Designing your Power Plan for Peak Performance

Success always leaves clues. No one around you that has achieved great success has done so in a vacuum. The path they have travelled, to achieve the remarkable success they have achieved, is paved with their own personal recipe or brand for success. One of the easiest ways to invite similar levels of success into your own experience is to explore what they did and to uncover their recipe. This recipe can then form the foundation you use for building your own “success blue print” or strategic plan. If you fail to plan, you are most certainly planning to fail. Not having any plans at all is a plan too; it is just a very poor plan, where you are left to the whims of everyone and everything around you. You are left travelling through your life like a rudderless boat, with no real direction or purpose at all.

Achievers Always have a Plan

The one thing that stands out the most for me, about all the successful people I have admired and whose biographies I have read, is that each one of them had a plan behind their success. So even if you are unable to unlock the individual success recipe of someone you admire, to follow. Know that the path is far easier and requires far less effort, when you have a plan. It is impossible to create a plan until you know what you want to achieve with your life. Start right now by getting a vivid picture in your mind of exactly what you would like your life to look like in the future. Visualise what would be around you, what you would be doing, who would be in your life and what experiences would invite meaning and fulfilment into your experience.

Create your Plan for Success

Once you have a crystal clear picture in your mind of exactly what you want your future to be like. It is a good idea for you to create a plan for your success, one that will work well and will take you to the finish line powerfully and in style. I have written some ideas below to help you create your “Power Plan for Peak Performance”.

Build a Plan that Works for you

All people are different, some people need plenty of detail in their lives and they work best with a very detailed plan, which highlights every intricate detail. Other people are more freewheeling and work better within a plan, which offers only an outline or framework, within which they must work.

The first question to answer is “What is the right plan”? The right plan is one that suites you and your style. A plan that is unique to your circumstances, one that fits you and is right for you. Each of us is unique and driven and inspired by very different things. No one knows you better than you know yourself, create a plan that suites your personality, one that considers your strengths and weaknesses.

Build an Annual Plan

Explore your goals and the outcomes you are trying to achieve. Start the planning process by looking at the big picture. Divide your year into four equal segments of 90 days each. Break your goal or goals back into smaller bite size chunks or smaller projects. During each 90 day segment select a realistic number of projects to tackle and complete. The secret to success is avoiding overwhelm whilst still ensuring that you stretch yourself.

Break each 90 Day Segment back into a monthly plan

Now break these projects back even further into smaller achievable mini goals. These are goals that you will be able to tackle and complete within a month. Finally break these mini goals back into micro goals, which can be achieved within one week. Remember each micro goal must have a completion time during the week and must be measurable. In other words you must know when you will achieve it and be able to monitor your progress daily, until it is done. Whatever gets measured gets done.

Turns your plan into Individual Action Steps

Your plan must then be broken back to include individual daily actions, which you can put into your daily schedule and actually take action on hourly to complete. Review your progress daily and ensure that you are applying sufficient discipline to ensure that you are completing all the actions scheduled each day and more importantly are the actions you are taking delivering the desired results. Planning is important, but with ensuring that you are taking the right actions every day, they remain just words on a piece of paper. Assess your progress as often as possible to ensure that your actions are delivering the desired results. Plan, Do, Review and then if necessary Improve.

Meet your Future Every Day

Create time slots in your daily schedule that are devoted to work on the individual tasks highlighted in your plan. I call these time slots in my daily schedule “Meetings With My Future” Show commitment and perseverance every day and make sure that you meet your commitments to your future. Develop discipline and make completing those daily tasks your top priority. As you repeat this positive cycle over time you will move closer and closer to the future you desire and any dream becomes achievable.

Review your Day

It is always good practice to set time aside at the end of your day to reflect on how you did. Are you meeting your commitments to create the future you desire? This is an opportunity for you to go over everything you have done that day. Are the actions you are taking delivering the desired outcome? If not ask yourself what you can do differently the next day to get a better outcome.

What did you learn?

It is also an opportunity for you to re-examine everything you have learnt that day and lock all the valuable information away for use at a later date. Look back over your day and examine all the people you saw, who you talked to, what was said, what happened and how you felt. Each day is like a mosaic in the big picture of your life, carefully store each one, so that you can use it to create a wonderful picture of your past. This allows you to gain the maximum benefit from your past experiences and makes your past experiences even more valuable, so they can serve you in the future.

