Over the last six posts on making 2010 a great year, I've outlined the core principles that if you put into effect you will see yourself producing alot more of what you want in 2010.
Briefly they are:
1. Know what you really want
2. Be clear about when you are getting it
3. Understand the law of cause and effect
4. Carry out your Pre-flight check list (i.e. a strong intention and compelling vision for what you want)
5. Use a thinking strategy for effective strategy, answering the three core questions over and over again
6. Understand and ensure you have the motivation to get going AND to continue
the last step is
7. Change Your Approach (when it's needed)
Really this last step highlights a rule of planning and that is "no plan survives contact with reality" .. in fact most plans for any kind of complicated goal ever work anywhere near perfectly. Which means you need to constantly be going back to step two, be clear about when you are getting. If you realise you are not getting the results you want for (and you've taken the lag between cause and effect into account) then change your approach and do something else instead based on the feedback you have or your best guess. Continue this cycle, UNTIL you have achieved what you want.
Of course if there are resources in your immediate or extended network of friends, family or colleagues that you can tap into to help guide you along, then their experiences or input can save you VAST amounts of time, energy and money, depending on what you are trying to do. As with any practice in NLP, you are always looking to make best use of the resources you have available to you.
The above seven steps are common sense when you think about them, but unfortunately for most they are not common practice. And that seems to be the case whether we are talking about large Fortune 100 companies or individuals. Yes, it can take time to get these habits wired into muscle, but the effort is worth the return many, many fold.
Wishing you a awesome 2010.
