As you already know, goal setting is a very important process that you must make use of in your journey to success. The problem with most people is that they do not know what is goal setting and how it can help them. Even if they do know what is goal setting, almost 70% of people do not set clear and specific goals. No wonder so many people fail to achieve success in their life and that is why most people live a mediocre life.

However, I believe that you are different here. I believe that you want to improve and you want to be successful in your life. You want to create amazing results and you want to live the kind of life that you always wanted. That is why you are reading this article and that is why you are here in my blog. So in this post, I’m going to tell you how you can achieve much more by organizing your action plan.

Start from Your Goals

Like what I told you in one of my posts, the strategies that you developed are determined by the goals you set. The strategies or action plan that you used to make $1,000 a month is completely different from earning $100,000 a month. Therefore you see, your strategies are determined by your goals. If you set high goals, your strategies will be different from if you set easy-to-achieve goals.

Now, if you want to know more about goal setting, read the post under the category Goal Setting. You have to start from your goals. Once you have set your goals, take a piece of paper, brainstorm and write down every single steps that you can think of that can help you to achieve your goals.

And this is what I call the list of strategies or action plan. You must develop and write down your strategies just like what you did with your goals.

Start to Organize Your Action Plan

Next, after you have written down your action plan, it is time for you to start organizing it. What you need to do is to prioritize your action plan or your list of strategies. Use numbers to prioritize which strategy is much more important. For example, you can put a ‘1′ as the most important while ‘10′ as the most unimportant. Do not underestimate this step, because this is the step that is going to give you the maximum results with the minimum time spend.

Have you ever heard of the 80/20 rule? It is called the Pareto Principle. This principle says that most people do 80% of the work that yields 20% of the result. There must be something that is much more important that you must do first and that will yield the most results. So you need to spend time doing the 20% of the work that will yield you 80% of the results. This is just like out of 100 people, only 20 of them are rich while the rest are having difficulty in making more money.

This rule applies in goal setting and your action plan as well. So you must prioritize your action steps. By doing so, you are going to save yourself a lot of your time because you are doing what is important first.

Do Your Number One Priority Task Once You Woke Up

Every morning after you have woke up, do the task that is the most important first. You have to follow this step, and you will see that you are moving closer toward your goals everyday. This is because you have done what you need to and it is the most important thing that has the most influential power to bring you to your success.

Besides that, the moment you got the most important task done, you will feel relax and relief, you will feel free because you have lighten up what you need to do. Therefore, you will feel less burden for the whole day. That is why getting the most important task done first every morning is so much important.

For example, if you want to be earn money through investment in stock market, your action plan includes reading investment books, analyzing the stock market, reading financial reports, etc. And analyzing the stock market is the most critical task that will give you the most impact in achieving your goals, then you prioritize it and get it done first in the morning. Once you have done it, you are actually doing the 20% of the work and getting 80% of the results.

This is why successful people are successful. They are doing the right things at the right time! You must follow through all the steps mentioned in this post if you are serious in achieving your goals.

In fact, it is not that successful is more hard working, sometimes ordinary people are even more hard working than successful people, but they are doing the wrong thing and they are doing it the wrong way. They are spending their time and effort to do the 80% of the work that gives them only 20% results. So make sure you know how to organize your action plan and do the right thing that will give you the maximum result first.

It is just a matter of being smart and getting the right thing done in the right time.

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Posted on September 21st, 2008 by Shawn
Filed under: Strategic Success

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