There are at least two important paradigm to lead us towards the achievement of the goal or aspiration we live, whether it is the form of financial freedom, a beautiful relationship with God and each other, health, happiness, and prosperity. The first is the paradigm of your mind Determine your success (Your Thinking Determines Your Success), and the second is a habit you Determine Your Future (Will I need to know determine Your Future). This means that the customs our day-to-day and what we think and how we use the power of mind is very determine what happens in the future.
Yates, the second paradigm is described in the management techniques themselves, namely: techniques associated with the behavior (behavioral Techniques) and engineering techniques Utilizing mind (cognitive Techniques). In the book self-management is defined as psychological techniques to solve personal problems (personal) and interpersonal (relationship antarpribadi), and to achieve the objectives of career and life. Although of course this is according to our definition, which is part of management of ourselves.
Indeed, our ability to utilizing the power of mind is very much determined by a series of practices that we do with our minds. Controlling and control our minds we can only do through a series of ongoing exercises self-discipline and a strong, so that eventually we can utilize the tremendous strength of mind we automatically. This is exactly like learning process when we drive the car.
The first lesson is how to harmonize the gas pedal and clutch pedal so the car can run with the smooth. If we release the clutch too quickly, the car will jump. If we hit the gas with fast while we hold foothold clutch, the car will not run and the engines roar. Sometimes the car-clogged walk stagnant as parents sputter.
But after training continuously, now we finally drive the car is not thinking clutch and the gas again - is automatic. Even we can steer the car while jabber in our mobile phone. Similarly with the way our minds work that we can analogikan as a car that can bring us wherever the purpose of life that we impikan.
Working with the mind (mind power), should not need to understand the function and how to work the brain and nervous network - and the laws of quantum physics and physiology nervous (the two disciplines of this is used by experts to explain how our brain works that way with the identical work universe). Like the analogy was a car - to learn driving (read: control) cars (read: mind), we do not need to understand how to work and how carburettor spark plugs can cause the fire to burn the driving engine. Only a few of us understand the machine, but this did not hamper us to be able to drive a car.