The following tips will help you work more efficiently:
1. You set the mode of work at the Distance yourself: each of you has your own rhythm of life and your own characteristics. Most importantly, the load must be reasonable. The time-tested system of work is: ONE exercise in reconnaissance, THREE exercises in vigorous active work and TWO exercises are quietly completed in the background.
2. Here is a little trick: take one exercise for the mind (for example, you track your NOs and objections), another exercise for the soul (Internal GOOD or Positive TRANSLATOR), the third exercise for the body (for example, Posture or Relaxation). In this case, on the one hand, you will always be at work, on the other hand, switching from one exercise to another is at the same time a rest.
3. The beauty of Distance exercises is that they are practiced in everyday life and are organically integrated into this everyday life, but if you realize that practicing a particular exercise suddenly comes into conflict with work and affairs (rarely, but this happens), put the exercise aside. We always study, but without fanaticism and distinguish: now I have a study mode, and now I have a job.
4. When choosing exercises for yourself, start with an exercise either with the EASIEST one — for warming up and overclocking, in order to get joy and a sense of success, or with the MOST IMPORTANT one for you, for which you are ready to strain yourself seriously.
5. Most often, we recommend intensive: sluggish and rare work (5 sluggish minutes a day) is only a waste of time and the formation of the belief that «I will not succeed and the Distance is not for me.» The work is strong, tough, energetic (6-8 hours a day) — it forms a real skill, gives a real solid result and a sense of success. If you decide to take up the exercise, then get together, set a convenient time, make reminders, ask others around you to help you — and for vigorous work. We worked — cheers!, congratulated ourselves and got busy with other things.
Proper work on the Distance is a combination of cheerfulness and comfort. Good luck to you!
Tips from students of the University of Practical Psychology
Elena Kuzmina: Dear colleagues! I want to share with you my discovery on Distance. This is a checklist for the exercises I’m currently working on: you can download the template here. I print out a template for myself (4 templates fit on an A5 sheet), cut it out and put it in my diary as a bookmark. What does it give:
- Allows me to significantly increase the amount of my attention to the Distance exercises. During the day, I look at this checklist more than 5 times.
- It is convenient to mark those exercises that were worked out right during the day, so as not to keep it in your head.
- You can peek and remember what ORMs I set for exercises, how I planned to perform them, by what parameters to evaluate.
- It allows very quickly in the evening, within 5-7 minutes, to write a diary on the Distance.
- The checklist is very individual, everyone composes it according to their exercises and their criteria. I hope this idea will be useful to you and will help you to practice more effectively at a Distance.
Try it, it’s convenient!