Great reason's to start making changes!  Other benefits not mentioned is your ability to set income producing goals and managing the details so you can easily fit it into your regular schedule. 

Imagine wanting to start a home based business, working in your pajamas and earning lots of money.  This happens to be the current dream of many people.  Will most people realize this dream?   Probably not. In order to have your dreams become your reality you have to take charge and implement a strategy and monitor and measure it to it's completion.  It's not that most people don't want to - it is they easily lose site on what it is they were working towards.  Life gets in the way of change.

I'll give you an example.  Joe hates his current job and is experiencing sleepless nights.  One night, he see's an infomercial on how he can make money online.  He checks into it and decides to set up a website so he too can make quick money selling other peoples products.  After all it's on CNN it must be good right?  He figures he can be up and  running in a matter of weeks and maybe, lady luck shining on him, he can quit his job in just a few short months.

Joe does really good for the first few weeks, energy high, focused on following the book, setting up a professional website he has become very proud of.  Buying into this program and that program learning all he can but is starting to feel overwhelmed with the information.  So many details, Joe thinks.  At night, as he is trying to write his ad copy, his wife comes in and reminds him of other details which are starting to slip.  Joe say's he'll get to it as soon as he's finished.

His wife, starting to feel the burden of added details begins to get stressed out.  Joe realizes he is slipping but just needs a little more time to remember the details.  He also finds his stress starting to rise.  He goes to work, and rather then focusing his energy and time building he is thinking of all the things he still has to do.  Playing the list, over and over, in his mind so he won't forget his body starts to feel the physical strains of stress.

He get's home one day and even though he has lot's to do, he suddenly finds himself too tired.  He starts experiencing uncomfortable feelings in the pit of his stomach, kind of like a nervous energy, knowing things are starting to back up.  He is experiencing the feelings of loss of control.

As time starts to go by, 16 days, since he started his new business, the beginning of the information he received is starting to be transferred to his long term memory.  He's not even sure why he is doing what he is doing anymore and the feelings of urgency are fast leaving.  The vital beginning information is lost and now he can only see the work still needing to be done.  He goes and cleans his backyard, it's a mess you know, end of season, and helps his wife with the dishes.  They talk about the bills, and the things Joe has forgotten to take care of in the last few weeks since he decided to start his business.  Joe say's he's sorry and he'll do it tomorrow. 

Tomorrow comes and after work Joe picks up the dry cleaning his wife asked him to get, he goes by a friends to tell him of his new business.  He get's home, has supper, grabs and beer and watches the game, he'll work on his business tomorrow.  He can't help but notice the uncomfortable nervous energy in his system is still there. 

Does Joe go back to finishing the business he started?  Most Joe's don't.  They quickly go back into their comfort zones, most of the time unconcsciously, as their once fresh dreams slowly start to fade.

STOP HERE AND THINK! 

It doesn't have to be like Joe's story.  Or Sam's story.  Or Mary's story.  Your story can be one you write and YOU COMPLETE, on your schedule, on your time, with the right energy, without EVER having to forget ONE DETAIL or disappoint your family, friends or associates as you develop your plan for your future! 

Joe, Sam, Mary and any other person with great intentions of succeeding, who don't succeed,  just didn't have the right tools available.  They were building a business with a hammer and a saw when what they needed were power tools.

What they were missing was the know how of developing goals and plans into a workable reality and the know how of doing it consistently! They needed the information from the Strategic Self Management Strategy Guide detailing the why's, how's and what's of effective goal setting and time management referred to as the Strategic Self Management System.

The Strategic SELF Management System.  Notice the word SELF.  It is so you CAN strategically plan the details before you implement them into your life.  So you can write down everything you need to focus on, INCLUDING the details of your professional and family needs, so you do not lose sight of anything!   Imagine a system which is specifically designed to manage two things:  

1. All of the things you have to do that come up on a daily basis over time (you know those nagging to do's)
2. Your bigger dreams, hopes and wishes, broken down into individual plans as you implement them one by one.

The 1st & 2nd Secret from the Strategic Self Management Strategy Guide and the beginning of  your Strategic Self Management System are:


Let's go back to Joe's story for a moment.  And when I tell you it's Joe's story it is also Mary's, Ken's, Jack's, Joan's and any other person who is busy, stressed, running in circles trying to pay the bills and feeling like they are on a fast track to nowhere!  Life gives us exactly what we focus on - nothing more - nothing less! 

