Small hassle or big existential questioning, same fight. It would only be enough of a little time in front of you, and a pen, to twist the neck at uncertainty and find a solution. This is in any case what the writer and lecturer Brian Tracy since 1986.
A simple method to clarify your thought
According to this guru of personal development, we would thus be able to resolve any challenge or blockage in 30 minutes and 5 steps alone. And without going through Chatgpt, it should be specified. Just armed with a pen and a sheet of paper.
His method is simple:
- Find a quiet place where you will not be distracted.
- Write the problem, (but really), with a pen.
- Adjust a timer over 30 minutes.
- Throw all the solutions you may think, even the most absurd.
- Surround the one who seems to you the least ridiculous and start with him.
Devote a real time to your question, a forgotten habit
Why does it work? According to the multiple defenders of this method, the time cleared to think is there for many. Because let’s be honest, taking the time becomes rare. Thus, in a life where notifications are constantly flocking, where we jump from one task to another, and respond to several requests at the same time, cutting off everything for 30 minutes is an exception. However, this forced break is the only condition that can stop your brain to turn like a hamster in its wheel. And to clarify the essentials.
“Take a time of break, sit down, think really about a concern, it inevitably helps. Writing all the tracks, sorting then: obviously that it moves forward. The problem is that we often spend more time ruminating than analyzing. So arising, structuring your thought is already giving yourself a chance to move forward” Confirm for us Amélie Boukhobza, clinical psychologist. Experience is therefore to be attempted.
But everything is not resolved in 30 minutes
But, if the method can allow you to really advance in the resolution of a project, it remains limited according to the problem in view. We do not solve an overly loaded planning story, like a drift couple for example.
“Believe that a universal recipe will settle everything in half an hour … it’s a bit naive” thus underlines the psychologist. It is also added an obligation of result which is not adapted in all circumstances. “Human problems are not mathematical equations. Some are lying down quickly, others take time, support, confrontation with oneself. And sometimes they are not resolved, they tame themselves” recalls our expert.
So yes, 30 minutes of reflection can open tracks. “”But to reduce the complexity of our lives to an express checklist is to miss what makes the depth of choices, links, pain. “
The real tip? Take the time, yes. But also accept that this time is sometimes much longer than 30 minutes.