Bossy! Magazine August 2016 Issue 14 | Page 30

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What is Speaking Louder in Your Life, Your Words or Your Actions?

by James Delrojo

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Everyone knows that to become successful you have to develop the habit of walking your talk but it can be difficult at times to be impartial enough to truly assess whether you are doing this as well as you could be. Here is a strategy to help you overcome this problem.

Most ambitious people are busy people and when you are busy it is easy to allow some things to slip by without you realizing it. You may have intentions of taking some goal directed action today but there are so many demands on your time already that today soon becomes tomorrow.

Unfortunately it often doesn't stop there. Tomorrow is also a busy day and so your goal actions get postponed again and again and before you know it you are well behind on your plans. Once this happens you are well and truly in the group of people whose goal setting words are exceeding their goal achieving actions.

The easiest way to assess this is to look at the last seven days. Now before you tell me that you can't use the last seven days because they were special circumstances let me tell you that every day is a special circumstance and unless you face this reality nothing will change. So let's use the last seven days for this exercise.