If we want it to change - WE MUST CHANGE FIRST!  We must change how we do things, how we approach what we want to accomplish.  We must be able to see it so we believe it.  If we believe it we will do it.  When we do it we get the very thing  of what we focused on!


If you don't want to risk the chance of losing your dreams turning into your reality and you are ready to at least start tracking your To Do's a great place to start is with the Item's To Do Journal, an easy purchase at $16.95 which you can get here.   Just click on this link.

Joe's Story - revisited - different scenario.

Joe worked for a company who promoted self growth and personal development training so during his years with the company Joe took a few time management programs.  In one of the programs he took, he learned about the power of goal setting and putting it in writing.  He also learned he needed two separate systems to manage the details and the goals so they wouldn't overlap.  He started using Flight Plan for his long term goals and the Item's To Do Journal to catch those details which didn't really have anything to do with his goals. He used the system for both his personal and professional life.
 
At work, Joe had learned to multi-task, using his Flight Plan and Item's To Do Journal, so his boss gave him many challenging objectives.  He made a good living and financially he lived a good life.  But he was still unhappy.  He wanted to work from home, in his pajamas, and live life on his terms.  So, one night, when he was thinking about making some positive changes, he saw a commercial showing how he could make money from the comfort of his own home.

He grabbed his Item's To Do Journal and wrote down the phone number, the name of the website and some details about the program.  He then went to bed.

The next day, he saw his entry and decided he would look into it a bit further.  He went on line at his lunch break and started to read everything he could.  It looked like a solid program, he felt he could do what they were asking of him, and although a little pricy he could try to find room in his budget to make it work.   He added the item "rework budget for $300 start up costs" to his Item's To Do Journal and also added an item to "Google the company to get more background information" because he was out of time and had to get back to work.

As the days went by, Joe completed the tasks on his Item's To Do Journal regarding the new business idea and came to the conclusion this would work for him nicely.  He could make some part-time extra income and he could set the goal to try to go full-time within 6 months.  He went to his FREE Yearly Strategizer Form, (click on the link for form) to see what month would best fit his new goals.  Once he determined he had time available he opened his Flight Plan Goal Setting Journal and activated 3 goals which would get him to his ultimate destination of being able to work from home in his Pajamas. 



Joe then went to work breaking each goal down so he could see what he needed to do and how much time and resources he required to get the job done.  when he finished his breakdown he now knew with 100% certainty that by doing the individual steps of the goals he had just listed and incorporating them in amongst the details of his life THERE WAS NO REASON TO WORRY.  There WAS NO REASON TO DOUBT.  There was NO REASON TO BELIEVE HE COULD NOT ACCOMPLISH THIS and he KNEW it was just a MATTER OF TIME.  

Success is in the details and anyone with a BRAIN can DO THIS!

Did Joe succeed?  You betcha!  The more he learned, the more he wrote what he needed to do in his journal.  As he started to make money, the more excited , focused and energized he became!   His wife, wanting to participate and help Joe to win, started helping him with the details.  They figured if they could do it together they could get there faster.  Joe had a CLEAR WRITTEN PLAN WITH DETAILS FOR COMPLETION. 

AND YOU CAN TOO!

If you don't want to risk the chance of losing your dreams turning into your reality and you are ready to at least start tracking your goals in  Flight Plan Goal Setting Journal and writing everything you want to accomplish, it is an easy purchase of  $16.95 which you can get here.   Just click on this link.

Not Ready?  Read on!

I was once a Joe.  Okay a Joe-Anna!  I worked really, really, really hard but I was stressed, broke and going nowhere fast.  I didn't have thousands of dollars to invest in a franchise.  I didn't have a University Degree for a high paying job.  I didn't have supreme abilities in any area of my life.  But I had dreams.  I had deep seated hopes of one day being able to live life on my terms rather than feeling like a slave in the world.  So - I CHANGED.  I intuitively knew if it's meant to be - it's up to me.  I developed a tracking system The Flight Plan Goal Setting Journal, based upon the premise of we wouldn't go on a vacation without a plan so why would I go through life without a plan. 

I used the Flight Plan because I had been working as an airplane mechanic for the military and I was comfortable with the terminology.  I then realized the Flight Plan, holding all my plans of all the things I wanted to accomplish for my life wasn't adequate to deal with the pesky things which would come up in a day, or the idea's of creativity which would pop up while I was actively working on my goals so I designed the Item's To Do Journal as my secondary tool. 

