Writing Your Internal How To Books – #2 Lesson Learned

Okay, so Monday I told you about last week. And how it was just so absolutely fantastic.

But I’ve left two bits of info off.

Now, I’ve been following a number of Internet Marketers. One of whom is Anthony Robbins who has been sending me a series of interviews with major internet marketers. (Great series by the way – Tony interviews by asking questions then shutting up and listening).  Secondly, my sister has been following Tony Robbins for years and is currently being coached by one of his licensees. So she lent me some of his tapes.

Basic concept (from both) is that we need to build our inner game.  What I’ve called writing your inner how to book in the title. (See there was a point to it!)

Basically, what I learned last week is that there will be up periods and down periods. Times when it is easy to get things done and times when everything seems to be against you.

If you allow what is happening outside you to beat you down it will. And you’ll get NOTHING accomplished. (Like I did last week).

But if you keep your end up you’ll get by those weeks … and end up actually accomplishing something.

So how do you write your internal how to book?

1. Decide what you want
2. Decide where you are
3. Determine what you need to do to get there from here
4. Determine what you need to do on a weekly basis to accomplish it
5. Determine what you need to do on a daily basis
6. Do it!

So why is it so difficult?

The answer is twofold.

First, we tend to focus on only one item. And because we are focused on only that one item we lose sight of the other items of importance. We focus on our business and forget to talk to our wife and kids. We focus on others and forget to keep our bodies in shape. And once we allow one to fall behind the whole system begins to break down.

The truth is that when we write our internal how to book, we need to do so in seven areas:

1. Societal
2. Familial
3. Financial
4. Mental
5. Spiritual
6. Physical
7. Emotional

(There are several variations on this list — each promoting their own point of view — so find the one that works for you and is still complete. Don’t worry about the number of items … the point is to cover all your relationships … to society, to people in your life, to your intellect, to your body, to your God, to your emotional health.)

So start by deciding what you want – long term – in each area of your life. If your life was perfect what would each of these areas look like.

Then look at your life as it is. What’s different from where you really want to be.

Once you have that determine what you need to accomplish in order to change from where you are to where you want to be. Trust me this isn’t as easy as it seems. It may require deep questioning of why the existing is the way it is.

Then plan your changes. What do you need to do on a yearly basis? What do you need to do on a monthly basis? What do you need to do on a weekly basis? What do you need to do daily? Some things will be goal focused — to lose 50 lbs in 1 year I need to lose 1 lb per week. However, the most important items will be task or control focused — every week I need to spend 1 hr determining what I need to accomplish this week. Those are the habits you need to build in order to develop the discipline needed to accomplish your goals.

Tony Robbins says you have to schedule it. He’s sort of right. Yes, you need to schedule it.

Then get out there and actually do it!

Scheduling is half the problem but if you don’t do it you’ll never get the benefits of having done it. In other words everything up to that point (all the problems you’ve solved so far) will be for naught.

That’s the second reason it’s so difficult. Thinking about it is easy. Dreaming about it is even easier. But doing it is hard. And the only way to make it easier is to get out there and just do it. It won’t take long. Once you develop those habits (you remember those things you need to do every week and every day), then you’re half way there.

Why?

Because the habits will help to carry you through the doing even when your energy is low, even when things are going wrong.

Because they will go wrong. Even after you accomplish your goal.

(For more info try Tony Robbins – The Power of Psychology).

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Glen Ford

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