December 16, 2009
The Challenge:
This challenge is related to the last one, something that can make finding time for your goals easier to manage is to start with just a small amount of time each day. It’s amazing what can be achieved in just 30-minutes a day when it’s spent focused on your goals and moving them forward. For this challenge, commit to a specific amount of time each day to be focused on your goals.
This task is worth 25-points on your scorecards.
Thought Provoking Questions:
How much time did you commit to? Were you able to stick to your time commitment?
If you still had distractions, what were they caused by?
The Lesson:
If you spend just 30-minutes each day focused on your goals, you will have spent the equivalent of 182-hours over the course of a year. What you will find is that by starting with a small amount of time each day, you will slowly begin to increase this time as the goal formulates itself in to reality. And as the goal begins to take shape, you will become more enthused and those distractions that caused you grief before will have a more difficult time pulling away your attention.
Persistence is also a key to this challenge. The person that commits to taking baby steps will eventually find themselves far from where they started. It doesn’t always feel like you are moving forward until you look back several months and realize just how far you’ve come. Don’t give up on this process, this is truly what separates the successful people in life. These struggles are what make the rewards so memorable.
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole stair case, just take the first step” – Martin Luther King Jr.
December 06, 2009
The Challenge:
There are only 24-hours in the day to take action towards our dreams. In life, we have to balance the other important things including time with family, friends, careers with our personal goals and dreams. Of course, we have to eat and sleep as well. A question that often comes up is how do I find the time to achieve my dreams? For this challenge, list the important things in your life and then prioritize them according to their importance to you.
This task is worth 50-points on your scorecards.
Thought Provoking Questions:
How many things did you list? Do you feel this is a realistic number for you to balance?
What were the top three priorities? Can the others be eliminated or reduced?
The Lesson:
At some point we look at our lives and realize that we have a time capacity, and that capacity is 24-hours of everyday. Everyone is playing by this same limitation, so why are some able to achieve more than others? The answer lies in how some are able to focus on what they want and then make certain sacrifices to achieve their dreams. It’s a tough choice, but you will have to identify things you are willing to give up to achieve your dreams. This challenge is meant to help you begin the process of identifying your priorities, but the decision to cut things out of your life will be a deep and personal one.
Once you identify your priorities, you will need to decide how much time you want to devote to each priority. Don’t forget about necessities like sleeping and eating. Also, there will always be the unforeseen circumstances that pull you away from your dreams but that are important for you to be a part of. Make sure you can accommodate these situations by creating a plan to catch-up on your top priorities when these situations arise.
“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become” – Charles Dubois
thanks for sharing them