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“The new year stands before
us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write
that story by setting goals” (Melody Beattie)
Its December now, that time of the year
when everyone looks back their past 12 months trying to visualize and
reflect on what all happened and how did they perform or behaved, be it
their professional, personal or academic life. The year-end always get
you down to this feeling and compels you to think even if for a very
small period - what could I have done better to get me closer to my
dreams and wishes?
We all make new-year resolutions that
are meant to make us happier, achieve our goals and make us productive.
Lot of us do achieve our goals but in my experience, majority doesn’t.
In my previous article “New Year Resolution – Have A Stop Doing List”
I discussed how you can achieve your goals much better by preparing a
‘stop-doing’ list instead of a ‘to-do’ list. This will give you a
chance to list down items that create unnecessary noise in your life
without adding anything substantive. The reason we all make
resolutions is because we strive to achieve something meaningful in our
life by doing things that matter. We are aware that discipline is
something we lack and therefore, by writing on a piece of paper the
things we want to do, we try and set a disciplined path for success.
The concept of ‘writing’ has been quite
primitive. We have all the sacred learning in the form of Bible,
Bhagwad Gita, Quran or Guru Granth Sahib written by noble saints. Upon
discovery of ancient civilisations, it has been observed that every
aspect of life that was prevent that time was captured in writing and
even today writing forms an integral part of our life. My 6-year-old
son is asked by his school to write several pages every day so that he
learns the alphabets and numbers and memorizes them well. The idea is
that writing helps you focus and helps you learn quickly. Anything that
you write with your own hands gets registered in your mind quickly and
remains with you for a long time.
Writing is one of the most powerful ways
to set a discipline in your life. By writing down the things to be
done, your goals to be achieved, your precious moments in life, your
aspirations and your weaknesses, you tend to make them work in your
way. For example, the moment you are writing down your daily things to
do list, that period of time you are actually focusing hard and thinking
what items you need to finish today. That period of time, you are
actually only to your own, talking to yourself and then penning down the
items. In fact what you are doing by writing is actually reflecting
your own life – past, current and future and trying to make things work
in your favour.
In some of my previous articles I have
written a lot on the importance of ‘journaling’, i.e. writing your daily
journal or diary. The idea of writing your own personal journal is to
write your daily story, which gradually dovetails into your entire
life. Its important to remember that:
“Your days are your life in miniature. The way you spend your days, is the way you craft your life”
If you are eager to craft your life the
way you want it, that is filled with success, joy, peace and wealth, you
then need to start practice living your days more productively and with
high level of discipline. And one of the ways to achieve that
discipline is ‘writing your own personal journal/diary’.
How Should You Write Your Journal/ Diary
I want to share the experience of
writing my own personal journal that I maintain on a daily basis. As I
mentioned, your journal should capture your day in a way that when put
together, all days gets woven into your entire life.
These are some of the items you should try and capture in your journal:
Your BIG-5 Goals
Write your top-5 goals for the new-year in a sequential manner. The goals should ideally cover the following aspects:
a. Professional goal;
b. Personal goal;
c. Academic goal (for students);
d. Social goal;
e. Financial goal; and
f. Spiritual/ Physiological goal.
A lot of us are generally not aware of
our goals since we have a habit of taking things as they come and appear
in front of us. However, all top and great leaders have their goals
well identified and planned.
Identify those 5
items/objectives/passions, which, if achieved in the new-year would
completely change your life. These are the goals or passions you have
been dreaming for but never disciplined yourself to achieve them. Write
them down.
Write the goals in personal, present and perfect tense
Always write your goals in a manner as
if you have already achieved them. For example, if you are 80 kgs in
weight and want to loose by 10 kgs and reach 70kgs then your personal
goal should be written as follows – ‘I have lost weight by 10 kgs and now I am 70kgs’.
By writing goals this way, you send signals to your subconscious mind
and then the subconscious mind releases all the energy to make your
goals come true.
Put a date to your goals
Any goal is not worth pursuing when
there’s no deadline attached. You have to be very clear in your mind
about the date by which you would be able to achieve your desired
objective or goal. Against each of the above goal write down the time
by which you would be able to achieve it. And then make a plan to
achieve it before that time.
Your Morning 5 and Nightly 3
In addition to writing your BIG-5 goals
to be achieved in the new-year, you should, on a daily basis, in the
morning write down your 5 goals/activities, which if finished would make
your day complete in all respects and make you super productive.
At the end of the day, before you retire
for sleep, I would encourage you to write down 3 activities that made
you learn something or 3 things that made your day or any 3 good deeds
during the day.
Gratitude
We, as human beings have an inclination
to always criticize what we have and not appreciate the goodness stored
in it. Majority of us don’t thank with what we have – our body, our
friends, our job, our home, our health etc. There are thousands of
unfortunate souls in this world who are deprived of the very basics of
life including home and food, and that way we are very fortunate and
blessed.
So, just thank for whatever you have,
thank the day that went by peacefully without any problem, thank for
your health and wealth and wise you have got, thank for the movie you
watched, thank for the coffee you drank and the food you ate, thank your
parents for being with you, thank your friends for being with you and
thank God for all good things that have happened and that keep happening
to you.
“Gratitude helps you move from the feeling of scarcity to a feeling of abundance”.
Write an affirmation every day
Affirmations are simple sentences that
you narrate to yourself to convince that you would achieve your goals.
It’s a very well accepted practice that affirmations if narrated 3-4
times during the day send positive signals to the subconscious mind,
keeps you focused and consequently, helps you achieve your desired
goals.
Few examples of affirmations that can be used:
a. Every day and in every way I am
getting energy and confidence to manage my studies and office and I am
all charged up to give my best in the exams;
b. I am asking my subconscious mind to provide me success in my examinations and all the success is actually flowing into me;
c. Every day and in every way I am working hard to achieve my BIG-5 goals and I am sure of achieving them soon;
d. Day by day I am releasing all the negativity in my mind and I am gradually becoming the most positive person ever.
Similarly, you can create your own affirmations basis your objectives, goals and passions.
All activities that made your day
In my journal, I write down all the
important things that I did and things that I couldn’t complete. By
writing them down in my journal I am able to keep a control over my
activities, I am able to work on my strengths and weaknesses and write
what actions should I take to improve them.
An Inspirational Quote
I make it a point to write in my journal
any good quote or sentence that I read in the morning and then keep
reading it several times during the day. It could be any inspirational
or motivational quote that I would have liked and would want to
implement in my life. I also keep sharing some of the quotes on my
Facebook page “Nimish Goel Blog”.
Keep the journal with you all the time
so that you are able to look at your Daily 5 activities for the day and
keep focusing yourself to finish them. Have a plan to achieve those
goals and have a plan to execute each and every item on your to-do list
so that you end your day much fulfilled, inspired and motivated. The
feeling of completing your tasks for the day, doing good deeds and being
grateful for all things in your life would start to make you feel like a
Champion.
Try this and I can assure you of GREAT RESULTS very quickly.
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