Top Ten Thinking Tactics - Thinking Directions
I put together the top ten thinking tactics I teach: The Thinker's Toolkit: How to Focus Your Thoughts for Action and Other Thinking Tactics| Thinking Directions
As soon as you finish reading this article, I recommend that you take out your smartphone, open the stopwatch app, start the timer, and then march out of the building. Keep going until the stopwatch hits 90 seconds, then turn around and come back. You will have defined a 3-minute walk. How a pre-defined 3-minute […] The post The 3-Minute Walk appeared first on Thinking Directions.| Thinking Directions
If you are in a major transition in your life — a career transition, or a change of phase, or an adjustment of your direction — you need objectivity about your deepest, most meaningful goals. You might want to consider writing your own eulogy to help clarify your direction. This is not a morbid exercise in considering your death. […] The post Clarify Your Meaningful Goals by Writing Your Own Eulogies appeared first on Thinking Directions.| Thinking Directions
In Tap Your Own Brilliance, I teach in-depth tactics for dealing with the three most common thinking obstacles: overload, blankness, and floundering. But sometimes you need only the basic solution. The basic solution for overload is to get ideas out of your head onto paper. The basic solution for floundering is to clarify your goal. […] The post The Basic Solution for Blankness appeared first on Thinking Directions.| Thinking Directions
In my (free) Thinking Directions Starter Kit, I teach a foundational tactic called “Thinking on Paper.” Whenever you need leverage to deal with any mental issue — cognitive, emotional, or behavioral — “thinking on paper” helps. The process of purposefully writing out your thoughts, sentence by sentence, activates relevant knowledge, brings hidden values to light, and frees […] The post Color Your Thoughts appeared first on Thinking Directions.| Thinking Directions
I recently re-read The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey, a classic book on mind management from 1974. I was struck by this passage: As silly as it may sound, one of the most practical ways to increase concentration on the ball is to learn to love it! Get to know the tennis […] The post Concentrate with Love appeared first on Thinking Directions.| Thinking Directions
A while ago, one of the Launchers came to a coaching call with a problem. He had done fabulously creative work in analyzing some financial trends — by working through the night until 5:00 a.m. In one respect, this was progress. He had come to an earlier coaching call with the problem that he couldn’t concentrate […] The post FAQ: How Do You Save Your Mental State? appeared first on Thinking Directions.| Thinking Directions
I put together the top ten thinking tactics I teach: The Thinker's Toolkit: How to Focus Your Thoughts for Action and Other Thinking Tactics| Thinking Directions
