What have you done to fix your biggest problem today?
My biggest problem is relocating. I'm not even close to figuring out what that means or where it will be, other than it is highly likely to be back to my home state of New Jersey. For a variety of reasons, it's time to come home.
It's easy to get polarized and immobilized though when it comes to making big decisions and solving big problems. So today I'm going to do what Brian Tracy calls "chunking it down". I'll take that monumental problem and find a small piece of it that I can do.
I will also practice what I preach when it comes to problems and convert my problem to a goal. Instead of "don't know what to do about moving" as a problem, I will rephrase it as the goal of "Relocate my business and my life to New Jersey by August 2016." As is the case with most of my goals, I hope and plan to achieve it far ahead of the deadline - but the deadline is real.
It's energizing to commit to a deadline. It's even more so when you create some way of making yourself accountable (say for instance, writing about it in your blog!).
Let's do this!
How about you? What do you think of as your biggest problem? What if you changed that problem into a goal?
What if you became focused on chunking that goal down into manageable pieces?
What piece could you do today?
-- Doug Smith
What have you learned today?
My biggest problem is relocating. I'm not even close to figuring out what that means or where it will be, other than it is highly likely to be back to my home state of New Jersey. For a variety of reasons, it's time to come home.
It's easy to get polarized and immobilized though when it comes to making big decisions and solving big problems. So today I'm going to do what Brian Tracy calls "chunking it down". I'll take that monumental problem and find a small piece of it that I can do.
I will also practice what I preach when it comes to problems and convert my problem to a goal. Instead of "don't know what to do about moving" as a problem, I will rephrase it as the goal of "Relocate my business and my life to New Jersey by August 2016." As is the case with most of my goals, I hope and plan to achieve it far ahead of the deadline - but the deadline is real.
It's energizing to commit to a deadline. It's even more so when you create some way of making yourself accountable (say for instance, writing about it in your blog!).
Let's do this!
How about you? What do you think of as your biggest problem? What if you changed that problem into a goal?
What if you became focused on chunking that goal down into manageable pieces?
What piece could you do today?
-- Doug Smith
What have you learned today?
Personally,I think it might make a whole lot more sense to be here by early July!One less return trip!
ReplyDeleteI'm with you on that, Dave!
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