Developing Effective New Years Resolutions
This is an effective strategy for carrying out any plan, not just for creating your new years resolutions.
First, you wanna create a master list of the goals you’d like to accomplish.
Second, you wanna look over that list and pick just 1-3 to start working on, these can be anything you want, the more you desire the goal the better.
Important: Make sure you actually write these down, like Brian Tracy always says “learn to think on paper”, trust me you will not be half as effective with a proper plan, you’ll see just how logical this is by the time you finish reading this post.
Third, get a 2nd sheet of paper and *write down* only one primary goal at the top of it.
Fourth, think forward from where you are and imagine that you have already achieved your goal. Next, think backward from there, as you are imagining forward and backward write down every imaginable task that you would need to accomplish your goal.
Fifth, organize your list of tasks in order of importance by labeling each task a, b, c, d, e.
Sixth, add a number to each label like this: a1, a2, a3, etc, same for b and c tasks, label tasks you intend to delegate/outsource to someone else with d1, d2, d3,etc, e’s are tasks that you will eliminate.
Seventh, on a new sheet of paper re-organize your whole list by priority and put a due date next to each task.
Get started as soon as possible. If you need a mentor or books or training, *get them*.
Try to reward yourself for each task you accomplish. Get some chocolate kisses or fruits or a few beers, lol, and only reward yourself after you cross of a task.
Don’t rush this process. Every minute you spend planning out every single detail helps you to gain clarity, and will save you lots of time re-doing and fixing mistakes later.
By systematically breaking your goals down into tasks and doing at least one task each day you avoid becoming overwhelmed, if you do get help, or break the current task into parts. Most importantly having daily tasks all planned out in advance prevents you wasting time figuring out what you intend to do each day. You just grab your list and do the next task.
Your confidence will soar are you cross of task after task, and you don’t need to consider each task since they are already listed in order of priority.
If this is an area that you struggle with, I personally own and *highly* recommend Brian Tracy’s “The Power of Clarity” audio program. It shows you how to focus and concentrate on your highest value activities. Every day you act like a sniper focusing in on a single shot — the most important thing — rather than acting like a machine gunner that’s trying to do too many things at once. He covers much of what this post is about on *one* of those 6 cd’s(You can also download them in mp3 format)…
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