The document discusses how to achieve a state of "flow" for success. Flow is described as a mental state of full focus and enjoyment in an activity where one's sense of time becomes distorted. The key elements of flow include having clear goals, receiving immediate feedback, balancing challenges with skills, merging action and awareness, excluding distractions, diminishing fear and self-consciousness, distorting the sense of time, and finding the activity intrinsically rewarding. Achieving a flow state allows one to maximize performance and achieve goals and success in an optimal state.
The document discusses how to achieve a state of "flow" for success. Flow is described as a mental state of full focus and enjoyment in an activity where one's sense of time becomes distorted. The key elements of flow include having clear goals, receiving immediate feedback, balancing challenges with skills, merging action and awareness, excluding distractions, diminishing fear and self-consciousness, distorting the sense of time, and finding the activity intrinsically rewarding. Achieving a flow state allows one to maximize performance and achieve goals and success in an optimal state.
The document discusses how to achieve a state of "flow" for success. Flow is described as a mental state of full focus and enjoyment in an activity where one's sense of time becomes distorted. The key elements of flow include having clear goals, receiving immediate feedback, balancing challenges with skills, merging action and awareness, excluding distractions, diminishing fear and self-consciousness, distorting the sense of time, and finding the activity intrinsically rewarding. Achieving a flow state allows one to maximize performance and achieve goals and success in an optimal state.
The document discusses how to achieve a state of "flow" for success. Flow is described as a mental state of full focus and enjoyment in an activity where one's sense of time becomes distorted. The key elements of flow include having clear goals, receiving immediate feedback, balancing challenges with skills, merging action and awareness, excluding distractions, diminishing fear and self-consciousness, distorting the sense of time, and finding the activity intrinsically rewarding. Achieving a flow state allows one to maximize performance and achieve goals and success in an optimal state.
Premise Flow state, also known as being in the "zone," is the mental state in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. It is complete absorption in what one does, resulting transformation in one's sense of time. Neurochemicals are all released in the brain. Norepinephrine, dopamine, serotonin, anandamide, and endorphins. Flow is the key to allowing the journey to be as blissful as the destination. 1. Clear Goals at an abstract and granular level Any definite chief aim that is deliberately fixed in the mind and held there, with the determination to realize it, finally saturates the entire subconscious mind until it automatically influences the physical action of the body toward the attainment of that purpose. - Napoleon Hill Definiteness of Purpose A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought-forces upon the object, which he has set before him. - James Allen 2. There is immediate reporting and feedback Qualitative and Quantitative KPIs Reactivity vs Proactivity Inner voice Victories attained by right thought can only be maintained by watchfulness. Many give way when success is assured, and rapidly fall back into failure. All achievements, whether in the business, intellectual, or spiritual world, are the result of definitely directed thought, are governed by the same law and are of the same method; the only difference lies in the object of attainment. - James Allen -#- Elements of Flow 2. There is immediate reporting and feedback Victories attained by right thought can only be maintained by watchfulness. Many give way when success is assured, and rapidly fall back into failure. All achievements, whether in the business, intellectual, or spiritual world, are the result of definitely directed thought, are governed by the same law and are of the same method; the only difference lies in the object of attainment. - James Allen 3. There is a balance between challenges and skills. Evolve Beliefs and Assumptions within Presence of mind Intuition and mind are one. Subconscious mind programs are revealed Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force: he who knows this is ready to become something higher and stronger than a mere bundle of wavering thoughts and fluctuating sensations; he who does this has become the conscious and intelligent wielder of his mental powers. - James Allen QQS" formula - Napoleon Hill 4. Action and awareness become one 5. Distractions are excluded from consciousness. Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him. - James Allen Develop success consciousness and let your subconscious do the work - Napoleon Hill 6. Fear of failure tapers away INDECISION is the seedling of FEAR! Remember this, as you read. Indecision crystalizes into DOUBT, the two blend and become FEAR! The "blending" process often is slow. This is one reason why these three enemies are so dangerous. They germinate and grow
without their presence being observed. - Napoleon Hill
6 Basic fears The fear of POVERTY The fear of LOSS OF LOVE OF SOMEONE The fear of DEATH The fear of CRITICISM The fear of ILL HEALTH The fear of OLD AGE 7. Self-consciousness disappears In flow a person is challenged to do her best, and must constantly improve her skills. At the time, they don't have the opportunity to reflect on what this means in terms of the self—if they did allow themselves to become self-conscious, the experience could not have been very deep. That circumstances grow out of thought every man knows who has for any length of time practised selfcontrol and self-purification, for he will have noticed that the alteration in his circumstances has been in exact ratio with his altered mental condition. So true is this that when a man earnestly applies himself to remedy the defects in his character, and makes swift and marked progress, he passes rapidly through a succession of vicissitudes. -James Allen -$- 8. Distortion of time That circumstances grow out of thought every man knows who has for any length of time practised selfcontrol and self-purification, for he will have noticed that the alteration in his circumstances has been in exact ratio with his altered mental condition. So true is this that when a man earnestly applies himself to remedy the defects in his character, and makes swift and marked progress, he passes rapidly through a succession of vicissitudes. -James Allen Success is not dependant of time, it can be based on assumptions and beliefs about time. # 9. The activity and person becomes autotelic. The key element of an optimal experience is that it is an end in itself. Even if initially undertaken for other reasons, the activity that consumes us becomes intrinsically rewarding. The traits that mark an autotelic personality are most clearly revealed by people who seem to enjoy situations that ordinary persons would find unbearable. Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass. - Napoleon Hill -%-