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Become Your Own CEO
Your Plan
Goals without a plan to achieve them are nothing more than unfulfilled dreams. Devise a step by step plan on how to achieve each of your goals. Consider what skills, training and resources you need to achieve your goals, what you need to do to secure these skills, training and resources, what steps you need to perform to achieve them, what order you want to pursue them, and a timetable to accomplish them.
Your Action Steps
Each goal – whether short, intermediate or long term – whether career, family, health or other – must be broken down into a series of achievable, measurable, definable, objective action steps that you can perform and complete to ensure that your abstract goals are reduced to concrete tasks you can perform and you can measure to determine if doing them results in achieving your goals. If they don’t, the action steps need to be modified and adjusted accordingly.
Your Timing
It’s important to create a schedule for yourself to complete your tasks and achieve your goals. Without any time limits or a calendar with due dates and deadlines, you likely will procrastinate and continually put off accomplishing your goals. Get either a physical or virtual calendar and write out the dates by which you plan on completing each task and achieving each goal.
Your Deadlines
Deadlines keep us focused. After you have created a calendar of everything you want to do and when you want to do it to achieve your goals and fulfill your plan, create a memo or chart with all your deadlines and keep it close by. This will help keep your eye on the prize and drive you to work consistently toward your goals.
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