Everything connects to my goal like a web & the end of to do lists..

I remember my mum’s little orange book of to do lists. Painting the kitchen, fix the curtains in the upstairs spare room, tidy out the shed…

At the start of the year, she would transfer the list into the next new shiny notebook and continue adding as the year went by. About half of the list was transferred each year to the new book. 

I have done the same for the past twenty years. I would write to do’s lists – for each project, for each job, for each thought it my head. It was like a release to write all of these to do’s onto paper.

Only recently have I reassessed this list writing. 

Does writing down this long list of to do’s really get me to my million dollar business?

The hard answer is no.

It was avoidance because if it was on my list, then #1 I always had things to distract myself with #2 I thought I would get round to it eventually, right, because it was on my list – even though there was no priority for real change. 

It was some kind of escapism.

I don’t have a notebook anymore.

I have three things that I’m going to achieve in one day and one quarter goal. 

And everything connects to my goal like a web. 

If it doesn’t connect to the goal somehow, it doesn’t need my brain space.

Then at the end of the day I review my gains and my wins and my links to my goal. 

It doesn’t even matter if they changed throughout the day but I know that I’m moving one step, one day closer to my achievable goal. 

Plus it makes me feel great. I don’t start from zero, I build from the goodness of all these daily wins.

Disclaimer: I still write down my important admin things to remember but I write them in my diary in pencil and then rub them out when they are finished. It’s really satisfying and neat and clears my week in an instant!