Plan Your Day
What do you want to accomplish? What are your goals? Do you
have short-term and long-term goals? Have you made a written plan to make your
goals happen? Life can be very hectic
and before you know it the day, week, month, year, and decade have gone by and
those goals are distant memories…
Greatness Requires a Plan
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| 2014 is Almost Over |
Have you ever looked at someone who has achieved much
greatness and said, “I don’t know how they did it?” This can be seen in
athletes, especially. There is no way that a great athlete woke up, after years
of leading a sedentary lifestyle, walked onto a field and won. No, they may not
have started as a young child, but there was a point in time when they did wake
up with a dream. With that dream came a plan, perhaps one that they created on
their own or one that was created for them with a coach or parent. But, discipline
was involved as well as a structured life. The fun times were also structured
and well defined as to what is and is not allowed. If you want to achieve
greatness in any area of your life this is what you need to do.
Education Must Lead to Action
At some point you need to stop educating yourself and DO! I
just watched a TV segment that showed a woman with $70,000 in college debt and
no prospects for work in her field of study. Education is important and
sometimes that comes in the form of college and sometimes it does not. Educating
yourself without a clear defined goal and purpose is just that…education without
a clear defined goal or purpose and can lead to financial devastation for you
and your family. Do you know what you want to do with your degree? If you had
that degree right now today, what jobs would you be qualified for? How many of
them are open in the place you want to live? Do they require additional
experience, thus the possibility of getting an internship while in college? Or
working part-time in your field of study during the summers. Go look for job
openings and see if you can find out what salary positions in your field of
study with the exact degree you want to get will pay.
Alternative to Formal Education
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| What is YOUR Dream? |
Depending on what you want to do there are a lot of
different ways to get education. You can even audit a college course for a
fraction of the cost. This means you attend the class and do everything that
everyone else does but you do not get a course credit for the class. Perhaps
you don’t need a degree but you do need to refine your skills in a certain
area. There are also unlimited self-study courses out there that specialize in
personal and professional development and are great for learning software
programs or business marketing and structure. Many are free if you are willing
to listen to their pitch for a portion of the course.
Whatever Your Plan Is
Whatever your plan is take the necessary steps to make it
happen. You can adjust along the way. But, inaction will give you just that—no
action! Try it—make a goal and then make a plan, what is the worst that could
happen?
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| Make a GOAL! |
As a special bonus for this Blog I will give away an
autographed copies of my latest book TimerOrganizer for anyone who sends me an
email between now and through the end of the day September 10, 2014 at Sherri@TimerOrganizer.com so send
me an email with your mailing info and I will send you an autographed copy to
get you started on making your goals come true!!
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Thank you for letting me know your thoughts! Sherri Sue Fisher