All Entries in the "Make Plans" Category

When Is Your Finest Hour?

Your TQ Training Challenge for Friday, May 29, 2009:
Schedule Tasks Around Your Most Productive Time Periods… 
When Is Your Finest Hour? 

Schedule a quiet hour to work on your top tasks. For many, it’s early in the morning, but the important thing is that it should be when you are personally at your best. Keep out interruptions. [...]

Is This Specific Enough?

Live the Life You Love
Write Complete Action Plans for Major Goals…
Does Your Castle Have A Foundation?

“If you’ve built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that’s where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Thoreau
First dream, then plan. Then start building. It’s how all great structures are built.
“Our goals [...]

You will never excel until you connect your actions to something you truly value.

Pursue Excellence ~ Reject Mediocrity
Plan at Least One Step Ahead of Where You Are at EVERY Point in Time…
Then What?

Teach yourself to always ask, “What’s next?” What are you going to do after you finish what you’re working on next? The more you plan ahead, the more you’ll accomplish in the time you have.
Smooth [...]

Do you get the connection between EXCELLENCE and SUCCESS?

Achieve Greater Success
Don’t Wait — Schedule It Now…
Do You Pay Enough Attention To Your Own Schedule?

Your schedule is where all the little puzzle pieces come together. This is the magical point where goals start becoming realities. Give your schedule the reverence it deserves.
Take any dream. Make it an action plan. Estimate the time required [...]

Persist With Passion.

Immediately Produce Better Results
Make Planning a Routine Part of Today’s Agenda…
Have You Forgotten Anything?

By writing down a task, project, wish or goal, you don’t have to worry about forgetting it. Put everything that you want or need to get done on your Master List.
Write down everything regardless of how small in one location — your [...]

Stop worry before it stops you.

Perform Up To Your Full Potential
Block out Time to Focus on Your Top Priorities Each Day…
What Will Have The Most Impact?

Begin each week by determining in advance the one or two activities that can make the most impact. Then schedule specific blocks of time for those activities in your calendar first.
Block out [...]

A fact for which there are no exceptions: Teamwork Works!

Face the Fear ~ Do It Anyway
Schedule Tasks Around Your Most Productive Time Periods…
Do You Know Your Own Biorhythms?

Study your daily performance. When are you at your mental and physical peak? Schedule your top priorities for those times, and assign the rest of your work for less energetic periods.
“Only a mediocre [...]

Reconnect and Recommit.

Expect Success ~ Reject Failure  
Work Your Plans Until You Succeed or Find a Better Way…
 
What Is Your Word Worth?
  The secret to all power lies in this: Make it happen because you said so.  
Be your word. Set a goal. Make a plan. Make it happen. 
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in [...]

How to become a lightning rod for miracles…

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ~ Albert Einstein
If you do the best you can, given the circumstances in which you find yourself, what more is there?
Better.
Yes, we can all do better.
We can all live [...]

A powerful start to 2009

“The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of [...]