One of the most important aspects of goal setting/goal achieving process is attaching a time frame to your goal. You can increase the speed of your Journey by setting a deadline to your goal. Once an exciting goal is created by YOU, you have to create a deadline or a timeframe that is attached to that goal.
What does a deadline do?
Deadline creates Sense of Urgency (SOU).
Sense of Urgency is absolute necessity. Without Sense of Urgency, goal setting/goal achieving process becomes a joke.
Not only your mind is not utilized in the most effective and the most intelligent way, but when you don’t assign a deadline to your goal, you set yourself for failure right from the start.
Setting a deadline to a goal is like breathing life into a dead carcass. A goal without a deadline is a dead carcass.
Dead-line. A word deadline consists of two words: dead and line. Your goal is dead until a line is inserted and your goal starts breathing. Now you can think of your goal as being dead as long as a lifeline is cut off your goal. Any goal can be made alive by attaching a lifeline. Your goal will become alive once it gets a deadline. Your goal will start breathing.
The same happens to your mind. Your mind does not work properly until a line is inserted into your goal. Your mind becomes alive at the moment a deadline is assigned to your goal.
Someone once said: Goals are dreams with deadlines. It is a true statement. There is no life without water. There is no goal without deadline.
Attach deadlines to your goals and watch what happens.
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Answer: Do you major in minor things. Do you spend hours or days on activities that keep you in the same place mentally and physically. Years ago Earl Nightingale introduced us to The Strangest Secret- “You become what you think about most of the time”. This self-help classic has explained how your thoughts create your reality, your daily life. There is another secret however that is possibly even more powerful: “You become what you do most of the time”. We have limited time in a day, in a week, in a month, in a year, in a lifetime. But we often live like time doesn’t matter. Like we have a whole lot of it. We don’t. Pay attention to how you use your time. Use it wisely.
Act: Forget time wasting activities. Become great right now by doing what’s important to you. Define what not wasting time means to you. Put some labels on things you do: Time Wasting Activity (TWA) vs Remarkable Activity (RA). Do remarkable. Eliminate TWAs and do only RAs. Every time you repeat this you become remarkable. Do it now. Watch what happens.
Answer: Now… come up with your answer. Nobody will do it for you. You are on your own in this. Your answer will be generated exclusively by you. Just ask this question and answer internally or write it down. From now on ask this question often. To me this single question is a form of a positive obsession or passion. It is one of my favorite and most powerful questions that I use every day. It can literally reshape your life in matter of minutes or days.
Act: Now it is time to act. Action should occur naturally after you come up with clear answers to the above question. So-stop everything you’re doing right now. Redirect your life focus at this moment, do what’s the best use of your time right now and don’t let go until you fall asleep at night. This question if asked over and over again will keep you focused. You will waste your time no more. Focus.
