Following my last blog, I hope you are feeling more confident and in control of your priorities and deadlines. Here are another five tips to ensure your continued success:
- Put your year planner on a wall & look at daily.
- Use colour coding with a different colour for each goal date, pre-goal date & task times related to that goal. You can buy coloured sticky dots for planners in all good stationers.
- Review the plan for each goal. Have you allowed enough time to work on the tasks to reach your goals? If not, factor in more time now.
- Leave enough time for crisis management such as others not supplying information or documentation you need when you need it or things that go wrong like technological hiccups and other unwanted matters like going down with the ‘flu.
- Transfer regular goal dates at the end of one year to the next so you don’t have to re-invent the wheel, such as car service and MOT, dental checks, insurance renewals, account and tax submissions, reporting processes or funding applications and more.
- Then with one glance at your year planner, you can see all the pieces of the puzzle, how they fit together. You know exactly where you are. You can also decidewhat is feasible and what is not, what to keep and what may be wise to change, such as having too many demanding goals and tasks concurrently.
Having a visual system (a wall planner or electronic version) puts you in control of your work and your life, helps you make clear decisions and takes the stress out of trying to hold it all in your head. By focusing visually on your goals and demands, you are far more likely to achieve them.
Remember – if you would like support with your quest to never miss a deadline, life coaching can help you achieve positive change, assertively.
I offer a free 15 minute taster session and would be happy to talk about your approach to deadlines with you. Please contact me if you feel that this would be helpful.
