I discovered several years ago that most of us waste a lot of time during each day when each moment can be a learning moment.
We spend time complaining about what we don't want and griping when we are in traffic, standing in a long line at the post office or waiting for eternity in the doctor's office. Turn these negative moments and hours into fabulous learning opportunities.
Some of the biggest time wasters can become your grandest brain growing experiences. You can actually look forward to being stuck in traffic!
Here are the the time thieves and how you can turn these into brain power moments:
- Driving especially driving in traffic:
Turn your car into a university of learning. Keep a bag next to your door or in mild climates in your car with CD's of personal growth, increasing your business, learning a language, scriptures on CD, seminars of your liking and great books on CD. Instead of listening to the radio increase your brain power by listening and learning in your moving University.There are times where I hope I will get in traffic because I want to finish listening to a CD! Since talking on the phone is also not safe when you are driving this is a good reason to not talk on the phone!
How often do you sit there in long lines complaining in your mind and even out loud to those around you about how long the line is! The line only seems to get longer because what you focus on expands. It never fails as we send daggers up to the front of the line where the clerks are for behaving so slow, one will walk away in the midst of this huge line and go on break! We are only sending more negative energy to them to continue to behave in this way.
So instead of being negative and focusing on the long line, take out your affirmations that you carry with you and start reading them to yourself. Now this long line becomes an enjoyable experience because you are positively engaged in feeding your brain some great brain food. I also keep small books with me so I can even read standing in line. If I am with Tristan we stand there and do oral math, oral spelling and imagination exercises.
- Sitting at a Doctor's office:
I only go to the Doctor for my yearly check ups and my dentist is very good about not having people wait but when I was taking Milet, my daughter for all her pregnancy appointments that was eating up a lot of my time because she was a high risk pregnancy and had to go to 2 different doctors at least 3 times a month! So that is when I would fill my briefcase with my planner to catch up on my to do lists, books to read and not those stupid magazines they have in the doctor's office. I choose to read books that I will learn from. I would also take my lap top and write my drafts for my blog.
When you are cooking or cleaning in the kitchen don't waste your time with the TV on but rather have a CD player in your kitchen and put in Learning CDs. I know I spend a lot of time in the kitchen cooking and cleaning up after meals that this time is a great opportunity to learn a lot! I have a set up CD's for the car and another set for the kitchen and the house. Now with homeschooling kids this time in the kitchen is mostly to teach them so we play self esteem children' s CDs and of course I teach the kids how to cook and clean. I also do a lot of art projects with them while I am cooking. They can do the art projects right there on the counter.
Every minute can turn into a learning opportunity even in the bathroom. Those minutes are minutes you will never get back so keep the newspapers, trade magazines, articles on line you have printed out to read and books of quotations that only take a moment to read.
Dr. John Demartini even reads books as he is walking to and from his office. He is one of the most intelligent men I have ever encountered.
And last but not least live for your dream during prime time instead of watching everyone else live theirs from your couch. The hours of prime time are when more millionaires and happy people are made; they are working on their dreams.
It is never too late to learn something new, to increase your brain power and your intelligence. Watch the Dream Movie here.
Five years from now you will be the same person you are today except for the books you read and the people you meet!
For more information about time management see my post on Secrets to Success, Owning Your Own Time.
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