What does it take to plan like a champion?
Well lets take a look into our minds a little bit to answer this question.
For these next questions, I need you to be extremely honest with
yourself. No need to lie, no one else but you will know the answers.
1) Are you afraid to fail your plan?
2) Do you regularly plan ahead?
3) Does your plans involve EVERYTHING you ever wanted?
4) Do you plan ahead with your business and family in mind?
5) Do you visualize your plan being achieved?
6) ** How far ahead do you actually plan???
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That wasn't so bad was it???
It's important to always ask yourself these questions. Doing so will
ultimately lay out what it is that you want in life. Business &
Family should always be considered together.
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So let's take a look at why all these questions help you to determine what it is in life and how it will affect you forever...
1) Are you afraid to fail your plan?
Beating The Failure Blues:
Failure... ooooooo no one wants to fail. Unfortunately for many of us,
we tend think of failing when we write out our business plans. The
reason we do this is because we've all failed at something before.
Everything we do starts with a plan. Most daily plans are
sub-consciously planned out before they are executed. This process only
takes a fraction of a second. The ones we tend to remember are plans
that we've "consciously" created. Most of these are ideas we've never
finished, and projects that never even got a change to start.
They key to beating the "failure blues" is simply to train your mind to
visualize everything you want from your plans. Viewing something you
want should always resemble a movie clip full with: sensory rich
images, along with sounds, smells, and sense of touch. This combination
is what make visualization a success. This is true because our minds
think in images. Visualizing your plans consciously will better help
your sub-conscious mind to remember what it is that you want to
accomplish. This also tells your sub-conscious mind you serious about
this one.
1) Do you regularly plan ahead?
Come-on, be honest, do you actually sit there and make a good attempt
to plan out your future, every single day? NO? Why not? Is it not that
important to you?
Failing to plan is the same as planning to fail!
Planning everyday may seem like a lot of work to do but in actual reality, once it becomes a habit, it becomes second nature.
Study shows that it takes an average of 21 times for something to
become a habit. For example, once you've driven your car 21 times +/-
it becomes 2nd nature to you. Your sub-conscious mind takes over and
drives for you
Your "conscious mind" is the captain of your ship (the brain). If you
don't consciously make a direct command to your "sub-conscious" (the
crew), nothing will ever get done. You must be strict with the crew for
21 days to make sure they will do their duties on a daily basis. After
time, the crew will automatically know their own task by heart and
carry them out for you.
Planning out everyday will better define to your "Crew" what it is they
are required to accomplish. It builds unity within your mind. This
unity will ultimately be the staging point to reaching your goals.
2) Does your plans involve everything you wanted?
When I say everything, I mean everything. I have this little special
note pad that stays on my desk at all times. Within it are countless
ideas of everything I ever wanted at that very moment.
At that very moment meaning, whatever it was that I wanted to have in
my life "at that moment" that would make me happier. Doesn't matter
what it is. For you, exactly what right now would make you happy? A
nicer car? $5,000 in your bank account? More clients? Better search
engine ranks?
Writing exactly what it is that you want will give your mind a "TO DO
LIST". Once your mind has its "TO DO LIST", your sub-conscious will
search through your memory banks for an example of how to accomplish
your "to do list". If your mind doesn't find anything within your
memory banks, it will eventually start shooting out ideas and tips for
your conscious mind to complete.
I should also note that writing down something is like etching it right
into stone when it comes to your mind. It's like your mind is the piece
of paper, you need to write something down in order for it to come back
later and revise what it is that you wrote down.
3) Do you plan ahead for your business and family?
Well why wouldn't you? When I think about my business, I think of what
it will do for me, my friends, and my family in the future. At the
moment, I am currently not married nor do I have any children but that
doesn't mean that I am not thinking about the future with a family in
it.
Always consider business & family the same. They are a both part of yours and the their future.
4) Do you visualize your plan being achieved?
Visualization is the fruit of success.
Do you ever find yourself visualizing yourself in that car you always
wanted? Who visualizes you and your family on some beach in Mexico
somewhere? Who visualizes you winning the "entrepreneur of the year
award"? ....YOU DO!
In order to be happier and more successful, you need to get better, you need to get better. I repeat, you need to get better.
Visualization should be a daily event. Take a moment everyday, even for
30 seconds and visualize all the sights, sounds, smells, and feelings
of everything involved with your daily plans.
For example, lets pretend that you have a presentation to do and like
most people who have done a presentation, you are extremely nervous.
Take a moment about an hour before the presentation. Visualize yourself
walking into the meeting feeling great, confident, and relaxed. Hear
the people having a good time, see them smiling and paying attention to
you. Try to smell a nice cologne within the room that makes you smile
when taken in. Last but not least, see all the people around you
congratulating you on a job well done after the presentation. See
yourself having a nice, warm, rich tasting coffee while discussing your
successful presentation with your boss, employees or even your
potential clients.
I guarantee you that if you make it a habit to prepare yourself with
visualization in that fashion before any presentation, you will have
better, more vibrant feelings afterwards.
This very same technique applies for your goals. You must see yourself
driving that car, the way the air feels in your hair, maybe the way the
engine sounds. Whatever you can think of that will let your mind wander
into your goals and dreams, use it!
5) ** How far ahead do you actually plan???
This is by far the most important. The most important only because it
takes a little from all the above questions I've talked about.
What is the furthest you've ever planned ahead? I'll put money on the
fact that it's not far enough. Dare to be bold, be strong in your
convictions. Don't be afraid to think outside the box.
So how far do I allow myself to plan ahead??? 200 Years!
No joke, my goals have included a timeline of around 231 years ahead in
the future. See I don't only think about how I want to improve my life,
I concentrate on something higher than life. I concentrate on my family
history that is yet to be written. We all would like to leave a family
dinesty to our future family members. Well, why aren't you planning
ahead for it???
Don't be shy, afraid, uncertain or embarrassed, just do it. Keep doing
it within your note pad that you write in. Keep thinking about your
children, their children, your great, great, great grand children to be.
Think about them. Wouldn't it be nice if they could look back and say
wow, my great, great, great grand father had the vision, the dedication
and the will to think of me. Think of the impact you could have on
those to be. Even go as far as writing a letter to the individuals who
will be in your families future. Tell them what you have planned and
why.
What if what you do now, affects someone 4 generations down the line in
such a positive way that they feel the need to pick up were you left
off? If it wasn't for your vision, it would of never happened.
Better yet, it hasn't happened yet, so how about you pick up that pen and start your future right now, this very moment.
On that note, I won't keep you from writing your future.
Good luck & remember to see everything happen the way you want it to happen!
