If Then Tool for Personal Success

Sometime last year, I decided the following:

• If it is Tuesday, I will write an Eclat Insight

• If it is Wednesday, I will post the Insight

• If it is Friday 4 pm, I will do a weekly review.

This is just a sampling, but I noticed, that this simple technique made my scheduling and time decisions very easy. Once I had committed to this, any request for meetings, calls, had to go through this. I started making sure Tue & Wed mornings were free, & Fri evenings were free. I used to earlier do this under the 'Time Blocking' concept, but I found If, Then to be so much more powerful.

Experimenting with this and pushing it forward, I set up a simple If, Then. If it is 10 pm, Then I need to call mom. I set up alarms on my phone, but I realised, after only a week or so, it was automated in my mind. At 10 pm, my internal reminder system would alert me to 'call mom'.

How can you use this in your personal & professional life?

Use this template/format

Objective

Action

If-Then

If it’s...

Then...

Overcoming the obstacle

If it’s...

Then...

Example

Objective - Read Regularly

Action - Read whenever I have some free time or I am waiting for something

If-Then

If there is a delay in the meeting and I am waiting

Then..., I will read something on my phone.

Overcoming the obstacle

If I reach for Insta

Then, I will only watch 5 reels, then go back to reading.

A very good example of this is

https://fi.money/

simple, if-then statements help you save money.

A good idea is to make as many Ifs as possible for a situation and then create a Then for each of those. You can do this for all possible obstacles too.

I am on mail@prabhjotbedi.com and very happy to help you set up your own If-Then. If you reach out, Then, I can help.