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Increase Your Mental Clarity in Just 15 Minutes


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Today I’m going to share a simple exercise I use to quickly get mental clarity. You will find this very useful for different purposes, such as to:

  1. Clear your head (especially if your mind is feeling cluttered)
  2. Calm yourself down from a restless, troubled or stressed state
  3. Free up mental energy (if you are feeling tired)

I’ve been doing this of late and found it to be incredibly helpful. It’s also the same exercise I recommend to my clients to clear up mental blockages.

How It Works – Via Increasing Mental RAM

Imagine your brain as a computer. Every computer has RAM which determines its processing capacity. The more applications the computer is running, the more RAM is used and the slower your computer gets. If you have used resource-intensive programs such as 3D Max Studio or played graphic-intensive games like World of Warcraft or Halo before, closing unwanted applications frees up RAM for these programs.

Likewise, our brain has its own RAM too. This RAM is used for all kinds of brain work, from thinking, recalling, analyzing, to the subconscious actions. You want to have as much free RAM as possible to function at top capacity of your brain.

However, not all our RAM is available when we want them. At least half is occupied…


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Published Dec 21 2009
Filed: Awareness & Growth, Productivity & GTD
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Keep Your End Objective In Mind


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To keep your end objective in mind is crucial for conscious living. It can be divided into two phases: 1) Identify your end objective 2) Evaluate everything against your objective.

1) Identify Your End Objective

Whenever you are starting a new task, activity or goal, always be clear on what your end objective is. Why are you doing this? Is it serving some larger meaning? Where does it fall in the larger context?

This is the same as the second habit in Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which is Begin With The End In Mind.

There are 3 kinds of end objectives you need to be clear on:

  1. Life objective: What is your purpose in life?
  2. Goal objective: What is the objective of your goal?
  3. Task objective: What is the objective of this task you are doing?

Each objective sets the context for the item below it. For example, your life purpose sets the overall context for your life and your goals. Your goals sets the context for tasks, activities and things you do everyday. Thus, the tasks you do everyday should be a subset of your goals, while your goals should be a subset of your life purpose.

Your purpose is like the grandmother of all end objectives. If you…


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Published Feb 20 2009
Filed: Awareness & Growth, Goals & Success, Productivity & GTD, Purpose & Meaning
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