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Case Study: How I Get My Daily Goals Accomplished

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Get Daily Goals Accomplished

In our busy worlds of goal setting and getting things done are many distractions that impact the amount of work we accomplish. Not only are there more distractions than ever, but not all of the work we do gets us closer to our dreams. To some, being productive seems impossible while other people do it effortlessly.

Since I am a high school student, I am technically considered a part-time writer and entrepreneur even though I have committed myself to those two areas. My productivity is one of the biggest factors of my success because it allows me to properly juggle being a high school student with being a writer and entrepreneur. In the summer, when I get more control over how long I can work on my brand, my productivity skyrockets primarily because of all of the extra time available. Right now, I will provide a case study on how I get my daily goals accomplished. Accomplishing the daily goals allows me to accomplish my goals for the week, month, and year. How am I this productive? Find out now.

 

Always Have Significant Things To Do Throughout The Day

If you are not taking the time to build your brand throughout the day, then you need to put in more work. I can’t remember a time I got to bed before 11 pm because I always do work for my brand throughout the day. Even during the summer, I am putting in the work for my brand past 11 pm. Of course, if I see the value of my work suffer as the day continues, I stop putting in the work. When I am not working, I am doing research or reading a book to learn more about my niche. If you don’t give yourself many goals, you may find yourself surfing the web or your television. Surfing the web and your television are two methods of escaping boredom.

Many people see procrastination as a temporary way to escape work and boredom. For many people, watching television is more entertaining and less boring than putting in the work. However, if you appreciate your work and give yourself enough work for yourself to do throughout the day, you’ll find less time to procrastinate.

 

Do I Really Get Everything Accomplished?

I get many goals accomplished in a given month, but in reality, I don’t get everything accomplished. However, the reason I don’t get everything accomplished is different from most reasons. When I don’t get a series of goals accomplished, that is because I give myself so much to do in a given week that even if I work non-stop for long periods of time, I would only get some of my goals accomplished.

I tend to give myself challenging goals to complete in one week that most people would give themselves an entire month to complete. For instance, I gave myself one week to publish a training course that I didn’t even start (I didn’t even have notes), proofread and publish a book, write five blog posts, outline my next course, complete five YouTube videos, and do a few other things. Right now, I am aiming to launch one new training course every week. I may launch three training courses in a month. I may launch five. By raising the bar so high and sincerely believing in my ability to accomplish everything on that raised bar, I get close or even exceed my expectations and do in one week what most people would do in one month.

 

Wake Up Early

Not only is it challenging for me to remember a time I got to bed before 11 pm, but it is also challenging for me to remember a time I woke up after 8:30 am. I like to sleep for 7.5 hours every day because 7.5 hours is my optimal sleeping time for productivity and high performance. Waking up early is very important because we have more willpower in the beginning of the day to get our goals accomplished. If you sleep too long, try waking up an hour earlier. Then try waking up two hours earlier. If you wake up an hour earlier and go to sleep at the normal time you go to sleep at, then you gain an extra hour that can be used to get your work done. Of course, sleep is important and not getting enough sleep will negatively impact your work, but getting too much sleep isn’t good for your health either.

 

Attack The Work Right Away

One of the worst things to do is to know that you have work but not do anything about it. People are fearful of starting their work partly because they don’t want to do the work and partly because the work may be complicated. This fear is caused by the uncertainty of not knowing the amplitude of the work being put in. The only way to attack this fear is to start the work NOW so the cloud of uncertainty slowly clears up until the sun of certainty shines through it and eliminates that particular cloud of uncertainty for good.

 

Small Achievements Lead To The Big One

When I give myself daily goals, I typically give myself 1-2 big goals and a wide range of smaller goals. I tend to get the smaller (easier but still impactful) goals accomplished first so I have the right mindset for that day. Getting the smaller goals accomplished are the equivalent of small wins, and a string of small wins put together will give you the mindset firepower to accomplish all of the more challenging goals for the day. Giving yourself a series of smaller goals and getting them accomplished will boost your self-esteem which is important to being more productive and producing valuable work.

