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A goal with out a plan is just a wish!
tent with the kind of life you want to lead.
• After you have completed your morning reading, take a spiral notebook and write out your top 10-15 goals in the present tense, exactly as if you have already achieved them. Write goals such as,“ I will start reading autobiographies; I will start planting trees like this”. Rewrite your list of goals every morning without referring back to the goals you wrote the day before. This is a very important success factor for you to practice in order to achieve your goals.
• Plan every day in advance. After you have rewritten your goals, make a list of everything you have to do that day, and then organize the list by priority, value and importance.
• Begin immediately to work on your most valuable and important task, before you do anything else. Resolve to focus single-mindedly on that one task until it is complete. When you start and finish your major task first thing in the morning during the golden hour, you will experience a surge of energy, elation and confidence that will propel you into your other tasks, and dramatically increase your overall productivity for the rest of the day.
• Listen to educational audio programs as you drive around. Leave the radio off. Continually feed your mind with high quality mental nutrition that uplifts and inspires you to do your best. This is a great way to improve your personal development throughout your entire life.
• Finally, develop a sense of urgency. Pick up the pace. Move quickly from one task to the other. Don’ t waste your time. The faster you move, the more energy you will have. The faster you move, the more you will get done, and the better you will feel. The faster you move, the more in control of your life you will feel, and the more you will like and respect yourself.
CONCLUSION
Getting up early is hard. But anything worth doing is hard. There’ s a reason why Benjamin Franklin felt so strongly about it and why Tim Cook does it today to gain an advantage. To be able to wake up before your competitors with a clear mind and minimal distractions is a blessing when you have so many different things to tackle. My recommendation is for you to try this for at least 66 days and record your results. My bet is you’ ll end up liking it.
WINSPIRE: Empowering youth | January, 2017