“This is tough work. If you put your mind to it, it will become easier. Be intentional. It will provide a renewed sense of engagement and accomplishment.”
To get the rewards set aside 30-60 minutes each week to work on these. I have my “hour of power” every morning to work on these, read and get ready for the day.
- Identify your talents and strengths. Understand your natural behavior and reaction preferences. Assessments are good tools for this. Don’t delude yourself.
- Determine what’s important to you. The life wheel is an excellent foundational tool to help identify what’s important. It is split into several sections like personal gpostth, professional gpostth, financial well-being, family life, social life, faith, and health.
- Work on your Vision. What do you want that takes you beyond your every-day busy-ness? How do you envision yourself in 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years? Write it down even if you don’t believe it now. Don’t worry about making it perfect.
- Write out goals aligned with your vision, what’s important, talents and strengths. Make them SMART Goals. Don’t force fit something that just isn’t you.
- Pick the 2-5 Goals you want to work on in the next 90-days. These are the focus items. Choose to focus on what is important. The rest is noise and busy work but often comes at you as urgent.
Now you can laser focus on the 2-5 goals you want. Most likely there will be plenty of activities around these goals to keep you busy but now you can move away from “crazy busy” with a million things to do. You can focus and can decide what is urgent versus important.
Important actrivities take you closer to your goals and vision, urgent activities may or may not get you closer to your goals and vision.
Give yourself grace through this process. It is hard work. Nonetheless, it can be very rewarding.
“Dominate your life with Focus, Decision and Execution.”