 

In Conclusion

We all want to be more productive, but going through the same motions we went through yesterday and the day before won’t make us more productive. Being more productive requires a gradual shift that impacts the way we view our work, and possibly, our lives. Investing the time now to be more productive later will allow you to get your goals accomplished in record-breaking time.

What were your thoughts on the case study? Do you have any tips to be more productive? Please share your thoughts and advice below.

How To Make Your New Year A Wild Success

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New Year

2014 is coming to an end. What a scary thought…

At the New Year, millions of people get motivated. Families gather around and write down their New Year’s resolutions. Businesses discuss what needs to be done this year in order to move forward. It is an exciting time of year filled with plans for the future.

The sad truth about the New Year is that the excitement rarely lasts for a long period of time. Many New Year’s resolutions require monumental leaps from the first day of the New Year to the last day of the New Year. Towards the end of January, when there is still a long way to go and that initial spark of motivation dies out, many people give up on their New Year’s resolutions. By the end of February, over 80% of people give up on their New Year’s resolutions.

I want you to be in the 20% bracket. I want you to stay true to your New Year’s resolutions. Goals that you set for yourself deserve to get accomplished. Accomplishing those goals will help you get from where you are to where you want to be. However, we cannot approach our New Year’s resolutions with the traditional process that most people use. The traditional process of setting New Year’s resolutions causes more harm than good.

The biggest mistake people make with their New Year’s resolutions is that they give themselves monumental goals without giving themselves the necessary stepping stones to get there. If you want to gain 10,000 blog subscribers this year, how are you going to get that many subscribers? What actions will you take to get more blog traffic? Grow your social media audience? Boost your SEO? Get people to stick around your blog longer? Optimize your blog so a higher percentage of its visitors subscribe? Those are just six stepping stones that I can think of on the top of my head, and there are plenty of other stepping stones to choose from.

Providing the stepping stones for your New Year’s resolutions is a vital step towards accomplishing your New Year’s resolutions, but even the stepping stones need stepping stones. Let’s take the example of growing your social media audience. Growing your social media audience would result in more blog subscribers, but how would you approach growing your social media audience? Would you focus on YouTube? your Twitter audience? Facebook Ads? Those are three stepping stones you can use to strengthen the stepping stone needed to get more blog subscribers. Writing down your New Year’s resolutions is good, but it is essential for you to have a detailed, highly organized plan that shows you step by step how to accomplish each of your New Year’s resolutions.

Once you create your plan and include the stepping stones, you will know what steps you need to follow to become successful. The only thing left to do at this stage is implement what you wrote down. This, in itself, is another hurdle that few jump over. After writing down goals, many people are fearful of failure, and upon a second glance, the work looks too extensive (that’s the excuse people use to get out of doing something). Many of these people give up on the goal early so they won’t have to admit failure later on.

Accomplishing New Year’s resolutions does not have to be impossible. There are only three ingredients you need to make the implementation easier. The first ingredient is urgency. If you give yourself closer deadlines to accomplish the same goals, and you stick with those deadlines, your mind will find a way to get the goal accomplished in a shorter amount of time. Constantly reminding yourself of the approaching deadline will only strengthen your ability to accomplish your goals.

The second ingredient is productivity. The more productive you are, the more you can accomplish. I have written numerous blog posts about productivity which can be found here.

The third ingredient is a series of daily, weekly, and monthly plans that strengthen your productivity. You need to identify day by day, week by week, and month by month what you need to accomplish. A plan like this could take a long period of time to create, so my recommendation is to only create an extensive plan like this once every three months, for the three upcoming months. If you start creating an extensive plan like this for January, then go no farther in your planning process than the first day of April.

 

In Conclusion

Your ability to accomplish New Year’s resolutions does not depend on how easy or challenging those resolutions are. Your ability to accomplish New Year’s resolutions depends on how much planning you put into the process and how many stepping stones you create. You want to have as many stepping stones as possible because it is the small wins that result in the big momentum needed to accomplish your New Year’s resolutions.

Creating a detailed plan will also boost the belief in your abilities to accomplish a goal. Although there are tactics and skills that move you farther, you must believe in your abilities in order to truly move forward.

Give Yourself A Big Goal Quarterly

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You should be creating products and implementing ideas as many times as you can. However, there should be one product or service that dwarfs all of your other goals in importance. The other goals are important too, but there should be one quarterly goal that stands above the rest.

