Mindhacking

01/05/2022

On your journey you are bound to run into a few problems. Some you'll solve just as you always have. Other problems will require you thinking differently. Here are 9 questions to help assist when you get stuck.

The human mind has all the answers. It just requires the right key to unlock them. Questions are the key you need.

12/28/2021

As you prepare for 2022, here are goal-setting hacks that may help get you in the right frame of mind.

Use these 3 goal-setting hacks to get a jumpstart on forming effective goals that you can hit. Each hack is your shortcut to form the habits of success!

06/18/2021

Here's the latest blog post focused on your first sales role:

Your first Sales Development Rep (SDR) role? Here are 7 critical skills you need to set more meetings in 2021 and win the inner game of sales success.

01/20/2021

For every door a "can't" closes, a "how" is the window to limitless possibilities.

Ask more "how's" to create more possibilities in your life.

01/07/2021

Mindhacking is teaming up with Mind Engineer to present to you a new masterclass on Sales Objections.

Close More Business in 2021 with this Sales Objections Masterclass

In this FREE 60-minute masterclass, you'll learn how to not only get around objections but prevent them from the very beginning to help you win more business.

Date and Time: Tuesday, January 12th at 10am ET

Registration Link: https://lp.gomindhacking.com/sales-masterclass

Tired of getting -- No's! Think you are about to get the deal only to lose it at the last minute? If you get blocked by objections, then this free sales objections masterclass is for you.

11/22/2020

Mindhacking has a new website and here is the latest post.

If I were to ask you to list all the skills you have learned up to now in your life, how many do you think you could list?

08/21/2020

Feeling stuck? Change your state!

There are many ways to change your state. Simple ways include smiling, screaming, standing up, clapping your hands, or even laughing out loud.

Sometimes it helps to really change your state. My personal favorite is to do my own version of a Maori Haka dance. I find it beautiful to see, and it is very different than my normal every day state so it makes for a nice shake up.

Часть документального фильма "dances of life" на кого ставить копирайт - не знаю, надеюсь видео не удалят! ) The part of the documentary "dances of life" I c...

08/20/2020

Pronoun Switch: Jar your negative self-talk.

Most people are aware of their nagging internal commentary that rears its head at different times throughout the day.

Next time you hear it, notice the pronoun that is used. It will usually be either "I" or "You" based. Notice which one your system likes to use. How do you feel when you hear it?

Now, change the pronoun. Have that voice repeat everything it just said with the opposite pronoun. For example, if the initial dialog was "You are such an idiot." Switch it to "I am such an idiot." Notice what happens when you do this.

Typically the harsher the initial dialog is the more jarring it will be when you change the pronoun.

For many people the pronoun switch no longer feels as familiar. It loses its punch.

Next time, knock out that negative nagging noise with a simple pronoun switch.

06/25/2020

How have you been feeling these last few weeks? Many people feel like they are in flux. Feeling a lot of uncertainty. Feeling shaky and confused.

What kind of impact has COVID and the weeks of protests had on you?

Our what, where, how, and when has been impacted. The things we had been doing, the places we had been going, how we had been doing things, and how often we had been doing things has been impacted. Our routines have been broken. Our rhythm feels off.

What else has been impacted? Your why is reflected in your what, where, how, and when. What you do, where you go, how you do what you do, and how often you do what you do is aligned with your purpose, or your "why". It's how you are defining and fueling your what, where, how, and when. This too is being impacted. Our sense of direction is off-kilter. Our purpose doesn't feel as stable or certain.

With all five of these areas being impacted, as a result your "who", your identity has also been impacted. Who you define yourself as and what you believe as you is up for some questioning. Who am I if I don't feel certain about my purpose? Who am I if I can't do what I want to do, go where I want to go, do things how I want to do them, and when I want to do them? Who am I?

When your "who" is in question, you begin questioning your value, your contribution to your relationships, to your work, to this world.

Here is an exercise to self assess and know where you really stand.

Think of your spouse or partner or significant other, and imagine if they were no longer present. What skills would you need to learn to do their job in your life? For example if they do the cooking or the taxes or the yard work, do you know how to do these skills as well as them? On a 1-10 scale, at what level would you place them and at what level would you place yourself?

Make a list of these skills and rate them.

