Most people spend their days in fear of the future. Ending up serving what they fear. Serve success, not failure. Define specific actions to take and do what you got to do to move forward just a little bit every day.
Set your goals wisely, focus on 3-5 main areas, and keep track on the progress of each over 90 days. Feels too slow? You’re doing it right.
If you wish you can brainstorm ways to enhance the growth of any area in magnitude over that period without expending more time and effort, achieving 80% growth with 20% effort.
This should take 15 minutes of randomly writing down ideas, 5 minutes to select the 3 most obvious and simple yet effective ideas and expand on them some more, then 20 minutes to take the first 3 steps.
Then write down a domino order of actions to complete til its done. One step at a time.
EDIT: I have updated this to show you how you can achieve your goals even better with the assistance of mentors. This is in response to a post by Seb Marshall, an entrepreneur I highly respect, on his website: http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/hi
Firstly, you need to figure out how to connect with a potential mentor. With the internet, much more is possible than 20 years ago.. What this means for you, is that you have more opportunities and less excuses to put off creating your life. Mentors can help you do that, so find them online, people with experience in your goals, and just shoot them an email.
To connect with them and benefit from a relationship that provides lessons for both parties, whilst keeping it short and sweet, here is a quick 5 step method:
1- Introduce yourself and explain how you came across him.
2- “Would you mind answering a quick question?”
3- Define the problem. Shortly, please no verbosity and fanciful eloquent language. It just makes you look like a joker. Keep it short and sweet.
4- State what actions you have taken so far to tackle this challenge.
5- Give your potential mentor some room to breathe, just ask them for their thoughts.
This is how you do it.
Do let me know how you used this and what results you got!
Listening To:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0lY3kpFzd4 Tool – Vicarious