After my half a day ride to the dumps yesterday, it’s
time to get myself back in the game.
Yup. Time to get going.
Let’s state the problem in the proper manner: I don’t feel like I’ve been making progress
in what I want to do. If I go look at my
task list I find that it is mostly empty.
I have no to-do list. I have no
sense of progress because I have no manner in which to gauge my progress. So
that’s first on the list.
But what do I need to fill my task list with? There’s the real question.
I can’t remember where I read it, so I’ll paraphrase here
what I’ve learned.
A salesman went for help because he had been stuck at the
same sales point for years. He wanted to
do better, and had always had a goal of making $100,000. The person he talked to knew cold calling was
part of sales. So instead of having a
goal of “making money”, the guy started a different goal. The goal was to make 10 cold calls a
week. As the story went, he had
surpassed his goal in less than half a year, and was on track to hit
$200,000.
So fill the task list with action steps that lead towards
the goal. If your goal is to lose
weight, then your daily task list might be filled with “run 2 miles today” five
days a week. That might do it. It might not. It’ll certainly get you closer than whining
about your problems. Because no one
likes a whiner. If your goal is be an
author, then write for thirty minutes every stinking day. As the saying goes “How do you eat an
elephant? One bite at a time.”
I’ve wanted to keep up better with my blog, so I think
that’s going to go in my list as well.
No one seems to read it, but screw it.
It’s a place for my thoughts.
And it’s something to do.
The combination of Exchange server and an iPhone provide
me with all that I need to succeed at this.
Now all I have to do is get back
on the horse, quit whining, and get moving.
Success is there for the taking.
Found this on the wall at a small business I
visited. I think it will be my
motivation today.
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