Now flip it around. What if you weren't around; what skills would they have to learn to do the jobs you do?

Make a list of these skills and rate them.

Note, this is a list of your contributions in the relationship. Are you satisfied with your contribution?

Consider these lists as your benchmark. When you reflect back on your skills, your experience, your contributions -- these serve as a stable foundation upon which to build your who. This will have you feeling more solid about YOU.

A stronger you will help you pursue your passion, your why again. And a stronger you will help fuel the creativity to identify new ways to do what you do, where to do it, how to do it, and how often to do it.

Your what, where, how, and when are your behavioral manifestations of your why and your who. A stronger you helps you reimagine your behaviors.

A reimagination is greatly needed as the times are changing.

05/25/2020

How do we process the world? Seeing a small child versus an adult navigate through a house and you can immediately tell the difference. For example, when a toddler approaches a door they may look puzzled as they try to assess how to get passed this barrier. They may reach up for the doorknob and jiggle it. After a few attempts, they may realize it turns. Then they have to figure out if they need to pull or push. Once they make it through that door and come to another door, in some cases they will repeat the behavior they used to achieve their outcome or they start over. But soon after a few doors, the behavior will get generalized.

And generalizations is the first way we process the world. As adults you don't question how a doorknob works. You grab and turn. If that doesn't work, you run through all the patterns of generalizations you have learned throughout your life of how a doorknob should work. And this process usually occurs in mere seconds. Only when all those generalizations fail do you pause step back and re-examine the door through child eyes.

Many years back some researchers did a study about this. They made a door where the hinges were on the same side as the doorknob. So imagine a door that you would push open. You are on one side of the door where the doorknob is. The doorknob in on the right side of the door as you are facing it. On the other side of the door, the hinges are on the same side as the doorknob. Well these guinea pigs also known as undergrads were asked one by one to come open the door. They would pull and push and jiggle as best they could but not a single one of them could open the door. And bear in mind that all they had to do was gently push on the left side of the door where there were no hinges and the door would have easily opened. But that would require them to question their generalization of how a door should open.

The next way humans process the word is through distortions. Our generalizations are maintained by distorting the current reality. For example, you may say to yourself "this is just a bedroom door -- it should open like all the others". In fact, this recently happened to me. My wife had gone to bed early. When I came to bed I noticed the door was locked which was strange. I went to find a skeleton key from above one of the other doors. When I went back to my bedroom door to insert it, it wasn't going in. Since I still had the hallway lights off so I rubbed my finger on where the hole was supposed to be and lo and behold, it wasn't a hole as I expected. This was a full key lock like you would find on an external door. We have lived in this house for almost 2 years and never once locked the door so we never noticed that it required a key. In fact the doorknob is not even shaped like any of the other doors. I had been distorting my reality every time I touched that doorknob expecting it to feel like all the other round interior doorknobs instead of an exterior doorknob.

Lastly, to make absolute certain our reality is kept intact, we delete things. Speaking of doorknobs, the most common deletion is our keys. How many times have you looked for your keys expecting them to be where you left them but you didn't see them yelling for your spouse to come help you look and they walk up to exactly where you are standing reach down in the exact same spot and pick up your keys and hand them to you. Where were they? Humans have an amazing ability to hallucinate things away.

Think for a moment all the areas of your life that are impacted by your generalizations, distortions, and deletions. Many achievements have been a result of this process. However, the breakthroughs come from challenging them. Both are useful. For example, beating the four-minute mile. Roger Bannister had to breakthrough the generalization that a four-minute mile could be beat. And soon after he proved it, a new generalization was formed and many others broke that barrier in the same year after him.

So as small children we start forming generalizations about ourselves, about others, about how the world works to be able to survive in the world. We then become a bit lazy and don't question our previous generalizations. We start using distortions and deletions to maintain our generalizations. If you ever feel inclined to question one, start with something simple. For example, how many of you still don't eat a food that you didn't like to eat as a child? Next time you have the opportunity to eat that food, go for it. You'll be challenging the long held generalization. You may then decide to form a new one. I like X now or maybe it is still I don't like X. Either way it gives you an opportunity to make a new decision all the while questioning long held generalizations. And who knows, you just may surprise yourself.

05/19/2020

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