(Expectations image courtesy of Roland at Flickr).
Welcome to February. I know some of you got to this moment in time before I was able to post this. That just makes you an overachiever. Congrats on that.
Today as I folded up the January page of the calendar to reveal a young zebra with it's mother (could be father, uncle, aunt, older brother or sister, cousin, or just maybe that nice zebra from down the hill across from the Jones' ranch, who's to say,) I welcomed a new page titled... F E B R U A R Y (shocking, I know).
1/12th(ish) of the year has past, and looking at the stickies in the picture you see, I can't help but wish I had done something like that instead of just taking last year's ideas and moving them to the New and Improved notebook for 2011. Sorry, there really isn't a new notebook. Just went into my corny advertising pitch voice for a moment there. I didn't expect that.
What I did expect was listing ways of updating expectations and putting them into a sort of plan. A strategy. A set of steps worded in such a way that there is a chance they make sense and are helpful when action is taken.
Since that didn't quite happen, here is a short list of ideas from the top of my brain to the screen of your computer of what to do in order to move forward in a realistic manner this year around.
See where you are - This is where you must start from. There is no way around it. Now is the time. This is the moment. This is where it's at. (and not trying to steal a popular beer's new tag line, but...) Here We Go.
See where you've been - If you're like me, you haven't tracked your progress over time from year to year. But maybe it's time to start. Pick an area. Write down your past situation. Give it a place. Date. Time.
See where you're target is this year - Get it in mind. On paper. On screen. Written down. Printed out. Posted everywhere. See it. Live It. Be it... even though you may not be there yet.
See the steps on the way to your target - Follow a path of short actions. Trace the landmarks. Keep them close. Keep it simple. Keep them real. Keep them relative. Keep them so you'll do them.
See yourself as successful - Yes. Cliché moment. Act as if you have already achieved what you are after. (Just don't spend the millions from the lottery until it's actually in the bank).
Finally, as a bonus step, Be The Ball.
David Stoddard
The Unmotivated Motivational Writer www.djstoddard.com
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