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one was written way back in two thousand five, but still relevant today. So let's go right to it. Optimize your life, Your personal accountability system by steep away Steve, Avellino, dot com, a difficult job punch achieving goals is simply wrong. Being aware of them and staying on track. How many times have you set? A goal started working on it with. Best of intentions and then at something Your time, you realize it somehow slip through the cracks external influences, exert forces to knock off track, and if you have a busy life, these influences can come many times each day phone calls emails, postal mail, a new memo, a drop in visitor new items. To add to your to do list new things to think about the most arduous distractions from us really important. We therefore must exert a countering force to get back on.

Track pony yourselves back towards our goals again and again, revealing your goals once a month or once a week is just too infrequent. I find him you, my major goals every single day and if the day is filled with a fire fighting, then I must do it several times a day, otherwise is targeting too far off course, lured into working on what's merely important, is that it was a wildly important is a process of constantly re, checking the compass and figuring out the correct next step for two thousand five. I have fourteen written goals there divided into three primary goals in eleven secondary goals, all of them are important, but the primary goals are those which will make an absolutely huge difference, any one of those, three primary goals is more important than achieving all eleven secondary goals, but those secondary goals are so tempting to work on fur.

Their easier, the yield and immediate sense of accomplishment, some we'll take care of themselves just from continuing existing habits. Most of the others me knocked off with about twenty to forty hours of work on each one, but the primary goals are not automatic, not certain of being achieved, and each one requires hundreds of hours of work. So if I don't do anything special to keep taking myself back to the primary goals the most likely outcome would be that I'd finish all the secondary goals and make a dent in each primary goal, but not complete any of them this year, not just isn't good enough, so how do I stay focused on my primary goals, despite so many pressures to work on other things, I maintain a personal accountability system. Call it p s if you like, acronym, This is a regular three ring binder with having spine and contains my one sentence: purpose in two thousand five goals: one page MIKE

one two dozen five goals: one page, my projects list one page and my next actions list one page I have other planning documents. I maintain my pc, but these are the ones I keep in this binder first. This helps me because I always keep this binder on my desk, and I opened and looked through it every day. Usually many times per day This automatic basic contains my next actions list, so I my goals frequently and I'm always noticing which three or the most important as a process of constantly re, checking that I'm still on course, and making adjustments as needed. Secondly, a break my project list in my actions list in a two parts: primary and secondary the primary projects, and next actions are those that led directly to the achievement of the primary goals.

The secondary projects and next actions you delete a secondary goals or they aren't linked to goals at all. I do my taxes, something I must do, but does not a major goal. You can probably be in to see the benefit approach whenever I look at my next actions or project lists, the primaries are the top of the page, so this makes it very clear which next actions or the most important I still sore each group by Text, office, errands, waiting for etc, but this isn't complicate things much because my primary goals evolve mostly office work. It's very difficult, sometimes- and I dont always manage to achieve it, but I aim to spend at least fifty percent of each day working our primary goals. Knowing what that of next actions are linked to those goals is very helpful and you just go straight. My next actions list and are working on the primary actions at the end of the day, I can see whether I've crossed off a lot of actions from the primary list or whether most were from the secondary list.

I now with our focus on the wildly important or got off course, if I don't cross off actions from primary list I know with certainty. I'm off course, there's no way to nationalism it or justify it as being on track when it isn't. This is one way keeping score every day, always, knowing where I stand the glue the holes. Everything together is the p s. This keeps accountability in my consciousness, since I actively use it every day. Whenever I doubt about an ex action, I can turn the page to see the project it links to enter in the past again to see the goal behind it and with only three primary goals. Each an indifferent area of my life is always very clear which goal I should be working on systems tromp intentions with us, systematized method of daily accountability. The natural result will be the stray off course, then, at the end of the year you look back and say, if only in order to prevent a yearly. If only you have to say

he's an annual accountability down into each and every day. When you look back I got your day and see you goofed. You can immediately regroup and recommend to doing a better job the next day, to do this every single day, instead of going dark and then being painfully surprise, the end of the year. Purposeful transformation is better than tragic realization. Best of intentions will be dominated by whatever system you have in place. If we have no system, then either old habits or just plank The US will dominate in the long run, regardless of your pensions and motivation. The PS is just one to oversee on track as my current favourably as it takes goals in some all the way down to the level of actions in the moment. So accountability is this at all levels, but the real key is as an integral part of every day, without daily, sometimes even hourly. Refocusing on the wily important goals is just too easy to lose. I have your goals and get sidetracked. So even though requires a bit of effort,

put together a p s is worth it. You just listen to the post titled your personal accountability, system by sea, Felina of Steve Pavlovna dot com and give this ending super shore. For you today, really quick, just a friendly reminder that we have for other podcast, where we marry blogs for you to listen to them. Just for optimal living daily reverie hearing this and the other should pop right up happy Sunday and I'll see you tomorrow for

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