5 ways to make progress on your projects & goals - every day
- Schedule a specific time and day to work on the goal. Don't just wait for "someday" to work
on it. It will always get bumped by more urgent (but not necessarily more important)
tasks unless you make it a priority.
- Do a little at a time. Even if you work only 10 minutes a day on a goal, that's 36 hours a year -
more than enough time for solid progress!
- Write this note on a post-it: "What have I done today to work on __________ ?" (write your
goal on the blank line) Put it where you'll see it right before you go to bed, and ask
yourself what you have done that day on the goal. If your answer is "nothing," get up the
next day and resolve to work harder and smarter.
- Work with a partner. Make a wager that you have to buy him or her lunch if you don't
complete certain tasks by a specified date (deadlines give us structure and focus).
- Ask yourself: "How will I feel if I never complete this goal?" Remind yourself that you
deserve the success and happiness that comes from setting & achieving interesting goals.
Shari Peace is an international speaker, an author, and the president of Peace Talks, a Dayton, Ohio-based professional speaking firm. Her book, Crank It Out! How to Get More Done - At Work & In Your Life, features time management and productivity tips. Reach her at 1-877-808-8520 or at www.sharipeace.com.
"A prepared step-by-step list of small tasks that need to be done
-- not just a random jotting down of a bunch of major things to do --
seals the commitment, provides a blueprint for action, and triggers that action."
-- Edwin C. Bliss
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