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Rut Busters! Simple ideas to get you out of the rut. Ever driven to the office and, after you arrive,
wondered which way you came? Or can’t remember whether you stopped at a
particular set of lights? Or you don’t remember whether you kissed your
partner goodbye before you left? Sure you have. In fact, if it’s any
consolation to you, everyone has at some time or another. And the reason for
it is quite simply that you are stuck in a rut, doing the same thing over and
over. And a rut is just a
coffin with the ends knocked out! So here are some things you can do to change your every day
activities which will get you out of the thinking rut and create a switched
on brain that is alive and capable of both creating and acting on new ideas. 1.
Once or twice a week get out the other side of
the bed. (If you sleep with a
partner swap sides of the bed every so often or, if your bed is against a
wall, turn around and sleep with your head at the other end of the bed
occasionally.) Because you normally get out of the same side of the bed you
begin every day the same way. You’re
in a rut and right at the start of the day you are encouraging your brain to
go onto autopilot. However, if you launch your day by getting out of bed on the
other side you’ll be programming your brain differently and, as a result,
you’ll change the colour of your day. 2.
Once or twice a week clean your teeth holding
the toothbrush in the other hand. Doing it the same way every day means you clean
your teeth in a trance and you’re making your day predictable. Now you
probably reckon that, when you start this exercise, you will get toothpaste
all over the place and up your nostril as well. You are dead right, you
certainly will. But that’s the beauty of this gem. You’ll have to concentrate
on cleaning your teeth and by so doing you snap the brain out of autopilot
and into wide-awake, ready for anything mode. You may have to tape a message
on your mirror to remind yourself to change your toothbrush holding hand but,
as the advert used to say, do it, just do it. 3.
Open up your wardrobe and throw out those
clothes you don’t wear. Isn’t
it true you have a couple of meters of clothing hanging there but you’re only
using about half a meter of them because you’re waiting for the rest to
either come back into fashion or back into size? Leaving clothes you can’t
wear where they confront you every day is a big mistake because you are
reminded of your shortcomings and pushed back into that rut. You are clinging
onto spent dreams, focusing on your yesterdays rather than your tomorrows,
thinking failure rather than success. Give those old non-wearable clothes
away – get them out of the closet, yourself out of the rut and open up your
mind. 4.
Every couple of months re-arrange the
furniture in your bedroom. For the
last umpteen years the first thing you have seen when you opened your eyes
every morning has been the same scene. The same bedspread, furniture,
pictures, lamps and so on all in the same darn position. What message does
that send to your brain first thing in the morning? Everything is the same as
it was yesterday, so let’s go into autopilot and jump back into that good old
warm comfortable rut. Change the scene occasionally and you change your
results. So shift things around, even
change the colour scheme, and do it pretty often. Notice the impact it has on
your life (in spite of the short term tensions it may cause with your partner
until they realise that the changes are creating a new you… and them). 5.
Take that drawer of stuff you’re keeping “just
in case” and dump it. This is a great suggestion. Isn’t it true that somewhere in your house
you’ve got a drawer where you put all of those things that you don’t need
right now but you may need to use “some day.” You keep them as insurance that they will be there if there is
the remotest possibility that you just might need them (although there has
yet to be an instance of you ever needing them). Look, do it now. Take that drawer, run (don’t walk) to the
garbage can and heave the contents in.
Say goodbye to the remnants of the past, say goodbye to the things in
your life that you have been hanging on to that have been holding you back.
Elbow your way out of that rut. 6.
Take a different route to work occasionally. Most people, still bleary eyed and waiting for
the caffeine belt to hit, climb into the car and drive to the office on
autopilot. They are cocooned in their own hermetically sealed little world
completely oblivious to anything and barely aware of other traffic,
pedestrians, motorcyclists and even the scenery. Their brain is saying, “I’ve
seen all this before.” The antidote? Once or twice a week drive to work a
different way. See how the challenges
of navigating a new route, unfamiliar driving conditions and changed surroundings
really wake up your brain and give you a massive rutbuster! See different
things and get your mind out of the daily rut. 7.
Change what you listen to in the car. Most people start their day listening to the
radio with its news of madness, murder and mayhem (since good news doesn’t
sell). By the time you get to the office your brain is full of bad stuff,
just like it was yesterday and the day before and the day before… Try
listening to something different--- classical music radio, a motivational CD,
an audiocassette novel or maybe, just maybe, the sounds of silence when the
brain can go into freewheel and think its own stuff. Tuning in a different sound makes sure
that you are not lured back into that dreadful rut. So there they are. Some
great ideas that can change the way you think and, as a consequence, the
results you will achieve. Use them
and mine the magic of the millennium. Take the time to build
improvement in your brain. This is
going to be a great year and you can make sure it’s your best ever full of
new thoughts and ideas. Get rid of “stinking thinking” and start creating
results for yourself that until now you’ve only dreamt about.
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