DO YOU HAVE A PLAN B?

DO YOU HAVE A PLAN B?

                 
Recently a good friend, Darren Gross who produces a Commercial Real Estate Pro Network blog on Blog Talk Radio, interviewed me for one of his radio post. Darren was interested in what does an individual do now that we are at the 2/3rds mark in the year and we realize that we are not achieving the goals that we set out to accomplish at the beginning of the year.

Often we start off with a plan at the beginning of the year with good intentions of making great achievements and we arrive at this nine-month period and realize we are not on track to achieve our goals. What do we do now? Many times at the beginning of the year we set our goals and have a plan to achieve them but they are either so far out there in the future that we feel we have plenty of time, so there is no urgency to get started, or the goals are so big that we feel overwhelmed and it prevents us from getting started as well. So now that we are at this nine-month period, what do we do?

Do we abandon the plan all together or do we create a plan B.

I do not recommend abandoning the plan all together. But we must be realistic and realize that we are probably not going to accomplish the original goals so we need to recalibrate and refocus on what we can realistic accomplish in the next four months. We need a plan-B.

This new recalibration should still be a stretch, but the goals should also be accomplishable. I would recommend that we write these four-month goals down and put them in a place where we can read them everyday. This will reinforce them in our minds and our subconscious minds will go to work to help us achieve them.

We must also prevent the distractions that get in the way of us accomplishing our goals. Many of us have too many distractions and clutter in our lives that prevent us from really focusing. We must be intensely focused in order to maximize our potential results. Especially with only four months left in the year.

Do you have a plan B?

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