What is your income? What activities do you want to do? Second Step: What is it going to take to achieve these goals? Create plans for investments, paying-off debts, career development and increasing income. And third step: What am I doing this year, month, week, or day to achieve my goals.
Bonus tip 1: Write down your goals and revisit them. This reminds you of your priorities.
Bonus tip 2: set a date for each action step. It helps to hold you accountable, and you are more likely to achieve the goal or make considerable progress towards your goal as a result.
Bonus tip 3: celebrate your successes along the way, whether big or small. It makes it easier to stay focused and accomplish your goals.
Bonus tip 4: write down your lessons. If something went well write it down so you can do it again. And if something didn’t go well write it down and fi gure out where you went wrong.
Prioritizing Activities
The Important/Not Important-Urgent/ Not Urgent table is a way to organize and prioritize activities. First, divide a box into 4 sections. Second, label the top of the table Urgent and Not Urgent, and label the side of the table
BONUS: get an accountability partner. This person needs to be fi rm and call you out when you’re veering off course. But they also need to be supportive to help get you back on the path. First, fi nd someone who is supportive of your goals. Second, have weekly meetings or calls where you discuss what you’ve accomplished and didn’t accomplish from the week before. And third, plan your actions for the next week.
Important and Not Important. Third, place your activities in the resulting boxes Urgent-Important, Urgent-Not Important, Not Important- Urgent, and Not Important-Not Urgent.
The Urgent-Important and Not Urgent- Important activities are activities you need to do. While the Not Important- Urgent and Not Important-Not Urgent are activities that can be delegated or taken off your to do list.
No is your most important weapon in time management. Moses makes a very important observation, “People don’t value your time like you value your time.” When you learn to say no, you have a simple and eff ective tool for dealing with distractions and staying focused on your priorities. St. Vil adds, “No is a complete sentence. You don’t need to explain yourself.”
Taking Action
All the planning in the world is worthless unless you follow through. Your daily, weekly, and monthly actions lead to your smaller projects being completed. And as you repeat the process you move closer to accomplishing your long term goals.
HE
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