These were things I had to do, wanted to do, could do or maybe was just considering, but until I decided what it was exactly I wanted to do with the information - it was my short term memory.  I kept it by my bedside at night so as I was reviewing solutions or ideas to current problems I could just reach for my journal and write them down.  I realized they weren't my activated goals and if I didn't feel like doing them - I could always just check mark them as being no longer applicable.  Just because I wrote it didn't mean I had to do it!   (In my workshops I would often share this information and I was surprised at how many people can't sleep at night tossing and turning, processing the same information over in their minds.  They now too keep their journals by their bedsides!)

I learned through the years we have a long term and a short term memory.  Our short term memory is good for about 16 days and then it flips into long term memory.  This is important to understand because if we can only hold our "rememberings" for 16 days what happens to them when they go to long term memory?  THEY DISAPPEAR!  They are NO LONGER A PART OF YOUR EVERYDAY THOUGHT PROCESS!!!  The only chance you have of remembering now is for someone to ask you DID YOU DO IT?  Ooops - I FORGOT!!!  Or you happen to see something on television, hear something on the radio or see something in your daily wanderings which remind you.  It is a triggered event which will recall the long term memory.

So, realizing this, I worked even harder to develop the habit of always having a pencil and my Item's To Do Journal handy because but I didn't want to leave my success to chance!  AND YOU SHOULDN'T EITHER!  When you go into a meeting - bring your journal and write the details delegated to you as you receive it!  Reading a book or taking a course?  Write the information you can use into specific tasks in your journal.  Information is useless - it's what you do with it that gives it power!

Why am I telling you all of this?  I'm sharing with you a solution that worked for me because I know it will give you 100% ability to get what you want.  My system doesn't tell you what to do it helps you to tell YOURSELF what you WANT TO DO! 

It doesn't just give you the tools to put your thoughts in writing and to forget it.  It lets you put your thoughts in an organized, easy to follow way that once you see YOU CAN DO IT you WILL DO IT!   It ELIMINATES the STRESS, WORRY, FEAR and puts it in the background so you can FOCUS on getting the JOB DONE!  It doesn't do the work for you - true - but it gives you INCREASED CONFIDENCE in YOURSELF so you can easily do the work without feeling the uncomfortable nervous energy as if you are missing some important detail.  YOU WON'T BE MISSING ANYTHING because you just write as you receive the information!

Some of you may think the computer can help you to do this.  I am an avid computer user - love love love technology!!! but - it has it's limits.  When you are having free thoughts away from your computer the manual system is better.  Time management for shared scheduling - computer is great - for an individual business owner, manager who manages away from desk, entrepreneur, sales people, supervisor's, Joe's at the Kitchen table - you need a manual system. 

The computer takes too long to boot up when you are having a wave of creativity.  Computer's crash and you can't afford to have your life plans crash with it.  Computer's never seem to be on when you are working on dealing with the details.  It is just much easier and more practical to take your journals with a cup of coffee, sit in the garden, contemplate, (or in a coffee shop, between meetings, waiting to pick your daughter up from school) and write your plans in the moment of NOW.

Okay, so you now know the 1ST AND 2ND SECRET OF THE STRATEGIC SELF MANAGEMENT STRATEGY GUIDE: the TWO TOOLS to manage your long-term success towards developing goals into reality into your life are the Flight Plan Goal Setting Journal and the Item's To Do Journal.  

The 3rd Secret is the Strategic Self Management System Day Planner (the scheduler) to make sure you are managing the process successfully! The first two tools are the goal setting and break down of your plan.  The 3rd is the management of it to ensure you are monitoring and measuring your outcome.



The SSMS is further broken down into 3 critical steps to MAXIMIZE YOUR EFFECTIVENESS.  The Strategic Self Management Strategy Guide shows you through systematic diagrams how to get the most from your system.  You can do it QUICKLY AND EASILY so you can get back to the business of MAKING MORE MONEY! 

The CRITICAL KEY in the Strategic Self Management Day Planner is the design concepts of the Daily Planning Pages.  They have been designed to compliment the Flight Plan and ITDJ journal, amongst your appointments and priority tracking so you can easily see everyday exactly where you are, what problems you are facing, how much is left and reminders for you to update where necessary.  It will minimize writing time, increase your effectiveness factor as you are working at doing high pay-off activities instead of efficiently being busy without a clear concept of end results.


All the systems attributes come from the SMART goal setting formula during the goal setting process.