Make it Work for you

Ensure that you act on the plan that you have created. Simply commit to do it, work your plan every day. Your daily disciplined actions, over time, will add up to massive equity. Stay committed to take action every day and remain disciplined and focused. You have got so much to gain when you commit to apply these few really simple principles in your life.

Author: Andrew Horton Sales Motivational Speakers South Africa

http://www.andrewhorton.co.za

Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Designing your Power Plan for Peak Performance

Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Designing your Power Plan for Peak Performance: Success always leaves clues. No one around you that has achieved great success has done so in a vacuum. The path they have travelled, to a...

Designing your Power Plan for Peak Performance

Success always leaves clues. No one around you that has achieved great success has done so in a vacuum. The path they have travelled, to achieve the remarkable success they have achieved, is paved with their own personal recipe or brand for success. One of the easiest ways to invite similar levels of success into your own experience is to explore what they did and to uncover their recipe. This recipe can then form the foundation you use for building your own “success blue print” or strategic plan. If you fail to plan, you are most certainly planning to fail. Not having any plans at all is a plan too; it is just a very poor plan, where you are left to the whims of everyone and everything around you. You are left travelling through your life like a rudderless boat, with no real direction or purpose at all.

Achievers Always have a Plan

The one thing that stands out the most for me, about all the successful people I have admired and whose biographies I have read, is that each one of them had a plan behind their success. So even if you are unable to unlock the individual success recipe of someone you admire, to follow. Know that the path is far easier and requires far less effort, when you have a plan. It is impossible to create a plan until you know what you want to achieve with your life. Start right now by getting a vivid picture in your mind of exactly what you would like your life to look like in the future. Visualise what would be around you, what you would be doing, who would be in your life and what experiences would invite meaning and fulfilment into your experience.

Create your Plan for Success

Once you have a crystal clear picture in your mind of exactly what you want your future to be like. It is a good idea for you to create a plan for your success, one that will work well and will take you to the finish line powerfully and in style. I have written some ideas below to help you create your “Power Plan for Peak Performance”.

Build a Plan that Works for you

All people are different, some people need plenty of detail in their lives and they work best with a very detailed plan, which highlights every intricate detail. Other people are more freewheeling and work better within a plan, which offers only an outline or framework, within which they must work.

The first question to answer is “What is the right plan”? The right plan is one that suites you and your style. A plan that is unique to your circumstances, one that fits you and is right for you. Each of us is unique and driven and inspired by very different things. No one knows you better than you know yourself, create a plan that suites your personality, one that considers your strengths and weaknesses.

Build an Annual Plan

Explore your goals and the outcomes you are trying to achieve. Start the planning process by looking at the big picture. Divide your year into four equal segments of 90 days each. Break your goal or goals back into smaller bite size chunks or smaller projects. During each 90 day segment select a realistic number of projects to tackle and complete. The secret to success is avoiding overwhelm whilst still ensuring that you stretch yourself.

Break each 90 Day Segment back into a monthly plan

Now break these projects back even further into smaller achievable mini goals. These are goals that you will be able to tackle and complete within a month. Finally break these mini goals back into micro goals, which can be achieved within one week. Remember each micro goal must have a completion time during the week and must be measurable. In other words you must know when you will achieve it and be able to monitor your progress daily, until it is done. Whatever gets measured gets done.

Turns your plan into Individual Action Steps

Your plan must then be broken back to include individual daily actions, which you can put into your daily schedule and actually take action on hourly to complete. Review your progress daily and ensure that you are applying sufficient discipline to ensure that you are completing all the actions scheduled each day and more importantly are the actions you are taking delivering the desired results. Planning is important, but with ensuring that you are taking the right actions every day, they remain just words on a piece of paper. Assess your progress as often as possible to ensure that your actions are delivering the desired results. Plan, Do, Review and then if necessary Improve.

Meet your Future Every Day

Create time slots in your daily schedule that are devoted to work on the individual tasks highlighted in your plan. I call these time slots in my daily schedule “Meetings With My Future” Show commitment and perseverance every day and make sure that you meet your commitments to your future. Develop discipline and make completing those daily tasks your top priority. As you repeat this positive cycle over time you will move closer and closer to the future you desire and any dream becomes achievable.

