Introduction
As a writer and coach, I get asked all the time how to achieve more in less time. My answer is simple: plan, focus, and hold yourself accountable. These three steps are easy to do but extremely effective when combined together. By planning your time for improvement projects, focusing on the one or two most important things at any given moment and holding yourself accountable for your choices—no matter how small or seemingly insignificant they might seem—you can make real progress in your career and life in just 30 days (or less).
Define Your Dream Life
Define your dream life.
What do you want to accomplish in the next 30 days?
What are the most important things you want to achieve in the next 30 days?
How do you want to feel after 30 days?
What will your life be like after 30 days?
Find Your Genius Zone
The genius zone is a state of mind that allows you to access your full potential. It’s the place where you can do anything and everything, where nothing is impossible. The only way to reach it? You have to know yourself well enough to determine what makes this zone possible for you—and stick with it until the end of time (or at least until tomorrow).
Merely knowing that there exists such a place won’t take you there, though; instead, find out how other people get into their own genius zones so that you can use their methods as inspiration for finding your own path. As an example:
- Steve Jobs was known for his perfectionism when it came to product design (he famously rejected 99% of all designs proposed by his team). His perfectionism wasn’t just limited to one area of his life; he also practiced meditation daily in order not just for relaxation but also as part of his spiritual practice.
- Bobby Fisher had several routines before each chess match he played: he would meditate on chess moves while listening to classical music and then listen again while sleeping at night before waking up early in morning so he could eat eggs and drink coffee while reading newspapers or books related directly or indirectly related with chess strategy..
Set 1-Year Goals
You need to get in the habit of setting goals and breaking them into smaller, more manageable chunks. This will help you feel like you’re making progress toward your big, hairy long-term goal.
Here’s how:
- Set one-year goals. These are the big things that you want to accomplish in a year—and here’s the catch: they can’t be broken down into smaller tasks that take less than three months each (or else they’ll lose their sense of urgency). For example, say one of your one-year goals is “Play professional tennis” or “Learn Russian.” If those are too vague for you but still seem intimidatingly far away, try breaking down some other long-term plans into quarterly or even monthly chunks instead. For example: “Play tennis on Saturdays at 6 p.m.” or “Talk to someone who speaks Russian next Wednesday afternoon,” would both count as quarterly efforts toward these larger aims while still keeping them within reach!
Break Down Your Goals
The first step to accomplishing more in 30 days than most do in 365 is breaking down your goals into smaller, more manageable tasks. Focus on one goal at a time. Write down the tasks you need to complete to achieve that goal and schedule them on your calendar. Prioritize tasks based on importance and urgency so that they can be accomplished within the time frame you’ve set aside for them.
Create A Checklist
One important step in achieving your goals is to create a checklist. A checklist gives you an easy way to keep track of the things you need to do, and it helps prevent distractions from the main task at hand.
When creating your checklist, make sure it includes only the most important items on it: don’t overload yourself by adding too many things! If there are some tasks that can be deferred until later (such as watching TV), leave them off of your checklist entirely until they’re needed again. This will help keep your mind focused on completing the task at hand and allow for faster completion times overall.
The next step is checking off each item as you complete it; this provides immediate feedback about how well your plan is going so far and gives motivation when things get difficult later on during the course of completing all tasks listed on one’s list.”
Use Reminders To Start And Stop Projects
A good way to ensure you don’t overcommit yourself is to set reminders for everything you want or need to do.
The idea is that when a reminder pops up, it can help you focus on what’s important and not waste time on things with lower priority. You can use this technique in two ways:
- Use reminders as a way of stopping yourself from starting projects in the first place—for example, “Don’t start any new projects today.” If something comes up that seems like it would be useful, wait until tomorrow and decide if then is the right time for it or if there are other priorities at play that make it not worth doing now.
- Use reminders as tools for breaking down big tasks into smaller ones—for example, setting an hourly reminder every thirty minutes will help ensure that each hour is productive without having too many interruptions throughout the day.
Make A Commitment List
- A commitment list is a list of things you want to do. It’s not a to-do list, but rather a list of things you are committed to doing. You can use this list as a way to track your progress and stay motivated about what you are trying to accomplish in life.
Get Accountability From Others
You want someone who can help you hold yourself accountable. You need a partner or a group of people who will keep you on track and hold you to your goals.
You can do this by forming an accountability group, or by using an app that tracks your progress with others. The main thing is to find someone (or someones) who also want to accomplish more in 30 days than most do in 365 days.
By planning, focusing, and becoming accountable to others, you can focus on what’s really important and make real progress in your life and career.
If you want to accomplish more in 30 days than most do in 365, then the first step is to plan. By planning your time and tasks ahead of time, you can focus on what’s really important and make real progress in your life and career.
In order for this to work, though, you need to be realistic about what’s possible. If you plan out too many things at once—or if they’re all extremely challenging—it will be hard for anyone (including yourself) to keep up with them. This will cause stress, frustration, and failure at every turn!
Instead of aiming high but falling short repeatedly over the course of a few days or weeks (or even months), aim low but consistently meet those goals each day or week (or month). That way when it comes time for something more ambitious later on down the line—when everyone else has given up because they’re tired or bored or sick of being busy all the time—you’ll still have some energy left over that means “success” doesn’t end up being impossible after all.”
Conclusion
I hope this article has helped you to set some goals for yourself, and that it has inspired you to think about how you can make the most of your time. As you can see from these examples, there are a lot of ways to make life more productive—and it all starts with planning and focusing on what’s important. I know that when I started working on my own personal productivity and goal-setting systems, they helped me accomplish so much in just one year! Now that I’ve created them for myself, it feels amazing knowing what my future holds (and knowing exactly what steps will get me there).
