Daily Actions Towards Your Goals

We all have dreams and goals for our lives, we have ideas on how to reach them, we know there is always a lot of work involved…and it seems we wait until the last possible moment and then try to do one million things in a short period of time…and we fail…well most of the time. And we think ‘We can’t reach these goals we have’ or ‘we are not good enough’ or ‘we are not smart enough’… or something in that general direction.

It has always amazed me how I in school, high school, college, and university kept waiting with assignments until the night before they were due. Lots of time I was thinking ‘it is insane with this huge workload’. But instead of spreading the work over the semester, I did crunch work, over and over again. I most likely lost some of my GPA on that, though I had fairly high GPA, I guess I could have been even closer to 4.00 in University as well as 1.00 in college had I done what I told myself every semester I would: Take action on a daily basis to finish of the big tasks.

And so is it in your life as well, you can reach your goals, you can live your dreams, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in time with actions taken on a daily basis you will. It is a simple task, or rather so it seems, taking daily actions towards your dreams and goals, but so few do it. Many try it for a week or two and then fall off and go back to crunch time once or twice a year again. I have many times tried keeping up with this daily action towards your goals, but so often stopped after some months.

Now I am back on track, and have been for a while. I wake up in the morning and have a list of things I need to get done that day, written the night before. I have a review of my goals and targets each week, I plan my months ahead of time, I measure my progress to my goals, and most importantly I take daily actions to reach them.

It is easy, my friends and readers, so darn unbelievable easy. But action is the main word of this article; you need to take action on a daily basis. And in order to remember the things I need to do, I use everything from calendars, to software, to notebooks. Yes I write a lot, I have my MS Outlook calendar for important milestones and appointments (now I am looking at maybe using iCalendar from Google instead), I use my desktop calendar, I have a year calendar on the wall which I write on, use my personal organizer, and use my calendar on my iPhone. I use them for different things, iPhone calendar is used for daily tasks and reminders, MS Outlook for major milestones, meetings, and tasks, wall calendar for overview of the year, notebook for daily tasks as well as one for ideas and one as a diary.

It can sound like a lot of work but it really is not and the great thing about it you keep looking at your goals from different time perspectives and angles, the daily tasks that link up with your monthly tasks, your monthly tasks that link up with your yearly tasks etc.

But this system works for me as I can remind myself the whole time, my late wife called me the clumsy professor, and for good reason. So I keep myself in the game by making sure I know where I am going and how I am getting there. The road can sometimes take an unexpected turn, but I still know where my destination is going to be, or rather where I hope it will be.

So do me one favor take an action today towards your goals, and another one tomorrow, these do not have to be huge life changing actions, but small ones that take 10 minutes or an hour. But they will get you one step closer to your dreams, one step closer to your life goals.

Don’t forget to breathe….breathe in….breathe out

I have been sitting for about 45 minutes starting writing this post over and over again, every time wiping out what I was thinking I should have written. I am not sure why, just every post seemed not to be the right one. Then it struck me, breath boy breath. So I decided to write a short post, just some lines.

And yes this is about the importance to take a time out every now and again. I surely do. There are times when all seems to fall apart, when nothing seems to work, when everyone seems to be counter active of what you do and want to achieve. You might feel that adding some more hours, adding even more resources, postponing other tasks, will allow you to get it all done, will allow a perfect result. You might think so, but sometimes we need to just scream STOP!!!!

These times, these timeouts that we take, these are the times we can reflect on what is going on around us. We can sit back and understand why things are not falling in place, what we need to do to prepare us for when things are falling in place. It is so important to take these timeouts and get a clear overview, but yet we so rarely do it. It happens mostly when we are forced to do it, for some reason or another.

I urge you; take some timeout every now and again. Get a clear overview of your situation; know where you are going, then start moving towards your goals. Make sure you take one step every day, even if it is a small step.

And don’t forget to breathe in …… breathe out