5 Steps To Daily Success

Yes, according to some it only takes 5 steps to create efficiency and focus in your life!  Learning to focus on what you WANT to achieve instead of what you THINK you need to achieve each day can change your whole LIFE!

After reading this post, The Undisciplined Pursuit of More (The Art of Limiting Yourself To Only The Essential), by Thomas Oppong, shed new light on how I handle my everyday schedule.  Feeling like I do not have enough time to do everything on my To-Do List each morning is the “normal” for me.  I get up at 3:00 am just so I can run around the house like a mashed cat getting dinner ready, paying bills, and doing all my online duties, and still trying to fit in a little time for my home business.  I know this is a crazy time to get up but my husband gets up and leaves about that time and I find my “circadian rhythm” deems this my most productive time of the day.  I’m exhausted by the time I get home at 5:00 pm and my brain will not take anymore. But choosing one or two things that I can be successful at gives me a happy feeling before I go to bed each night.

I know I am not alone in feeling this way as the wonderful ladies I work with share the same story.  We give everything to our job which involves working with middle school children and it takes a lot of energy both brain and physical.

By exploring this change of mindset to focus on the successes we want to achieve during the day it gives us a sense of accomplishment and not frustration from not completing our former To-Do List which, if we are lucky, got a couple of items crossed off.

THE LIST

• Make DELIBERATE choices. chosen by YOU only
• DECISION FATIGUE – try to focus on making decisions when your energy, patience, the brain is at their best
• The 80/20 Rule – use 80% of your time focusing on the most important details of your daily success list; only 20% to the “other stuff”
• Have the COURAGE to follow what you set out today at the beginning of the day. Do not be afraid to say “No”, work on just one thing at a time, cut back on your work hours, and anything else that impacts your success

Of course, there are so many things that impact our day that it is hard to list them all. Determine your daily distractions are and then begin to change the pattern. Keep a mindset of One Small Change At A Time and you can do it!

Share how you handle specific distractions so you can help others out that might be going through the same thing. We’re all in this together!