Cure information overload with goals!

One of the biggest, most effective ways to get past Information Overload is to turn your focus toward your goals.
Not clear on what your goals are?
Let’s get to work.

(here it comes…that awful “write down your goals” thing….)
Use a Pen and paper and write down your 3 top goals you would like to accomplish in the next year.
Not just money goals, but what-having-money-will-bring-you type goals….

• Replace your old clunker car?

• Take the family on a vacation?

• Cut back your hours at your J.O.B.?

• Walk away from the corporate world?

• More time to witness your baby’s growth?

• Quality time with your spouse?

• Replace your appliances?

Write it down–

Now that you are in the writing mood, let’s dig deeper….

What do you see yourself doing in 2 years?

Write it down….

• are you running a full time online operation? How many employees do you have?

• Are you speaking publicly?

• Are you spending a month in a foreign country?

• Are you dining out every Friday at those fancy restaurants you keep driving by?

Okay, one more time….

Let’s think five years out–
What do you want to accomplish in the next 5 years?

• Build your dream home?

• Put your kids through college?

• Scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef?

• Paying off your parents’/kids’ mortgage?

Write it down here…

It is going to be necessary for you to know exactly what you want the end result to be.
The secret behind every overachieving, successful person is this:
The relentless pursuit of specific goals.
And in order to achieve your goals, you need to have a clear picture of what they are!

Having gone through that exercise, you are hopefully beginning to get a grasp
on what your goals are. This is good!

Now, let’s take this exercise to another level. More immediate.
Sure, it’s great (and necessary) to have long term goals to motivate you in the present,
but the power of goal setting works its magic in the short term, too.

Here is exactly how to become more productive-
and I know I am not telling you anything you haven’t heard before…

Write down the top 5 things you want to get done tomorrow.

List them most important to least important….

Write them down!

Now, leave this list where you will see it first thing in the morning–
Tape it to your computer screen if you are an obsessed email checker or web surfer…
Tape it to your t.v. if that’s where you usually start your day…
tape it your robe, tape it to your sock drawer, tape it to your mirror,
tape it to your coffee maker…. you get the point.
Make this ‘to do’ list one of the very first things you encounter in the morning upon rising.
Get your mind fired up and ready to start tackling these tasks.

Next, start in on the first thing on your list–
don’t even read the second item until you have nailed number one.
Get the first one done and then cross it out. Literally.

Now, move on to number two. Don’t look at number three….

and so on.

If you are unable to finish them all,
set the list aside until you can pick up where you left off.
If you do not get everything done in one day,
simply transfer any unfinished tasks to tomorrow’s list.

Write out tomorrow’s to do list.

Tape it…. oh, you get the point.

You absolutely must not underestimate the power behind
daily goal setting and written ‘action lists’ or ‘to do lists’….
This will undoubtedly change your results, and your life.

Still a doubter?
Give it a try.
Do it every day for seven days.
See where you are then.
Make sure you use a pen and paper and write it out by hand-
there are scientific studies that show that the act of physically
writing something down plants it deeper in your subconscious mind,
and you will be more apt to ‘own’ it.

Give it a shot.
I bet you’ll be amazed!

Focus on your goals, manage your time well, and you will
be more productive than you ever have been– and wealthier, too!