I often start a day by drawing four circles on a blank piece of paper.
The circles represent:
- my day(today),
- my month,
- my year,
- and my life.
Inside each circle,I write down what I want.It can be a dollar figure,it ca be anything,and the goal can change from day to day_It doesn’t matter.There is no way to get this process wrong.
But by writing the goals down,I am like an airline pilot who is consulting a map prior to takeoff.I am orienting my mind to what I am up to in life.I am reminding myself of what I really want.We wouldn’t think,before an airline flight,of poking our heads into the cabin and saying to the pilot,”just take me anywhere!”Yet,that’s how we live our days when we don’t check the map.
Sometimes during our seminars,people say they don’t have the time for goal setting.But the four circle system I described takes only four minute!
Without advertising our goals to ourselves,we can lose sight of them altogether.It is possible to go entire week,or two or three,without thinking about our main goals in life.We get caught up in a reacting and responding to people and circumstances and we simply forget to think about our own purpose.
We need to advertise our own goals to ourselves.Otherwise,our psychic energy is spread too thin across the spectrum of things that aren’t that Important to us.
Work with this for the next two weeks starting today and share your new found perspective with us…Good luck.