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Luckily, I have a quite a few tricks up my sleeve to help you with this
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4.1 How to pick the actions you want to take
I assume you have a big list of possible actions from step 3.
I’ll leave you to pick which actions to take. You are the most qualified
person to decide which ones you want to take, and which ones make
you feel “meh”.
But I’ll give you a few pointers, to make sure you maximize your
chances of getting them done.
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Firstly, do not pick too many actions at once. That can easily leave you
feeling overwhelmed, and increases your chance of procrastinating.
Instead, here’s what I propose. Pick three actions from your list:
one that you can take action on within the next 24 hours (ideally
immediately)
one that you can take action on within the next 48 hours
one that you can take action on within the next week
And set a deadline, a week from now, right down to the minute, by
which you will have accomplished all of them.
Once you have more experience with goalsetting, and getting things
done (or right now, if you already do), you will be able to tweak this
model. Sometimes you might choose more than three actions to
accomplish in the next week, because you will know how much of what
type of action will not leave you overwhelmed. Sometimes you might
pick a longer deadline than a week.
But unless you have loads of experience with goalsetting, I suggest you
just pick three actions, and make the deadline a week from now.
Because having three actions that you will definitely accomplish is
much better than having six that you will maybe accomplish.
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