I recently found a journal/notebook I had used about 3 years ago that kept track of my goals and thoughts during the year. The journal was filled from front to back with notes on goals, wants, ideas, and achievements. It documented a lot of days when everything seemed to be going well and when things were not so great. Flipping through the journal, I soon got caught up in it and it felt like I was reading someone else’s experiences – some matched the ones I remembered. It was about 100 pages and I read through each page after the first dozen notes. I noticed that I had a huge goal set out that year written even in the first few pages of the journal and was interested in seeing if and how I managed to pull it off. The journal was like a storybook – with a guy on an adventure and on a mission. In the beginning it looked like an impossibility for him with failed attempts, ideas that sound silly now, and no clear path to reaching the goal. In the half way point of the journal, I was hooked and really wanted to see how I achieved that impossible goal I set out for myself so I read the notes carefully. I found out that I did 3 major things to help me achieve that impossible at the time goal. These are
1. Write down the chief aim or goal on top of your journal every day. With today: and Monthly:
Somehow after I kept writing these things on top of my journal everyday (my day and my month) the impossible goal was making its way to me faster.
2. Studying successful people who have achieved my impossible goal:
This was a key turning point in my journal – the moment I started studying and learning from people who have been there and done it, my goal was becoming into my reality faster and faster.
3. Work on what is working or scale just a handful of things for more results:
In the beginning of the journal it was a whole page filled with wild ideas and new stuff to test out but with little to no success. Then at the end of the journal it was short and simple with emphasis on what was working. My Today, my month, and what needs to be done was the last 10 or so pages with the goal in grasp and in plain site. They were just a handful of HIGH impact action items that yielded 90% of my results and my journal showed that I only concentrated on these during my last few hurdles.
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