Researchers estimate we only use around two to ten per cent of our brainpower each day.

This means that much of the mental processing power you’ve got is rusting away, unused. This is literally true, because when your brain cells die they aren’t replaced. If you could find ways to access more of your fantastic brainpower, what could you achieve? Could you double or triple your current income?

Here’s the GPS (Goal Positioning System) process in a nutshell: you set clear, time-limited goals, you visualize yourself successfully completing tasks and achieving your goals every day, you use your intuition, you write ABOUT what you want, and why you want it, and you create and use a daily task list.

The key to accessing more of your brainpower lies in the tasks that you procrastinate on. When you resist something, the resistance uses up more energy than completing the task. Your resistance also leads to feelings of guilt and unworthiness, and these feelings lower your overall effectiveness, which means you use even less of your total brainpower.

Here’s how to use your GPS to tackle your procrastination:

=> Write down where you are, exactly what you want to do, and how you want to feel while you’re doing it

“But I already know what I want to do,” you protest.

Yes, that’s true. But part of you is weaseling out. Your left brain might want to complete the task, but if you’re procrastinating, it’s a sign that your right brain and your unconscious mind have other ideas. For whatever reason, they want no part of the task and will do their best to ensure that you don’t do it.

Procrastination’s insidious. If you’re procrastinating, you’ll find any number of super-logical reasons NOT to do the task. You’ll suddenly remember those phone calls you have to make. Or that you haven’t called your mother all week. Or that you really need to check on how your online auctions are doing.

Let’s imagine a scenario. Let’s say you’re procrastinating on mowing the lawn. The grass is almost to your knees and your house-proud neighbors are so peeved that they turn away when they see you.

Take out a pen and paper and write down where you are, what you want to do, and how you want to feel while you’re doing it.

You’ll find that as you’re writing, the other parts of your brain will start to kick in. As you write: “It’s Tuesday, almost 4pm, and I’m sitting in the kitchen having a cup of coffee. I want to go and check the mower, and mow the lawn. It will only take me half an hour, and I’ll feel energetic and pleased with myself while I’m doing it. The lawn will look great.”

Mowing the lawn is a simple enough task, and once you’ve written it down, chances are that you’ll march right out and do it, because the unconscious resistance you have to the task just melted away. I have no real idea why writing things down — where you are, what you want to do, and how you want to feel while you’re doing it — works so well in combating procrastination, but it does. Try it.

On the other hand, you may get real feelings of conflict when you write down what you want to do. If that happens, keep writing. Ask yourself (in writing) what the problem is. Maybe you’ll write: “I haven’t got time to mow the lawn. I should be working on that presentation I’m giving next week.”

Aha! Now you’re getting to the nitty-gritty. Your procrastination about the lawn-mowing and subsequent frustration with yourself is masking your real problem, which is anxiety about your upcoming presentation.

You can deal with that, now you know what it is. You could write: “I will mow the lawn and feel great while I’m doing it, and then I will work on the presentation for an hour. I will feel relaxed and calm and confident while I work on the presentation.”

You’ll be amazed that once you’ve written down the real problem, it’s no longer such a big deal.

Keep writing, until you feel an emotional shift. You’ll soon get ideas on how to solve the problem, and then you’ll hustle right out and get your lawn mowed. And oddly enough, you will also work on your presentation, and you’ll enjoy it.

=> Trick yourself

Nine times out of ten, the above process will work like the proverbial charm.

But what happens if you can’t even force yourself to the point of writing? This happens because when you procrastinate, you procrastinate for a reason. If that reason is powerful enough to stop you doing the task, and it may also be powerful enough to prevent you using this simple writing process.

All is not lost. Trick yourself. Tell yourself that you’re going to list ten places you could go on vacation. Or that you’re going to write a shopping list. Begin writing your list, and after you’ve written a couple of items, start using the GPS process.

Write about where you are, exactly what you want to do, and how you want to feel while you’re doing it. You’ll be amazed and pleased that you’ve conquered your procrastination.

A benefit of this process is that once you’ve used it a couple of times, because you know you can eliminate your procrastination anytime you want to, you’ll procrastinate less.

If procrastination is a problem for you, use your GPS. The process works.

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How’s your motor running? Are you powering through your daily tasks and
accomplishing all the goals you set for yourself, or are you stuck in life’s slow lane?

Here’s how to boost your performance, and achieve your goals, using your GPS (Goal
Positioning System).

=> 1. Set clear, time-limited goals, using your GPS (Goal Positioning System)

What do you want and when do you want it? You need to know where you’re headed,
otherwise you’ll end up somewhere you don’t expect.

If you’ve been resisting setting goals because it all sounds like too much work, and
you’ve got enough on your plate already, try using your own GPS (Goal Positioning
System).

The usual way of setting goals is to decide what you want, set the date by which you
will have achieved it, and then work backwards from the date, creating monthly,
weekly, and daily tasks which will, with luck, get you there.

The problem with this system is that it assumes that you’re static, that nothing
much is going to change in you and in your environment between now and the date
you’ve set for achieving your goal. But you change every day, and so does
everything else.

Try using your GPS. It’s simplicity itself. The only demand it makes on you is that
you decide what you want, and by which date you want it. Then you set yourself
some weekly and daily tasks which will, according to where you are at the moment,
and according to your current knowledge, take you there.

