Why wait until the New Year to come to start planning for the future? Change is now. Change is constant. Change is slow. 2007 has seen some emerging superstars of bloggers. You can find a some here trying to win the Blogger of the Year contest that we are hosting. The winner gets a 125 x 125 ad here on our site for 3 months and bragging rights for the year. To enter you can comment on the page with your URL. 2008 will be no different, however people will need to strive for big goals as the competition stiffens for the virtual real estate.
Make Plans
Dream big. There is no limit to what you can achieve. The only restriction you have is your own self-doubt. The hardest part of dreaming big is the first action of just writing it down. Remember trying to read a book for English? The hardest part was actually opening the book. Big dreams are no different. There are millions of great ideas, yet a remote few actually tried. So grab a pen and write a goal. Goals are dreams with a time line.
Break it down
Big dreams need to be broken down. Break your dream into 4 parts. Write down where you need to be at 25% of your time line, 50% and so forth. Once you break down these goals the image of where you need to be becomes more clear. Your vision becomes focused and mind becomes clear.
Baby Steps
With your goal broken down into quarters. You need to achieve small daily tasks to reach those goals. By completed daily task, it will inevitably push you forward.
Work is measured by distance times force (work = distance x force). For example if you push your force against a brick wall and no distance has been measured then no work has been accomplished. All that has occurred is wasted force. Work is based change no matter how little that change is. [- Prija]
Complete you daily task to reach your big picture. Just as if you were running a marathon you can’t physically see the finish line. You must complete mile by mile to reach that end result and pace yourself along the way. It’s all about the baby steps. The baby steps add up to the big picture.
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November 25th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Good post. I just have an issue with “Break it down”. A lot of times it’s hard to predict where you’ll be 25% of the way. Progress isn’t necessarily linear so by constantly checking it could be discouraging if you’re not on track. I would suggest setting a goal, and then working towards that goal for the long term but not breaking it down so much that you’re constantly checking.