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Strategies that Help Improve your Personal Life

Setting up strategies to improve your personal life is only one step to achieve your goals. You have to create plans, goals and take the steps to follow through. Once you have your details gathered, you can start to set up strategies.

How to plan long-term strategies:
Strategies are approaches we take to reach our plans. Our line of attack determines what comes of these plans and goals. When you create long-term goals, you have to provide descriptions, which leads up to using strategies to achieve.

You also have to state what goals you intend to achieve when you create your plans and set the strategies to achieve them. Keep in mind that goals are changes you are willing to make to accomplish something. The goals should be translated so that it develops into a real action. When you take action, you are working toward the next step to recall your measurements, values, and the difference between each. This helps you to stay in accord with your goals and plans.

Sometimes you have to work backwards to accomplish your goals. Sometimes you have to step back to view your goals, making sure that your strategies are working in accord with your actions. When you see that your actions are not working in accord, this is when you want to step back and say, I need to make changes. You will change your strategies to work in harmony with your goals.

You should already have your plans written down on paper. If you haven’t started now is the time to write your plans. Once you have your plans down you can boost your energies so that you have the willingness to act out on your plans. If your plan is lacking in some areas, do not worry. Take it one step at a time and act on the plans you have written down. You can add to your plans later.

How to start planning:
If you haven’t started the process of planning, speak. Just start talking about what you want to accomplish in your life. Once you begin, speaking you will develop new ideas, which you can write down on paper.

During your self-talk arrangement, be sure to take notes. Remembering specific details is a way to recall what you want to do. Some of us fail to take notes, which information drifts away. Instead of adding fire to fire, throw some water on the flames and register your plans with paper.

How to write long-term goals:
You want to write you long-term goals focusing on your short-term goals first. Your short-term goals should work in harmony with your long-term goals. You can write a daily schedule that builds up to our plans and goals. For instances, this week on Monday through Sunday I intend to do: Write down each day what you intend to accomplish on your calendar or schedule.

In your plan or calendar not the things, you intend to make essential first. Then work toward taking down your tasks. For instance, on Tuesday start working through the large jobs first and break down to the simple tasks as you move along. On the third day, write yourself an intention declaration. Use 3×5 note cards to tell you what you intend to do. Once you finish, your duties offer yourself a reward each time you accomplish your intentions.

Next tell your friends and family what you intend to do for your future. Ask your friends and family if they can give you a hand from time to time when they see you failing. Tell your friends and family to offer you a pat on the back, or some reward for each time you accomplish your plans and goals.

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In the corporate world and your job, you more than likely a contributor to the success of the company you work for. Your good performance, excellent attitude towards work and strong work ethics, all contribute to your boss seeing you as being an outstanding employee. And you enjoy working so hard everyday, you feel that you are where you should be.
Then one day, you feel like not going to work anymore. While working you lose focus easily. Attending meetings or simply the idea work again the following day make you bored and you feel tired. Even the way the clock ticks bore you so much that you want move away from your desk. You become easily irritated with your colleagues. You usually want to be alone, isolate yourself from the crowd. What happened? BURN OUT, that’s what happened.
If you’re drained physically and emotionally due to stress, take heart. You are definitely not alone struggling against burn out.

Irregardless of the possible reason, burn out is a common symptom of losing motivation and stress especially if you do the same kind of tasks everyday. Loose motivation and you will not see success. Remember, for you to win and succeed, you will have to develop personal mastery and perseverance to your personal success. But the question is: are you ready?

Listen to your inner boss:

Congratulate yourself on the smallest of accomplishments.

Re-itemize your goals:

Without definite goals, you are working for the system, not you.

Direct your thoughts on personal success

See yourself as already successful. Focus on success and you will regret nothing.

Sound easy?  It really is but you must have the burning desire to succeed, not just a wish.  Loosing focus will make loose motivation.  Trust me, I’ve been there.  Never ever loose focus.  Always keep those goals in focus.  Sure you may drift from time to time.  But for you to start that engine again will take more energy each time you start over.  We all get complacent, we all get lazy.

Ask yourself each and every morning: Is this really where I want to be?  Is this it? Most of us dream of a better life, a more fulfilled life.

Well don’t just stand there – do something about it!

