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Reach Your New Year’s Goals and Perform Better in 2016 – 4 Tips

by Brian Tracy

How do you make 2016 a Great Year?

The only way you can create more value for yourself in 2016 is to learn and apply new skills that allow you to get better results. Results that people will pay you more and more to get.

1) How to Write Goals For 2016

Some people don’t know where to start and wonder how to write goals. Ask yourself this question…

“Where do I want to be in 12 months?” 

Write down 10 goals that you want to accomplish in the next 12 months of 2016. Look at your goals that you have written down and think to yourself, “If I could wave a magic wand, which one goal would have the greatest impact on my life.”  For most of us, it’s a financial goal.

For some of us it might be a fitness goal, a relationship goal, or a business goal, but for most of us it is a financial goal. You can still use these tips on any goal.

2) Focus On One Skill At a Time

Write it down very clearly and set a date. Then make a list of everything that you can do to achieve this goal. Then, the next question you want to ask is,

“What one skill will help me the most to achieve this goal?”

Think about all of the skills that you have and find out one skill. Focus on learning one skill that can help you achieve your most important goal.

This formula is the reason why people go from the bottom to the top of anything. The most successful people are very clear on where you want to go.

You must have a very clear goal. Then you must be very clear about the skills you must acquire that will get you there. When you acquire new skills, it helps you climb the ladder of success, every new step of the ladder you increases your earning potential.

When you increase your earning ability, you open up new opportunities for yourself. Keep adding new skills and keep growing to achieve your most important goal.

3) Manage Your Time

Today we are overwhelmed with too much to do and too little time.

You must plan every day in advance… 

The simplest way to do this is to make a list of everything that you have to do in your coming day. If you are going to invest your time into anything, you want to do the thing that gives you the greatest return on energy, or your mental and physical energy.

Some people work all day and make a few dollars and some people work all day and make thousands of dollars.

Which one do you want to be?

Make a list of everything that you have to do in the coming day and identify your most important task. Which one item will have the greatest value in your work? The greatest value in achieving your main goal? Work on this task first. Work on it until it is 100% complete.

4) How to Develop a Good Habit in 2016

Start each day by completing a task first thing in the morning. This is one of the great psychological tricks of success…

Start and complete one task, first thing in the morning.

If you’re going to complete a task in the morning, start and complete your most important task! Do that every day before you do anything else. Repeat this over and over again for 3 weeks and you will develop a habit.

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