Tips for Planning - simple but powerful

I've been fascinated for a long time by the leadership styles and the work of those who are or were simple and powerful leaders. And this has become more important to me since my accident. (Opposite to those of mortality has a way of asking what are your priorities.)

A leader that I find fascinating is Jesus of Nazareth. It was very simple. No manual. No writing or blogging. No planning or fancy paper work or website. He just had his one purpose in mind, said the people on it, and spent time in prayer and obedience.

He lived this simple purpose in life of 12 men. These 12 men wrote about Jesus, he taught what Jesus taught and trust in their leaders.

Beausay William II has written a pocket-sized devotional book called "The Leadership Genius of Jesus: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Business." It 'was the first to inspire me to think of Jesus' life' in this way. In it, there are few pages of carefully crafted small-sized bites daily thoughts on the method of Jesus' leadership.

For example, Beausay speaks of Jesus' focus was on that one thing only - to give life. He encourages the reader to think that sums up and find a purpose for their lives too. (For more information or to buy the book, go here [http://www.resources.kaizenworks.org])

And I got to thinking about that and looking for other ideas on single fire. This is when I found www.about.com some thoughts on the processes of planning and focus.

The article (which is slipping away from me at the time) was talking about how people write their personal and business goals. They say that they are usually huge in size and scope. For example, it would be a huge goal: "By February 2008, I have $ 500,000 in my investments."

Now there's nothing wrong with that goal in itself. The main point in this article, however, was that every single day that passes with a goal like this might at first be exciting and stimulating. But after a while ', it gets boring and hard to get excited about.

Why is this?

Because, he said, can not find this type of lens in a single day for the average person. And, as a result, it is easy for this type of lens to become ineffective and empty.

Even if someone wants to reach the goal of having $ 500,000 in investments by February of 2008, is very important that the daily review of this lens is something you can easily reach - a simple goal. While it is easy to reach, easy to be out about. If output is easy to point it will be easier to finally reach the bigger goal.

I agree with this idea. I would rather have a simple goal to reach every day and still a challenge and moving towards me my big ultimate goal to have something that sucks all the excitement of me. Do you?

The best way I know how to beat a target company is located in a large book of Andrea J. Lee and Tina Forsyth called Money, Meaning and Beyond In it, he speaks of The Money Game, which helps to dissolve the large numbers into something that you can easily chew and reach.

You play this game by calculating the answers to such questions:


How many of your services or products you need to sell a day to reach your goal for this date?
How many days you have to accomplish your goal?
How many people you need to talk to on a given day to do this?
You can do yourself or you need help to achieve this goal?


Once you know the answers to these questions, you write a daily target with your answers.

Here's an example of how your answers can look:

Let's say you want to have $ 5,000 more in your investments by February 2008 (Let's work with smaller numbers before just to get the hang of it). If you understand that the service costs $ 100, then you know that by dividing $ 100 to $ 5000 and will need to sell 50 to meet your goal. If there are 100 days remaining until February 2008, then you know that for every working day, you need to sell one every two days. This is equal to 2 or 3 a week. If you know the statistics of your business that we want to talk to 5 people to sell 1, then you also know that to sell 3 per week, you will need to speak with at least 15 people a week. It 's possible for you to do this alone? If so, go for it. If not, then see if you can hire someone or get someone to volunteer or ...

Play the game until the numbers jive with what you can do. (This is recommended. It 'better to try a variety of answers before choosing the one you are going to go with. So play the game as much as it is useful to find the best option.)

Let's say, for the sake of making a point in this article that you are happy with these numbers. Easy to write your goal in a statement a day, you should then take the number of people you need to speak in a week, divide it by the 5 working days in a week and you have how many people you need to talk a day - 3. You have all the information necessary to write a statement to day:

"Speaking with 3 people today on my service, I will reach my goal of $ 5000."

Then every day, read this sentence, as you can.

Do you think the chances of being able to achieve this goal is much higher than thinking about finding the $ 5000 right now? In fact it is. You know where you're going, but more importantly, know that your goal is to today. Moreover, and perhaps most essentially, the goal today is very doable!

Do not be surprised if you start to see an increase in energy and emotion rising within you as you meet your goal every day. How simplicity is really very exciting! ...