Use all of your brain to be your most effective."Running on Automatic" is what I call ability to visualize what you need to have happen. Automatic because part of your brain that gives us most of our solutions is working all time. When you are asleep or not. Most of us call it our subconscience. This part of your brain is processing what your awake aware or cognitive part of brain is telling it is going on. Our subconscience is not aware of any rational or philosophical system. It just helps us process stuff we see, feel, smell, taste and hear. It is core of our intuition. And most of all it can be exercised and controlled.
When we understand how to feed our subconscious so it will work out our problems and help us get to where we need to be there is nothing you can't achieve. Didn't your mother tell you "There's nothing you can't do, if you just set your mind to it." Listen to your mother, she was right. In fact she gave you best advice you will ever get about how to get ahead in this world. If you can see it, you can do it.
Now you say 'Andrew, that sounds all fine and good, but have you ever got this thinking stuff to work?'
"Yes I have!" In fact reality of this web site is result of my imagining what could be done and then seeing all parts in place and how they will fit together. At this time it is not complete, but I know what I want to see in place and how I will get it done. It is something I did with my brain, but results will be with my hands.
Limber Up The Neurons Let's do a very simple exercise so you can try it out for yourself. Look around room you are in. Find something that someone made. Take a wooden chair for instance. Go back in your mind and see tree that was growing in forest. All green and beautiful. A trunk straight and tall. Then a lumberjack comes along with his or her chain saw and goes about cutting it down. Later a large piece of equipment comes along and gathers up tree trunk that has been trimmed to a log and takes it to a lumber mill. At mill tree is cut into boards with a huge circular saw sorted, stacked, graded and finally boards are placed in a kiln to dry wood.
Heated steam dries wood and then it is taken out, packaged by grade and then shipped to a furniture maker. At furniture factory there are people who receive materials from trucking company that brought wood to them and then again lumber is inspected, sorted and then each piece goes through a manufacturing process. The legs, back, bottom supports, and back slats are all made by individual workers. At end all pieces come together and a worker assembles parts and gets chair ready to be finished.