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Achieving Success BLOG

May 2nd, 2009 by Krayton M Davis | No Comments | Filed in Achieving Success

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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

VII: Starting a New Life Phase

You will begin a new life phase for two reasons:

a) When circumstances in your life require that you shift direction and pursue other goals.

Certain changes in your life may force you to end your current life phase and begin a new one. Changes such as a new career, marriage, transfer to a new location, etc., will require new goals and perhaps a different goal plan. This will be an appropriate time to begin a new life phase.

Some changes in your life can be dramatic like a divorce, a death in the family or a loss of job. This can be upsetting where you lack the enthusiasm to pursue your goals. This is understandable. Your best option under these circumstances is to begin a new life phase and select some special goals and benchmarks that can help you through this time.

Beginning a new life phase is easy. Simply follow the steps outlined in Chapter 12. The next phase will begin with n+1 ( n equals the number of your current phase that is ending). Assign 2-5 years to the n+1 phase. Select the goal(s) with their respective benchmarks that you want to achieve or continue for the next phase. Identify the tasks that will achieve the benchmarks with assigned completion dates.

b) When your current phase ends, or when you achieve all of the benchmarks and goals selected for the current phase.

You will begin a new life phase when your current phase ends. It’s a great feeling to complete a phase, especially when you achieved all of the goals/benchmarks assigned for this phase. You are achieving success . . . one phase at a time.

As you end one life phase and begin another, simply repeat the steps outlined in Chapter 12 for beginning a life phase. Consider working and accomplishing more goals and benchmarks in the next phase to inch yourself closer to the objective — if you have the confidence and strength to accomplish more.

Sometimes a life phase will end without your achieving all the goals and benchmarks assigned for this phase; e.g., you didn’t get accepted to graduate school or you failed to win that special promotion. You might want to extend your current life phase for additional year or two to complete the goals/benchmarks that were unfinished.

Next week: we move onto VIII: Objective and Goal 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 ).

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Achieving Success BLOG

March 7th, 2009 by Krayton M Davis | No Comments | Filed in Achieving Success

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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

Daily Task Measurement

Last week, we discussed assigning and measuring Daily Task Measurement. You will assign tasks that need to be completed as diagramed on the worksheet below:

But sometimes, tasks that you scheduled for “2 hours on Monday” will not get completed. You simply reschedule the task later in the week or into next week. One key rule in any time management program is to stick with your schedule. If you fail to complete the task as scheduled, place the work aside and move on to the next scheduled assignment. Uncompleted tasks at the end of the week can be scheduled for completion later on.

There are other reasons why you might fail to complete your schedule tasks. See if any of the following reasons apply to you:

1) You fail to achieve your goal tasks because there isn’t enough time.

When you find it difficult to allocate, say, “60 minutes each day to complete a goal task,” try assigning less time for a given task. For example, let’s say that you want to develop a reference book for investing in securities. You set a task to write each day for 60 minutes. But given your other commitments to career, education, and family, you can’t find the full 60 minutes each day to complete this task. Try to assign a task to write for 15 minutes each day instead. It’s far better to write a little each day then to not write at all.

You might need to change your lifestyle to find more time. For example, you could awake 30-60 minutes earlier. You could take public transportation to work so that you can work while commuting. You could hire outside services such as gardeners or house cleaners to perform some of your routine chores. And you can always free up your day by minimizing leisure time in front of the television or computer.

2) You fail to achieve your goal tasks because you lack discipline.

Discipline is the foundation of all goals. A house built upon a sandy foundation will eventually crumble with the onset of a storm. A house requires a solid foundation built upon rock and concrete to protect its structure from the elements. Likewise, goal plans require a similar foundation built upon discipline to protect the goals from procrastination, laziness, lack of self-esteem, etc. Without a solid foundation, structures like a goal plan will collapse.

Many tasks in your goal plan will require a special discipline such as physical strength, educational aptitude, social skills and spiritual qualities. It becomes necessary that you build discipline in all five character attributes. Strengthening the character attributes rounds your character so that you can achieve any required task. If you lack discipline, I suggest that you return to the attribute chapters (Ch. 7-11) and repeat the steps in each chapter to build self-discipline and motivation.

3) You fail to achieve your goal tasks because your goal planning and execution may be too advanced.

Crawl before you walk, walk before you jog, jog before you run, and run before you rollerblade. In other words, if you just completed your MBA and set an objective to become a CEO of a Fortune 100 company, you must first achieve some important first-level goals to support your advancement up the corporate ladder.

If you are tempted to skip steps to advance quickly up the goal pyramid, watch out! You could be heading for disaster, particularly when you fail to develop first-layer skills that support goals further up the model. I suggest you go back and review your goal plan if you find it too advanced. You might rewrite your plan and identify a different set of priorities that can help you achieve difficult tasks. Remember there is a hierarchical order to success. You need to obtain important skills and accomplishments before attempting goals higher up the hierarchy.

