Tools: Clipits

How to get into Second Life without really trying

Selby Evans is Thinkerer Melville in Second Life

Clipits are crib sheets for thinkering.  They summarize key information.  You may need to read the related pages to understand everything in the summary,  But you don't have to understand everything on the Clipit to start using  it.  All you have to understand is what you are going to use. 

You can use a Clipit as a cue:
Print out the page. 
Clip out the parts you want to use
Put them where you will notice them. 

With your money.

On you mirror.

On the dashboard of your car.

On the TV remote.

On your refrigerator door.

On your calendar. 

On your desk lamp.

In papers you are working on.

On your computer.

If you want this plan to work, pick one Clipit and use it for at least a week. 

If you don't think the plan worked, ask yourself why. 

 

If you feel inclined to use several Clipits at the same time, don't bother.  Just conclude in advance that it won't work. Skip the Clipit trick until you are ready to focus on one thing at a time.

Clipits

Annoying habits of a Thinkerer

Choose Clipit

Feel Feelings Clipit

Explore a Chapter Clipit

Goal-of the-Month Club

Head Starts Clipit

Habit Clipit

Ideator

Idea Clipit

Imagery Clipit

Impulsiveness Clipit

Memory Clipit

Plan Clipit

Problem-solving:
The first 5 secretsUse them to name your fingers. 

GoalLook at the goal, not the problem.

TranslateTranslate complaints into goals.

Who: The only who is you.

StartYou will start with your resources.

Hard: If it were easy, you would have already done it.

Relax Clipit

Resolutions Clipit

Self-awareness Clipit

Self-confidence Clipit

Self-direction Clipit

Study: Best Practices Clipit

Time control  Try this if you have time

Time Sucker Clipit

Tomorrow Clipit

Troubleshoot Clipit

If you discover that you didn't really want to do what the Clipit called for, stop trying to do what you don't want to do.    Go to the goals venue and figure out what you really want to do.  Goals
If you expect your brain to help you, decide what you want it to do.
The Thinkerer 10/23/2008
Copyright (c) D. F. Dansereau & S. H. Evans

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