The only thing you need to keep in your mind is your goal. Your GPS locks onto your
goal and proceeds to move you towards it.

How? Read on for how to use your GPS.

=> 2. Daily: visualize yourself successfully completing tasks and achieving your
goals

Split-brain theory suggests that your brain’s split into two: into your right and left
brain. Your right brain sees wholes, rather than parts. Your left brain focuses and
sees parts, rather than wholes.

The two halves of your brain work together smoothly, most of the time. However,
you can gum up the works with stress, by trying too hard, and by assuming that you
know exactly how you will achieve your goals.

Your brain works best if you use your imagination (images/ right brain) to picture
what you want, and use your logic (left brain) to figure out a plan, and work on the
plan, TODAY.

So get an image of your goal’s achievement, and confine your activities to what you
can clearly see to do right now, today, to get yourself toward your goal.

You confine yourself to today, because you will change today, and everything will
change around you, albeit subtly (usually). Confining yourself to today is realistic.
You can’t know what will happen tomorrow; you don’t know what effect your actions
today will have.

Before you do each task today, take a moment and picture the task as done, before
you start it.

If you hate a task, this mental imaging is vital. Let’s say you hate to make cold calls
(telemarketing). You dislike the task, so you put it off as long as possible, and when
you do get around to doing it you do it in a half-hearted manner. Guess how many
sales you make with this attitude?

Instead, try this. Imagine yourself doing something you enjoy, say swimming.
Imagine yourself in the pool, swimming laps. Really get into this, use your senses,
and clearly imagine your enjoyment.

Now say to yourself: “As I’m making my cold calls, I’ll feel exactly the same
enjoyment I do as when I’m swimming.” Now picture yourself making the calls, and
enjoying doing it.

=> 3. Use your intuition

The next step in using your GPS is to allow your intuition to help you.

Your intuition manifests through bodily sensations. You may get “gut feelings” or
your feelings may manifest somewhere else in your body. Listen to them. Follow
your instincts.

=> 4. Write ABOUT what you want, and why you want it

Writing about what you want, and why you want it, is a great way to deal with
negative emotions.

If you feel resistance to doing something, say cold calls, as in our example, take out
a pen and paper and ask yourself why you feel this.

Just keep writing. Write as quickly as you can, for at least ten minutes. Use a timer.
Don’t stop writing until the ten minutes is up.

You’ll be amazed at the effect this simple process has. You can change your mood
entirely, and can also get at the root cause of your discomfort and eliminate it.

True, you may feel some discomfort as you write. However, by being willing to stay
with it, those feelings will dissipate. And best of all, they won’t return. Stay with it.

=> 5. Create and use a daily task list

Each morning, using a pen and paper, write out five tasks you will do today. It’s
important to use pen and paper for this, and write out the tasks manually, even if
you use a PIM (Personal Information Manager) or calendar on your computer.

Write out your tasks, and prioritize them: A,B,C,D,E.

Writing out your tasks by hand kickstarts your brain. It involves both your left and
right brain, and gets them to cooperate.

If you aren’t powering through your life, with your eyes fixed firmly on the prize —
your goals — and use your GPS. It’s easy, it’s great fun, and best of all, it will move
you towards your goals faster than you believed possible.

Author of many books, including Making the Internet Work for Your Business,
copywriter and journalist Angela Booth also writes copy for businesses large and
small, and consults on search engine marketing. Angela has written copy for
companies in many industries, ranging from technology and real estate to the
jewellery trade. Her clients include major corporations like hp (Hewlett Packard),
WestPac Bank, and Acer Computer. For copywriting services and marketing
advice contact Angela at angelabooth.com

Currently we see that many companies are working with RFID Implants and believe if we are to put them in humans we need to put them into the skull so they cannot be taken out. This would allow us to track bad guys, criminals, child molesters or even Iraqi civilian workers incase of kidnapping.

Many Futurists have discussed such “Orwellian” potential eventualities along this line of thinking. My thoughts are that, as societies grow larger and larger due to population that more rules will need to be made to keep peace. As the innate characteristics of the species will be exacerbated, as they are pushed under the carpet they will emerge in extremely bizarre ways and like volcanoes explode that pent up energy. Thus perhaps if everyone had them we could quickly catch criminals and deal with them and have a safer society.

We know from rats that their behavior changes drastically when over populated in a tight environment. We see more crime in cities when this occurs with humans and even locusts swarm. African tribes start killing each other. One Think Tanker suggested this might be a reality by 2030 and by his timetable we could have as many as lets say 15 Billion people on the planet. It is possible, although we are seeing a slowing of the hyperbolic curve of population growth of humans, it might be something that we as a civilization or World choose to do. Sacrifice our freedoms for such a 1984 approach to things.

It appears that this may become something we choose to do or it maybe something we choose not to do, as society, provided we still live in a democracy at that future date. A tiny active matrix device in the brain running off the vibrational energy of the pulse will be available very soon and it were put under the skull; few would attempt to remove it, so indeed the gentleman’s premise of having implants of RFID MEMS by 2030 does hold up in Sci Fi theory and also in real terms of current technology. Think on this in 2006.

Lance Winslow