Review your Day

It is always good practice to set time aside at the end of your day to reflect on how you did. Are you meeting your commitments to create the future you desire? This is an opportunity for you to go over everything you have done that day. Are the actions you are taking delivering the desired outcome? If not ask yourself what you can do differently the next day to get a better outcome.

What did you learn?

It is also an opportunity for you to re-examine everything you have learnt that day and lock all the valuable information away for use at a later date. Look back over your day and examine all the people you saw, who you talked to, what was said, what happened and how you felt. Each day is like a mosaic in the big picture of your life, carefully store each one, so that you can use it to create a wonderful picture of your past. This allows you to gain the maximum benefit from your past experiences and makes your past experiences even more valuable, so they can serve you in the future.

Make it Work for you

Ensure that you act on the plan that you have created. Simply commit to do it, work your plan every day. Your daily disciplined actions, over time, will add up to massive equity. Stay committed to take action every day and remain disciplined and focused. You have got so much to gain when you commit to apply these few really simple principles in your life.

Author: Andrew Horton Sales Motivational Speakers South Africa

http://www.andrewhorton.co.za

Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Become Childlike Once Again - Turn Anger into fasc...

Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Become Childlike Once Again - Turn Anger into fasc...: I am sure that you are like everyone else and you want to experience real positive and meaningful changes in the results you are currently...

Become Childlike Once Again - Turn Anger into fascination

I am sure that you are like everyone else and you want to experience real positive and meaningful changes in the results you are currently enjoying in your life. The best way to this is to make a small shift to the way you view things. It is time for you to change your casual interest in everything, which goes on around you, into fascination. When you are fascinated, you are curious and want to know how things work. This curiosity will reawaken that child in you once again, as you become fascinated by everything going on around you.

Develop a Child-like Fascination

When you train yourself to develop a childlike fascination once again, you develop a skill, which allows you to turn situations that would have caused you frustration before; into something which will fascinate you and become a positive learning experience. For example: If you are stuck in a traffic jam and the traffic is at a standstill. You can choose to become frustrated and irritated. This will raise your blood pressure; put your body under huge stress, resulting in you angrily punching the steering wheel.  None of which will make any difference to the situation at all. Or you can choose a better option, where you become childlike once again, eagerly looking around, exploring and trying to find something wonderful you can learn.

Anger or Fascination are Both Choices

In both situations you get through the traffic jam at the same time. One way causes you massive stress, damages your health and breaks you down, whilst the other offers you an opportunity to reflect, expand and even relax. Which do you think is the most effective and logical option to choose? Your attitude and temperament are always choices.

Action Idea: When faced with situations in the future, which traditionally cause you to respond in an angry fashion, take a deep breath and allow yourself to explore everything around you.  Try to discover all the reasons there are to be fascinated, reasons to learn and grow, reasons to relax, reasons to expand your world. This simple shift will allow you to quickly turn frustration into fascination.

Dare to Become a Child once Again

Both fascination and anger are childish emotions. Anger is a trained response and a reflection of your immature-self showing its ugly head. ,Anger is a really childish emotion, which you learned to exhibit in your youth, when you could not get your own way. Unless you are in a dangerous situation where your life may be threatened and the fight response is appropriate, anger does not serve you in any positive way. Fascination on the other hand is also a childlike response, but unfortunately one that we train ourselves to forget as we grow up. Dare to re-awaken your fascination and use this really powerful tool to constantly be on the lookout for opportunities to expand, learn and grow

Make the Shift

This subtle change in your responses and attitude will result in a major positive shift in the outcomes you enjoy, from now on. Make the shift from anger to curiosity and you will astound yourself, with how much better you feel, how your stress levels reduce, how much more productive you will become and how much more you will begin to notice, around you. This increased awareness allows you to see opportunities, where you only saw frustration before.

Learn to no longer choose anger as your first response to any situation. Rather practice the childish art of fascination. This positive shift will be well worth the effort. You stand to “loose” so much when you change anger into fascination. You will “loose” frustration, anger, negative feelings, and stress in your life. On the other hand, you will gain so much, curiosity, new insights, new skills, new knowledge, happiness and a life of learning and growth. Sounds like a great trade to me.

Author: Andrew Horton Time Management

http://www.andrewhorton.co.za