Time Managment III

More great wisdom from the late, Professor Randy Pausch.

Alright, have you started organizing a little more? It helps doesn't it?
In this post I am going to give some pointers on Goals, Priorities, and Planning.
You should have at least 100 things you would like to accomplish in your life time.
We are always taught to have goals, well, without them I can almost guarantee no
success. Don't wander aimlessly around in life, have a goal and go for it. And know that
even though a goal isn't reached within the time limit you want, you should search what
steps you took and revise, go for the goal again. Figure out why your goal wasn't reached.
But NEVER give up!

This may be a way to figure out how to prioritize your tasks that are necessary to
reach your goals.
Here are some good questions to ask yourself:
Why am I doing this?
Why will I succeed?
What happens if I choose not to do it?

You need a reason for doing the task you are doing and in that reason you have to figure out how you will succeed in the said task.
Now, ask yourself what happens if you don't do the said task. Is the world going to fall in around me? Is it going to mess up other tasks I need to do if I don't do this one? Figure out the importance of each thing you need to do.

Randy mentions something that I have heard a lot in my life. It is the 80/20 rule. This is how he explained it. 80% of your money is going to come from 20% of your clients. You need to figure our which they are and be really nice to them! Well, be nice to everyone, but these are your bread winners, find nice ways to thank them.

There is one man we all know and love for his creation, Disneyland. Walt Disney said, "If you can dream it, you can do it." If you refuse to dream something than you will not do it. Mr. Disney had Disneyland built in 366 days. WOW! How did he achieve such a task, he used every single one of those 366 days. Not a single day was wasted. So in your goal you want to set a time limit. You also want to use every one of the days/months/years you give yourself. Work your goal daily.

Something we at Mentoring for Free do is study the book Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill. Hill states that you must write down your desire, your goal. You need to come up with a goal, then a time limit for your goal. Now, you don't get something for nothing, so write in there
the action you plan to take to achieve this goal. What are you giving to get it?
Say what you have written twice a day (at least) until it just becomes a ritual that you do in the morning and night.
We also come up with what we call our "self talk". This is a paragraph you say to yourself everyday also. For an example I will share mine with you. "I am the MASTER of my FATE, the CAPTAIN of my SOUL, because I have the power to control my thoughts!" I am having fun building a future for me and my family, through learning and the teaching of others. Because I can do all things through Jesus who strengthens me!
It doesn't have to be this long or it can be longer. That is up to you. I put Jesus in it, because I put Him in all I do. That is my choice, not the choice of everyone, I do understand this and as I stated I just wanted to give you an example.

Okay, so you have some work to do right?
Write a goal down. Prioritize your tasks to accomplish the goal. Give yourself a time limit for the goal. Have a plan to accomplish the goal. Good quote, not sure who it is by but, "Failing to plan, is planning to fail". Find a self talk of your own and repeat it to yourself everyday. You have to give yourself pep talks. If you wake up everyday telling yourself how cruddy of a day it is going to be, well it will be. So wake up and continue all day to tell yourself how wonderful a day it is!

More to come....Thanks for reading and I hope you were able to get to tips off of this post!
Have a wonderful day! I know I will!!:-)