Is the white radiation blast subconsciously affecting your ability to produce?

April 4, 2010 on 11:58 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments

Is the white radiation blast subconsciously affecting your ability to produce?

Okay, so, here’s a little blog post about productivity.

We all get into ‘loops’, where, our subconscious mind is entrained to seek out certain behaviors that may have caused entertainment or wanted distraction in the past.

This might mean being distracted by a bunch of emails, social network updates, news sites, and anything else on the web that isn’t about getting results.

The hardest part of everything is that clearly these tools do have a use. In fact, spending time on forums to build your brand and build relationships is a great investment in time. BUT, you have to make sure you have everything else in place, otherwise, you are only digging your heels.

So, prioritising, I know, to many, myself included, prioritizing and action feels like being your own slave driver.

That can be a limiting mindset when you are programmed or entrained to seek out instant gratification of learning some new item, or having some new kind of intellectual experience.

But, the fact is, the difference between those who get what they want, and those who don’t, is the ability to prioritize.

People who know how to prioritize can even get over things like entering a business that isn’t the fastest growing or the largest or highest-margin niche, and still make a killing.

They can make other mistakes if they know how to execute what they ARE doing, in an effective way.

The important part of the success mindset is to be able to believe that you are VERY confident in your idea.

Not so confident that you think or want to rest on your laurels, maybe polish the intellectual appeal of your idea further, and then launch in the near-future…

No so confident that you stop learning and listening to the advise of others.

Not so confident that you won’t have a plan to adjust to under-performance, or failure, and be able to find out EXACTLY which one of your assumptions wasn’t correct, or where you didn’t deliver.

Us people who want the easy life have enough of an issue predicting general market trends, being able to sell to individuals as well as groups, being able to manage various products, all aspects of relationship management, research, human resources, vendor sourcing, project management, sales strategy, and so forth…that, there is one variable that we just CAN NOT afford to not be in control of. What is that variable?

That variable is yourself. Or, more exactly, your conscious relationship to your overall concept of yourself, which includes both conscious and subsconscious elements.

When we look into self concept, we realize that, it also includes aspects that are relatively fixed, often those that are ingrained in our instinct, humanity, and socialization and innate desires.

Others are based on opinions of the best ways to do things. We should be more flexible on these ideas.

So, why pattern interrupts? What is issue with patterns?

To perform, we need to be in a state of flow. Where we just go with it.

We can’t feel like we’re dragging past procrastination-negativity into what we’re doing.

We can’t afford to let ANYthing interrupt us.

That’s not just an interruption like email or chatting…it’s also anything in your computer use that could slow you down and break your state.

Let me give you an example.

I am in the business of needing to product content for a living. I know it’s the only thing I have available to me to get what I want out of life in my current situation without going through a lot more education, or doing jobs I don’t really enjoy doing very much.

The problem is that, I hated the writing experience for some reason, unknown to me.

The reason is that, I kind of hate computers.

Now, sure, I love watching web videos, and checking my emails, and following and using it as a tool for learning…

But, something about being used to using my computing environment as a learning tool makes it less-than-conducive to really doing creative and PRODUCTIVE work.

These are things like:

Having menus that load up my recent programs, instead of the most important programs that I need to do.  I should be opening the program that is the most important and crucial for that time, not just clicking around, checking various applications throughout the day. Nor should you have the distraction of any unneeded history anytime you want to load any program. The number of words on the start menu will overload your subsconscious…and, the worst thing happens, it becomes meaningless.

For instance, if you have 4 or 5 categories in your start menu, there is a good amount of meaning, and also the crucial FAST UN-INTERRUPTED BY WORDs and CLICKs ACCESS

You can scan the menu to get where you want, or read through to determine what you need to be doing. The list doesn’t include any non-productive choices.

If you have more than a dozen or so, it becomes a different beast altogether. You can’t quickly just find the menu you want, you have to read menus you don’t need rather than scanning for your menu.

Even if you scan, you still end up reading more distractions.

So, who cares? I mean, I’m not a ‘power-user’ or anything.

That’s just one distraction of the system.

Another distraction is the theme of the display having white background.

I’ll agree that it’s the most visually appealing, and, if you’re running a really large environment, a pretty good way to get visual acuity, and a feeling of depth.

It also really distracts me. I miss the old computer interfaces with green text, and black background.

That is the text I’m currently using to help keep me in state.

The white background has a lot of drawbacks.

It makes you feel like you’re on the WWW. After all, it’s been white for most of its history, after it was grey.

I’m all about black when it comes to putting myself INTO my machine. When I need to type a lot of stuff out, I require having a black interface so that I am not distracted by the photon radiation blast of my computer screen.

I could speculate about some kind of trance-inducement from the whiteness, either as conditioning from being on the web all the time.

The truth is, you want to BREAK STATE.

If I open up MS Word in my standard white-background windows environment…

My head might be saying “Work, produce, create, pour yourself into the machine, don’t think about the other crap, history, programs, documents, email on this computer”.

But, sub-consiously, it’s saying – you can type out a little bit of a summary….maybe break into a document synopsis or rough draft…but, lets just work on this for a little bit, and get back to the other confortable easy and non-demanding tasks that we ALSO do with a white radiation blast with black text.

The white radiation blast that you might be familiar with from using the Web, Email, Word processing, or any other common programs is a “give me information” sub-communication.

I think it is also based on how we watch TV, let these images bombard us. It puts us sub-consciously in a state that is not only suggestible, it makes us CRAVE suggestion.

So, even though you consciously really want to have a lot of flow , and you want to be the kind of entrepreneur that can bang out a document to completion in one marathon session, you still come up short in output and focus.

Why?

Because, while your conscious mind is looking at the screen, thinking about your plans, decisions, dreams you want to build, making it all happen and getting it on paper…

That shadow lurking just beneath your conscious mind lurks unbeknownst to you, suggesting SO many other things to you sub-conscious mind, and eventually, whenever you get the slightest distraction, or, perhaps just don’t feel in the zone, and never get into the zone….it’s because of this one reason…

The white photon blast that you see when you are trying to be productive actually reminds you the exact environment you were in when you were being inspired by a guru a few weeks ago on the web, or the last emails from teachers or friends. Or worse, it reminds you of when you were doing totally mindless stuff.

Either way, you can’t get addicted to instruction, or distraction.

The white photon blast subversively activates parts of your brain that make you half-remember the time you enjoy wasting on facebook, with its nice buttons and background.

We become addicted to the game of clicking menus, the feeling of the computer monitor.

Even if we try to work and be in a state of creative undistracted productive output, we are reminded of all the time we spent wasted on the computer, just because that’s how our brains work.

We then basically try to tell ourselves that we’ve accomplished a lot just by making the very outline of a document, which probably outlines top priorities that we won’t be addressing soon or on any firm schedule.

But, we feel we’ve moved further in our business, and gotten that “Primary Driving Emotion”, out of our experience.

So, we congratulate ourselves for a short work brainstorm, and then, basically go onto the most rewarding or convenient loop.

Don’t I need to check my email?

Don’t I need to see what’s going on facebook?

Haven’t read through my favorite international news letters in a while.

Hmm, maybe I need a break from the computer, maybe I need to do some journal writing and high-level brainstorming.

Any new twitter followers?

Let’s look for a new forum to post on.

Maybe I should make a blog post.

Is the white radiation blast subconsciously affecting your ability to produce?