Focus on Your Goals: 3 Easy Tips for Staying on Track
If you’re an online entrepreneur chances are you might also be a personal development junkie as well. Personal development junkies are always reading the latest self-help books, listening to audio programs, attending seminars all with the goal of somehow ‘improving’ yourself.
So, you have set some lofty goals and you start out all pumped up about them. You may have listened to a motivational speaker or read a really good book that inspired and motivated you to change your life. But after a few days that post-seminar glow wears off and daily life starts to kick in and kick your butt distracting you from your goals.
Try these 3 tips to keep your goals anchored in your daily experience so that you are more likely to focus on them and make progress each day.
1. Backwards engineering
Take your goal and work backwards down to the task level. If your goal is to write and publish a book, make a list of all the steps required working backwards up until this moment. Break the steps down into daily tasks and if you can smaller tasks that can take just minutes when you don’t have large chunks of time to devote to the project.
Next you’ll set a deadline and add the steps and micro steps into your calendar. If you have a PDA or smart phone this takes us to the next tip where you will. . .
2. Use your cell phone to keep you focused on your goals
If you can sync the calendar on your computer with your phone, do so and create little alarm reminders to alert you that it’s time to focus on a particular task. Check it off as complete, or carry it forward to another day and re-set the reminder notification.
Post your master list of goals in the notes section and read them out loud each day as often as you get the chance. If you use affirmations, type a few of them in each day and add a reminder so that you will read them throughout the day.
Share your goals and affirmations with people you can trust to encourage you. If the people in your life have not supported your goals and projects in the past, keep them to yourself, but check out the next tip for a way to get encouragement for your ambitions. . .
3. Surround yourself with goal oriented people
Paradoxically, your loved ones may be the last people you want to share your dreams and desires with while they are still tender and new. Our family members want the best for us, but they may have met with disappointments in the past from having goals that they never accomplished, so they may discourage you from getting your hopes up or for striving for something better in your life. Sometimes when you are standing in your power and living your best life it creates an uncomfortable contrast for those around you who have made a comfortable home in their well-worn ruts.
Find a group of like-minded people to associate with who will encourage you to go for your goals. Join or start an online mastermind group, or better yet, find a local group that you can meet with in person. Commit to attending this group and being supportive of other people’s visions as they support and encourage you in yours.
Follow these tips and be mindful that even small, incremental steps will eventually add up to your achieving your goals.
If you enjoyed this article, then please visit author, Evelyn Bourne’s blog, http://www.productivepen.com, where you will find tips and resources on quality content creation, bootstrap marketing and personal development.
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