8 STEPS TO ACHIEVEMENT

All successful people are described as being very well organized and good time managers. Fortunately, time management skills are learnable with practice and repetition. You can become one of the most productive people in your field by applying the ideas you are about to learn. These ideas will be coming in as a series of short articles that will span for a week. The essence is to make you read each as a complete idea, digested and practiced before the next. This way, I believe the ideas I want to share will make MORE impact as you read them daily. Read along and meet me after.

Step 1: MAKE A DECISION

Every positive change in your life begins with a clear unequivocal decision that you are either going to do something or stop doing something. Significant change starts when you decide to either get in or get out. Either fish or cut bait. Decisiveness is one of the most important qualities of successful and happy men and women. And decisiveness is developed through practice and repetition, over and over again until it becomes as natural to you as breathing in and breathing out.

The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven’t yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.

Decide today that you are going to become an expert in time management and per­sonal productivity, no matter how long it takes or how much you have to invest to achieve it. Resolve today that you are going to practice these principles over and over again until they become second nature. 

Discipline yourself to do what you know you need to do to be the very best in your field. Perhaps the best definition of self-discipline is this: self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not. You see it’s easy to do something when you feel like it. It’s when you don’t feel like it and you force yourself to do it anyway that you move your life and career onto the fast track.

What decisions do you need to make in order to start moving toward the top of your field? Whatever they are, to get in or get out, make the decision today and then get started. This single act alone can change the whole direction of your life.

Hmm! How did it go? Did you get anything? I guess you did. So, what major decisions do you need to make and in what areas? Write them down, today. For questions, send it to macstands@gmail.com or visit www.macstands.blogspot.com for more insights. For comments, please post it. Good luck.