Now use the goal from the previous step. Keep in your mind precisely what you want to experience as though you've already had it in vivid detail right now in the current moment.</li><li>Finish pact with something like this:</li></ul>"Whatever happens, nothing can ever change the fact that I love you, that I accept you, and that we will always be the greatest of friends. I'm not going to beat us up over it. Just for trying such a magnificent objective, I am proud of both of us. So let's give it everything we've got and make the image below a reality."<ul><li>Repeat and visualize your goal from the previous steps to anchor what you want. </li></ul>

Tricky Mindsets for Successful Goal Achievement 

Think and write down what inventory you already have and how you can start using it effectively to achieve goals in yourlife.

What is the winning mindset that can help you achieve whatever desires you want?

Below you can find a list of some factors that may contribute to a person's success. Choose what you believe are the traits that all top achievers share from this list.&nbsp;1. Luck ...&nbsp;2. Family background&nbsp;3. Social achievement&nbsp;4. Basic intelligence&nbsp;5. Specialized knowledge&nbsp;6. Education advantage&nbsp;7. Good health&nbsp;8. Enthusiasm&nbsp;9. Winning personality&nbsp;10. Real determination&nbsp;The correct answer is not in this list...&nbsp;It turns out some people had everything from this list and had not succeeded.Others had no winning personality or education advantage and still succeeded.&nbsp;So the correct answer is:They all have the mindset to use whatever asset they have effectively!Every successful person has overcome his drawbacks by using whatever time, energy, money, ideas, etc., he had.&nbsp;They knew it wasn't what you had that counted ... but how effectively you used it. Stop for a bit before looking at what to add to your life.Instead, look at what superpower you already have that you are not using on 100%.

Be courageous and face your past.  Remember an incident when you experienced some failed attempt to achieve something. And you stopped trying and lowered your goals and ambitions or even stopped pursuing it at all. It is hard to recognize, but most people had this experience in their life. Write this experience down.

Don’t let your past dictate your future. Return to that experience in your mind and ask yourself what you would like to do differently? Write these new actions down and promise yourself not to repeat such a mistake twice.

Don’t shrink your greatness when you are going to your goals.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill.If you put fleas in the opened jar, they will jump away.&nbsp;Now close the pot for some time.&nbsp;They will start beating their heads against the cover.&nbsp;You will see how they will stop jumping too high.&nbsp;After you open the jar, fleas will not jump from the pot anymore.&nbsp;They got accustomed to the height of a pot while it was closed.&nbsp;Now they are afraid to jump higher.&nbsp;It happens with people all the time too.&nbsp;Don’t become discouraged by temporary misfortunes.&nbsp;Don’t take them too close to your heart.&nbsp;You don’t want to be like frightened fleas.&nbsp;Don’t shrink your potential and greatness.&nbsp;Many people are afraid to set great goals after bad experiences.&nbsp;Remember that you have lots of chances to succeed until you continue to go to your dreams.&nbsp;And there is little chance for success if you stop.

When going to your goal, don’t stop checking your objections and methods of your activities daily. Commit to the daily self-check if you are both going in the right direction and doing the right things. 

Three reasons why most people fail in their attempts to succeed 

Failure Type 1: well-defined objectives that a person doesn’t pursue effectively. This individual has a clear idea of where he wants to go but never manages to get there. This person's number one need is the proper knowledge and information to make the correct decisions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Failure Type 2: pushes aggressively and uses every resource available but has no clear objectives. This man is like a powerful airplane... but without the ability to navigate. He constantly appears to be making tremendous progress, yet he never arrives. This person needs the right plan to pursue.Failure Type 3: is the most depressing of the three. He has no clear objectives and uses ineffective actions.&nbsp; In summary, both well-defined objectives and effective actions are critical to coming to the desired destination.

Visualize a mental picture of your goal. Live through this goal as you are already achieving it. The idea is that if you set your objective and destination and allow your subconscious mind to live out that vision, you will be far more likely to achieve it. 

