Do you ever wonder how some people become so successful? Want to learn the secrets of success so you can live the life you dream of? Well luckily for you success isn’t as big a secret as you might imagine.
One of the secrets to success is TAKING ACTION.
1) WRITE DOWN ALL OF THE POSSIBLE ACTIONS YOU COULD TAKE
Writing has a way of calming down the mind. If you have lots of ideas running round your head then it is easy to imagine you can become overwhelmed. So get a notebook or app where you can just brain dump anything that pops in your mind. This should help to clear out your mind and will also help with task 2
2) WORK OUT THE WHAT ACTIONS YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE
As I said before there are endless opportunities. For most goals there isn’t just one road to success. For example, to build my coaching business I can run more Facebook Ads, write more blog posts, create more videos, run online challenges, do webinars, write a book, guest blog and much much more. I could do all of those things, but I definitely don’t have the time. Therefore, I need to go through the list of possible actions and work out the actions I will actually take.
An effective time management tool I was introduced to in Stephen Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People was The TIME MANAGEMENT MATRIX. This makes you consider if an action is important or not and urgent or not. So often we fill our days with tasks which are classed as urgent actions, such as answering a call, responding to an email, fulfilling a request from someone else. However, the danger is we get caught up in urgent and therefore have no time for left for the important. Whether you use this or something else, you need to find a way to go through your list and work out what you are going to action.
3) SCHEDULE YOUR ACTIONS
If you are serious about taking action then make sure you schedule it. Every Sunday I sit down and write down the necessary actions I’m going to take over the next week and then I schedule those activities into my diary. I treat everything in my diary as essential, in the same way I would if someone else had booked an appointment.
And an extra bonus about scheduling. By taking the time to plan your actions ahead of time you can take advantage of batching. This is a method where you do repeated tasks together. So this is commonly done with managing your inbox, scheduling social media, writing blog posts and filming videos but can be applied to virtually everything. In essence, the point is that by grouping similar tasks together you can focus and be more effective that when you are switching back and forth
So to recap once you have your goal you need to work out the actions you will need to take to achieve it. So do to do this 1 – write down all of your ideas, 2 – work out the actions you are actually going to take and 3 – schedule those actions into your diary.
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