mindsayDevelop a Clear Sense of Direction
A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road. -Thomas Carlyle
I knew it! The reason I'm not getting anywhere is because I don't have any sense of solid direction yet. Huh! it's pretty sad. It's one thing I should cultivate and figure out now before embarking or risking on anything.
I know I want to be successful. But I'm clueless as to what to really do in order for me to get it. I have been thinking a lot of bad things about myself lately. Maybe that's one that I should work out - to be positive about myself even if the going gets tough or bad memories haunt me.
"You become what you think about most of the time." This is one thing that I should always remember. They said that successful people think about their goals most of the time.
Seven-step formula for setting and achieving goals
- Decide exactly what I want in each area of my life, especially in my financial life.
- Write down my goals clearly and specifically.
- Set a deadline for each goal. Set subdeadlines if a goal is big enough. Give myself a target to aim at.
- Make a list of everything I can think of that I will have to do to achieve each goal.
- Organize my list into a plan of action. Determine what I am going to do first and what I will do later. Decide what is important and what is less important.
- Take action on my plan immediately.
- Do something everyday that moves me at least one step closer to my most important goal.
Assignment:
- Take a sheet of paper and write the word "Goals" at the top page with today's date.
- Make a list of 10 goals that I would like to achieve over the next 12 months.
- Write goals in the present tense, as though a year has passed and I have already achieved them.
- Go over the list of 10 goals and ask myself this question, "Which one goal on this list, if I were to achieve it, would have the greatest positive impact on my life?"
- Make that goal my number one goal for the future.
- Set a deadline, make a plan, take action on my plan.
- Do something every day that moves me toward that goal.
- October - Finish my 1st Semester at the graduate school
- October - Start my Spanish tutorial
- October - Start losing a few inches of my waist
- October - Stand-High
- November - Business is fully operational. Be my own boss!
- November - Start my French tutorial
- November - Widen English vocabulary
- November - start picking gifts for family
- November - start the 2nd Semester rightly
- December - unclutter
- December - new look
Start: October 28
