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Five Key Words and Five Key Principles for
Success
Over the years I have read many articles and books and attended many
seminars on the subjects of getting organized and steps to
success. Some of my research has been geared towards organizing
my house, some towards organizing my schedule and life in general, and
some for achieving success in my business endeavours. Often I
have come away feeling defeated and more than ready to give up because
the plans presented were just too complicated, expensive, or
time-consuming. Or, it was made to appear that if you followed
some specific number of steps all would be “hunky dory” within short
order. The psychological results were not always pretty when I
followed the steps exactly but met with failure to meet the expected
time frame for success or ultimate organization! However, not all
of that research has gone to waste. In fact, far from it.
Do you tend to be a person who gets excited and jumps head-first into a
project without counting the costs? Perhaps you do count the
costs and often have detailed plans in your mind and can see what you
want to accomplish, but your figuring does not always line up with the
reality of your current schedule or what others see. Or, perhaps
you are the person who has no idea of what needs to be changed - you
just know something has to change!
Relax, there are some key principles you can count on to help
you. It has become clear to me that there are basic steps you
always have to keep in mind, no matter what area you are trying to
organize or change. The first step is to have goals and realize
the need for action to attain those goals. The second step is to
begin!
Five key words to always remember: BEGIN TODAY - KEEP IT SIMPLE
Five key principles to always remember:
1. Begin making small changes or small taking steps to realize your
goals in one or two areas at a time.
2. Go slowly, realizing it takes time to adjust the mind-set and to
establish new routines and rules.
3. Be flexible and patient - sometimes when we are tearing down to
reestablish, messes are made.
4. Some changes may need emotional adjustment, so tread lightly and
patiently for yourself and your family or those around you
5. If you have a child or children at home it will mean that what you
are wanting to
accomplish personally will take more time because of your time
commitments in raising your children. Even with no children,
allow yourself reasonable time!
The five key words and the five key principles are really quite
simple. No, they are not always easy to follow. Just look
at principle number three! When applied diligently, you will be
surprised what can be accomplished in just about any setting, whether
that be in your home, your family, within inter-personal relationships,
your work place, your place of worship, the club you belong to that
needs changes, or in the attaining of short or life-long goals.
The five key principles can be distilled down to: Take small, slow,
flexible and patient
steps that consider emotional adjustment, and allow yourself reasonable
time to accomplish your goals. And always, “Begin today - Keep it
Simple!”
© December 2008, by Maxine McLellan, author of “Family Buried
Alive . . .Help on the Way” and “Organizing for Success Charts,” which
are resources for getting organized to realize success. Owner of
JOY Center of Learning, http://www.joycenter.on.ca
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