How to Make Challenging Business Tasks Easier

By Pamela Bruner at Making Your Success Easy

Things that your subconscious mind does are easy. Things that you need your conscious mind for are much harder.

The conscious mind - let's call it Controller - is easily exhausted. Anything that takes focus and attention is tiring, including new tasks, and developing new habits. Using willpower is exhausting, and scientific studies have shown that when you use willpower for one task, you have less of it available for other tasks.

Working from the subconscious mind - let's call it The Flow - is not exhausting. Habitual actions and activities don't take willpower or attention, and so they don't tire out our Controller. They are easier. However, The Flow only goes where it's been programmed, like a river in it's banks.

This is why using willpower to accomplish anything is so challenging. You literally 'use up' your willpower, especially if you're trying to take on multiple new tasks or behaviors, like marketing, sales, or running a business in a new and different way.

Think of it this way - anytime you take on something new, such as learning a new sport or musical instrument, you have to concentrate very hard. Later, as you become more skilled at it, it requires less effort to do. It's moved into the subconscious, The Flow, so it's easier.

How can you use this information to improve your business?

You have to get what you need to do placed into the subconscious mind, The Flow, so you're not relying solely on the easily exhausted conscious mind - Controller. Most of us try to run things with Controller alone, and we're worn out.

Two things will activate The Flow:

1) Repetition. The more that you do an action, over and over, the more habitual it becomes. The more that you share your elevator speech with people, the easier it becomes to do. The more ezines you write, the easier it becomes.

Repetition is good, but it takes time.

2) Communication with The Flow. You can't do this directly with words, as you do Controller. The language of The Flow is pictures and emotions, and it's job is to protect you.

That's why visualization is such a powerful tool in effecting The Flow. The Flow actually can't tell the difference between an imagined picture and a real one. So if every time you think about talking to a prospective client, you see them rejecting you, The Flow will sabotage those conversations. You'll find a way NOT to have them.

If you visualize being accepted by your prospective client, The Flow will work with you to help you create more of that.

In sales, they say that you need a certain number of 'no' responses in order to get 'yes' responses. However, with visualization, you can start out with 50 yeses. Imagine how powerful that can be for The Flow!

Sports figures visualize sinking balls, and you can visualize getting yes responses, having a task be easier than it has been before, or any other measure of success or ease that you like.

How do we use this approach to increase our skill level in trading and investing?

Visualize, visualize, visualize,  to get all parts of your trading analysis process into the The Flow. Visualizing is not just visual. Feel the emotions, see charts in your mind's eye, watch yourself making clear, focused decisons, etc.

Daily watchlist chart viewing. Picking entry points. Taking profits. Being patient. Waiting for your planned entry point. Creating a plan for every trade. Execution checklists.

All of these actions can be visualized and practiced again and again before you actual do them with real money.