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Firstly, you do need to have a clear idea of your goals. This is my transition week, closing off some great 12-week goals, forming and already working towards, new one week, one month, three months and six-month goals.

Secondly, have an action plan in place so you can see how to achieve these goals.  no good at making action plans, try a personal trainer or great on line training program like the Michelle Bridges 12 week body transformation program  I am completing this week.

Now with your action plan in front of you; sit down and write out your ‘To Do List’.

While there may be chores like, do the washing, tidy the house/caravan in there, strive to make half the items on the ‘to do list’, be items in your action plan...do this every day, and you achieve, the goals you set yourself. I have worked like this all my life, and it has unfailingly helped me achieve every goal I have set myself.

 

Number the items on your to do list as A, B or C, priority. 
Make sure the things you need to do every day, become an A priority in your mind and on your list, or you will end up not doing them. 
Try not to have more than 6 A priority things to do in a day.
A little pressure is good, too much is stress.
Do all the A priority tasks before moving to the B priority, as much as is practical. Obviously, you need to be a little flexible with this.
Only do the C priority tasks if you want to or if here is available time and another A or B priority has not emerged. This is effective use of your time. If the C priority needs to be done, it will eventually become an A or B priority. Leave it undone, if you are busy, sometimes it just, 'goes away'. :-)
 

Today my 6 item two do list with half of these things to directly related to achieving my slimming and fitness goals, is

1/ Run cross country and on sand (from my fitness and slimming action plan) DONE

2/ Blog a minimum of 3 quality free choice posts (2 Done) and 3 paid posts.(pays for my Pro blog account)

3/ Swim, target set, 800 meters, then deep water running (from my fitness and slimming action plan) to be done next :-)

4/ Companion and carer to Reg, went fishing with him, :-), DONE and ongoing.

5/ Be in the artslim Forum,  :-), Hope to meet YOU at 7PM EST. TONIGHT. :-)  Add more topics to this forum and encourage YOU to make your own diary in here and feel WELCOME to use the topics I set up, for your self, I'll be adding my input to them too. (from my fitness and slimming action plan)

6/ Work on my time management plan. I want to do so much in every day, the day never seems long enough. I need to formulate my plan on how I will 'work smarter, not harder' :-) and achieve all I want.   Tonight I will have my 2010 short term, midterm and longer terms written down, the action plan to achieve them written down and the time management schedule to allow me to be able to do this, worked out and partly in action. (from my fitness and slimming action plan)

Kathy Shell ran an award winning business and taught time management and business studies during her professional life.  Kathy is now in retirement and enjoying 'paying it forward'.  Hope to have you join me in my forums or suggest other forums or forum topics you would love to be able to participate in. 
 
 
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The family photo shoot, My husband and I, our children, their spouses and the grandchildren, :-) xxx but with the not so loved, VPL's (visible panty lines) , cut out. :-). A great motivator for my own, short term goal. I am thinking I coud do with a better hair style or something, any suggestions welcome, I feel I could look better than this.
With a new diary for 2010, it is an ideal time to make new goals and action plans.

During the Christmas to New Year, period, I have been a little quite in my blog.  I have been doing a lot of thinking, rather than writing.

 Today I have completed my planning phase. I feel ready to share what I have been doing.  I have:-

Planned GOALS. :-for my Life, Creativity, Home and garden, Family, Travel, Weight and Fitness,

I have made

ONE WEEK GOALS

ONE MONTH GOALS

MID TERM (30 week birthday) GOAL.

ONE-YEAR GOAL

FUTURE PLANS .I have thought ahead for the future and have a varied option range of plans, to adapt in a positive way, to what the senior years might present for my husband and me. Life is to be anticipated with pleasure, not over planned ahead of time, at our age. 

I am refining my ‘ACTION PLAN’to achieve each of these goals.

Click here to read:- How to write an action plan

This is important, without the believable action plan, the goal is only a pipe dream.

Right now, I am planning my ‘TO DO LIST’,based on my action plan.

