Staying focussed

While putting goals in writing is an essential step to success, how do you stay focused on them?

One technique is to have a countdown calendar.

Using a year planner chart, set your goal and place a deadline on it, then count backwards from your deadline to the present day.

Remind yourself of the goal daily. This keeps you focused and you get MORE motivated with each passing day because the deadline is getting closer.

Remember when you were given an assignment and you had the entire semester to do it? Did you get into it right away?

Like most people, you probably put it off until the last minute and you barely got it turned in on time. Maybe you even did it the night before! In management and psychology they say: "work expands to fill the time allowed for it's completion."

If you don't have deadlines that urge you to "take action now, or else!" then you'll find it easy to say: ' I've got plenty of time... one cheat meal won't matter... it won't make much difference if I miss this workout..."

But struggling at the last minute to reach your health goal has more severe and painful consequences than just a bad grade or late penalty.

You'll end up overtraining, crash dieting or doing some other unhealthy fast-weight-loss idea that eats up your own muscle, drops your metabolism and you'll inevitably give up and gain it all back plus.

But if you count your way down to success you have the solution!

You will stay more consciously focused and even better, your unconscious mind will go to work for you in keeping you motivated and on schedule.

Put this simple tip into use today... it's often the simplest little techniques
that are the most powerful ones of all.