So how are those 'New Year Resolutions' (NYR) going? Apparently by now (the end of January) 35% of NYR's will be broken. Regardless of whether you are jumping back on the horse and picking up where you left off or trying to maintain your momentum the most important thing to be doing now is ACTION!

I truly believe and have fully experienced Creative Visualisation in action, the more hip reference to this now days is 'The Secret' or 'The Law of Attraction'. Using the process of Creative Visualisation I have won awards, traveled, acquired my dream job, found great parking spaces, received phone calls from distant friends etc...

But Visualisation is only part of the process and it does not work without ACTION, you can sit and dream about things all you wish but it will not happen unless you take some steps to actually make it happen.

ACTION can be internal (working on yourself) or external (getting up and physically doing things). To keep myself on track with my actions I write them down. By writing your required actions down you achieve several things:

1. you get what you need to do out of your head and create more mental space for other productive thoughts.

2. what you need to do is there in-front of you , this can act as a real motivating annoyance until it is crossed of the list (which is a nice feeling :-).

3. You have a record of all you have achieved and realise how far you have moved towards your goals. The small steps are VERY BIG motivators to keep the momentum going.

What I do

My process is to simply have a monthly action plan. This consists of a single piece of paper, at the top is my big picture goal and my goals for the month (never more than three). Then I place a line down the middle of the page. I devote one side to my business and the other to my personal life. As the month progresses I add more actions as I need to. At the end of the month I reflect on my goals and where I am at with them. I file this away and create another one for the next month. At the end of the year I review all my monthly actions and am ALWAYS proud of how much I have achieved.

This works for me and you never know it could work for you too.