My goals, action plan and to do list are private.  They are not a New Year resolution; I always have these in place. New Year is just a useful time to review where we are, begin a new diary and write down out goals, action plan to achieve the goal we desire and make our daily ‘to do’ list at least 50%  based on our action plan, within.

TIPS  for goals achievement.

This does not all need to be serious focus stuff or nor seemingly hard to achieve goals. In fact your goals need to be ‘bite size’, manageable, achievable as mini goals you can 100% visualize yourself being able to achieve, if you are going to succeed in attaining them.  When the full task s too great to visualize, try focusing on 10% of the task at a time and make ten present goals and 10% changes in lifestyle to achieve them, don’t try to 100% change yourself, to achieve a gaol, that is not something you would want to or should need to do.

Get started with gaol setting.

Set a few ‘easiy’ goals so you can have an immediate taste of success.

Often the motivation to set a goal comes from a ‘shock horror,’ moment and this is a great stimulus to follow through with an action plan to achieve success.  

Lol J, I got a shock when I saw the family group photo, this year. My new party frock, I felt so good in, did not look so good photographed in sunshine, with the dreaded VPL (visible panty line, showing, right across my hips.  A mini goal was to NEVER, ever be caught out in a photo like that again. Action plan, reducing just a couple of kilo will remove the small muffin top over showing through the clingy jersey dress, and I have a plan of sensible portion controlled eating and physical activity that transfers well into my to do list, that will achieve that before the end of a one month goal.  I put buying a slip, on my ‘to do list’, and I took action and did that immediately and a better choice of panty, not one that ends right on my hip where my dress clings the most, will all ensure I do not repeat that family photo shoot, faux pas, again. J. Goal achieved.

 
 
Do, Love, Hope. 10/18/2009
 
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The secret of happiness has been said to be:-

to have something to do,

something to love and

something to hope for. 

Those who are starting out this week on the

We are Slimming Spring into summer, Challenge

are setting out with these three secrets of happiness in their minds through goal plans and their hearts in the spirit of giving mutual support and encouragement to each other. 

Wishing all the starters in the Spring to Summer We are Slimming Challenge, all the very best of success, J 

Action:-Something to do.
I admire your positive spirit that you are ready to participate in setting goals, planning action plans and to do today lists, supporting and encouraging each other, asking for help where needed, this is where the friendship of a group forum excels. 

Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
–  Stephen Covey 

Love:-The something to love.
This is powerful stuff. J.  Learning to put your own needs first, take time to do what you want to do and need to do, to support yourself in achieving your goals. Learning that we are responsible for our own happiness, and understanding that no white knight in shining armour or magic mixture is responsible for making us happy is one of the greatest secrets to lhappiness. I always felt that needed to e taught in schools, it's so important, more important than the 3 R's.
This knowledge that it's not only OK to make time for yourself, but it's the best way to care for others, to show others by example that self reliance is the way to inner happiness, and fulfillment of goals, is quite liberating to others. No one wants to be burdened with feeling they are responsible for another's happiness. 
Self love and nurture, is the most unselfish act any one can do and something I think all of us slimmers and carers, need to work on. 

Something to do also involves the encouraging and support we give to others and when we strive to encourage others who are seeking similar goals to our own, it is a powerful motivating force, in helping to keep us following our own action plan toward our own goal.

The time when I lost my greatest amount of excess weight was when I was a forum participant working as an equal, one on one, with others encouraging me out of an invalid status, sedentary lifestyle while I in turn encouraged them to trust themselves around food and learn that slimming involved loving good food eaten regularly and it was no more about denial, hunger and deprivation dieting than it was about the opposite, binging, unhealthy or overeating. Together we applauded our achievements, offered encouragement during the disappointments and safe uncritical friendship when we needed to vent. We crossed the line from the triple digits to the double digits together and made wonderful life lasting friendships in the process.   
I am seeking to find this fellowship by taking a step upward and working with health profesionals in further studies of nutrition and fitness.
Something to hope for.

I’m leaving this area, BLANK – for you to fill in the space with YOUR DREAMSJ, Your future goals. Dream and Believe in YOU.