As I was reading this morning I was Led to an awesome chapter titled "Take Charge of Your Future",written by Patricia Fripp.
These are excellent thoughts to take with us into the New Year:
"I think planning is focusing on the preferable future rather than the probable future that comes about if you don't plan."
"I encourage you to work backward. It's amazing how clear what you do want will appear.
If you looked exactly the way you do right now in one year's time, would you celebrate? If not, what are you going to do? If the quality of your relationships is exactly the same, in and out of business, in one year's time, would that be marvelous? If not, what communication skills are you going to have to learn and/or use?
What time are you going to have to take with the people you think are important to you? If your career took the same natural progression as it's taking right now,is that wonderful? If not, what are you going to have to do? What are you going to have to learn? What will you do the change the future??"
Dru Scott, who wrote "How to Put More Time In Your Life", told Patricia Fripp "All I do actively on a daily basis is look after each area of my life. Every day I do something nice for a friend. I drop a note of appreciation or call and say hello. Every day I do something nice for me, even if it's only soaking in a bubble bath for 15 minutes without feeling guilty. Every day I do something for my mind by reading or listening to Cds."
Speaker Danny Cox says the difference between a goal and a fantasy is that you know something that you can do tomorrow to get closer to a goal. A fantasy is something you just sit in the bubble bath and enjoy. There's an important place in life for
both goals and fantasies but don't confuse the two."
Ken Blanchard, author of "The One Minute Manager" says: If you have a commitment to your goal you never ask yourself the questions, "Do I feel like doing it today? Am I in the mood?" or "Are the stars aligned?"
Are you confusing fantasy with goals? Set some specific goal strategies and make next year the best year of your life...
Make 2008 a year to be happily remembered!!
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