Ready Set Go
“Between a wish and its fulfillment is an onrushing mind-wipe that only immediate action will prevent.” – Dale Syrota
This is Dale Syrota for Mind Hacks by Dale and this is a mind hack moment. Hello My Friends. I answer questions of the mind to help you make your mind-work, WORK.
In a recent Tumblr post, that I called Think and Do, I talked about the need to take immediate action when wanting to move forward on a particular goal. In this post, I will expand on that and I will also talk about the power of three and how to use it to achieve great results.
I remember an incident, during the runup to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, where, during a tirade at the United Nations, Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe on the podium three times, hesitated momentarily and gave it a fourth bang for effect. The first three got our attention and with the forth, he drove home his assertion.
Politicians have learned that if you repeat things such as a hand gesture or words three times, psychologically, we are programmed to notice. In my how-to mind hack posts, I recommend three repetitions as the best way to review and learn something.
Rule of Three
This programming comes from the way our brain learns. Something is said, and we interpret it as a feeling where it sits for a short time in the hippocampus. If there is no repeat of the word a mind-wipe occurs, and you forget it.
If the word is repeated, then the feeling that the word represents is forwarded to the thalamus where it sits for about an hour and a half. If the word is not repeated another mind-wipe occurs and you forget.
If the word is again repeated, then the feeling of the word is forwarded to the hypothalamus where it sits for the next day and a half.
Now, if you get a good night’s rest and you drop into REM-sleep the hypothalamus will cause the feeling to be repeated 11,000 times and move the feeling into the basal ganglia where it becomes more or less a permanent memory.
Get a bad night’s sleep and a mind-wipe occurs and you forget.
And you thought you learned during the day when you were sitting in a class. Nope! You learn when you are asleep.
Using Ready, Set, Go
There is a phrase that starters use at the beginning of a race. It is, “On your mark, get set, go.” Others will say “get ready, get set, go.” Still, others shorten that to, “Ready, set, go.” Each follows the rule of three.
Here is how you can use ready, set, go. Let’s say that you have an idea. You want to go for a walk. You know if you think about it you will find all kinds of reasons or apply some perverted logic that will stop you from doing the walk.
The moment you first decide to go for that walk move your hand to the Connect position. You will feel that something good is about to happen. This time your affirmation is the word, ‘ready.’ In other words, you are about to go for a walk and you are READY, to do so.
When you say, ‘SET,’ you are summoning your energy to move.
When you say, ‘GO,’ move. Get your coat and keys and head outside for that walk.
Ready, set, go! You have used those words a thousand times as a child when you were about to race, or run, or try some type of game. You have heard your friends say it, your parents say it, and teachers and kids at school say it. Ready, set, go, is a very strong part of your psyche. Ready, set, go is a very strong habit. So much so that when you say it without a reason to move, your brain does a head shake as it wonders what action you are going to use ready-set-go, on. It is a very strong drive indeed.
When you have started the walk, use the Connect hand motion again, and say, “thank you.” That just makes the Connect move even more powerful for the next time that you use it.
Use the Connect motion to stop the mind wipe and ready, set, go to move forward on that dream, that inspiration, or that thing that you know that you should do.
- There are a thousand things that you can get yourself to do with, ‘ready, set, go.’
- Are you afraid to do something that you should be doing? Stop thinking and ready, set, go, it.
- Are you postponing something that you should be doing? Ready, set, go, it.
- Are you stuck with a choice between a good and bad food? Look at the good food and ready, set, go, it.
- Do you need to go make a recording? Ready, set, go, it.
READY, SET, GO!
Perhaps the most powerful words in the English language. Use them!
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