Here are some action-oriented techniques to apply each day.

Determine your most productive time of the day and dedicate it to I time. I time is for you to do whatever you have to do that will bring you closer to achieving your goals. It may be as simple as visualizing the accomplishment of your goals or doing what you have to do just for you. The point is to dedicate the most productive time to the most important person in the world.

You have already set your goals and action plans; and have prioritized the actions. Take your annual goals and break them down into months, weeks, and finally days. Prepare in the same way for each day’s activities. Separate the large tasks into small, manageable pieces. Try to accomplish some of these smaller tasks each day. Before long, you will have accomplished a large task.

I recommend you end each day by writing a prioritized “to-do” list for the next day. Similarly, at the end of each week and each month, prepare a list for the following week and month. Plainly speaking, get organized. Learn to utilize a daily planner. You will be better organized if you write everything in your planner.

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Sales Are Flat-Lined, Buyers are Slow to Buy, Sales Cycles Are Too Long, Lost Control of the Sale Process, Bottom Line is Behind Projections…

If this is true, you must appreciate that sales revenue is the life line to your bottom line. Without buyers, there are no sales. Without sales, there are no revenues. The world revolves around sales, but more importantly, it now needs to revolve around buyers. Buyers are everywhere. What are you doing to help them buy?

The economy brought on a shift from selling during the boom times to attracting, engaging and empowering the new economy of buyers to buy.

Traditional and consultative sales methods no longer work. The sales cycle is longer than need be and the margins are dropping.

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Jesse Owens says, “We all have dreams, but in order to make these dreams into reality it takes an awful lot of determination, self-discipline and effort.”

It requires the same determination, self-discipline and effort to keep New Year’s Resolutions and to follow through on goals as it does to be successful.

Let’s understand the meaning of each of these words:

Determination
The power and habit of firm decision making directed toward a particular goal and end result

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1. Goal setting focuses your efforts and improves your direction in life.
2. Goal setting encourages you to set priorities and become more organized.
3. Goal setting turns your wishful thinking into reality.
4. Goal setting points out your successes as you achieve them, motivating you toward further success.
5. Goal setting improves your self-esteem.
6. Goal setting makes you responsible for your own life. It defines your own value system.
7. Goal setting makes you aware of your strengths and allows you to overcome obstacles and solve problems.
8. Goal setting points out your weaknesses. You can begin setting new goals to improve in those areas and to turn them into strengths.

Record keeping is important. Writing down your goals and action plans represents a commitment. Otherwise your dreams are merely wishful thinking. You can reread and visualize written goals. They are credible and legitimate. They move you forward. When your goals are written, you have begun to act. Inertia disappears. You will immediately sense accomplishment.

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Eradicate procrastination, before it destroys you. You get more out of your day with an action-oriented, do-it-now attitude. When you complete the unpleasant or hard jobs first and act on the big tasks little bits at a time, you trim anxiety and stress while gaining self-respect and self-confidence.

After you exert this type of discipline long enough, you will establish a routine and create a new habit. Behavioral studies suggest that if you do something every day for 21 days, it becomes a habit. Be action oriented for the next 30 days and you will master procrastination.
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“Discipline is the key. Discipline is respecting a commitment to yourself and doing what you have to do, even when you don’t want to do it.”

Bob Urichuck
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Setting financial goals in 2009 is no different than at any other time. However, this year more than ever before, your goals must be far more realistic. You’ll need to understand what you can and cannot control. It is important you be aware of the obstacles you may encounter along the way and have a contingency plan in place. You should be increasingly disciplined with your goal actions and aim for completion.

This year is predicted to be a year of an uncertain economy. Reaching financial goals in an uncertain economy can be a challenge nevertheless; the following tips will positively help.

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Jesse Owens says, “We all have dreams, but in order to make these dreams into reality it takes an awful lot of determination, self-discipline and effort.”

It requires the same determination, self-discipline and effort to keep New Year’s Resolutions and to follow through on goals as it does to be successful.

Let’s understand the meaning of each of these words:

Determination
The power and habit of firm decision making directed toward a particular goal and end result

Discipline
A commitment to yourself to do what you have to do even when you don’t want to do it

Effort
Amount of total work completed to reach a particular end result

Success
Achieving worthwhile goals

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Goal setting is the foundation to self motivation and is applicable at all times. However, goal setting for uncertain times requires one to be even more realistic and determined.

Goal setting is all about identifying the dreams that you want to turn into reality. It starts with writing them out. This is the first step to crystallizing your dreams. Then the dreams should be grouped or categorized and set in priority. Once your top priority dreams have been identified you then need to determine if you are willing to pay the price to make them a reality.

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Dreams will remain dreams until they are released from the inside out, in writing. Then, and only then can we move on towards setting goals. Setting goals is not just the setting of a goal, but following the steps in the formula towards setting goals.

If you have already written all of your life dreams of what you want to be, do or have, congratulate yourself. That is a major accomplishment towards setting goals.

The next step towards setting goals is to reduce your list of life dreams to the most important dreams that you would like to realize. To do that, pretend you were just told that you had six months to live.

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Goal setting has been an important part of my life, but most people do not realize that there is a goal setting formula. Ever since I was exposed to goal setting, at age eighteen, I have pursued goals and have realized most of them, if not all of them. Goal setting has helped me accomplish what I have, what I am doing, and has allowed me to live the life of my dreams, and beyond.

Goal setting has kept me focused, helped me better manage my time and has kept me motivated, even when I was down. It was through goal setting, that I now realize that I was the author of my future. I became what I have wanted to become, which at one time was only a dream - impossible at that.

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