Goals

I think it was in a history class or a seminary class a few years back when I heard of this little technique that I wanted to share with you guys. An owner of a company started having all of his employees make a goal list of 5 things every morning to accomplish that day. After this, the company supposedly continued to grow and progress, ultimately becoming much greater. I have given this a shot a few times and I really recommend it! I have not faithfully done it every morning, but when I do, I find it worthwhile. I challenge myself, get more done, feel better about myself, be more productive, etc. It is like a snowball effect for me. Once when I started institute, I felt so much better about myself! I was getting something done! I had to be somewhere at a certain time and that really helped me. I started working out, applied to a few jobs, and applied for college. Way too soon, institute ended for the semester and here I am being a bum again. I need to work on being self motivated and more productive. Institute starts again in a week so that should help. But I want to challenge myself again to start doing the 5 goal list. This really helped me in my Junior year of high school when I desperately needed motivation for change. Honestly, I did not always meet all 5 goals on the list but I was meeting some! It was a start! And any start is fantastic in my mind, we all begin somewhere. At some point, a tree was a seed.
The 5 goals is super simple and pretty self explanatory. I recommend starting out small so you can meet the goals. DO NOT put anything that is out of reach or you know that you probably won't do anyways, this will only cause you to loose motivation and confidence. Tell yourself: "Okay, today I am actually going to vacume the basement then research that thing I've been meaning to." Make it attainable but still something that is going to challenge you a bit. The biggest challenge and most important part is to JUST DO IT.  Personally tomorrow's is: Apply for 2 jobs, finish Ashley's present, vacume my room, read, and go over a lesson from Preach my Gospel. Let me know what your list is and we can motivate each other! Woot! Woot!