Review Your Flight Options

Review Your Flight Options

 As the year is winding up, I wanted to strongly believe that, you have set a clear and define focus and target for yourself, Once you have become clear about who you are, what you want, and what your true goals are in each area of your life, you can begin to evaluate all the different routes by which you can reach your destination. Now you can determine the strategies and tactics that you can use to achieve your goals and arrive at your destination on schedule.

Develop Options Continually : One of the most important rules that I have ever learned is this: You are only as free as your well-developed options. Before you can plan your time and your life, you must be absolutely clear about both the hourly rate that you are earning today and the hourly rate that you want to earn in the future. Every hour that you spend on a low-value or no-value activities when converted to cost is huge

Determine the Highest and Best Use of Your Time : Whatever job you choose to take, company you choose to make with your money, or time you choose to spend on a particular activity, think it through carefully in advance and be certain that you are making the highest and best use of your time and resources.

Refuse to Settle : Abraham Maslow once wrote, "The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short." Many people, because of fear and timidity, settle for far less than they are truly capable of achieving. They stay in jobs they don't like. They stay in relationships that don't make them happy. They invest their money in things they don't understand and leave their money there long after they realize they've made a mistake. If you are not satisfied with any part of your life, with your current seat selection, remember that you can always pay a price to be free.

Ask for What You Want : In business and in your personal life, remember that every term or condition that you are ever offered has been decided by someone and can be changed by someone else. Whether this involves the pay and conditions of a job, the terms of a contract, the costs of products or services, rental or lease rates of offices or equipment, or bank terms for loans of credit, if you are not happy for any reason, don't be reluctant to ask for something different.

Cast a Wide Net : The rule with ideas is this: Quality is a function of quantity. This means that the more ways you achieve your goal that you consider before you embark on your journey, the better will be the quality of the choice you make. Cast a wide net. Don't fall in love with the first idea that occurs to you. You must continually remind yourself that emotions distort evaluations. This means that the more emotional you become about a course of action at the beginning, the less able you will be to make the best decisions and determine the best way to reach your destination.

Set Priorities : If the annoyances of life are living your life for you, you're never going to win the foot- race of life. You'll simply run out of time, devoting it to things that you chose in the moment, instead of what you really wanted the most. Don't put what you want right now above what you really want in the long run. Ask yourself, "Self, I have raised my standard to not buy anything else on credit. But I really want this outfit for my meeting next week. What's more important to me?"

What are your goals? : The difference in your ability to fully tap your personal resources directly affects your goals. People who have a clear specific set of goals written down, with a plan for achieving them, succeed far more easily in life than those who do not. Also, the level of happiness and joy that you feel when you go after those goals makes them much easier to attain. Are you happy about your goals? If you aren't, take responsibility now and change them to goals that work for you. Make them goals that work for you spiritually, mentally, socially, emotionally, physically, and financially. Once you've defined those goals to fit your parameters, those are the ones you will attain

Action Exercise : Imagine that you are a consultant who has been brought into advise yourself on the very best course of action for you to take to achieve a goal or reach a destination. As your own consultant, force yourself to remain calm, cool, and objective about the advice that you give to yourself.

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."