5 Ways 2 Make Achievement & NOT Activity Your Daily Goal

 

Can we first agree that how you spend the next few moments of your life are a direct reflection on how you will spend the moments after that? If that is the case, then it would go without saying that we all need to be a little more conscious and aware of our moments.

We’ll call our moments, “building blocks to success.” And we’ll hold each moment responsible for completing a daily, short or long-term goal. (But we won’t be obsessive, now will we?)

Let’s start our countdown to achievement:

1.     First set a goal for an ½ hour work increment. Each increment should be tied to a daily or long-term goal. (You’ve got to know where you’re going first. You’ve never just jumped into your vehicle and started to drive and then decided where you were going, have you?)

2.     Don’t take off yet! Determine if those goals are a priority. Are those the right goals for this time? Say you listed ten work increments for the day. Remove half of them. Keeping the ones that are going to produce income and/or lead to producing future income.

 3.    Be sure that you’ve accomplished something at the end of the ½ hour. The measure of this may just be being able to say that I’ve done this, that or the other. (Example: I put together a list of 100 people that I would like to first invite to next month’s event. Maybe you didn’t complete the whole database for invitations, but you’ve begun “building blocks to success” and the next ½ hour work increment that you give to the task may just be sending the invitations out to that priority list. Now you’ve got the ball rolling. You can see the results of your efforts.)

4.     Make a DONE list. At the end of each item on the list, indicate the longer-term goal that it supports. Review this list at the end of the day.  (You’re feel better each day and when the things you’ve done and done first appear in front of your eyes.)

 5.     Put that thousand item To-Do-List over there and only have a list with five items in front of you at any given time and only the most important five items.

There is a very simply way that you can tell the difference between activity, or busy work and achievement or accomplishments. Ask yourself if the task that you’ve just completed made a difference in your business or personal life. If your answer is, “Yes”, then you’re punching the right ticket.

Sonja Cassandra Perdue is the Founder of Chicago’s Black Business Network, a social media management and training organization.

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