You will never find yourself able to do the very difficult things until you write down your goals!
I draw from my personal experience and surprised myself: it’s only been the first 6 months of 2022, but I have already completed the plan set out for the whole of 2022! And this is my first time doing this.
How did I do that?
With one simple action: I took notes on my phone with the plan to achieve for 2022… That means I write down my plan instead of keeping it in my head.
When I wrote down my annual plan, I thought with my current situation, if I can achieve 80% at the end of the year, it is still good. My plan for 2022 is:
- In 2022, I will have at least 12 articles on the blog that I have created. That means to write at least 1 post per month.
- Technical relating things: I want to know views on my blog; design my own images for blogs
- To read at least 3 more books on: minimalism, personal finance, marketing to supplement my knowledge
You may think that this plan is easy, anyone can achieve it, it takes some time!
But, the problem is, that my time is very limited:
I am currently a mother of 3 children: the oldest is in 2nd grade, the middle one is 5 years old, and the youngest is 20 months old. My husband and I manage every day to pick up our children, send them to school, cook, remind them to study, take turns keeping the youngest child at the age of play with billions of other nameless things, and without a grandfather/grandmother or maid. My husband and I work full-time at our company from 9 to 5 and the work is always very demanding and pressured.
If you have small children, you can imagine how busy I am!
Even the time to entertain yourself is also hard to achieve! Watching movies, going to the spa, exercising, traveling, drinking coffee, chatting, etc. is something that is difficult for me to reach. Or it’s because I don’t focus on time for these things….
But, by the time I write this article, I have completed all my plans for 2022 when only half a year has passed: all the above planning items. The articles are gradually increasing on my blog, I have read more than 3 books, and got the knowledge I want. And from now until the end of the year, I continue studying, writing, and improving the skills that I would like to achieve…
It’s enjoyable!
It is simple: write down your annual plan and take a look at it often! It will remind you constantly, and you will have to sit down at your chair to actualize those plans before the other unnamed things.
My whole day is spending for working at my company (I don’t take working hours for personal work, but focus entirely on work because I have very busy work).
Only when evening comes, after picking up the children, doing the housework (feeding, breastfeeding, cleaning, arranging for the children to prepare for the next day), I will have about 1-2 hours left (sometimes only 1 hour left or less, if there are unexpected things to handle). But that time is enough for me: read a few more pages of a book, quickly update the news every day, think of ideas to share on my blog, learn something I don’t know yet…
Every day, I keep allocating: today I read books, the next day I update my knowledge on the internet, the next day I think about content ideas for the blog, and the next day I start writing, editing, and looking for designed images….
Just like that, what I want to do is gradually complete, step by step. Since I only have a little time each day, I have to take advantage of every moment….
If you don’t write down a plan, your free time can be spent watching entertainment movies, going to the supermarket to shop, etc. because you have no direction, so you may be distracting.
That’s it, but I achieved the plan set out in the condition of my situation. So you can completely achieve your own goals. Just need to start following the plan, step by step, and you will be satisfied with the results.
With a little more discipline and determination, of course. But the important thing is still the direction, then you know where you want to go. When you know what you are aiming for, you will achieve it, sooner or later.
Let’s give it a try…
