Home     Log in    XML, RSS Subscribe Feed (RSS)     XML, RSS Comments Feed

Archive for the ‘Achieving Success’ Category

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »

Achieving Success BLOG

April 4th, 2009 by Krayton M Davis | No Comments | Filed in Achieving Success

BLOG postings: (link to Achieving Success BLOG for PDF downloads)

Execute Success: The Evaluation Process

I saw a fleet of fishing boats . . . I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn’t hear me. Maybe I didn’t hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool. An hour later I saw land.
Charles Lindbergh

The steps outlined in these next postings will measure your progress on a daily, weekly and phase-to-phase basis. We have segmented the postings into the following discussions:

I: Daily Task Measurement.
II: Weekly Goal and Benchmark Evaluation
III: Weekly Role Evaluation
IV: Daily Character Attribute Evaluation
V: Weekly Character Attribute Evaluation
VI: Life Phase Evaluation
VII: Starting a New Life Phase
VIII: Objective and Goal Evaluation

III: Daily Character Evaluation

You will evaluate your achievement of the character attribute goals assigned for the day. Simply check the box indicating completion if you completed your physical development. Repeat this process for all character attributes assigned for the week as diagrammed in the illustration on the next page.

The more intangible the character development goal, the more difficult it will be to measure your completion. For example, how do you know if you completed your social goal for the day or not? The best way to measure your progress is to quantify what you want to achieve whenever you set attribute development goals.

Instead of writing a social goal that says, “be more friendly,” quantify your goal to read, “be friendly with one new person each day.” Instead of writing a physical goal that says, “exercise each day,” quantify your attribute goal to read, “45 minutes of exercise starting at 6:00AM.” By quantifying your character development goals, you will be able to measure whether you completed the goals for each day.

If you find yourself not achieving the development goals as assigned, you should return to the attribute chapters and repeat the steps in each chapter. Don’t rush the process. Develop one character attribute at a time for at least two weeks before taking on a new character attribute.

The character development process is like a Catch-22: You need discipline to build discipline. But as you force yourself up each morning to jog, for example — day after day after day for the two or more weeks as instructed in the attribute chapters— you eventually increase self-discipline and success.

Next week: we move onto V: Weekly Character Attribute Evaluation

You can find the day planning systems we are illustrating in this discussion in our FREE appendix file (Appendix as Form-N and Forms O.1-O.7 ).

———-
Read more about achieving success and become something grand: subscribe to our RSS feed


Tags: , , , , ,

Achieving Success BLOG

March 28th, 2009 by Krayton M Davis | 1 Comment | Filed in Achieving Success

BLOG postings: (link to Achieving Success BLOG for PDF downloads)

Execute Success: The Evaluation Process

I saw a fleet of fishing boats . . . I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn’t hear me. Maybe I didn’t hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool. An hour later I saw land.
Charles Lindbergh

The steps outlined in these next postings will measure your progress on a daily, weekly and phase-to-phase basis. We have segmented the postings into the following discussions:

I: Daily Task Measurement.
II: Weekly Goal and Benchmark Evaluation
III: Weekly Role Evaluation
IV: Daily Character Attribute Evaluation
V: Weekly Character Attribute Evaluation
VI: Life Phase Evaluation
VII: Starting a New Life Phase
VIII: Objective and Goal Evaluation

III: Weekly Role Evaluation

Each week when you assemble a new Role Planning Sheet, you need to determine whether any of the roles listed should be changed, modified or deleted? Roles can change for various reasons.

You may get a promotion that places you in a new position. You may become a parent, forcing you to spend more time with your family. You may change jobs, taking you to a new city. Or you may delete a role because of a change of strategy. A weekly role evaluation looks at your current roles and changes them whenever appropriate.

Step 1: Assemble a new Weekly Role Planning Sheet for the week that is beginning (Appendix Form-M). Assign dates running from Sunday to Sunday at the top of the form.

Step 2: Review your current role assignment. Have any of your roles been changed or deleted? Should new roles be added that impact how you will allocate your time as diagrammed by the letter “H” on the illustration?

Step 3: Note any tasks/appointments that were not completed last week. If needed, assign these role tasks for the week as diagrammed by the letter “I” on the illustration.

Step 4: Assign tasks that you must complete during the week for each role as explained earlier.

Next week: we move onto IV: Daily Character Attribute Evaluation

You can find the day planning systems we are illustrating in this discussion in our FREE appendix file (Appendix as Form-N and Forms O.1-O.7 ).

———-
Read more about achieving success and become something grand: subscribe to our RSS feed


Tags: , , , ,

Achieving Success BLOG

March 21st, 2009 by Krayton M Davis | 2 Comments | Filed in Achieving Success

BLOG postings: (link to Achieving Success BLOG for PDF downloads)

Execute Success: The Evaluation Process

I saw a fleet of fishing boats . . . I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn’t hear me. Maybe I didn’t hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool. An hour later I saw land.
Charles Lindbergh

The steps outlined in these next postings will measure your progress on a daily, weekly and phase-to-phase basis. We have segmented the postings into the following discussions:

I: Daily Task Measurement.
II: Weekly Goal and Benchmark Evaluation
III: Weekly Role Evaluation
IV: Daily Character Attribute Evaluation
V: Weekly Character Attribute Evaluation
VI: Life Phase Evaluation
VII: Starting a New Life Phase
VIII: Objective and Goal Evaluation

II: Weekly Goal and Benchmark Evaluation

You will complete a weekly evaluation of your goal-achieving progress to determine what goals and tasks should be assigned for the new week. I suggest that you make this evaluation each Sunday morning as you plan for the new week.

