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Basic Relaxation Techniques Create Better Health
Basic Relaxation Technique When you first try this exercise, you may want to begin by lying on the floor or on your bed. However, if you are tired, you may find that you cannot stay awake and you won't be able to develop the skill of conscious ...
How To Be More Creative
Have you ever heard the saying, "The harder I work, the luckier I get?" Guess what? That's the way it is with creative inspiration too. Don't Wait For Creative Inspiration Graham Green, the famous English writer, attributes much of his success to a ...
The Subconscious Control Of Your Diet And Weight Loss
What determines human behavior and in particular your eating behavior? I have yet to come across a psychiatrist, psychologist or physician who can answer this question, yet this is the most fundamental question if you wish to initiate lasting permanent ...
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heard or used this cliche, but what do you know about
beavers? Let me tell you about something I learned.
One night on the Discovery Channel, I watched a scientist
determine how beavers knew where to put the sticks to build
their dams. It's by the sound of water, he discovered. A
recording of running water would soon have the beavers busy
covering the tape player with sticks. He could get them to
build useless piles of sticks anywhere he wanted.
What a great metaphor! Aren't we often building useless
piles of sticks? We keep busy, responding to whatever drives
us, but without doing anything truly productive. My
personal favorite is making redundant to-do lists, or adding
something already done to my list, just to check it off.
Talk about a useless pile of sticks!
Efficiency Versus Effectiveness
It's worth noting that the beavers were very efficient at
piling sticks on tape recorders. It didn't help the dam
construction one bit, of course. Efficiency clearly doesn't
equal effectiveness, but is it so obvious in our own lives?
Sometimes when we look deep enough we find that we are busy
building nothing. For example, a man can be efficient at his
job, and think he's effective, maybe because sales are up.
Then he sees that he doesn't like the job, and isn't
building the future he wants. The company may love him, but
his effort is producing nothing more than a pile of sticks,
as far as he's concerned.
Even the tape player gets to be part of this metaphor. Don't
we sometimes follow our own internal "tapes," and do
useless things as a result? We don't have to though. It's
time to take a look at our daily routines. It's time to be
an effective beaver instead of a busy beaver.
About the Author
Steve Gillman writes on many self help topics including
boosting brainpower, losing weight, meditation, habits of
mind, creative problem solving, learning gratitude,
generating luck and anything related to self improvement.
You'll find more at http://www.SelfImprovementNow.com
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