4) You fail to achieve your goal tasks because you are attempting too many tasks.

Attempting too many things can lead to discouragement and failure. It would be nice to achieve every task assigned. But we must remain realistic. We need to go to school. We need to work to support our family. We need to work overtime to build our careers. All of which competes for your valuable time. Try to reduce the number of tasks assigned for a given day. It is far better to achieve fewer tasks each day than none at all because of discouragement.

Next week: we discuss weekly goal and benchmark 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 ).

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Achieving Success BLOG

January 24th, 2009 by Krayton M Davis | No Comments | Filed in Achieving Success

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Execute Success: The Third Ingredient to Success

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. Sir Winston Churchhill

continuation from BLOG posting: spiritual development

Executing Your Plan

This posting places in action the final ingredient of success. The execution phase brings together the planning and discipline concepts from the last postings and pieces together a strategy for time management and execution of your tasks. Our discussion continues with Section I:

Planning the Major Tasks That Will Achieve the Benchmarks

The planning concepts for designing the Task Assignment Sheet (Appendix Form-J) can be found in Chapters 3-4. These two chapters discuss how to assign tasks that will help you achieve respective benchmarks.

Step 1:
Take Appendix Form-J and write on top the life phase and assigned years as illustrated. You may need several forms depending on the number of goal/benchmarks that you plan to work on over the next several weeks or months.

Step 2:
Review the benchmarks assigned for completion from the Benchmark Planning and Selection sheet(s). Select the benchmarks that you will begin working on. You may work on one benchmark at one time or several benchmarks simultaneously (diagrammed by the letter C in the illustration).

    Step 3: Take the benchmark(s) from Step 2 and list them with their respective goals on the Task Assignment Sheet as illustrated (diagrammed by the letter C and the letter B in the illustration).

    Step 4: List under each benchmark the major tasks that will help you achieve the assigned benchmark. Refer back to chapters 3-4. if you need to review the planning concepts for major tasks.

    Step 5: Review each major task. Determine how much time you will need to complete this task and schedule a completion date for each task.

    Step 6: Recognize what should be accomplished after you complete all of the tasks assigned. Identify the benefits that you expect.

    Step 7: You will repeat Steps 2-6 throughout your current life phase until you complete all benchmarks assigned for this phase.

    Assembling the Planning Kit

    You can now assemble these planning sheets into your personal goal planning kit as illustrated. The planning sheets from the appendix are sized so that they can easily fit in your pocket or appointment book. The goal planning kit is your reference guide on what, how and when you will achieve success. You will refer to this kit weekly as you plan the weekly and daily tasks in the next section.

    Next week, we will tackle Section II: Planning and Assigning Weekly and Daily Tasks.

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    Success Building BLOG

    December 21st, 2008 by Krayton M Davis | No Comments | Filed in Achieving Success

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    Discipline to Success: The Spiritual Attribute

    Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
    Martin Luther King, Jr.

    continuation from BLOG posting: spiritual development

    Building Your
    Spiritual Skills

    End of 2-Week Evaluation

    The sixth step returns you to this section of our BLOG to evaluate your progress for the last 14 days.

    Spiritual development is mostly intangible. The time to notice a spiritual change takes much longer to measure. That is why you should develop the spiritual attribute last.

    1) Physical, Physical Temperance, Education and Social Evaluation:

    Did you achieve your physical development goal
    for the last 11 or more days?

    Did you achieve your physical temperance goal
    for the last 11 or more days?

    Did you achieve your education goal
    for the last 11 or more days?

    Did you achieve your social development goal
    for the last 11 or more days?

    Hopefully, you will answer “yes” to all four questions. If not, then you may be reverting back to your old ways. That can happen. Try to pick up where you are weakest and repeat the concepts where appropriate from the last four chapters. Your goal should be to overcome your weaknesses and shape a well-rounded character.

    If you answered “yes” to all four questions, continue strengthening these four attribute goals for the next 14 days. You might want to modify these goals to increase strength.

    2) Spiritual Development Evaluation:

    Did you achieve your spiritual development goal
    for the last 11 or more days?

    Do you feel you are strengthening your spiritual attribute?

    Do you feel confident that you can continue achieving your
    spiritual attribute goal for the next fourteen days?

    If you answered “no” to any of the three questions above, return to Step (1) in this chapter and complete the steps indicated. The spiritual attribute will be the hardest character attribute to develop. It can take 4-6 weeks before you can honestly answer “yes” to the three questions above.

    If you answered “yes” to all three questions, and if you feel comfortable that you are making spiritual progress, congratulate yourself. You are rounding your character and increasing self-discipline. You are now ready to move onward to develop further your character attributes by repeating the character attribute development cycle that will be explained next week.

    In the meantime, continue developing your character attributes as explained.
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