[ACADEMIC] Chapter 8: Start At The Beginning

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“Your problem is to bridge the gap between where you are now and the goals you intend to reach.”

If you want to be the best you can be, and to achieve what is truly possible for you, you must be brutally honest with yourself and your point of departure. You must sit down and analyze yourself in detail to decide exactly where you are today in each area.

If you want to exercise yourself, the first thing you do is to determine how much you are exercising. How many minutes per day and per week are you exercising, and how intensely each time? What kind of exercises are you doing? Whatever your answer, it is important that you be as accurate as you possibly can. You then use this answer as a starting point and make your exercise plans for the future based on it.

If you want to earn a certain amount of money, ask yourself, “why am I not I earning this amount of money already?” Look around you and identify people who are earning the kind of money that you want to earn. What are they doing differently from you? What special skills and abilities have they developed that you have not yet developed? What skills and abilities do you need to acquire if you want to earn the same kind of money they are earning? If you are not sure, go and ask them. Find out. This is too important for guesswork or chance.

Once you have answered these questions, you then look at yourself in the mirror and ask, “What are my weakest skill areas?” Where are you below average or poor? What is it that you do poorly that interferes with your ability to use your other skills? What is it that you do poorly, that other people do better than you? Especially, what key skills do you lack that are essential for your success? Whatever they are, you need to identify them accurately and honestly and then make a plan to improve in each area.

1.      Determine the reality of your current situation relative to your major goals. Where are you now, and how far do you have to go?

2.      Apply the zero based thinking principle to every area of your life. What are you doing today that you wouldn’t get into again if you had it to do over, knowing what you now know?

3.      Do a complete financial analysis of your life. How much are you earning today, and how much are you worth? What are your goals in these areas?

4.      Do a complete skills analysis on yourself and your work. Where are you good? Where do you need to improve?

5.      Determine exactly how much you earn each hour, and what it is you do to earn that amount. What do you have to do to increase your hourly rate in the months ahead?

6.      Imagine your future was perfect in every way. What would have to happen to make that vision a reality?

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