10

Natural Laws

BY HYRUM W. SMITH

Successful Time & Life

Proven Strategies for Increased Productivity and

The real measure of a successful life is whether or not inner peace is

achieved.
Inner
peace is the transcendent feeling of fulfillment and personal well-being which
comes whenever a person is living their life in conformity with their inner core values.
The simple concept of making sure your daily activities reflect your deepest core values
lies at the very heart of effective time and life management.

Law # 1 : You control your life by controlling your time.

The best perspective from which to accomplish this is to stop thinking time
management and
instead think event control. The secret is to identify your vital activities and
instill them with
a sense of urgency so they can compete effectively with the numerous urgent but
unimportant tasks that will come along every day of your life.

You will never

have
controlofyour
time
until you take
controlof it.

Doest thou love life? Then do

not squander time, for thats
the stuff life
is made of. - Benjamin
Franklin

Law # 2 : Your governing values are the foundation of personal

fulfillment.
A set of governing values are the clearest answers you personally can give to those
two questions: 1. What are my highest priorities in life? 2. Of these priorities, what
do I value the most? One way to identify your personal values is to write a
prioritized list of your governing values with a brief sentence or paragraph
describing what each value means to you personally.

The foundation for effective time

management, however, is your governing
values. Therefore, unless you take the
time to identify those values for yourself,
no other time management techniques
will work.

Law # 3 : When your daily activities reflect your

governing values, you experience inner peace.
To avoid neglecting the things that matter most to you personally, take the time to
organize your governing values in order of importance. That way, whenever
conflicts arise, you can avoid
frustration by consistently acting on whichever value is more important than any
other.

What matters most in life

should never be at the mercy
of less important things.
-- Hyrum W. Smith

Law # 4 : To reach any significant goal, you must leave your

Specific,
and realistic goals are the bridge between your governing
comfortmeasurable
zone.

values and your daily activities. In most situations, present failure is not the end
of the world, and you have the opportunity to come back again next time smarter
and better prepared to succeed. Nothing can stop a determined soul.

There is no chance, no destiny, no

fate, that can circumvent or hinder
or control the firm resolve of a
determined soul.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Law # 5 : Daily planning leverages time through increased

focus.
If
you will just take 10- to 15-minutes every day to plan your day, everyone you
know will be amazed at how much you are able to achieve with your life.
However, these embellishments are simply enhancers, and the greatest single
gain in productivity will come from starting to plan your day each day
regardless of the exact accessories used.

The more time we spend on

planning a project, the less total
time is required for it. Dont let
todays busy work crowd
planning time out of your
schedule.
-- Edwin Bliss

Law # 6 : Your behavior is a reflection of what you truly

There
is a clear connection between what a person believes and what they do.
believe.

Whenever a persons behavior doesnt seem to be reflecting what they claim to

believe, there are some conflicting beliefs buried in there somewhere.

Sometimes our "beliefs" may

actually be things we only think we
believe because of duty or the
expectations of others. The
important thing to remember is that,
in general, our behavior does in fact
reflect what we really believe, and if
our behavior doesnt seem to be
reflecting a consciously stated belief,
we should take a careful look at
conflicting beliefs on our window.
-- Hyrum W. Smith

Law # 7 : You satisfy needs when your beliefs are in line

with
reality.
Its
vitally
important to examine whatever is written on your own personal
beliefs window. Only once you know whats there can you start planning how
to improve and upgrade your beliefs in order to bring about the reality you
most desire.

Personal growth is the process of

constantly upgrading the quality of
whatever is in your own personal
belief window. The first step in being
able to do this is to accept that some
of your personal beliefs may be wrong
and may need to be improved. A
willingness to consider this thought is
generally considered an act of
maturity.

Law # 8 : Negative behaviors are overcome by changing

incorrect
beliefs.
The Reality Model
effectively separates what you do from what you are. You can
solve most of the human relations and personal productivity problems in your life
by attacking incorrect beliefs and destructive behavior. Therefore, the key to
overcoming negative behavior lies in the Reality Model. By altering their
underlying beliefs, changed behavior follows automatically.

When any of those four needs is not

being met, our energy flows toward
meeting that need. And if we put an
incorrect assumption
on our belief window, it can cause
behavior that may work in the short
term. But in the long term it will
destroy. Will we still believe
that way, even if we understand the
long-term consequences?
Unfortunately, we will - unless we
decide to break that cycle. It
is very difficult for most people to
look beyond the short term.
-- Hyrum W. Smith

Law # 9 : Your self-esteem must ultimately come from

Everyone
within. eventually reaches the point in life where they feel responsible for

themselves. At that point, every person is responsible for whatever they have
written on their own personal belief
Window. To set ideals permanently in our minds and then refuse to compromise
them and instead work steadily towards accomplishing our values.

The eyes of other people are the

eyes that ruin us. If all buy myself
were blind, I should want neither fine
clothes, fine houses
nor fine furniture. -- Benjamin
Franklin

Law # 10 : Give more and youll have more.

One of the great paradoxes of life is that the more you share your talents and
resources with other people, the more inner peace youll feel in return. you
can create more wealth than is needed for your personal comfort and security,
and that you have an obligation to look at the surplus as a stewardship to be
used to help other people.

Men who can graft the trees and make

the seed fertile and big can find no way to
let the hungry people eat their produce.
Men who have created new fruits in the
world cannot create a system
whereby their fruits may be eaten. And
the failure hangs over the State like a
great sorrow.
-- Steinback

We hold these truths to be selfevident

that all Men are created equal, that
they
are endowed by their Creator with
certain
unalienable Rights, that among those
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness.
-- Thomas
Jefferson

Thank You Very Much

Sompong Yusoontorn