There comes a point in most relationships when you start completing the other person’s thoughts.
And when you try to call them you find the line’s engaged because, surprise surprise, they’re trying to call you at the exact same moment.
Spooky isn’t it?
Think you’re a little psychic don’t you?
Well, I’m sorry to burst your bubble, but there’s nothing mysterious about it at all.
It’s called morphic resonance, and it’s something I’ve been talking about for a couple of decades now.
We live in an ideas-driven world, and there are only so many original thoughts out there.
So it stands to reason that at times, two (or more) people might have the same idea at the same time.
The zeitgeist determines what’s front-of-mind at any one time, so it’s easy to understand how the same thought might occur in more than one place.
But morphic resonance doesn’t scare me.
It inspires me to take the leap.
Share my ideas.
Make it happen.
Because if I don’t, you can bet that someone else with a similar idea will.
And then I’ll just be the guy who always says “I thought of that first.”
Live in the moment and get on with it.
As my old friend Robin Fielder has urged for 25 years DO IT NOW!
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Thursday, 30 July 2009
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
Eat The Frog
How good are you at managing your time?
Really?
The fact is, we all have a habit of leaving the crappy jobs ‘til last.
Which means that the job we are not looking forward to hangs over us like a storm cloud, we put it off and put it off, extend our deadline, move it down the to do list.
It then starts affecting our attitude, our mood and everything else we do, it casts a shadow over the rest of our day, our week.
If you haven’t already read it, I highly recommend Eat That Frog! By Brian Tracy.
In it, he explores the positive benefits of tackling the least appealing task that faces you that day first.
If you get that horrible thing done first then everything else, as today’s kids would have it, is gravy.
Please note that I’ve even embedded the link directly to Amazon in this post, so you procrastinators have even less of an excuse.
Really?
The fact is, we all have a habit of leaving the crappy jobs ‘til last.
Which means that the job we are not looking forward to hangs over us like a storm cloud, we put it off and put it off, extend our deadline, move it down the to do list.
It then starts affecting our attitude, our mood and everything else we do, it casts a shadow over the rest of our day, our week.
If you haven’t already read it, I highly recommend Eat That Frog! By Brian Tracy.
In it, he explores the positive benefits of tackling the least appealing task that faces you that day first.
If you get that horrible thing done first then everything else, as today’s kids would have it, is gravy.
Please note that I’ve even embedded the link directly to Amazon in this post, so you procrastinators have even less of an excuse.
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