[ACADEMIC] Chapter 9: Make Your Progress

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“There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.”

You have incredible mental powers that you habitually fail to use to their full extent. By systematically setting goals for your life and making detailed plans to achieve them, you will save yourself years of hard work in reaching the same level of success. Goal setting enables you to use vastly more of your thinking powers than the average person.

As you set your goals and begin moving toward them, it is essential that you establish a series of benchmarks or measures that you can use to evaluate your progress, day-by-day and hour-by-hour. The more clear and specific the measures you set, the more accurate you will be in hitting your targets on schedule.

There are three keys to peak performance in achieving your goals. They are commitment, completion and closure. When you make a firm commitment to achieve a particular goal, and you put aside all excuses, it is very much like stepping on the accelerator of your subconscious mind. Completion is the second ingredient in peak performance. There is an enormous difference between doing 95% of a task and doing 100% of a task. In fact, it is very common for people to work very hard up to the 90% or 95% level and then to slack off and delay the final completion of the task.

A goal or a decision without a deadline is merely a discussion. It has no energy behind it. It is like a bullet with no powder in the cartridge. Unless you establish deadlines to which you are committed, you will end up “firing blanks” in life and work.

Measure Your Progress:

1.      Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of life. Refer to it daily.

2.      Determine the most important part of your job as it affects your income, and measure your daily activities in that area.

3.      Set a minimum, specific amount for daily, weekly, monthly saving and investment, and discipline yourself to put away those amounts.

4.      Break every large goal down into measurable, controllable parts, and then focus on accomplishing each part on a fixed deadline.

5.      Make it a game with yourself to set benchmarks, measures, scorecards, targets and deadlines for every goal, and then focus on those numbers and dates. The goals will take care of themselves.

6.      Resolve to accomplish at least one specific part of a larger goal each day, and never miss a day.

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