I am a great fan of Robin Sharma and I constantly open his book The Greatness Guide at any chapter to read for inspiration.

These past few days over the Canadian Thanksgiving (happy belated thanksgiving from Canada!!), change has been on my mind a great deal and how it will effect me. My life is definitely changing. I have taken on new responsibility and have wondered if I am “ready”. One cannot fully prepare themselves for change I have realized, no matter how hard we try. Just be sure that the changes you are making in your life are for the better – why else would you do it?

Robin in his short clips of inspiration brought it together for me.
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A little while back, I wrote how a smile can change your day. I have quoted Andy Andrews, Michael Losier and others when they discuss you are what you attract. David Pollay’s story below tells the same story a different way. In essence don’t let others dump their garbage on you – then you have to get rid of it! Remember, you are in control.

LAW OF THE GARBAGE TRUCK – Let the garbage go by. By David J. Pollay

How often do you let other people’s nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day? Unless you’re the Terminator, for an instant you’re probably set back on your heels.

However, the mark of a successful person is how quickly she can get back her focus on what’s important.

Sixteen years ago I learned this lesson. I learned it in the back of a New York City taxi cab. Here’s what happened.

I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were driving in the right lane when all of a sudden, and I mean without warning, a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded and missed the other car’s back end by just inches.

Here’s what happened next. The driver of the other car, the guy who almost caused a big accident, whipped his head around and he started yelling bad words at us. How do I know? Ask any New Yorker, some words in New York come with a special face.

Now, here’s what blew me away. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was friendly. So, I said, “Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!” And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now call, “The Law of the Garbage Truck.”

Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it. And if you let them, they’ll dump it on you.

When someone wants to dump on you, don’t take it personally. You just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. You’ll be happy you did. I guarantee it.

So this was it: The “Law of the Garbage Truck.” I started thinking, how often do I let Garbage Trucks run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and spread it to other people: at work, at home, on the streets? It was that day I said, “I’m not going to do it anymore.”

Well now “I see Garbage Trucks.” I see the load they’re carrying. I see them coming to drop it off.
And like my Taxi Driver, I don’t make it a personal thing; I just smile, wave, wish them well, and I move on.

One of my favorite Football players of all time, Walter Payton, did this every day on the football field. He would jump up as quickly as he hit the ground after being tackled. He never dwelled on a hit. Payton was ready to make the next play his best. Good leaders know they have to be ready for their next meeting. Good parents know that they have to welcome their children home from school with hugs and kisses.

Leaders and parents know that they have to be fully present, and at their best for the people they care about.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let Garbage Trucks take over their day. What about you? What would happen in your life, starting today, if you let more garbage trucks pass you by?

And my taxi driver was right. I am happier.

My guess? You will be happier! Try it – it works.

Summer traditionally in Ontario is over. The leaves are beginning to change colour and the farmers are harvesting their crops. The nights are cooler which makes easy sleeping. During the day though we are experiencing warm breezy weather telling me that summer is surely still with us.

This time of year brings new life to me as it should to all. We can reflect and give gratitude to the wonderful summer we had. Take stock of the goals we had set and accomplished or not. Do not trouble yourself if you have been unable to accomplish your goals.

Re-evaluate. Re-think. Re-set.

With just three months left in 2007 it is a wonderful time to set a goal to be in your hands by the end of the year. Reread S.M.A.R.T GOALS and set a new one today. Think about what Andy Andrews told us in The Traveler’s Gift and The Seven Decisions before you set your goal. Without a clear and defined mind your goals are going to be scattered and seem unreachable.

The more belief you have that your goal is already in your possession, the less time it will take to achieve. You cannot just “wish”, you must have a burning desire in your core that will propel you to your goal.

I have set new goals. Some are small, some our so huge, I have no idea how they will transform into my life. I do have though that burning desire. I can feel the earth beneath my feet and smell the fresh cut wood of my new house! The more I visualize the closer it becomes.

If you do not have a goal, how will you ever know if you can accomplish it? Grab a blank piece of paper right now and start to write. Write them down on some old business cards that you have tucked away somewhere. Look at your goal cards as often as you can during the day – especially first thing in the morning and just before you go to bed. Dream your goals.