Aligned Thinking Secret #7 - The MIN Secret The Key To It All

If you use nothing else but the MIN Secret from Aligned Thinking, it has the ability to change your life. The MIN Secret is coming in this document.

Aligned Thinking Secret #6 established two things:

First, you don't control time. Your action now is the only thing you control.

Second, to get the most out of your action now, you need to optimize the what, why and how of this action.

The Problem: in your very busy everyday life, would you stop and ask "How can I optimize the what of this action? How can I optimize the why of this action? How can I optimize the how of this action?" Certainly not!

The Need For An Elegantly Simple Solution

The solution needs to be elegant - it needs to pull all of Aligned Thinking together. Elegant - it needs to help you focus the totality of your life on what you really want.

The solution needs to be simple - it needs to be so simple, once you hear it, you can use it immediately and for the rest of your life.

Years of research and experience have shown me that to come up with the elegantly simple solution we need to come up with a question that has 24/7 use. In the book, Aligned Thinking, the last couple Ray and Carol visit tell them, "You will appreciate the MIN Secret more if you discover it yourself."

The same is true for you. Let?s do it right now.

Discovering The MIN Secret

To optimize the, what of your next action, what simple question could you ask yourself when you are deciding what to do next so you consistently focus on your Most Important Now?
What's my MIN (Most Important Now) is about as elegantly simple and straight forward as it can be.

To optimizing the why of this next action what elegantly simple addition could we add to "What's my MIN?" that would keep you consistently focused on what you REALLY want?
Could it be as elegantly simple as "What's my MIN related to what I really want?"
That is it!

When you use the elegantly simple nine word question and follow it, you have just optimized the what and why.
Optimizing the how of this next action. Last time we established that being totally involved in your MIN with complete focus is the key to optimizing the how of this next action. We have done it. We have discovered the MIN Secret.

Aligned Thinking Secret #7 - The MIN Secret - Simple Elegance

Most important tool: when you are deciding what to do next, the Aligned Thinking tool that will help you align every action to what you really want is:

ask "What's my MIN related to what I really want?"

Organize and abandon everything that is not your MIN at this moment.

Become totally involved in your MIN with complete focus.

Simple - you just have nine words to remember. And it makes life very simple. You can get the most out of your entire life, focusing on just one thing at this moment.

Elegance - this keeps you focused on want you really want. It is something that you can use immediately - right now. And for the rest of your life.

In the book, when Ray and Carol learn of the MIN Secret, Coach spends the second half of the book helping them learn ways to get more and more benefits from this simple elegant question.

An Indication Of The Value You Can Receive

Our time together reviewing the Seven Secrets of Aligned Thinking is coming to an end. I have enjoyed sharing these with you. I hope you have enjoyed reading them and it will help you as it has so many. I was at a loss to come up with a fitting closing on something that has done so much for so many.

Then I received this email from a client who became a friend. "I left Bell Labs in 1999, and am now fulfilling my long-time dream of "sharing my experience" by teaching Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon Univ. in Pittsburgh.

And I still find many opportunities to share with others your incredibly powerful concept of "Most Important Now."

I appreciate his statement about my 'incredibly powerful concept of "Most Important Now."' I'm delighted he is following his dream. Both give you some promise.

But the thing that gives you the most promise of what the MIN Secret can do for you is today's date and when John was in the Aligned Thinking program.

John did the program in 1979, 27 years ago. The MIN Secret has served him and those he shares with for 27 years and is still going strong.

A Huge Thanks in advance

I'm excited about what we can do together by sharing this with those we care about.

Coach Jim

PS Remember to share this with those you care about - friends, family, associates and clients.

Jim Steffen - Time Myth Buster
SSA International

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