Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

STEP FOUR: MAKE A DETAILED PLAN
Make a plan, in writing. Remember, the ability to develop written
goals and create plans for their achievement is the master skill of
success. A plan begins with your making a list of all the things that
you can think of that you are going to have to do to achieve your
goal. Once you have made your list, you can add new items as they
occur to you.
You then organize your list in terms of priority and sequence.
What are the 
most important
things on the list that you will have to
do to achieve your goal? What are the things that you will have to do
before
you do something else? Which items on your list are depen-
dent on your completing other items 
first
?
A plan of action gives you a track to run on. It increases your
level of belief and intensifies your desire for the goal. You gradually
become convinced that your goal is actually possible and achievable
for you. You begin to see possibilities that you may not even have
been aware of in the absence of a written plan.
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