Try to live as your goal is already realizing in your life and see the difference

If you tell your subconscious, "Someday, I want to experience this," it will follow your instruction.&nbsp;Your subconscious mind is quite literal, and it will take this as meaning that you don't desire these things right now but instead in the future.&nbsp;This kind of self-talk can lead to delaying your goal realization.&nbsp;Instead, try to live as your goal is already realizing in your life.Note that feeling like the goal is "already realizing in your life" is not equal "it is realized."&nbsp;You are not fooling yourself.&nbsp;You make your subconscious comfortable in the process of your goal achievement.&nbsp;

 Commit yourself to talking about your goal only with people that will help you on your way and not just to get admiration.

Don’t talk too much about your goal or else ...

Try to keep your ambitious desires to yourself.&nbsp;Others may be discouraged by your decision to dream big and may not believe in you.&nbsp;If you are just started and are not yet confident on your path to a dream, this disbelief can disturb you.The only exception is to open to those people who are influential supporters that can encourage you or help.&nbsp;Also, there is a psychological gratification people receive when talking about their plans and goals.&nbsp;It can discourage them from continuing execution.&nbsp;This block often happens because others can start to admire your goal.&nbsp;And you start having a feeling for it as the goal was already achieved.It is a dangerous zone.&nbsp;In this way, your energy and determination for achieving can be wasted on a simple talk.&nbsp;

Write down an actual “Why” reason to achieve your goal. Remind yourself often about your why.

Your “why” is even more important than your goal.

Suppose you want to build your own business. Ask yourself why do you want to achieve this goal?&nbsp;The more strong reasons you will have, the more likely you will get what you want.&nbsp;You can write reasons like: because you will have a good income, will be able to work anywhere you want in the world, enjoy great respect in your profession, and so on.&nbsp;The more reasons, the better.&nbsp;These reasons will fuel and energize you to achieve what you want: without strong why it is difficult to withstand the winds of difficulties and obstacles that will most likely appear.&nbsp;

Reread your goals every day and remind yourself about why you want to achieve them. Make it a ritual. Do it with your morning tea or before you go to bed, whatever you feel comfortable with. Chose a time when you will keep doing it consistently. 

Repeating and reminding yourself about your goal is a secret key

A famous actor Jim Carrey once said he had a goal to earn his first 1 million dollars.&nbsp;To do it, he wrote his goal on paper and reread it every day until he accomplished his plan.&nbsp;Most people forget their goals and what they want under the pressure of life.&nbsp;The most specific prevention is reminding yourself about it.&nbsp;Keep your eyes daily on the radar of your navigation and destinations.

Mastery of Setting Life Goals Successfully

Applying 80/20 principles in your life by creating 2 critical lists

Only 20% of your everyday actions are responsible for 80% of your success, money, and personal satisfaction.

First, you master the “vital few” tasks you need to do. As a result, you can reap ~80 percent of the gains. And outproduce others who put their attention on the irrelevant 80 percent.

Think about your main activities during the day in pursuing your main objective. Write down 1 or 2 activities that give you the most results.

80/20 rule: the law of the critical few and unimportant many

The Pareto Principle is often known as the 80/20 rule or the law of the critical few and unimportant many.&nbsp;You will possibly free up hundreds of extra hours this year if you apply it to your daily routine.&nbsp;Pareto discovered a universal truth:&nbsp;Only 20% of your everyday actions are responsible for 80% of your success, money, and personal satisfaction.&nbsp;If you kept track of every waking hour of your life, you'd soon learn, as Pareto did, that:&nbsp;● You spend 80% of your time wearing the same 20% of your wardrobe.&nbsp;● You use 80% of your awake hours thinking the same 20% of your ideas.&nbsp;● At 80% of your meals, you eat the same 20% of your favorite foods… etc.The pattern is sometimes 90/10 or 70/30 or even 99/1, where just 1% of the elements provide you with 99 percent of the advantages.

The more value activity has in each category, the more valuable it is.  You can detect the priority of activities by comparing them based on the total value they give you.

