Write It Down!
Before that skyscraper become a permanent fixture on your city street, it was a dream, a thought, an idea. And it would have stayed that way, unless the architect sketched it out first. Have you ever been to an architects office? There are sketches, drawings, plans and models everywhere, and there are many different variations, all for the same project. The final building is often quite different from the original concept.
If an architect can't get a simple building design right the first time, when he is qualified and that is what he does full time, how do you expect to get your goals correct the first time around?
Write it down. That's the first step to turning your thoughts into reality. Plus it free's your mind up to refine your goal, develop your plan, or do other stuff altogether.
Your conscious brain is like you carrying the shopping in from the car. You can only carry so many bags at once. You have to put some bags down before you can pick up some more. (There is no limit to how many bags your unconscious brain can carry, but that's another story, and has been covered in previous posts, and will no doubt be covered again!)
Write it down.
Refine it.
Get a clear picture in your mind of what it will be, sights, sounds feelings, smells, big and bright.
Make a rough plan.
Work out the first step - then DO IT!
Work out the next steps, think about the final steps.
Continually refine your goal and your plan.
Take massive ACTION each and every day towards your goal (Ok, you can take one day off a week, even God took Sunday off).
If it's working, keep doing it. If it's not working, do something else!
Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat.
Someone once told me that goals should be set in concrete, and your plans made in sand.
I happen to believe that goals are just signposts on the way to success. As long as you are moving towards something, you will see signs along the way that might point you in a different direction, a new goal. That's fine too. As long it's not a detour for you to avoid doing what you know needs to be done.
To your success,
Trevor Long
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