New Year

This is a logical time to mark down what is important to me. At New Year I like to set multiple short term goals and long term goals. Some of the goals are shared, so I will be accountable for the success or corrections. I create a list in writing and refer to as the time goes away. I keep the list under password. (My bucket list is there, too.)

This year, I have about one third of my goals for 2008 complete. Sounds like a failure. Only 1/3 complete. However, I have all 1/3 of them behind me. Period.

What became of the other 2/3? (Some I deleted along the way) The remainder may go on the list I will create after today, before New Years Day.

Here is what has become important to me:

My list crosses four areas of my day (life).

1. What I expect of myself this day.
2. What I will have forever behind me after today.
3. What I will have started today.
4. A review at the end of the day, from which I can sleep on the plan for the next day.
5. Some days I elect to not have a list just for the sanity that decision gives me.

Am I nuts?

This process is clearly supportive to filling the day – my way.

I am focused on the projects and goal steps early enough in the day to have them in action at the beginning of the day.

By having my list before the day starts, I get a head start over the procrastination that is fed by a late start on a goal.

I have an outline of the path my day will take if I manage my time.

In doing this planning exercise, I am early on able to see when a planned goal step is outside the plan. I can leave it incomplete and I can plan on when it fits back in – as the plan changes. (A goal step is one of the steps toward an entire goal being complete.)

I have done this on paper for years. Often the day gets so full I lay it on paper to help me catch all of the details.

Anyone want a coach?

I can offer the best source to learn these skills. This coaching has saved me hours, removed struggle, replaced disappointment with accomplishment and freed my mind to support me being who I want to be each day – everyday.

It is sort of like planning the day as a Cab Driver.

I knew when to wait at a Cab Stand for a good trip to the airport. I knew when to be in the Safeway parking lot in East downtown to catch as many as was possible of those short trips with those huge flag drop fees. I knew when to be at the airport to meet those incoming flights. I knew which schools had kids that rode a cab to music lessons, babysitter, or to mom’s or dad’s work each day.

So, let me know if you are serious about having the life you want. I decided a few years ago to go for it. I have not looked back except to smile and swat myself on the back for one of the best rides I have ever taken.
Fare is paid by the great shift in my life.
CABBY