Take 2 top activities you do in your life and grade them on a scale from 1 to 10 according to the different values you get from them. For example:&nbsp;a) Reading a book: emotional (4) / learning (9) / relationships (0) /&nbsp; money power or status (1-3) / physical (0)b) Surfing: emotional (7-10) / learning (3-10) / relationships (0) /&nbsp; money power or status (6-9) / physical (8-10)

Learn to grade each activity according to its total real value

Each activity we are involved with has its value for us.&nbsp;The total value of an activity is a summary of different values we earn from doing an activity.Here is a list of the central values we potentially can get from doing something.&nbsp;Activity:<ul><li>It gives emotional or esthetic enjoyment&nbsp;</li><li>Provides learning and growth experience&nbsp;</li><li>Provides relationships building&nbsp;</li><li>It gives money, power, or status&nbsp;</li><li>Gives physical satisfaction&nbsp;</li></ul>

Think about your current activities through the prism of the 80/20 rule. Take the most significant activities you have right now. Ask yourself if these activities are in the Highest Value Uses of Time Zone or Low-Value Uses of Time Zone. Write your answer.

10 low-value and 10 high-value uses of your time

Every activity can be low or high usage of your time.Here are 10 low-value and high-value uses of your time to help you judge your actions or plans.&nbsp;Please note that these 2 lists are generalities.&nbsp;So use them carefully because sometimes low-level uses of time are high-level value uses of time and vice versa. They depend on context. The Top 10 Low-Value Uses of Time1. Things others want you to do or compel you to do.2. Items that have always been done this way.3. Something you're not particularly good at.4. Something you don't like to do.5. Things that are constantly interrupted.6. Things that just a few other people care about.7. Items that have already taken twice as long as you anticipated.8. Things with untrustworthy or low-quality collaborators.9. Items that follow a set pattern.10. Things like answering the telephone when doing meaningful work. The Top 10 Highest Value Uses of Time1. Things that help you achieve your life's overarching goal.2. Things you've always wanted to do but haven't had the opportunity to do.3. Things are already in a 20/80 time-to-results relationship.4. Innovative methods of doing things promise to reduce the amount of timenecessary or (and) increase the quality of the outcomes.5. Things that other people say you can't do (but you know you can, and as a result,&nbsp; you will grow).6. Things that other people have done well in other fields.7. Things that need you to use your imagination and creativity.8. Things that you may have others accomplish for you with minimal effort onyour part.9. Anything involving high-quality collaborators who have already surpassed the80/20 rule of the time. This cooperation helps to utilize time effectively and productively.10. It's now, or you will not be able to do this in the future.

Analyze your life and make your 2 lists of activities.&nbsp;Use examples from previous step lists of low-value and high-value uses of your time to judge your activities critically.&nbsp;The 1st list will be 20% of the most critical activities that give you the most results in different areas of your life.In the 2nd list, write down all other 80% of activities.&nbsp;Write the time each activity takes you.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then write what value each activity gives you.&nbsp;For example:20% list:<ul><li>Writing in my journal&nbsp; - 20 min - gives clarity for what to do in my life&nbsp;</li><li>Jogging in the morning - 30 min - gives robust health and a positive mood&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Meditate in the morning - 15 min - gives a charge of calmness for my day&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul>80% list:<ul><li>Commuting to my job - 2 hours - takes hours of my life each day to get to work</li><li>Browsing Facebook feed - 1 hour - makes me informed about what's happening in other people lives</li><li>Watching soap operas on Youtube - 1.5 hours - makes me relax a bit and forget about problems but gives no additional value.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Divide your activities into 2 lists to optimize your time

Critically determine what you excel in and what will provide you the most rewards.Then do whatever it takes to free up more time to accomplish these critical things.Find the 20% of your life that produces 80% of your outcomes and pleasure.&nbsp;Then devote as much time as you can to that 20%.&nbsp;You'll be a lot happier and more productive as a result.

