
Master Your Workday Now: Proven Strategi

write a narrative life’s work vision statement that you will use to activate your goal each day. That statement will include the best of all the things you listed in the two exercises above, synthesizing them into a whole. This is really two simple steps. Step 1: Study each element from the two exercises above and write descriptive and emotive lang
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Happy for No Reason by Marci Shimoff,
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“ Over the Horizon, Review Monthly; Next Review Date = ” and placing a date there approximately one month away (see second page from top of stack in Figure 6.6). I recommend you make that date the first Monday of the next month, and I recommend that you write it in pencil so you can refresh it. To ensure you actually do that review, place an entry
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Target Goals. Sure, get passionate about them, but still treat them like a game.
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my rule of thumb was to leave tasks on the Now Tasks list as much as possible and not make calendar appointments out of them. And I said I occasionally did schedule tasks if deadlines were imminent. Let me elaborate on that. Only if a long-duration task (two hours or more) is coming due soon do I actually block time on my appointment calendar, and
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Put your attention on visualizing the outcome you would prefer. That way, you are spinning the outcomes you want.
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Think big, go after it, and keep your self-status and sense of self-worth strong enough that if you fail a bit—or even fall short of those larger goals much of the time—that you will still have fun trying again. Think big, imagine big, visualize big, and don’t care if anyone sees you succeed or fail—just enjoy the journey.
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The Speed of Trust, b y Stephen M. R. Covey. In that book, Covey points out that most of the inefficiencies of an organization—excess bureaucracy, internal politics, and micromanagement—all stem from a lack of trust within the organization walls. Trust is earned by demonstrating actions that produce results in the best interests of all. Working fro
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Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich documented a technique he called “ sitting for ideas,” which was similar to this.