How to go from achieving 10% of your potential to 90% in 20 minutes a day---no kidding!!

Earl nightingale used to re-tell a story called "Acres of Diamonds." It's about a South African small farmer who longed to better his financial station in life. One day he heard that just miles away, men were finding top grade diamonds, and getting wealthy in mere weeks and months. The farmer sold his land and took the proceeds and moved to the reputed diamond-rich area. A year later he was penniless. a sad but not uncommon ending for those seeking the the easy road to wealth.

Meanwhile, the fellow who had bought the fellow's small farm, discovered diamonds, some right on the ground's surface. The first farmer had literally sold acres of diamonds to search for diamonds elsewhere! Why this cruel tragedy?

The first farmer had never done his homework. He literally could not identify diamonds in their rough state. How many of us are sitting on our own "acres of diamonds" waiting to be discovered by someone else?

I submit most of us are. Those diamonds reside in the dormant 90% of our creative brain that we fail to employ to its greatest potential. The good news is we can tap into our genius within. We can reach goals that seem impossible with simple techniques that allow our mind to do the work for which it was intended. Interested?

Ok---to things you can start right away to personalize your quest.

First, a little background. You may be familiar with the term 'brainstorm.' Brainstorming is not just thinking aloud. It's a technique of opening your mind so you can mine the acres of diamonds between your ears.

Did you ever have a situation you couldn't resolve only to have the solution inexplicably 'pop' into your mind hours or even days later? It's because your subconscious doesn't 'quit' when your conscious does. Your subconscious merely needs as much food as you can give it. That's where the technique comes in.

Most of the time we're censoring ourselves. To keep ourselves focused on priorities at the conscious level, we rightfully police and regiment our conscious thinking to keep it on a useful track.

We stop a thought in mid-sentence and say, "oh this won't work." "I can't do that." "Yahbutt..." "What a waste of time that would be." It goes on and on.

However, sometimes it works to disengage. To let ideas, mostly bad, some fair, and 5% good, continue to completion. The reason we want to do this is analogous to Edison. What if he stopped trying to invent the light bulb because the first few times didn't make it happen, and, besides, his colleagues in his profession were laughing at him?

Edison, instead, took a different mental tack. He, rightfully, said to himself with each seeming 'failure,' that he had merely discovered another way that doesn't work. By the process of elimination he knew he would finally hit the combination to the safe.

The same is true of good ideas. If we stop seeking them because all the ones we're processing seem silly, useless, going nowhere, we'll never get to the good, life-changing idea.

It's easy to stop, or constipate the progress, if we critique our ideas along the way. If you want to generate that magic 'aha', then maximize your chances!

Sit in front of your computer or note pad, write your goal at the top, and go into stream of consciousness (i.e. non-critical) mode. Type or right every possibly pertinent idea to your goal that comes to mind. No filtering. No stopping to consider, critique or eliminate. If you can't slop 20 or more on the page, you're censoring the process. Remember, 'bad' is good!! Go-go-go!!

Most of your ideas will stink on ice, but eventually your mind will spit one or more out that says "bingo." This will be the idea you would never have had if you were in your normal screening mode.

Not only that, keep going until you draw a blank or your time for this runs out. Your ideas, some of them, will get better, as long as you're not censoring the lousy ones in the process.

And not only that---BONUS!!! You'll find that, hours or days later more great ideas bubble up from your subconscious which has been given full permission and stimulation to play with the issue in question.

This is incredibly rewarding, fun, and can NOT fail unless you quit. The one thing that could stop you is the early resistance you may get from your conscious since this proactive technique is new, and your brain is set in its ways. Hardly insurmountable, just know any change in method gets a little resistance. Keep going!!

There's more...minimum 365 life-changing ideas a year in 20 minutes a day. I'll tell you about it after you catch up with me with your own comments, observations, questions as well as action!!!