February - the month of love!

Well, love shouldn't be limited to just one month but it's a good way to structure your month - learning to love yourself so that you can give so much more to others.

Following yesterday's post which was about reviewing the month that just ended, now we have to address the upcoming month if we want to see progress toward our goal. Remember that breaking things down into little chunks helps maintain your motivation.

I will again use my own process to show you how easy it is. It may be easy but it's also essential to keep yourself on track. If you have your own method, that's great and you could even share but my point is simply that the year (or years) is a chain link fence and in order to keep the links in line we have to address each section. No matter how good your memory is, you won't be able to remember in September what you said you were going to do or even what you did in February. Write it down. It took me 5 minutes this morning. Those 5 minutes have given me laser focus to guide my actions and decisions this month.

Here are the questions I ask:
- How can I make the most of this month?
- What's my goal(s) for this month?
- What do I need to continue to have a better chance of reaching my goal?
- What do I need to work on to ensure I reach this month's goal?

How can I make the most of this month?
   - Continue my morning routine
   - Refine my digital shutdown and evening routine
   - Begin to seriously train for Vol State
   - Optimize
   - Edit on a daily basis
   - write

What is my goal for the month? 
   - complete this edit and then revise the structure of my book
   - Firm up and start my Vol State training plan

What do I need to continue doing to reach my goal?
   - Continue daily editing blocks of at least 2 hours 
   - Continue my daily routine (a.m. and p.m. routines with digital shutdown)

What do I need to work on or refine in order to reach this month's goal?
   - Refining my evening routine
   - Better sleep
   - Improved nutrition
   - Begin weight program

Why don't you try this if you don't have another system? What do you have to lose? You certainly have a lot to gain and I think you'll be surprised.