The big quarterly goal should be something that can make you a big profit. This quarterly goal can be writing a book, putting a training course together, or offering a new service. The big quarterly goal is the goal that you should spend most of your time on.

The big quarterly goal is one that should lead to dynamic results since you are spending the most time on it. Accomplishing the big quarterly goal will make it easier to accomplish all of your other goals as well. Writing a book or launching a podcast will lead into other goals such as getting more traffic on your blog and more followers on social networks.

You can have numerous side goals as long as you get the big goal done every quarter.

 

Are Your Goals Urgent?

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The word goals can no longer stand alone and easily get accomplished. Now they have to be urgent. That’s why everyone’s scrambling all over the place as the year comes to an end. October is coming to a close, and then November will start off the last 8 weeks of the year (scary thought, isn’t it). I want you to pay attention to how much more work people are doing at this time. I want you to also pay attention to how much more work you’ll be doing at this time.

The last 8 weeks of the year create the urgency that we needed from the very beginning. Without this urgency, accomplishing goals becomes a lot more difficult.

You need to make all of your goals urgent in order to complete them faster. You need to feel the end of the year urgency throughout the year. You’re going to feel that urgency very soon, but I want you to carry that urgency into 2014 and keep it throughout the entire year. Don’t drop the urgency after January or February. Keep that urgency throughout the entire year so you will be able to accomplish more goals faster.

 

Must-Do List

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There are people who are writing down everything they need to accomplish. The problem is that not all of those things get accomplished. The problem is that people are writing their ideas on a to-do list.

A to-do list allows you to write things down that you need to get accomplished. However, the title, to-do list, isn’t as motivating as a must-do list.

There are some things that you will really need to get accomplished. If you put them on a to-do list, it’s optional. If you put them on a must-do list, they’re not optional anymore. You actually have to be committed to accomplishing those goals.

Is there something for you to-do, or is there something that you must-do?

If It Were Easy

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Everyone would be doing it.

If being a bestselling author was easy, everyone would be writing their own book and becoming the next bestselling author.

If having a million Twitter followers was easy, everyone would be on Twitter talking with over a million followers.

If having a mansion was easy, everyone would move into a mansion or turn their house into a mansion.

If having a successful business was easy, everyone would be an entrepreneur, and none of them would quit. Sadly, over 90% of them quit within the first 5 years.

If coming up with a big idea was easy, everyone would be thinking of big ideas. The people who can’t think of big ideas sell products similar to their competition.

If running the mile was easy, everyone would be running that mile without stopping. It isn’t as easy as it appear.

However, it’s not easy. That’s why few people do the difficult tasks. The safety zone is not safe at all. Everyone is in the safety zone which makes individuals in the safety zone become invisible.

Becoming a bestselling author, having a million Twitter followers, having a mansion, having a successful business, coming up with a big idea, and running the mile are not easy. As we get more experience, these tasks become easier.

After writing a lot of books, an author can build a following and eventually become a bestselling author.

After consistently tweeting for years and going viral, it is possible for someone to reach a million followers without knowing how to sing well or buying a million followers.

Everyone who started with a business started at the bottom. Macintosh computers were first made in garage. Now Apple is a multibillion dollar company that pays billions of dollars in taxes. They can pay those billion dollars in taxes and still make a profit with their Macs, iPhones, iPads, and more. Amazon started out as a bookstore. Now Jeff Bezos is a billionaire who recently bought the Washington Post. Not bad for “another bookstore.”

When someone thinks of a big idea, and creates a business based on that big idea, that person has a good chance of becoming successful. Twitter, Facebook. Instagram, Pinterest, and Google are some of the big ideas. The person who came up with an idea for any of these social networks (or Google) is either a millionaire or a billionaire. That’s not bad for an idea that started out on paper. Back in 2004, people would have looked at you funny if you talked about Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest. Google was around at that time, but Google+ was not.

Running the mile becomes easy after a lot of practice. People give up when they run the mile for the first time because it’s excruciating. The people who run day after day will be able to easily run the mile.

It’s not easy, but with practice, dedication, and commitment, you will make it easy.