Live From Your Planner And What You Planned

In yesterday's post I spoke about the importance of always planning the day before the day begins. Today, I'm going to speak about the 2nd part to being successful and accomplishing what you want to accomplish. That is to live from your planner and what you planned!

The first part, I'm pretty good at for the most part. I can sit down, map out my goals and what I want to accomplish. I've been dreaming big and planning big ever since I was a little kid playing with my matchbox cars and I use to pretend that all of these cars were real and that I owned all of them!

However, when it comes time to actually live from my planner and what I planned, this is the area that I struggle with.

Writing down your goals and plans is important. Doing this one step alone and nothing else will put you miles ahead of the masses. A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting down with my wife and I pulled out a goal document that we wrote up a couple of years ago. We haven't looked at it since. Yet several items that we had written down on that sheet, we have either already accomplish or we will accomplish this month in the month of September.

Bare in mind, we did nothing but write it down 2 years ago. We didn't go back to it. We didn't have a plan or strategy for how to get it. We simply wrote it down and several of the items we have already accomplished and some of the items we have accomplished before the deadline that we set to get it done by!

Now if we could accomplish this without ever looking at those goals for 2 years, imagine what we could do if we looked at those goals every single day and we actually had a strategy and a plan that we were working from? We could conquer the entire world!

That's why it is important to not just have a plan, but to actually take the time to develop a strategy for how you are going to make that plan become a reality. You then want to live from that strategy and plan your day to day activities around what are the things that you can do today that will move you the closest to reaching your goals.

Today, I am happy to report that last night, I already looked at my goals and I already identified the activities that I can do today that will move me closest towards reaching my goals. Now if only I can do this every single day, I believe great things can and will happen for me.

So that's the lesson today. Don't just write down plans and goals and never look at them again, although if you're not doing at least that, you are behind. Take the added step of constantly looking at your goals and plans and making course corrections along the way.

For more information on this important principle, I recommend that you read that article by David Byrd, Leadership Expert titled ACHIEVE the Next Level of Success With Effective Daily Choices!