The Time Trap is aimed at managers. Published in 1972, it predated by a year "How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life", by Alan Lakein. In 1970...
I've been doing a lot of research on time management lately and especially about the psychology of it. I've long been a fan of "Getting Things Done" by David...
Dennis -- I'm still reading your posts. Thanks. I don't have any brilliant or not-so-brilliant comments, but I'm reading. (OTOH, you're posting some of this...
I'll be posting the material on the time management "classics" on AnalogGTD, partially because these older books sometimes have something useful to say about...
Adjustment and Self-Direction Adjustment means harmony within the self and between the self and the environment. Self-direction is the set of skills to make...
[Starting in Chapter 2, there is homework. If you are interested, please let me know.] Specifying Targets for Change Focus on target behavior to be changed,...
Ch. 1 Make a list of three to five personal goals, either things you want or things you want to stop. Think them over and revise them over a couple of days....
Hi Dennis, I find this idea intriguing. Change is the whole idea behind self experimentation after all... I think in the beginning (when I first joined) I was...
My hip arthritis therapy experiment seems to be helping, although I won't be certain for another month. My first outing of the Summer season is usually the...
Larry: Glad you're still in the group. What you're reporting seems like excellent progress. In view of your drastic reduction of meat in your diet, have you...
I was in a second hand store... I found a box of 8 cassettes for weight control. I've been trying to unload the 10 pounds I gained over the winter. So... for...
Good shopping ! I, personally, am only reluctantly willing to experiment with self-affirmations. I think I am spoiled or jaded and need to get ones that...
Hey Dennis... Maybe you should make a tape of your own. One that would apply and appeal to men? You could list the affirmations that are TRUE for you - a...
Well, I DO need things to sell .... Dennis C. During "To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt." - Elizabeth Cady...
Hi Dennis, Thanks for your encouraging words. To answer your questions. Several years ago, I did experiment with acetyl L-carnitine. For a time, it was...
First, you may want to make a list of common expressions and metaphors that are mostly male, starting with: winning, "competitve edge", one-up, "pumping up", ...
I don't want to be just another cynic, I want to take to it a whole new level, to take it up a notch, to pump up the volume. Are my choices sports, war,...
Dennis, I realize I'm a newcomer but I have a theory on Affirmations versus Visualization. I used Self Hypnosis program for Childbirth (called Hypnobabies)...
Cath -- I'm only a sample of one, but I can't manage visualization, and I've tried off and on over the years. Maybe you're right that women are more verbal ...
In the progress report, I didn't give enough info about the most important thing in the long-term arthritis/allergy experiment. Sorry about that. SAPU's, or...
I think my problem with affirmations (and visualizations, for that matter) is not with them in principle and not even that they don't work for me. It's that I...
Hi Larry.... yeah! I think even the women would appreciate something a little "stronger" for our affirmations! I told my husband he should listen to the...
Why Observe Ourselves ? We need self-knowledge. Our unaided memories are an unreliable source of data about ourselves [and most everything else]. Therefore we...
You should now begin self-observation for the "Target Behavior", using the methods described: Structured Dairy, frequency count or duration log, a rating...
Anybody Read "Learned Optimism" by Martin E. P. Seligman ? I've been looking around on the web for "positive affirmations for men" in hopes of finding...
Cathy, Aside from the fact that Verbal versus Visual is something of a gender based stereotype, it may be a gross oversimplification. I re-vsited a Hypnosis &...
Cathy, I meant to say that "auditory digital" (intellectual, verbal, data-oriented)is different from auditory (sound- or music-sensitive) ~Cath ... in ... be. ...
What can the techniques of self-change address with a reasonable chance of success ? It is hard to know the full scope, but published studies include a broad...