...and so we move on.

Hopefully you have before you 3 sets of goals that have been discussed and made public or known. The lesson now is 'immediate goals and the Power Action Plan. You will need a calendar to look at for this, not necessarily your diary but you will need some date awareness.

We now need to focus on the 1 yr plan only. Put the thoughts og 5 and 10 yrs aside and FOCUS on 12 months from now.

So, in order to reach your 12-month goals you are going to need to kick start your plan in certain areas.

You may need to join a gym, open a savings account, start Bootcamp or just talk to a certain person.

A new page in your notebook, My immediate goals, in red.

You need to start with goal 1 in P and ask your self what do I need to do now or in the immediate future to get this rolling. Write down the immediate goal WITH A DATE, this is important. You now need a date, the date can be ASAP not an actual date but you need to time link this immediate action/goal and write it down.

Example

In 1 year I want my first book written in draft. My immediate goal is to figure out a writing schedule. I am going to write against this 'figure out a writing schedule for book' by 05/08/2013.

Do this with each goal. Any goal that you attach an ASAP will still need to dated at some point very soon.

You will have a list now of immediate action and dates attached to each one.

EXCELLENT.

Now go get your diary......

The Power Action Plan

The PAP is the key to the POWER system as it allows you to change, modify, add and subtract goals via a weekly monitoring system.

Please don't think, oh no tracking this every week, what a bore. Please view this as weekly attention TO YOUR LIFE and ACHIEVING YOUR DREAMS.

If a goal is boring then maybe it should not have passed the SMART test and it is not RELEVANT.

I mentioned in an earlier page 46 weeks and not 52 weeks in a year. Even I, a rigid goal setter, am going to have weeks or Sundays where I don't set a weeks goals; holidays, christmas, sickness and unexpected. I have allowed 6 times where you will miss your weekly planning. OK, you may do 40, you may do 30, you know what, you may be excellent and do monthly sessions but that's fine. Pick a time and just do it. I think weekly works best, personally.

If you have your diary in front of you then lets begin.

1) You need to pick a time of the week, it needs to be the same time and it needs to be your time. Its that time when you are working on your life. It is a time when you are secretly working on success and dreams. Your kids and spouse can be asleep. Use this as very special time to WORK ON YOU!

2) Put your dates from your immediate plan into your diary. This is the date that you want the initial goal to be achieved. Do this one at a time. Now your initial goal may still need a few first steps so after you put your goal in you may need to put in a few steps in the preceding days.

Example

I am an ex dentist so maybe my immediate goal is to get my teeth cleaned by Aug 10th and it is now Aug 2nd. In my diary I am putting 'teeth cleaned' on the date August 10. Maybe August 4th, check my schedule to see a good date. Aug 5th. call dentist to make appointment.

Maybe I need to start a savings account. I will put opened savings account August 15th. Go to bank on August 12th. Research best accounts on computer August 8th. Talk to my brother, he has a good bank account, by August 7th.

Get all these dates and tasks in the diary.

Good.....Do this with all your immediate goals and get your diary full.