How to turn your goals into actions?

The Skills You Need to be a Great Boss Once you have your projects clearly identified, and each one has at least one specific task that you can physically perform, your mind no longer wanders in a cloud of “all the stuff” you need to do. You’re now looking at a very finite set of action steps that can simply be done without spending additional time clarifying what needs to be done whenever you need to take action. You don’t even have to think about goals and projects until you’ve actually done the action steps. Thinking Hard Identifying the Black Boxes When people fail to take action due to lack of clarity, they often have much of the work the need to do figured out, but have left of at least one level of detail. If someone’s goal is to “Lose10 pounds,” and the next action is to “Install calorie tracker on phone,” the actual project is missing from the equation, e.g. “Begin diet”. What identifying the project does is provide a reference point for next actions. Once you’ve installed the calorie tracker, you’re not necessarily any closer to losing weight, but “Begin diet” allows to you ask yourself, after you’ve checked off the initial task, if there’s anything else that need to be done in order to check “Being diet” off of your project list, such as, “Get calorie counts for my routine meals”. The guiding principle is that if you have a goal without a project to move it forward, or a project without a task to move it forward, or a task without the project it moves forward, there’s a gap in the thinking process that can result in continual distraction. Instead of filling in these gaps on the front end, then spending the rest of your time just doing, you may find yourself preoccupied, worrying indefinitely about what to do next or why you need to do it. Do the hard thinking through of your projects and actions on the front end, and you’ll find that executing them flows with far less resistance.