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Exhaust All Possibilities

Trying is useless. Unless you’re willing to exhaust all possibilities.

When I hear someone say they’ll try, I usually don’t hold out much hope. I will though, if they are the type of person who will exhaust all possibilities before they conclude that they have tried and failed.

Too many people think trying is thinking about getting something done, if they have any spare time. They make a half-hearted effort with no consequences for failure. Don’t live like that.

Exhaust all possibilities. There is no try.

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Stay In Touch

Keep friends in your life. Stay in touch. Sometimes this can be a few times a year and for others it may be more frequently. Either way, a quick text here and a brief call there all add up to a stronger relationship as the years go by.

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Are You Tracking?

To achieve your goals, you should have a plan that is written down. And if you have a plan, you should have specific milestones. Those milestones need to be checked on frequently. Sometimes this means daily and sometimes it might mean weekly.

One way to greatly increase your rate of success is to have timed, specific, milestones that you move closer to every day. Not only that, you need to be tracking them, frequently.

Track your success daily. This will help you keep your focus on your important goals.

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Plan Your Day

Ideally your day is planned a day ahead or more. As your life gets busier with important meetings, ceremonies or events, you may even start booking yourself a year or two in advance.

You may be part of a year-long concert tour starting eight months from now, or you might have tickets to the Olympics in 16 months. Regardless, you should be booking in the key events you want in your life.

You also benefit from blocking time with key tasks for tomorrow. What time will you wake up? Get out of bed? Eat breakfast? Get in your shower, get dressed, get to your work desk and start working

Note the priorities of the day and how much time each task will take. Make it a competition to see if you can complete a task in the time you allocated.

Once your day ahead is planned, you need to keep the plan close by and execute on your plan. Try not to let meetings over-run or too many distractions creep in. Remember, this plan is to achieve your priorities, not get distracted responding to other people’s priorities.

Stay focused. Move swiftly. Speak only when necessary. Keep interactions short but effective.

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Begin Again

An amazing thing happens every night. Your brain is cleared, your body rested and you get to begin again on making your life an incredible story.

Yesterday’s challenges are bygones. You start afresh. Let go of the past and launch strongly into the day.

Every day you can begin again. Whether you are further ahead or further behind, you have the choice to begin again.

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