I found a great site (well my friend told me about it), called www.43things.com
It’s a goal setting site (no matter how big or small) and you publish your goals and other people cheer you on, or give advice, that sort of thing. Pretty inspirational, and fun. And it has been proven that people who write down their goals are more likely to achieve them. Maybe because you are less likely to forget, procrastinate or whatever? I guess if you have a secret goal it would be easier to put it off all the time unless you are very disciplined and driven.
Being told about 43 Things tied in pretty nicely with a book I had just read called ‘Eat That Frog’ by Brian Tracy - all about setting your goals and avoiding procrastination. The theory being that if the first thing you have to do each day is eat a live frog, you can be happy that that is probably the most unpleasant thing you will have to do all day - so in a nutshell - do your biggest, hardest, most unpleasant task first. Although mainly aimed at businesspeople its methods could be easily transferred to anything else. It is a nice short book, with exercises at the end of each chapter. Very manageable.
So this week, although I have actually mainly been ill and in bed a lot, that’s freed up a lot of time to sit on 43 Things and work out what my goals are and how I will go about achieving them. I’ve mainly focused on small goals to start with although the big one will make its way onto there in due course. One extra good thing about the website is that you can post updates and set it to post to your blog too. So I’m going to post my independence days challenge updates from there for ease.
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