Firstly – image of your ideal
If you want to use this method, you must describe the perfect you. Take a sheet of paper and write down who you want to be.

Describe, how your ideal takes decisions, how he acts under pressure, what his character is. Define the ideal so particularly that you could determine how he would act in one or other situation.

Act as your ideal
Don’t know what decision to make? It’s not a problem at all, because you know what your ideal would do. But maybe even he can not help you to decide, then at least search for solution as he would do: no crying or moaning, but deciding by counting all pluses and minuses and understanding that you can not influence all of the external factors, for example, the rain.

First example
I would like to illustrate this with a very simple example. Imagine, that you are in your kitchen and have just dropped a greasy morsel of meat on the floor. Now you are able to do the following things:
a) to pretend that it hasn’t happened and leave the meat on the floor;
b) to take and bin the meat, but leave the dirt on the floor;
c) to kick the meat under the fridge, and clean the floor with your slipper;
d) to bin the meat and do proper cleaning of the floor.
My ideal would choose d, what about yours?

It’s a very simple situation, but perfectly shows how having the ideal allows to take decisions easily. As I have written, every fortune starts with a simple and small step.

Second example
Now let’s visualize something more complicated. It’s a deep night, you’re going home and suddenly you see that three men are trying to take a girl away against her will. They are about 50 meters away and don’t see you. You can choose one of the following:
a) to pretend, that you don’t see anything suspicious (anyway it’s not my business);
b) to call the police and leave;
c) to attack one against three – I’m relative of Chuck Norris, so I’ll beat them easily even if they have guns ;
d) to call the police and try to make them to take note of your presence. That would create time for a girl to escape.
What your ideal would do this time? Mine would choose c, but until I haven’t required skills or gun, I would be forced to choose d. I’m quick and fast, at the worst case scenario I would win some time for the police to come.

It’s very simple to use these decision making principles in every day life. Do your ideal checks email every five minutes? Does he every free moment at work goes to facebook? Or maybe firstly accomplishes his tasks and later does important things? Does your ideal watch TV every day? Act as your ideal and become like him.

The ideal isn’t perfect
Firstly, I believe that all of you agree that the perfect human doesn’t exist. Also, we don’t need viceless people. You don’t need to be always the first, the right one, the best and so on. What is really important that you enjoy everyday life, get experience and learn from mistakes. Don’t forget to stop and smell roses, don’t run through your life as its purpose would be to finish it as fast as you can without noticing anything.

Who doesn’t lose, doesn’t win. It’s that simple. Do you think that successful people achieved their happiness with the first try? No, they are the people, who don’t stop after every failure, but continue until become winners.

Therefore, don’t imagine ideal as a perfect man. Often despite a lot of efforts we fail, but actually it’s a step forward. Every failure makes as stronger and smarter. So, don’t give up and you’ll get your fortune.

Don’t try to break wall using your head
Sometimes we find us in situation, when we are trying to solve problem using one approach after another. We try many different methods, eventually we start to use methods, which we’ve already tried for that problem. The worst thing is that we even didn’t notice being stuck in circle of wrong methods. Often we spend much time in this circle. For cases like this I suggest two solutions: have leaflet with information where to search new methods for finding the key to the problem, and don’t forget to take breaks.

Have “questions leaflet”
It’s very primitive, but effective method. Write questions on paper, which may help to find new ways of solving the problem. You can write places where to look inspiration or names of friends which may help. Here goes my own “questions leaflet”:

• Have I already tried using “Google”?
• Do I know any methods, which I haven’t used yet?
• Who from my friends could know the answer or to put me in the right direction?
• Take a 30 minutes break.

Keep the pamphlet in a well visible place, for example, on the monitor edge. It will force your eyes to see leaflet enough often and not to fall in a circle of using wrong techniques .

Let the brain to rest
Tony Buzan in famous book „Use your memory” wrote that a human needs to take break every 10-50 minutes. Interval size depends on human characteristics. But most of us are used to 45 minutes period, which is used in schools, and 45 minutes is what I offer. A break should last from 2 to 10 minutes. Use the break to let your brain to have mental rest. For that matter perfectly fits walk, small exercise or making a cup of tea.

This kind of routine enables you:

• To keep good comprehension and memorization for a long period of time;
• To understand new information easier and quicker, because the older one is already arranged in your head, and your brain is ready to memorize and comprehend new knowledge;
• To have a better long term memorization, because brain uses breaks to sort information, and it allows to keep various details longer in your head.

To conclude, making pauses allows to keep high creativity, to reduce fatigue and helps to work with new information and tasks.
The next advantage is that while taking break, brain gives us many fine ideas about recently made tasks or seen information. I call it “nose lifting from screen” syndrome

Let your brain work instead of you
Sometimes no matter what we do, we just can’t see the right solution. We think again and again, but the light doesn’t go up in our head. When the decision isn’t speedy, you can use very simple method: just leave the problem. Formulate the problem in your head and forget it. Now it’s just a question of time, when you’ll get the perfect idea about the key to the problem.

Most effectively this method works, when just before going to bed you search for solution, but after failure you go to bed. Mostly, just after wake up I know the answer to the problem.

If you have never used or heard about this method, don’t dispose it. It’s widely used approach for finding right answers. Your brain can more when you think.