We begin with the Weekly Goal Planning Sheet (Appendix Form-L) from the week you just completed. Review the sheet as diagrammed by the letter “D” on the illustration. Evaluate whether these goals/benchmarks and related tasks were completed as assigned. Determine whether these same goals/benchmarks/and related tasks should be worked for another week. Perhaps you should assign a new set of goals/benchmarks/ and related tasks for the upcoming week?

If you decide assign a new set of goals for the new week, plus work on the same goals/benchmarks/and related tasks from a prior Weekly Goal Planning Sheet, complete the following steps:

Step 1: Keep the prior week’s Weekly Goal Planning Sheet.

Step 2: Assemble a new Weekly Goal Planning Sheet (Appendix Form-L). Assign dates running from Sunday to Sunday at the top of the form as illustrated.

Step 3: Go to the middle section of the form. Select a new set of goals from your Task Assignment Sheets (Appendix Form-J) as diagrammed by the letter “F” on the illustration.

Step 4: Assign one or two benchmarks for each goal assigned for the week (diagrammed by the letter “F”).

Step 5: Assign the major tasks that will achieve the respective benchmarks (diagrammed by the letter “F”).

Step 6: Go to the goal/benchmark icon located just above the character attribute section (with the heading, “See Week:”). Write the dates for the week where you can find the continuing goals/benchmarks/and related tasks from a prior week (diagrammed by the letter G on the illustration). The “See Week” icon instructs you to reference a prior week’s Weekly Goal Planning Sheet. This prevents you from having to rewrite each week the goals/benchmarks/and related tasks that will continue.

The “See Week” icon in the left column references the goals/benchmarks/and related tasks from the “left-side column” of a prior week’s Weekly Goal Planning Sheet. The “See Week” icon in the right column references the goals/benchmarks/and related tasks from the “right-side column” of a prior week’s Weekly Goal Planning Sheet. You can reference two “See Weeks” icons per column per week. This will give you a maximum of 6 goals with 12 applicable benchmarks and major tasks to work on during a given week.

The “See Week:” icon is only operational during the current planning week. The “See Week:” icon from an old Weekly Goal Planning Sheet can no longer be used or referenced. This maximizes the planning of 6 goals and 12 benchmarks for any given week. If not, you could set up a labyrinth of goals/benchmarks/major tasks assignments that could be endless and confusing.

Next week: we move on to III: Weekly Role Evaluation

You can find the day planning systems we are illustrating in this discussion in our FREE appendix file (Appendix as Form-N and Forms O.1-O.7 ).

———-
Read more about achieving success and become something grand: subscribe to our RSS feed


Tags: , , ,

Achieving Success BLOG

March 14th, 2009 by Krayton M Davis | No Comments | Filed in Achieving Success

BLOG postings: (link to Achieving Success BLOG for PDF downloads)

Execute Success: The Evaluation Process

I saw a fleet of fishing boats . . . I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn’t hear me. Maybe I didn’t hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool. An hour later I saw land.
Charles Lindbergh

The steps outlined in these next postings will measure your progress on a daily, weekly and phase-to-phase basis. We have segmented the postings into the following discussions:

I: Daily Task Measurement.
II: Weekly Goal and Benchmark Evaluation
III: Weekly Role Evaluation
IV: Daily Character Attribute Evaluation
V: Weekly Character Attribute Evaluation
VI: Life Phase Evaluation
VII: Starting a New Life Phase
VIII: Objective and Goal Evaluation

II: Weekly Goal and Benchmark Evaluation

You will complete a weekly evaluation of your goal-achieving progress to determine what goals and tasks should be assigned for the new week. I suggest that you make this evaluation each Sunday morning as you plan for the new week.

We begin with the Weekly Goal Planning Sheet (Appendix Form-L) from the week you just completed. Review the sheet as diagrammed by the letter “D” on the illustration. Evaluate whether these goals/benchmarks and related tasks were completed as assigned. Determine whether these same goals/benchmarks/and related tasks should be worked for another week. Perhaps you should assign a new set of goals/benchmarks/ and related tasks for the upcoming week?

If you decide to work on the same goals/benchmarks/tasks for an additional week, complete the following steps:

Step 1: Assemble a new Weekly Goal Planning Sheet for the week that is beginning (Appendix Form-L). Assign dates from Sunday to Sunday at the top of form as illustrated on the next page.

Step 2: Go to the middle section of the form. Reassign the goals from last week to this week as diagrammed by the letter “E” on the illustration.

Step 3: The new Weekly Goal Planning Sheet is now part of your Weekly Reference Kit. Discard your old Weekly Goal Planning Sheet.

Next week: we discuss assigning new goals.

You can find the day planning systems we are illustrating in this discussion in our FREE appendix file (Appendix as Form-N and Forms O.1-O.7 ).

———-
Read more about achieving success and become something grand: subscribe to our RSS feed


Tags: , , ,

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »