A new year begins to unroll its days, we all hope good things from anything new, for any New Year is a full promise of goals, success, travel, love, money, you name it, everything goes as everything can happen.
The best way to get what you want in this year is first with clarity about what is what you desire in the first place, have a mental picture, with some details about your goal, put some dates and describe the outcome, that helps a lot to your brain to recognize and differentiate your specific goal from any similar and incomplete goal.
If you don´t like the land of the broken dreams, as I expect you don´t, then I suggest to add some kind of to do list, or better yet an action plan, since a goal without action is a mere dream that can be broken too easily. Action is the important part of your dream.
Most of the time if you do just a little part but you do it every day, you will gain momentum, you will develop a new habit, and you should know that a good habit create a destiny.
In simple words you should walk your talk daily, whatever you like to do, or have in your business or life you should take care of it every day, a little thing every day, one step followed by another step but in the right direction, the direction to your dream, you goal now that have a date to celebrate as reality or success. If is not possible to endure massive action because lack energy, time or resources, baby steps in the right direction will do the trick.
Start your day with a big smile, and try to keep a smile in your face as this little act change your mood and change the way other people around you, see you.
If possible start early the day with the most productive things in your business, career, life, the best time to produce, to create the best thought, analysis, writing is early in the morning, save that part of the day to produce in a relax environment, to create since the best of your mind power will peak with fresh neurons. Is not the time to interact in social networks.
If the goal is important in your life, and it should be if you want to go from dream to reality, you should have a strict schedule for review, for planning for thinking about your plans. Planning is more important than the plan itself, planning is important if you want to spot troubles and avoid it with preventive actions, planning is important if you want to avoid waste resources, or have to repeat something. If you have to do it anyway, is better do it right the first time.
I wish you have a plan for this year and you work your plan, try not to make too complex, there is not a plan written in stone, and you may have to take detours along the way, the most important thing here is have a clear destination, if not you may end up in a complete different place, one you don´t like at all.
Of course a plan is not guarantee of success, in business, life, we all face acts of God, Mother Nature, and our flight get delayed or even cancelled, the road is blocked by a huge stone or flooded by a river, many of this things can happened in a single day not to say in a year. If possible have a plan B just in case the worst scenario apply, that way you do damage control, avoid bigger losses, even save your skin.
I wish you a great year full of challenges, the fortitude to prepare ahead and the competences to success, be as good as you can, improve your home, your business, your life and make impact in others just a bit every day.
Dr Izquierdo
M.D. with Postdoctoral studies in U. of Chile and U. of Pennsylvania.
Rockefeller Foundation Award 1991 (USA)
Fellowships to USA, Japan, Chile.
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