For anyone who is interested in maintaining a healthy level of mental concentration while obtaining your goals, desires and success, there are two things that may go hand in hand to help you achieve your goals while also helping you to overcome that dreaded “procrastination”!
Achieving Goals, attain self-improvement with Mental Bank
Developed by John Kappas (HMI Founder), the Mental Bank Ledger can help you retrain your sub-conscious to accept and re-frame old goals, develop new goals, achieve them and grow from that achievement. The Mental Bank concept is an extremely simple one based on the premise that you “pay yourself” for those things you have actually worked on to achieve by adding them to your Ledger and then “paying yourself” for attaining them. A Free 2 hour seminar presented by George Kappas of HMI provides you with a far better level of understanding of what the MB is and how it can help you, so I’ll just leave the video do the talking. Everything you need in order to set up your own Mental Bank Ledger is provided to you in detail during this video – even though you can purchase ledgers from HMI or Amazon.com, etc., this isn’t really necessary because any book with paper will do. Just set aside a few hours to view the video and then give it a try – you just might be pleasantly surprised with what you find yourself able to accomplish that you “thought” you didn’t have time to do before.
The Premise behind MB and how it can help you
The Mental Bank program is one that retrains your sub-conscious in a very easy way that is almost effortless. Your investment is about 3 minutes a night in a period of time that falls within a 30 minute time frame just before you go to sleep. This time frame is important due to the fact that this allows your sub-conscious to “absorb” your actions applied to your Mental Bank Ledger. Effectively what you are doing is feeding your sub-conscious information that will, over time, become part of your unconscious actions and attitudes and part of your every day life.
Combining Mental Bank with Mental Concentration training
An additional resource in your tool box is always a good thing to have and if you are finding that you “forget about your MB” exercise, what better way to improve that than by the Dynamic Mental Fitness site which offers a number of exercises that are designed to assist with mental concentration and focus. You can sign up for a free course at the link above, but you also have access to a number of posts and information related to their techniques. A search on youtube.com for mental fitness will also garner you several exercise videos provided by Dynamic Mental Fitness. The exercises are extremely simple in concept and are designed to help you attain concentration levels that are improved over and above that which you currently may have.
Each exercise is designed to be done in increments building up to a 15 or 30 minute session, which is indicative of your improvement as you work through the exercises.
If you are interested in building your focus and attaining your goals, give these two resources a try. Never know what you might achieve! Just an aside – I use both of these resources and like many others who have also used these, I can say that they have definitely been well worth the investment of the little time each takes to accomplish. Procrastination was my main reason for taking up the Mental Bank Ledger in particular and I am quite pleased with the level of progress I’ve achieved in such a short period of time (just a little less than 3 weeks). I began the Mental Focus exercises about a week ago and can openly admit that I’ve not yet forgotten to do my MB 🙂 and I’ve even been able to retain a lengthy list of “stuff” that my daughter asked me to deliver to her – without even writing it down! I didn’t forget a single thing either from over 17 different items – an almost unheard of success rate for me until now. If you happen to try these out…I’d love to hear about your progress! Enjoy.
Lex
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I came across this post and was very interested in following up to see how this program was working for you. it is an interesting concept. I also have a problem with procrastination and wonder if it would help. deepok chopra explains an evening meditation very similar to this.
Hi Dan, Thanks so much for your comment. I intend to do a follow up article on the Mental Bank system and how it has continued to work for me. I’m just a bit involved with the design of a couple of sites right now. As for the Mental Bank system helping with procrastination, I’d have to say emphatically, YES it does. There’s something about seeing things you’ve noted in your MB journal, coming to be, that begins to give you the momentum to see things through and begin new things that you’ve wanted to, or you must. My thoughts on procrastination are, or I should say, were, wrapped with a little ribbon of fear. That and perfectionism. Two really perfect mates when it comes to holding people back from starting and/or completing things they really want/need to. I’ll try to update this article by weeks end so that you can check back on it and see if some of the things I add, will assist you. Thanks for reading, commenting and of course visiting! Have a great week. Lex
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