How A Single Piece Of Paper Can Make You Rich
There is this paper I use everyday. It is a single sheet of paper. I use it to move me forward in my goals. Financial goals, health related goals, spiritual related goals, educational related goals. All these goals have been improved from this one sheet of paper. When I utilize this piece of paper, I find I move forward to success. Consistently move forward. On the other hand, If I don’t utilize this piece of paper, I find my results to be haphazard at best.
Here’s the scoop. If I have learned anything in this life, I have learned these two truths:
1. If I don’t track my activities daily, nothing tends to not get done. Does that make sense? This is why a to-do list works so well for me If I don’t have a list of items to check off everyday, I will alway forget something I should be doing or put things off instead of doing them.
2. I like this quote by Jim Rohn: “Motivation will get you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” I believe daily habits are what make people successful. What they do day in and day out. Step by step. Brick upon brick. Day by day.
Now back to this piece of paper. All it is, is a piece of paper that tracks my daily habits, that I should be doing anyway, that will take me to success. For example, under health I have things like take my multivitamin and and drink 3000 mls of water. The mls of water is broken down into 250 mls increments so I can pace myself throughout the day. If I don’t have this piece of paper in my pocket and try to just keep track in my mind, guess how many mls of water I drink in a day. On a good day I will drink only 2000. Most days hardly any.
Now, under each category, I have had a line item: “Read one article.” I would read one article on each subject each day. For example, under the financial topic: One day I would chose to search for articles related to getting debt free. On other days, I would search for articles related to saving money. NOW HERE IS THE KICKER: several times, I searched for articles on how to make money on the Internet. I ran across a bunch of scams, but this daily habit is what help me find Wealthy Affiliates. I ran across one article that led me to another article that led me to a website called OneMoreCup-OfCoffee.com. This is the website of Nathaniell Brenes, a Wealthy Affiliate Ambassador. Now you can bet I thank my lucky stars that I used my piece of paper that day.
So, my next step is to create a daily habits checklist that will make me successful in WA, make copies of it, and use it everyday to make sure I am doing those day to day things I should be doing here. My suggestion is that you should do the same thing too.
My best,
Irwin
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Another thing Irwin is to keep an ongoing journal of activities and log accomplishments and changes!
I'm a big fan of to-do lists too. Sometimes I'll discover a list from several weeks ago that I forgot about, with unchecked items that I can go back and do. Almost forgot them, but thanks to the list they got done!