One common obstacle to achieving your goals is allocating too little time to that goal in your daily life. However, you can burst through this obstacle in as little as one hour a day by simply creating time for yourself. This secret is common among most successful people – because it works. Successful people know how to "create time" by using their time better than the majority of the population.
How do you create time? I’ll show you three (3) simple steps to do this.
1. Rise Early. Possibly the most crucial step to finding more time in your day is to rise early each morning. It may sound like a small step – but something as easy as getting up an hour earlier each morning can help you become more organized and more successful; and much faster than your competitors.
Why start early? The answer is simple. Your mind is fresh. The distractions of your daily life have not had an opportunity to enter your conscious mind. Plus, your competition is watching TV, reading the newspaper, stuck in traffic or still asleep.
Here’s an added bonus: Individuals who start their day early are perceived by co-workers, friends, and associates as energized, hard working, high achievers. Individuals who stay late at their desk are perceived as unorganized and cannot finish their work in a timely manner.
2. Become Better Organized. This is where your daily planner or diary comes in. Examine your habits, your likes, your dislikes, and what you want to make happen in your life Ask yourself some questions in different areas of your life; like the following:
Your career
Do you like what you do? Why or why not? How do you go about your day? Are you organized? Do you need more work on time management? How do you spend your lunch hour?
Distractions
How much time do you spend on phone calls? How much time do you spend on emails? Do you prioritize to respond to important messages?
Free Time
What do you choose to read? What do you enjoy doing after work or on weekends? Do you enjoy any sports or have leisure activities?
Health
Do you wish you could loose weight? Do you wish you could change your appearance? Do you exercise?
Finances
Do you keep careful track of the money you spend? What are your investing habits? Do you frequently buy on credit or get into debts?
3. Reinforce Your New Behavior. A third way you can create time and achieve your goals quickly is by making sure you reinforce your new behavior every day. Research reveals that a new behavior can become permanent if it is repeated every day for 21 to 30 days. That means that the next one month is crucial to your overall success. Make sure you are diligent about working on your goal each day. For instance, if your goal is to master a new language, spend one hour each morning working on language exercises.
Repetition, feedback, and follow-up are keys to making the changes stick, so look for group reinforcement, positive statements from colleagues, friends, relatives and significant others.
If you asked most successful people how they achieved their goals, they would respond that they:
- Started their day early
- Got organized
- Reinforced their goals each and every day
… And they did it all with a belief in themselves and their dream. Everyone has a dream, so protect yours, pursue it, and make it happen.
I am a Social Media Marketing Strategist and Facebook Marketing Expert, a business coach, seminar resource person, published and serial entrepreneur. I help businesses to get extraordinary results from their marketing campaign thus ensuring steady increase in their incomes.
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