Your thoughts are compelling. You can shape not just your life but also the lives of others just by thinking the right thoughts. Your thoughts influence a lot, including your actions and your level of productivity. So, if you are keen on boosting your productivity, you should take the first step of thinking the right thoughts.  

Blaine Oelkers is an expert in helping people take control of their lives by controlling their thoughts, but he hadn’t always been like that. The origin of his passion for helping others take control of their lives can easily be traced to that period when he experienced a devasting loss on what was meant to be one of the happiest days of his life. Blaine Oelkers’ father died unexpectedly the same day his son was born.

 He went through the stages of grief—shock-denial-anger-acceptance. Accepting the reality of his father’s death, he had to decide if the experience would make him bitter or better. He went with the latter as he chose to honour his father by becoming a work-from-home dad. He made that decision when he realized that his young son was having a tough time warming up to him after he returned from one of his long corporate business trips. Blaine left his corporate job and hasn’t looked back since then. That clarifying decision began his journey into self-development and extending this grace to others.

Today, Blaine Oelkers is a TEDx speaker and America’s only Chief Result Officer®. With education from both Purdue University and Stanford University, he is the creator of 30-minutes Hours™, which focuses on helping people create new habits in just 21 seconds. His passion for assisting people in taking control of their lives led him to found Selfluence, a development and training company dedicated to helping people harness the power they already have to influence themselves.

Top Three Strategies to Control Your Thoughts and Maximize Productivity

Blaine Oelkers has adopted different strategies to control his thoughts and maximize productivity. There are important lessons to be learnt from these strategies that make him a leading authority in personal implementation and consistency.

Living A Day Ahead™

For Blaine Oelkers, one of the biggest challenges several men face today is feeling overwhelmed, which also affects their ability to produce results. These challenges leave several men feeling stressed. To find a practical way out of this, Blaine Oelkers developed a solution based on helping men live A Day Ahead ™ life.

The first step in this strategy is a mind dump of all the things you need to do. The best approach for this mind dump is sorting the things you need to do into the ones you can do quickly, the ones that need to be scheduled, ones you can delegate, and ones you can do later. It’s also vital that you avoid overcommitting yourself but focus on offloading some tasks by adopting the Pareto Principle (80% of your results come from 20% of the things you do).

If you adopt this strategy, you soon find yourself enjoying the numerous benefits of living a day ahead, such as the ability to handle interruptions better and a drastic drop in stress levels.

Take a Daily Mind Shower

A mind shower is a part of Blaine Oelkers’ daily routine which focuses on cleansing your mind in the same way you have daily physical baths. Doing so would rid your mind of the influx of negative thoughts, poor self-talk, and interactions with negative people. Next, consciously flood your mind with thoughts of things you’re grateful for and what you want more of in life. Blaine Oelkers has been taking his daily mind showers and is at a documented 1,143 days in a row.

What You Think About, You Bring About

 For Blaine Oelkers, the key elements of success include being happy, being in service, and making measurable progress in real-time. To produce results in life and business, always remember that what you think about you bring about. Your consistent thoughts determine your direction and actions. What are you thinking about?