My Taken Action Formula

(1 + 2 = Freedom)

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We’re all busy.  But, we all have the same 24 hours in a day.  What separates    us from each other is the success we achieve throughout the day.  This success comes from our ability to conquer what ever it is that we need to achieve.

Simple Minds

This plan is almost too simple.  It’s like great engineering, simple is smart, efficient and effective.  But like all plans, the solution starts in your mind.  If you are not open to change, then change with not occur.  If you don’t wish to change habits that waist time and keep us from succeeding, that too is a choice.  If we want to focus on what will get us further toward our destination, then we must start with that goal in mind.

Stop to Move Forward

I want you to schedule a time where you will be able to sit for 1/2 of an hour and focus.   Once seated with a laptop opened to a Word Page or a legal pad with pen, I want you to write the top 20 things you need to accomplish at this very moment.  I want you to make the list now.  Stop everything else and do it now.

Look at your list.   If it only takes you 10 minutes, than you are a self motivating hero.  Pat yourself on the back, smile at anyone else in the room (coffee shop) or to yourself in your computer screen or a reflective picture on a wall.  Make the effort to show all of your teeth.  Be silly.  Feel it.  Enjoy that feeling.

Look and Feel

Take that list of 20 things and pick the THREE things that offer you the greatest potential advancement in your business.  What makes you money?  This is the highest and best use of your “working” hours.  Our goal is to make you more productive while you are at work. Once you have this list of THREE,  I want you to look for The Ugly Toad.  Years ago, Brian Tracy wrote a book by the name of  “The Ugly Frog”.   I have been a fan of the concept for years.  Eat the Ugly Toad the first thing in the day and the rest of your list is little in comparison.  The Ugly Toad is the ONE thing that is eating at you internally.  One thing that you have been trying to avoid for hours, or days or perhaps weeks or your lifetime.  That emotional element tied to this event (thought) makes us motionless and frozen in thought.  We can’t see a positive outcome.  We loath it’s existence.  Nonetheless, the fear of that one thing controls us internally.  That churn in our stomach makes us vulnerable to inaction.   We enter into a state of paralysis caused by analysis.   We don’t see the forest for the trees. 

We must agree that this power to this event or task is OVER.  We can agree to finish it now and for ever.  We are NEW in the face of task completion.  We need to talk to ourselves to complete each task without favor or prejudice.  Each task is just one more thing to complete and check off!  What is your current Toad?  Finishing your taxes.  Perhaps talking to another family member or friend about something that you absolutely need to do.  That one thing that would “set you free” from feeling as if a huge, hairy and heavy load was lifted from your back.

Now,  take that Ugly Toad and place  a Star and a #1 next to it.  Circle it. 

Now as you stare at the list of twenty or however many things you need to get done.  The One is circled.  Now remember the formula.  1 + 2 = FREEDOM.  I want you to think about how great you will feel when they are all completed.  I want you to find the next two on the list and place a 2 next to the next one that needs to get done and that will further you efforts that benefit you and your family and business and economy, financially speaking.   Don’t look at your email inbox.  Now, place the #3 next to your next goal to achieve.  Don’t make a call unless it’s on the list.  Just do it.

Now, See yourself jumping 3 feet off the ground after you finish each one of the tasks.   Now look at the circled #1: that Ugly Toad.  Now don’t think, take action.  Just start and complete it.  Just get it done.  Reward yourself when it’s done.  This entire principal is designed to grunt out the hard work and reflect upon yourself for finishing each task.  The first one is hardest.   Now it’s time for a short celebration.  JUMP UP!  Wave your hands like you were are a rock concert.  YOU ROCK!  Say, I ROCK!  Do a couple of fist pumps into the air.  Smile at your accomplishment.

Now, onward to #2 and then #3.  Don’t give it more emotion that it deserves.  The list of 3 is natural to the human condition.  It’s written in the Bible consistently.  On you Mark, Get Set, GO!  Yes, three!  Yes, this is a race.  A race in which you are the only competitor.  It’s you against YOUR LIST.  Tell yourself that you are a Champion.  You deserve progress and to reap the rewards of your efforts.

Celebrate for a moment.  In your mind, tell yourself how awesome you are and that the next time you make a list, it well be easier and you will complete it with even more spirit.  You are a conquerer of your own list.  You have a special energy that is give to you by finishing the list.

Once that is done, go back to the list of 20.  Mark through the numbers 1,2 and 3.   Now, make a #1 next the next Ugliest Toad.  Then the next two things that will allow you the greatest chance to move your business further.    Now, are your “business list” starts to get smaller you can think about the other areas in your life which would benefit from fast action and limited analysis.  You can make separate ones in other areas of your life.  One for Social, Spiritual, Physical and Mental.   We can choose to become successful in any area we choose.  The process of successive achievements in all areas of our life will bring us into a “charging ahead of the pack” mode and make you powerful.

Please understand my thinking about money.  Most of our internal issues that we work through in our sleep deal with money issues.  I think that everything else works itself out within the remainder of our day and we enjoy a sense of freedom that comes from accomplishment.  It’s not about ego, of that  I worship money.  It’s about getting through the tough stuff so we can become successful in everything we do.  I know you can do this.  I know you can because I can do it.  I can.  Say, “I can do it”  to yourself next time you are at a moment when you are stuck.  If we concentrate on what has to get done first, then taking action to accomplish it, we will make the greatest difference in our lives.  We will naturally  move forward.

As you finish your day, lay your list aside for tomorrow.  Leave it at your desk, kitchen counter top or next to your nightstand.  Look at it first thing in the morning.  Smile at it and know that you can do it.  You are an Action Plan Rock Star.  Life is fun if you make it fun.  And keep throwing that smile around.  People smile at people who smile at them.  And, you may find that it makes you more attractive.

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Until Next Time
Your Friend, Hector Jayat
Infopreneur
www.hectorjayat.com