16/01/2025
Today's ‘Rich Thinking’ question is - are you getting busy in January? Perhaps busier than you were in December? Perhaps being busier than you are in a normal month?
I would challenge you and ask, are you making a mistake by doing that?
Because if you're just taking a load of action - and you haven't got a plan in place that's linked to some goals, that's linked to your dream life - all that activity could be taking you in a direction you don't want to go.
Imagine you are in a rowing boat and decide to row faster. Which way will you go?
You'll go the way you're pointing with a deviation dependent upon the ocean currents and the wind. And the metaphor is that the ocean currents and the wind are the wider economic situation that includes factors such as government intervention, competition, consumer confidence, war and global pandemics….
You’ll definitely go somewhere without a destination in mind, yet you’ll perhaps not end up where you want to end up, so…
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1. DREAM - Write down what your dream life looks like
2. GOALS - Break those dreams down into goals. Make them D.U.M.B goals - Dream-led, Uplifting, Meaningful and Behaviorals-led
3. LEARN - Understand what you need to learn to achieve, or better achieve, those goals and go learn it before you start to plan out your goals. You’ll write a much better plan after you’ve read a few books / attended a few conferences etc on the topic of your goals than you would if you didn’t!
4. PLAN - Write a plan, or a number of plans, to achieve your goals
5. ACTION - Now that you have plans in place, that are connected to your goals, that are connected to the life of your dreams, take the actions defined in your plan.
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With this in place, then the actions you take will get you to where you want to go - the life of your dreams - regardless of the way those ocean currents are going and the wind's blowing as you can and will row against those currents…
Regardless of the wider economic situation and whatever the government, your competitors, consumer confidence, war and global pandemics might be doing, your actions will now row you against those currents to your destination - the life of your dreams.
As always your thoughts, comments and questions are very welcome and please do share this - with whoever you think would get value from it - and to subscribe for more great content.
All the very best, Rich.
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