January 4, 2008

An Idea for Action...

Do You Think Before You React?

Don't just react automatically to the urgent. If you take the time to choose how and where to spend your time, you will become infinitely more productive.

Take the time to review your prioritized list before you divert your attention to a less important, more urgent task.

	·         If you had last week to do over, how and where would you spend your time differently? _________________________________
	·         Can you really afford NOT to consider all the alternatives and consequences before you respond? _________________________________
	·         How can you respond best to the next person who requires an immediate reply? _________________________________

 

"Time = Life. Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life." ~ Alan Lakein

Today's Commentary is centered on getting 2008 off to the best start possible. Looking at your Number One goal for 2008...

What small steps will you take this month towards achieving it?

 

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

In other words, what is important to you... and which path will get you closer to what really matters... and which will take you further away from what you value most?

Amazingly, the first week of January is just about in our rear-view mirrors.

As Emerson so wisely points out, "you have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well..."

Great advice!

Are you rapidly moving in the direction of your goals... or are they still soft and fuzzy—looming way off on the horizon?

If you took some time to map out your future this week—to write out your goals with clarity and detail—you have set up the rest of the year for success beyond expectation.

If you haven't, you still have time. But remember, the future is rolling forward like an unstoppable locomotive, fast-tracking towards 2009, 2010, and 2011 and beyond.

 

The best way to predict your future is to create it!

 

Your Top Five 2008 Goals...

1.      Personal_____________________________________

2.      Family______________________________________

3.      Financial____________________________________

4.      Career______________________________________

5.      Community__________________________________

"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves." Matthew 10:16