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Patience

Time heals wounds but you have to be patient. People need time to process information so you need to have patience.

You can attract things into your life but you need to act now and yet still be patient.

It’s a great skill to master. Practice it every day.

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Dream, Research, Plan, Execute.

Use this four step process to reach your exciting dreams. These are the very basic steps.

It does take some effort to think things through and to write it all down. The writing helps you hone in on the specific detail.

Take 60 minutes every month and review this plan. You should add new dreams to it then too.

Go on! Dream a little.

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Write Down Your Dreams

Get creative. Remember your childhood dreams. Think of new dreams. Write all of these down.

Get them in some sort of priority order. Perhaps start with the easiest to achieve. Then the least expensive to most expensive. You definitely want a list of things that are to do before I am unable to.

Start mapping these dreams out on a calendar. Things you’ll do this year go on there now and the rest get years and months written next to each item.

Get these dropped into your life. Then work like heck to make each one happen.

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Whoosh!!!!!!

Just over 5 years ago I started writing a daily blog. I set out to work every day for one year. I wasn’t sure I’d get through three months.

But I set it in my head that every day I just had to do this one thing. Some have been long and some have been short. Regardless, I have always done one. Every. Single. Day. More than 1,830 days and therefore 1,830+ blog posts.

Whoosh. Five years can go by just like that.

Now, a few more plans are hatching for these next five years. And they’ve started…

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Remember To Stop

Too often things get taken too far. You can see this in so many different circumstances.

Often it is far better to enjoy the win and be content, then to seek more than you had originally wanted.

Here are some examples:

Having a few more snacks or cakes than you should. Eventually you’ve put on 3 stone.

Having a few too many drinks and waking up half way through the next day with a cracking hangover.

Putting a few little things on a credit card knowing you can’t pay off the balance. Then a few more. Soon you’re paying £1,000s in interest, yet lost interest in whatever you’re paying for.

Getting a club together to defend yourselves, like NATO, can sound like a good idea. Then after feeling quite secure, you keep adding more and more members. You feel more secure and confident but others may become more concerned and defensive.

There are many, many other examples from women’s rights (is equal enough?), unions (group v individual) and tech (how far is too far, like kissing a robot?), to buying shoes (Ms Marcos), and political coverups (it always starts small and then like a black hole, begins to engulf everything).

The key is to moderate and balance while checking the details frequently so matters don’t get out of control.

Review frequently and track progress. Don’t push things too far or you can do some damage (Like running further than you should). There is always pain after things are pushed too far. Better to stop things a little earlier than build up to a devastating situation.

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Celebrate Your Wins

Got to the gym today? Celebrate ????

Kept to your diet? Celebrate ????

Completed the third big step in your project? Celebrate ????

What does Celebrate mean though? Well it can mean many things. It could mean you get 20 minutes outside walking in the sun. You could meet a friend for a coffee for 30 minutes. You could buy yourself a ticket to the latest film you’ve been wanting to see. Another option would be to have a relaxing bath this evening before bed.

The celebration will be dependent on you and what you value. Try to keep most celebrations to a low or no cost budget. That way you can have far more win celebrations which will help drive your motivation and delivery of outcomes.

As you plan ever greater milestones and goals, you can up the stakes for the final celebrations. Do keep them within your budget though.

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Review Your Progress

At least once each week, you need to review your progress. You need to understand if you are getting the results you were after and if you are putting in the effort you said you would, should or needed to.

This is your brutal facts of reality moment.

No excuses. No reasons. Black and white. Yes or no. If you were supposed to go to the gym 3x in the last 5 days, did you? Yes or no? If yes, well done! If no, what will you do differently this week (Monday am to Sunday pm)? Perhaps go to the gym even earlier so other things don’t get in the way.

If you were supposed to read 10 pages of a book every night in the last 5 days, did you? Yes or no? If yes, congratulations! If no, what do you need to do differently on each of the next 7 days to ensure it happens consistently? Read when you wake up? Go to bed 30 minutes earlier and read then?

Whatever your goals are, Review your progress every week, ideally on the same day at the same time. Sunday evening is a good time for this. Make it part of your seven day success cycle as outlined in my book.

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Become Accountable To Someone

If you want to succeed or excel, pay someone to keep you accountable.

This is the magic of Weight Watchers, a job with a boss, a coach or even a parent (Though the pay is negligible).

Get someone who will actually push you and ignore your excuses and all attempts to stay stuck where you are.

You can try to do it on your own, but very few have that level of discipline.

Splurge. Set a budget for someone 5 minutes a day to get on your case. They can track your progress too. They can also help you see your own excuses for why you are not being disciplined. (Hint: you don’t want it bad enough to put the effort required in)

Do you want success or just someone to listen to why you can’t be bothered to fight hard for your own goals?

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