Making PD insights stick?

[Keith]

How do you make PD insights stick?

For example, Steve's latest podcast was a revelation to me: (eg.) losing weight isn't about doing particular things - it's about being the person who takes care of their health - then the doing flows automatically.

A couple of days later I can already feel this insight slipping from me.

Phillip Eby's How to stop having problems blog post (and a number of his others) were similarly revelatory yet, after the initial flash of understanding, the idea slips away so that I don't even remember it.

How do you make this stuff actually stick rather than just sliding off?

Thanks.

[RT Wolf]

Hmm, you could try various ways of incorporating your beliefs. I believe Steve used to use NLP (he recommended the "Using your Brain--for a change" by Richard Bandler in a blog entry about changing beliefs). Another one could be creating a list of beliefs you want to internalize and focussing on them one by one every day. Another one would be visualizing exactly how you would feel/look and what you would do if you had completely incorporated that belief. Your brain can really use that image to figure out where to go.

HTH.

[Cron]

Have you tried

1. Writing these insights down.

2. Scheduling a time of day to remind yourself of them.....say repeating them over and over again while you travel to work?

3. Scheduling a time to try actions consistent with those insights?

[Athena]

Categorize it- which sector of your life does the information apply to

Write it down- can save in in a word processing document, or have a binder or notebook with categories for organizing your information

Apply it- if you're going to use it in your life right away, make the structural/administrative changes that use that information

Review it- weekly or monthly, select the most important insights of that period and mark/highlight them. You can make a consolidated list of the most important points at that time.


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It's kind of like learning things in school, but now with PD information for optimizing our lives. It helps a lot to have a system for organizing and applying the information.

[RT Wolf]

If you're using a tickler system from Getting Things Done, you could toss in reminders of those goals and stuff. Or toss it onto your calender to look up that list.

GTD is awesome.

[Lucas]

On thing that helps me is I have an Affirmation section of my Google Calendar, and I write one every night for the next day, and try to customize them for myself as much as possible.