Today we’re going to be talking about six ways to become more productive.

What would it look like if you could hone in on six gifts that you already have and they would help you become more productive, more present, more focused, and get more done?

Let’s talk about these six gifts. I do call them gifts because they’re found within you.

About 30 years ago, I was an elementary school teacher, fifth grade and second grade. Of course, I would teach the five senses, right? Those are the senses that we have to get to experience this world. Smell, sight, taste, touch, and spell.

I never once taught my students about the six intellectual faculties; some psychologists call them the six mental faculties. I find that just wrong, but just amazing that I, as a school teacher, was never taught to teach this to my students.

Now even today, can you name your six mental faculties?

If you could, and if you honed in on these gifts (these are God-given gifts, your six intellectual faculties) you would be more productive, you would get so much more done, you would have more joy, and ease in the creation of your business or your intentions.

Let’s go through each one and give you some ideas on how you can tap into it.

The first one is reason. Yes, reason. Reason is an intellectual capacity that helps you make a decision. You can decide, you can actually choose, you can choose a belief,  “yes, that serves me I accept it. No, that no longer serves me. I don’t accept.”

This gift of reason actually got gifted to you right around your seventh birthday. Isn’t that interesting? In psychology, we know as the brain develops, that we didn’t have this capacity before approximately age seven.

We just accepted everything. Everything our guardians told us, everything our parents told us, everything we saw on TV, we believed and chose to see it as truth. No longer. You’re not seven years old anymore.

Now you have the gift of reason and you can actually choose a thought, or you can reject a thought. You can choose what you’re focusing on or reject it, you can choose a belief, you can reject. That’s a beautiful gift.

How can you apply your gift of reason right now, today, to help you become more productive, more confident in yourself, create a deeper connection to your belief in your business, in your dream?

The second intellectual faculty is memory. We’re the only created beings on this planet that have the ability to remember we have a memory. The challenge with memory is most of us remember what didn’t work: where we failed, where we got rejected, or where it hurt. We experience life like everyone does and choose to remember the challenging parts. With this again, we can use our gift of reason.

The third one, which we’re going to talk about is will, but we can focus in on and hone in on a memory that brings you joy, a memory that empowers you, a memory that really brings in a new realm of inspiration for you. For me, it’s memories of, where I was divinely guided, a memory where I was at the right place at the right time, memory where I got up on stage and I just slayed that message and I impacted that entire audience. What memories are you choosing to bring up and focus on?

So, we talked about reason and we talked about memory. Now let’s talk about the will. Will is your ability to focus, to harness your energy, harness your attention on one task, one focus; that’s the power of the will. Isn’t it amazing?

We know in science, how powerful focus is. You can take the sun’s rays and harness that energy, harness that light, to create such a focus dense light, with a magnifying glass, that it can pop an ant (I did that when I was a kid). It can inflame a leaf, the leaf can flame and fire just by harnessing the power of those sun rays.

Bring that to your ability to focus. What would your business look like, if you tapped into your God-given gifts of will and focus?

That’s why meditation is so powerful and actually trains the brain and the body to sit and stay put. You are training yourself to sit for those 30 minutes, that one hour, those 10 minutes, and you’re actually training this capacity you call will. You can bring that to all other areas of your business and in life.

The fourth intellectual faculty is imagination. Einstein said that imagination is more powerful than intellect. So, how are you doing with tapping into your power of imagination? This is a gift to you, and this creates results. It actually changes your vibration when you’re imagining the possibility of your future, imagining you sharing your product, your service, your message, with clarity and power and resonance so that your prospect responds to it.

You were imagining them responding to you and connecting with you before you even pick up the phone and have the prospecting call. This is the power of imagination.

I was on stage a couple of months ago, and I said: “Imagine you are in a Maserati, and you are going 110 miles per hour, when your brakes let up and your steering locks. What do you do?” The whole audience is like “What do I do?” Well, what would you do?

Notice I said, imagine you’re in that car driving 105 miles per hour. The answer is you would change what you’re imagining, and this is what you and I do all the time. We imagine clients saying no or we imagine the prospect not being interested, we imagine our business partners angry with us or frustrated. We make up this stuff and the subconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between an imagined thought and thought of reality.

So, we might as well make up something radical, beautiful and inspiring. Imagination. Tap into that power.

The fifth power in your mind, these are mental faculties intuition. Intuition is so powerful. I heard Wayne Dyer say one time that prayer is us talking to God and intuition is God talking to us. I believe that.

You can be intuitive in what’s safe and what’s not safe. You can be intuitive in making a connection with a prospect, or a friend. You can be intuitive of who to call;  if you have it on your heart to call someone do it. That’s your intuition. God whispering to you what to do. You can also pick up intuition and energy from other people.

That’s helpful in making a connection and creating a connection with new people, friends, loved ones. Intuition. These are all skills, just like you go to the gym and workout on your muscles, (like I’ve been doing), you work out on these intellectual faculties. They take effort to work them out, and the more you focus in on them, the more that you practice these skills, these intellectual faculties, the more they grow, the more you can access them and the greater capacity you have to use these for more productivity, more connection, and more results.

Let’s review we said reason, imagination, the will, memory, and intuition. The last one, I love this one, perception.

Perception is mental capacity. I had a client say to me one time, “Lisa I invited this friend to take a look at my business opportunity and when I was in the car line with my kids this morning, she completely ignored me and looked the other way.” Perception.

Come to find out when they chatted later that night:

The friend said something like “Sure I’ll take a look at it so what else is new with you?”

And the other friend said, “Well, you didn’t even look at me. I thought that maybe I made you mad or something.”

And the other friend said “I wasn’t wearing my glasses. I didn’t even see you.”

Perception.

One time I was at a Rich Life Mastermind Retreat conducting this retreat in Versailles. One of my participants was a pastor and I was kind of nervous coaching this pastor. Just my own limiting beliefs around who he is for his congregation. Within 15 minutes of that first-day session of the mastermind, he’s looking at me with this serious face. And then about 20 minutes into the mastermind, he looks at me and he says, “We need to talk.”

I’m sweating. My perception of that was, he’s mad at me. My perception of that is, he doesn’t like me teaching that we have power here and we can tap into the spiritual realm and we the power of the mind and God in you.

You know what, on that break, we walked out of that room and he looked at me and he said: “Lisa, you are a gift from God. I have been trying to teach this to my congregation and never gave myself permission to go all out with this. But this is what my congregation needs.” But see, I made it up because of that perception.

How are you doing with perception? Could you stop putting meaning to people, to things, to circumstances, and even tap into the power of imagination and imagine the best case scenario, then clear it up with that person? That way your perception and their perception is aligned.

What would that look like to have business partners, prospects, friends and loved ones with that kind of alignment?

I hope that these six mental faculties are helpful to you. It is a fearless Friday.

What are you going to do today that’s outside your comfort zone to open up a whole new realm of possibility of you experiencing a new level of you? Being fearless, being bold, tapping into your God-given gifts of these mental faculties for better results and just a better you. Because what I believe is when we create a better you, a better me, we create a better business.

Make it a great Friday and we’ll talk soon

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Thanks, everyone.