Create a "Not-To-Do" list. The majority of what we do is of low value. Remove, minimize or delegate the 80% of efforts that yield poor outcomes.&nbsp;Decide in advance what's not worth your time and energy.In this way, it is much easier to say no to low-value tasks and requests when they appear to you.Take each item of the list you wrote in the 80% rule from the previous step.Think about what items you need to eliminate from your life now or in the nearest future and how you will do it.&nbsp;For example:<ul><li>Commuting to my job - rent my apartment near my work office so it will take 5-10 minutes to get there</li><li>Watching soap operas on Youtube - replace it with learning something new in my profession&nbsp;</li></ul>Write down your "Not-To-Do" list and what you will do with freed time

Create your “Not-To-Do" list 

“Lack of time is a lack of priorities” - Tim Ferriss.Subtraction is often the best (and easiest) way to improve your performance.&nbsp;Being overwhelmed is frequently just as ineffective as doing nothing, and it's also a lot more unpleasant.&nbsp;The road of productive people is being selective, doing less.&nbsp;Concentrate on the most essential and dismiss the rest.&nbsp;It's easy to get caught in the details of life, and the secret to avoiding feeling hurried is to remember that “lack of time is a lack of priorities.”

1) Write down what changes to each of the rest of the 80% list items you will do. For example, I will minimize browsing Facebook for only 10 min a day.2) Write down which "Focus-On" activity you will invest your free 50 minutes. For example, I will put free time into a side hustle that will give me financial freedom.&nbsp;

Increase your efforts on your "Focus-On" list and optimize the rest of the 80% list.

<ul><li>Focus on doing more of what you're already doing well and what gives you more of the total value.&nbsp;</li><li>Reallocate additional resources to the top 20% by taking away time and resources from the unproductive 80%.&nbsp;</li><li>After you make your “Not-To-Do" list, think about how you can minimize or delegate the rest of the 80% list. Lookout for strategies to make ineffective or inefficient operations more productive or effective.</li></ul>

How to Do More With Less and Get More Results and Free Time

How to cultivate a decisive mindset to achieve what you want in your life effectively

Think about areas in your life, and then write them down where you can become more decisive or make more quality decisions.Start from areas that can make the most significant impact.Write down areas of your personal or professional life where you want to improve your decisiveness.Examples:&nbsp;<ul><li>Slow decision-making. A slow selection of products in the supermarket can result in a loss of lots of time each week.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Indecisiveness. Indecisiveness to learning new tools and methods can result in inefficient or poor quality work.</li></ul>

Commit yourself to learning and using tools and strategies to become a better decision-maker.

Why is decisiveness so essential, and what is it?

Definition: decisiveness is a trait or characteristic that describes people's bias towards action despite uncertainty.Nobody teaches us decisiveness.&nbsp;There are no classes for this.&nbsp;Yet nothing will change the trajectory of your life as improved decision-making abilities: both quality and speed of decision-making.&nbsp;Lee Iaccoca, a famous American automobile executive, said:&nbsp;You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.&nbsp;In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy and plow your anger and energy into something positive.Success, productivity, and money are attracted to speed of action.&nbsp;Thinking and learning are critical but can't replace real action.&nbsp;Decisive people do whatever they can to shorten the time between an idea and plan to the actual execution of that plan in the real world.&nbsp;And they are trying at the same time to make the best decisions.

Think about what you want to add or change in your life and delay it because of doubts, fears, or some external reason. Write it down.

Ask yourself what Lee Iacocca would do in your situation? What is the easiest and fastest way to do what you were delaying? Write down your ideas.

Start things before you're ready to do them: decisive mindset example of Lee Iacocca.

I will tell you a story to show an example of decisiveness in action.One day, a worker from the factory talked to Lee about bringing the Corvette back in style to create a car with a moving roof.Iaccoca says, yes, that sounds like a good idea, and immediately added:&nbsp;Why don't you take a blow torch right now and cut off the roof of this car, and we will drive it around for a couple of days and see what people say?&nbsp;So his workers were driving this car around with the roof cut off, and everybody on the streets talked about how cool it was.&nbsp;So Lee Iaccoca said, yes, let's do this car in mass production!&nbsp;There were no meetings, no long discussions, nothing but quick, decisive action, and it was a massive success as a result.&nbsp;This example shows how success happens.&nbsp;It's starting things before you're ready to do them.&nbsp;

<ol><li>Learn to separate time in your day when you are thinking about your future decisions and time when you are acting on them without hesitation. </li><li>This separation will give you 2 things: thinking time will protect you from random actions, and action time will remove procrastination.</li></ol>

Write down when in your day you will take at least 30 minutes - 1 hour to deeply think about the decisions you need to make soon. Then select the time when you will act on your choices.

