From the eBook - First edition.
Intro; MASTER YOUR MIND; Contents; Introduction; Roger's Story of "Slowing Down to Speed Up"; Robb's Story; Getting Results Faster ... What Does That Mean?; Less Really Can Be More; How to Get the Most from This Book; Tip #1: Just Read the Book; Tip #2: As You're Reading, Be Actively Looking for a Small Number of Things to Implement Right Away; Tip #3: Get Going, and Embrace the Ugly; PART I Slow Down Your Brain: Let an Elephant Do Your Work for You; 1 Slowing Down, Speeding Up, and Your "Runaway Brain" ... What Are We Talking About?; Slowing Down ... What's That Mean?
Cure for the Common "GO!"Real-Life Examples; What's a "Runaway Brain" and Why Should You Care?; How Your Brain "Runs Away"; A Brief Word of Caution; 2 Understanding and Harnessing Your Subconscious Brain; Four Key Differences between the Conscious and Subconscious Brains; Difference #1: Your Subconscious Is Orders of Magnitude Larger Than Your Conscious; Difference #2: Your Elephant Literally Speaks a Different Language from Your Ant
You Need to Speak Both Languages; Difference #3: Your Subconscious Doesn't Register the Word "No"; Difference #4: Your Subconscious Already Knows "How."
3 Understanding and Harnessing Your Brain Wave PatternsThe Fraternity of Beta Alpha Theta Delta; Beta: The "Awake" State; Alpha: The "Relaxed" State; Theta: The "Borderline" State; Delta: The "Deeply Asleep" State; 4 Your Brain's Unhelpful Default Settings; Not Character Flaws, Just Survival Mechanisms; Default Setting #1: Your Brain Tends to Over emphasize Negative and Under emphasize Positive Signals; Default Setting #2: Your Brain Is Easily (Really Easily) Consumed with the Urgent Matter, at the Expense of the Important Matter
Default Setting #3: Your Brain Craves Safety, Much More Than You Want "Progress"Summary; 5 The 2-Millimeter Principle and the Recipe for a Breakthrough; The 2-Millimeter Principle; The Recipe for a Breakthrough; Get Help; Get Invested; Get Away; Its Not All Resorts and All-Inclusives; Case Study: The Perfect Getaway; PART II Slow Down the Game: Counterintuitive Strategies and Tactics That Really Work; 6 Master Your Mind by Mastering Your Input: Programming Your Mind for Automatic Results; Your Major Mental Input Sources; Internal Input; External Input; Winning the Beginning of Your Day
"The First Hour of the Day Is Mine "Remember Alpha and Theta?; You Snooze, You Lose; Stay Unplugged as Long as Possible; "Well, If I Can't Use My Screens ... What Am I Supposed to Do?"; Winning the End of Your Day; Transition Out of Your Day Mindfully and Gently; The "Tech Curfew"; The Question That Sextupled My Productivity Overnight; 7 Master Your Mind by Mastering the Voices in Your Head; Your Brain Is Talking to You; Case Study: 5 Star Insurance; Total Lunatic or Sales Genius?; The Basic Premise: You've Gotta Be Working on It; You Know These Two Things Will Happen
