 Design
Your Life, Live Your Vision!
Why
Only 90 Days!
Now here’s the beauty of the book. In ninety days,
it’s going to be gone. You'll have a journal of how
you invested the previous ninety days, then what do you
do? You start over in a new book. Guess what you have
to write all over again? You have to write your VISION
all over again, and then you have to write your MISSION
all over again, and then you have to write your GOALS
all over again—Every 90 DAYS. Can you stand it? You
might actually begin to remember your goals if you have
to write them every ninety days. Think about it. When
do you write out your goals? On January 1st? Or after
a good workshop? And then those goals disappear into your
little spiral and you tuck it away in your little file
or your pile, and then you never see them again. Then
you go to your next workshop, or your next New Year’s
Eve experience and start this madness all over again and
without goal completion or success. And we’re some
of the most goal-oriented people in the whole world, and
that’s how we do it! Well not any more!!
I will
tell you that ninety days is magical. The first thirty days you feel like
you work like a dog and you see nothing. Ever been there? Here’s the
difference. You have to go the next thirty days. During the 60 day cycle
you feel it coming. You don’t necessarily see it yet, but you feel
it coming. And then in the last lap up to the completed ninety days, you
begin to see the fruits of your consistent and persistent efforts. It’s
true that you can change a relationship in ninety days, you can change your
body in ninety days, you can change your career in ninety days—anything
can change in ninety days. Make sure to re-order! Keep the momentum going!!
Before you know it, you will be living the disciplined and successful life
you dream about, and YOU DESIGNED IT!
Designing Your Life
. . . Table
of Contents:
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Vision
Vision page 1 - Make a list of all the things you want to do before you
die….. (sky dive, take an art class…travel to Australia…).
Vision page 2 - What is your Career Vision as you see it right now? As
far as you can see?
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Mission
Statement
Write a 3-5 sentence paragraph that compiles the WHY behind what you
do…personal and business.
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Goals:
Long Term - Long Term Goals are one
to three years in the future.
Short Term - Short Term Goals are
in the next 90 days.
Benchmark Goals - The end of each
week/month…how will you know you are on track?
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Affirmations
Affirmations are short sentences that affirm positive behaviors you
want to adopt. Example: "I wake up quickly and easily each morning
with energy to exercise!"
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Master
Task List
This is
where you list all of those things that clutter your mind that need ‘doing’.
Make separate list for Personal and Business.
Example: Personal
- Clean closet, hire painter to paint the porch, order mulch.
Example: Business -
Design Skin Care Class Closing sheet, put 50 recruiting prospect packets
together.
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Books
To Buy
Make a list of the recommended reading from other people that you
don’t want to forget about.
-
Future Purchases
What are
some things that you need/want to add to your home or office. "Steak
Knives!"
-
Quiet Time
Time with
the Lord - Bible study, prayer, journaling.
-
Power Hour
The first
working hour of your day where you initiate Income Producing Activities
vs. reacting to someone else’s schedule or needs.
-
Accomplished
A place
for you to at the end of the day acknowledge what you feel good about
having initiated or completed.
-
Journal
Just a place
to jot a note, a thought, an idea, information about a prospect, a team
member….just a place for a note.
-
Delegate
Things that
need to be delegated to assistant, housekeeper, husband, or child…Errands
-
6 Most Important Things
Prioritize
the day!
-
Evening
Tasks that
you will do in the evening that you will mentally release during the day
so as not to worry about them.
-
Reflect
At the end
of a 7-day week…It is time to deal in reality…Acknowledge with
thought as you REFLECT: What you did well, What you can improve, and review
your goals. Is your heart into them? If not, change the goal or change
your attitude and action.
-
Design
And then
DESIGN your new week! What didn’t get done? Go to your Master Task
Lists - Can anything from there fit into this week? What must you focus
on this week? Daily? (I usually write drink 8 glasses of H20, initiate
calls to 3-5 leaders…something like that) and then design the weekly
plan and 6 most for next day and commit again to your goals!!!
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Projects
What projects
are you working on? A HOLIDAY open house? A Velocity Girl contest? Quarterly
Awards for your unit/future area? Seminar banquet? These pages are for
those thoughts and lists of ‘to do’. (Room for 3 projects in
each book which extends for 90 days).
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Contacts
Lots of
flexibility here. Could use to put warm chatter names in. If you like,
use those colored tabs from Office Stores and use the first section for
KEY UNIT /TEAM MEMBERS and their prospects…(ignore the A-B if this
is your use). Could use a section for personal recruiting prospects/hostesses…Customize
this for what you need.
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90
Day Calendar
Following contacts
is a blank 90 day calendar…3 months. You fill in as you like. The
purpose of this is to write in POWER DAYS or design a challenge for your
unit/team that you can track. I like the 21 day challenges. Pick 21 days
of the month to have POWER DAYS. Defined as:
- Book one new appointment
(skin care class/velocity class/trunk show/ facial-double facial).
- Make a strong
recruiting attempt.
- Sell something
focused on $100 days.
- Warm chatter
and get back 3 names and addresses.
In the calendar,
track the days you actually do this. Do it for 90 Days as well as track
your daily 6 Most, To Call, To Write, To Delegate, and your personal habits,
and WATCH OUT!!!!!!
-
Year
At-A-Glance
The 12-month Year At-A Glance calendar is the only date book I personally
use. I do also work from a hand held Visor to store the same information
as my datebook, but mostly to go into the end of 2002, 2003, etc….I
use the hard copy in DESIGN BOOK daily.
Tips
for using your 90 day planner:
-
Fill in a date for every
day beginning on DAY 1 of receiving it! (even if it is a Tuesday
or not the first of a new month! Procrastination is procrastination!).
This also allows you to place a task or appointment forward on a
specific date.
-
Fill in a date for the
90 days at the back of your DESIGN BOOK on the blank calendars.
Here, you can track your Mental Bath Days, Your Work Out Days, or
use as a date book for appointments. (Pam uses the 12 mo. pull out
as her date book and then transfers specific times to the yellow
sticky pad placed ON THE DAY it will be used!)
-
If you are taking vacation
and not working on that vacation, skip those dates so that you don't
'lose' pages.
-
Don't try to 're-use'
pages by re-cycling. The value of 90 day tracking is to take an
honest look at what was/was not done.
-
Be aware that every line
doesn't need to be written on. The blanks are for you to DESIGN
where YOU need/want support!
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Use highlighters to mark
off completed tasks.
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Use post it sticky tabs
to divide and mark important pages you return to frequently--Goals,
Affirmations, Master Task Lists, Projects, etc.
-
Use a large clippie to
hold and store used daily pages to quickly find your current day.
-
At the end of each work
day, carry un-done tasks forward in priority order as you design
your New Day!
-
Prepare a sticky pad in
advance for each new day. Look at your Weekly Plan Sheet, and then
allot a time frame for each appointment, errand, or task. Remain
accountable in 30 min. segments each day to become aware of where
you are 'wasting or losing' time.
-
Place sticky pads forward
on each day to note specific appointments you want to remember.
-
If you are a 3-ring binder
user, take your Design Book to Kinko's and have it hole punched!
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Just like any new habit,
it takes 21 days of actually doing the 'thing' to get the new habit
established. By your 3rd book, you will have taken a promotion if
you are taking seriously your activity and accountability
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