In this section, we look at how to stay on target, up to speed, and determined to keep right on going. Most people have been able to follow through and stay the course sometimes, but not every time. How would you like to have a never-fail method for always finishing what you start?

If you had a technique to assure a 95% chance of success every single time you tackle a project – any project at all – how often would you put it to use? All the time? Part of the time? Never? Logically, there’s only one sensible answer here, right?

Farther down this page, I’ll announce a new service that’ll not only hand you this method on a silver platter, but it’ll also nurse you through the first, not-quite-sure stage while it’s still new to you. But more about that later.

Right now, let’s turn to guest author Kerry Sullivan, who knows exactly how to…

Make a Change, Make it Stick
By Kerry Sullivan

If you are like most people, you have come across what you thought was a great idea and then thought, “Wow! I should do that.” But then, after you sit and think about it for a while, the days pass and nothing happens. Pretty soon, the idea has disappeared from your thoughts and you continue living the same way you always have.

This is a very common tendency, one that often causes us to miss out on some great new adventures and achievements. If we were able to implement at least one really good idea effectively, it might bring dramatic improvement to our lives.

As someone once said, “To have what you’ve never had you have to do what you’ve never done.”

So how can we break free from this tendency and make change happen? Well, I recently came across some research conducted by Brigham Young University in 1993 that focused on exactly that question. They surveyed a large population and found some fascinating and helpful results.

When people said:

1. “Nice idea,” and did nothing more, only 10 percent made the change happen.
2. When the person said, “Nice idea; I’ll do it,” that number increased to 25 percent of the population.
3. There was a 40 percent success rate for those who actually set a date to start implementing the change.
4. The success rate increased even more, to 50 percent, when the person set a date and made an action plan.
5. When the person set a date, made a plan, and made a commitment to others involved in the project, 60 percent of the people were successful.
6. But what brought about the highest success rate was this: Among those surveyed, there was a 95 percent success rate when people set a specific date, made a plan, and found some third party to hold them accountable!

We can all learn a lot from this research. The moral of the story is that we need to have other people help us get the job done. We need someone behind us saying, “Hey, did you accomplish what you planned to do this week for that new project? No? Why not, you bum?! Get going!”

So don’t let those good ideas that come to mind just slip by and disappear. Set a date, make an action plan, make commitments, and find someone to kick you in the butt so you don’t give up. If you do that, you will become the person you want to be… and ROCK it!

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Back to Charles:
Okay, there we have them – the proven, tested steps to achievement. To be like a target-seeking missile and hit the BullsEye consistently:

1. Set a date
2. Make an action plan
3. Make deliberate commitments
4. Work with an accountability partner

Many of us will gladly do the first two steps, but once we get into steps three and four, we develop a measure of reluctance.

We’re murmuring, “Oh, I don’t need an outsider to help me… I can do it myself.” That’s what we’re thinking, but it’s not what we’re feeling. Deep down inside, where the shame and fear crawl around in the back of our minds, we’re feeling, “I don’t want somebody else to have something on me, because I’m pretty likely to have some lapses… or get bogged down… or lose interest altogether.”

And you know what? That’s how we set ourselves up to NOT follow through and achieve. We leave options open for ourselves, and they’re some of the worst options we could choose.

So… on December 15th I’ll open the doors to a new accountability group I’m starting – sort of like a mastermind group – to help any of my readers who’d like to raise the bar on what they expect from themselves.

In other words, I’m announcing this publicly and openly, right here and now (and no other options).

The BullsEye Club
Dates:	December 10 December 15 January 6	Announce details of the new group Begin accepting applications Open private forum Start regular phone meetings
Action Plan:		To be announced on December 10
Commitment:		You’re my witnesses to this
Accountability:		You are my accountability partner

If you’re interested in participating in our BullsEye Club, drop me an email. But please don’t use any of my other email addresses. I’ve found it’s too hard to track when mails are coming in from every direction. Use this contact form only to make sure I know you’re interested.

And if you have any questions – or even better, suggestions – by all means feel free to send ‘em to me, using the contact form. I’d love to hear from you on this.

Now on to Part 5 of our Self Motivation Is Super Simple series.

Cheers from warm and smiling Thailand,
Charles

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