YOU CAN DO IT

People have ideas, many of us want to get on with them all right now! But, where to start, how to get on track, and stay there?

We live in a world of ideas and we are all waiting for the next great one to come along, maybe yours is one we're waiting for. Many people have ideas unfortunately they are not concrete, and seem to do a lot of floating around.

You can get on track by deciding on a destination, then you get on course by finding a way to get there. This is achieved by choosing a set of personal and/or professional focus goals. Goals are a destination, an end point. How do you choose your focus goal?

Take a piece of paper and list all of your ideas in order of preference. From this list, choose the one that most excites you. If they all excite you, then still just choose one. Write down the idea as a goal. Goals are specific and time defined. For example; Non-specific and non-time defined - "I'm going to start doing youth training..." A specific and time-defined goal would be - "I will conduct a youth training seminar by May 1..." Now write down your specific and time-defined goal. Writing goals down etches them in your mind. It helps make them stick. Now the goal has become concrete and is no longer floating around.

Take time every day - no more than 5 minutes to read your goal. As you do this, the goal will transform into a commitment. When it becomes a commitment, the goal becomes a part of you, and the odds of you actually doing it will climb. After you have written your goal, beside it spell out the benefits of the goal and the achievement of it. See and know the payoff, the outcome. Once you have a commitment - everything falls into place. You'll find you can make enough time to do it.