Decisiveness secrets: balancing time to ponder and time to act 

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all. - Brian Tracy&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The average person sometimes takes 10x times longer than they should decide.There is a reason why to decide faster.&nbsp;When some people want to learn a new skill, they become a black belt before practicing.&nbsp;They want to study and know everything about karate before taking their first lesson.But here is a brutal truth: most theories get crushed when they come in contact with the real world.&nbsp;I don't say that you don't need to think before deciding.&nbsp;There should be a limit to thinking time.During the non-profit time, during non-action time, you can ponder and think deeply about decisions you need to make.When it is time for your actual work, you should act.More often, it's easier to correct a wrong decision and make it right than it is to make the right decision in the first place.Once you know how to do something right, you don't have to think about your decisions much time.&nbsp;You should act and see if it gives you correct results.&nbsp;

<ol><li>Prepare yourself to make fast decisions under pressure.&nbsp;</li><li>Imagine that you will have some critical conversation with someone (or with yourself) and need to make an immediate decision on the go.&nbsp;Remember about the meeting of Napoleon Hill and Andrew Carnegie that changed people's lives after publishing "Think and Grow Rich. "&nbsp;</li><li>Write down a decision you are going to make.</li></ol>

<ol><li>Listen to your feelings in your body. What does it say? Is it the correct decision or not? What would Napoleon Hill do if he were in your situation?</li><li>Try to stay calm and breath deeply. Can you feel that you can successfully implement a decision? Is it the correct one?</li><li>Write your decision.&nbsp;</li></ol>

Making fast decisions under pressure: example of Napoleon Hill and Andrew Carnegie meeting

I will tell you a historical example of decisiveness.Before Napoleon Hill became famous, he started his writing career and met with Andrew Carnegie.&nbsp;Napoleon Hill was sitting at the table with Carnegie.A steel magnate proposed to him to write a book about the habits of successful people of that time.&nbsp;When Carnegie told Napoleon his idea, he gave him only 1 minute to think about it and answer whether he accepted the proposition or not.&nbsp;Just "yes" or "no."&nbsp;As Napoleon wrote later, that minute was the longest in his life. He was feeling very nervous and emotional during those 60 seconds.&nbsp;He even could not understand why but something inside made him say yes.&nbsp;When Napoleon Hill agreed, Carnegie took a clock out of his pocket, and it was showing 55 seconds passed and then said:&nbsp;"If you waited 6 seconds more and agreed to my proposition, I would decline because I don't want to deal with a person who doubts his abilities to implement this project. But you were on time. That's why I will help you to implement your project.".&nbsp;As a result, this project became a worldwide hit: "Think And Grow Rich."

1. Don’t be afraid to make a wrong decision. Many people are paralyzed because of fear of making a wrong decision. This paralyzation makes them stay in the same place.2. When you make a mistake in your decision, learn from it immediately and move on. Make the next move. Keep in mind your objective and not negative emotions resulting from wrong choices.3. Don’t repeat the same false decision twice.&nbsp;

How to use course correction for better decisiveness

We can't' represent our future projections in reality around us.&nbsp;We cannot think about a decision and, through the theory, work it out.&nbsp;We will bring it into existence and make it accurate.&nbsp;What happens is that you come up with an idea of what to do, and then you act.&nbsp;Then you correct the course.It's like a homing missile zigzagging to its target.&nbsp;It moves in one direction.&nbsp;It gets course corrections.&nbsp;It moves in another direction.&nbsp;It gets course corrections.It uses experiential data to adjust its choices.&nbsp;It does not use thinking much, not a theorizing type of thinking.I don't say that you make mistakes continuously and deliberately, especially fatal errors, creating considerable damage.&nbsp;Some life-changing complex decisions like huge money investments, starting a business, marrying, health problems, and others require extensive thinking before deciding. But here, we talk about decisions you can easily correct and where you can trust your gut or experience.&nbsp;It would help if you got good at making the wrong decisions too.&nbsp;Not to be afraid to make mistakes.So you can quickly correct them to the right choices.&nbsp;That's a much quicker and more effective approach to getting the right decision than trying to get the right decision right off the bat.&nbsp;

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