This is a guide how to accomplish all of your most important goals:
1. Take out a sheet of paper. Name it “Most important goals in life”.
2. Create a list of everything you want to accomplish. Everything. E.g. Making money, writing a books, traveling to Paris, Learning to dance. List it all till you are done.
3. Let it sit for a while from a few hours or even a day. Then narrow the list down to your top 10 choices. After that, take another rest. Now make another cut. This time you have to select your top 4 goals.
4. These are your Life goals, your top priorities, your bottom-line objectives. Now of these top 4, pick your number one.
5. On a separate sheet of paper, now write down the top 4 again but with your first choice on top. Highlight that one. The plan you are about to learn will pretty much guarantee that you’ll achieve all four objectives before you die. It will definitely allow you to complete the first one.
You won’t achieve your goals unless you follow this advice:
6. Convert those 4 goals into 5-year objectives. For example: one of your Life Goals is to have a net worth of USD 1 mil. Cash in the bank and you want to retire in 10 years. Your 5-year goal subsequently will be to make USD 500,000 and put it into the bank account.
7. Use this 5-year plan to create a 1-year list.
8. Now use the 1-year list to create monthly plan.
9. Break the list down to weekly or even daily plans.
A lot of work? But it really works.
A word of advice:
Tomorrow you can worry about turning your five-year plan into a daily to-do list. For today, just focus on getting the big four picked out.
Do that and think about this: If you make these your priorities, you will almost surely have to sacrifice other, lesser interests to achieve them. And to make sure you complete your top goal, you may have to compromise even some of the other goals in your top four.
But the good news is that you will definitely achieve your primary goal and you will have a much better chance of finishing the other three than you would ever have otherwise.
Get going: Life is too short!