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This post is about goal setting and how to get the most out of the goals which you decide to set.  It is the second part of my series on improving your productivity and liberating your life.  Freeing yourself from the 9 – 5 grind.  The first part can be found here.

Goal setting is important.  Very important.  Everyone should set goals in their life or they will just wander around aimlessly.  It is far better to set out to achieve something and achieve it rather than muddle around aimlessly and maybe eventually bump into something meaningful.

Goal setting isn’t really that difficult.  All you have to do is sit down and say “I want to achieve…” and then do it.  The key is to setting effective goals.  For me, I like to have 1 main goal in each area of my life that I am working towards.  I can’t tell you what your goal is or should be.  I don’t know you and it would take the fun of discovering it away from you.  I don’t like the timescale to be much more than 6 months for any long term goal.  On a daily basis I like to give myself no more than five goals.  Five goals a day is really pushing it too.  I ideally have one, two or three goals on any given day.

I decide my goals before I even get out of bed in the morning.  I try and figure out how I want to do each thing and then I get up and do it.  So, out of all the things I can get done, how do I decide what three things I want to do in the morning? continue reading…

I recently discovered the secret to time management.  This is part one.  I will post part two towards the end of the week.  This post is about how to optimise your output whilst minimising the time you spend doing it.  Time management is for suckers.  Read on to see why

There are lots of time management theories floating around on the internet. Most of them didn’t work for me though.  The rest worked but despite being able to cram a whole load of stuff into my life I was feeling less than inspired.  The secret to time management can be summed up in a simple sentence. At least 80 percent of your value is created in 20%, or less, of your time. By using this philosophy ruthlessly and at every opportunity you can liberate huge chunks of your time and free up your life to do what you love the most.  I could stop typing now because if you only read this part of the post, you’ll have gotten everything that I wanted from it.  Remember, 80% of the value, 20% of the time (or in this case, words) continue reading…