Make a plan to achieve what you really want. The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new plans to replace those plans that didn’t work.
- Decide exactly what you want in every key area of your life. Income. Family. Health. Etc. Apply the Three Goal Method. Write down your three most important goals in life.
- Write it down. Your goals must be in writing. Clear, specific, detailed and measurable.
- Set a deadline. As a forcing system.
- Identify the obstacles that you will have to overcome. The Theory of Constraints: Identify your limiting factors. The 80/20 Rule: 80% of your constraints are inside you.
- Identify the knowledge, information and skills you will need to achieve your goal. Especially those you will have to develop to be in the top 10% of your field.
- Identify the people whose help and cooperation you will require to achieve your goal. What’s in it for them? give instead of get.
- Make a list of everything you will have to do to achieve your goal. Obstacles, knowledge, skills, people. Every step and new element.
- Organize your list into a plan. Sequence and priority. 80/20. (0% of your results come from the 20% of your activities.
- Plan.
- Plan each day, week and month in advance.
- Plan each month at the beginning of the month.
- Plan each week the weekend before.
- Plan each day the evening before.
- Select your number one, most important task for each day. If I could only do one thing on this list, which one activity is most important? List your seven most important tasks. The rule is that each minute spent in planning saves 10 minutes in execution.
- Develop the habit of self-discipline. Complete your tasks.
- Practice visualization on your goals.
- Goal-Setting Exercise. Discipline yourself to write out at least 10 goals that you would like to accomplish in the next year, or in the foreseeable future. Using the word I, describe your goals in the present tense, positive and imperative, as though they had already been achieved.
- Decide upon your major definite purpose. The top one.
Never give up, no matter what.
