An 8 - Step Plan (for Success)

Hi and thank you very much for joining me on this weeks blog post it is called :-

An 8-step Plan because it really is a plan for success. As you are most likely aware success can take many different guises so I will leave you to interpret what success means for you.

So now let us look at:- 

The 8 Steps to Planning For Success

Step 1 - Download Your To-Do Items

This is a little offspring from a mind dump.  It consists of simply writing down all of your to dos, things that you are putting off for a later day.

Step 2 - Important or Urgent?

When listing your to-do’s you simply need to set them into priority order. Are they urgent or are they important?

Something that is urgent makes you think it is important even if it is not! 

For Example:- A phone call / a text / the doorbell all of these items are probably urgent but are they always important? - probably not!

So plan your time in order of importance beginning with the most important things you have to do.

Step 3 - Schedule Your To-Do Items 

At this point start to write your to-do list onto your calendar. Be focused on your goals and determine the results that you want to produce.

Step 4 - Downtime Planning

Make sure that you write down all the firm things on your schedule!  For example,  social activities, sleep time, meal times.

If it is on your schedule then it has to happen so remember to schedule breaks as well!

Step 5 - Don’t Give Yourself Too Much Time

For example, there is a natural law that says “if you allow yourself five hours to do something it will take you five hours to do” and if you give yourself an hour it will take an hour!

It is surprising how much you can accomplish in a short time

This was ultimately named Parkinson‘s Law  which was reworded to  “work will expand to fill the time available for its completion“

Step 6 - Plan Your Day (based on your energy levels)

Simply this means you should aim to do the most time-consuming task when you are in “prime time”!

If your mornings are when you are at your most creative or inspired, then you can use this time for your most creative work – avoid wasting your time with social media and you will really see your productivity increase!

Step 7 - Plan Your Time!

Plan your day in advance, because if you try to plan in the moment your brain will not feel like it wants to do whatever you have planned. So sit down and plan your day in advance

If you plan ahead you will always know what you should be doing at any given moment

Step 8 - What Are Your Top Three?

You should always select your top three tasks when you are planning your next days schedule – if you complete these tasks you will be satisfied with your day but beware do not schedule more than three important tasks for each day.

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About Dave   I am a personal development coach; a therapist; speaker; and  radio presenter.  A number of years ago I founded my coaching practice and although it has gone through various incarnations the core of Altered Image Coaching has always remained the same to help and encourage people to live their best lives.  

Certifications

I hold qualifications in each of the following disciplines:-

Life Coaching (Honours Diploma)

Music Therapy (Diploma)

Crystal Therapy (Practioner)

Reiki (Practitioner)

Dementia Awareness

In addition to the above I am compiling a series of short videos that will provide an 

Introduction To Mindfulness

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The Steps To Upping My Game

 

      Upping My               Game 

   (and yours)!

Recently I have been giving a lot of thought to the subject of making my blog a better resource (for both existing and new followers) and creating a structure that will help me improve the services I provide, coupled with the services I provide as a Coach.

So after much research this is the basis of what I have called:

The Steps To Upping My Game.

Step 1.  Write At Least Two New Posts (each week)

This is a way to get into the habit of post writing and it will start to build a backlog of content that will soon allow you to grow to 2 posts / week.

Step 2  Aim To Create 10 New Pinterest Pins (each week)

This is 3 to 5 pins for each post (tip. Save your pins as templates that you can modify each week).  Eventually it will become very easy to quickly swap these round!

Step 3  Join Appropriate Facebook Groups

Once you are a member of these groups spend about 15 to 20 minutes a day answering questions / helping other members (adding a link to your blog into your answer)  - be extremely careful how you respond and don’t simply use this as a way to “drop links” to your blog.

Hopefully this will lead to traffic and to people starting to look upon you as an expert in your field.  Be consistent with your responses and eventually this will lead to people wanting to get to know you better.

Step 4  Send Helpful Emails To Your List

It is extremely important to keep your email list connected by providing them with 2 awesome emails per week

Step 5  Respond To Comments

If you make it a habit to respond once a week to any comments you receive.  This keeps things alive because there is nothing worse that a stagnant blog.

Step 6  Plan For Next Week

A good old to-do list is the secret to helping you keep on to of this.  When you sit down with that clear list in front of you t will help to give you a clear focus.  Because it shows what you need to work through and in what order.

Often I have scraped by and managed to post at the last minute whereas some prior planning would have prevented that happening.

So hopefully if you follow these tips you will start to build a better blog, increase you presence and up the number of follows you receive.

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About Dave   I am a personal development coach; a therapist; speaker; and  radio presenter.  A number of years ago I founded my coaching practice and although it has gone through various incarnations the core of Altered Image Coaching has always remained the same to help and encourage people to live their best lives.  

Certifications

I hold qualifications in each of the following disciplines:-

Life Coaching (Honours Diploma)

Music Therapy (Diploma)

Crystal Therapy (Practioner)

Reiki (Practitioner)

Dementia Awareness

In addition to the above I am compiling a series of short videos that will provide an 

Introduction To Mindfulness

To find out more about how we could be able to work together or to just dive straight in and book a session, then please send me an email

If you would like to join our Facebook group just follow the link to the new

 Altered Image Coaching page. 

This page is home to a group of like - minded people (also affectionately known as "The Tribe").

By way of a thank you for their continued support people who join "The Tribe" often receive exclusive content that I do not post anywhere else.  

Plus the page also provides advanced information about forthcoming projects and events.

So please spread the word about the blog, the tribe etc. to your friends and family and I hope to see you as a member of our "Tribe" soon.

LINKS

Website:

www.moonshadowmedia.wixsite.com/bluesky

Wytchwynd Photography:

http://moonshadowmedia.wixsite.com/photographyportfolio

Pinterest:

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/davethemerlin/under-blue-skies/

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12 Strategy Tips of Lockdown

Hi and welcome to the Altered Image 12 Strategy Tips of Lockdown post.

This list was inspired by my very good friend and fellow coach Nicky so I extend her a great big virtual hug and "thank you" for that.

Photo by Matt Seymour on Unsplash

So never before have most of us lived through such strange times - I know that there are people out there who lived through the Great Wars but for most of us that is beyond our knowledge or comprehension.

Now without further ado let's crack on with the list.................

1) It is important to get out of the house (which at the time of writing is permitted for exercise) and walk.  This will do wonders for your mind, your fitness and your health.

2) Plan Your Time......it would be all to easy to sit in front of the tv (it would probably also end up very boring) and watch and endless stream of soaps, game shows etc.  Instead take the time to plan - what are you going to do?  Make a list of all the things you can (or want to) do.  That will raise your mental energy level.

3) Exercise.....do you have an exercise bike?  Can you do press ups / sit ups / squats etc.  all of these are good for you and will help to keep you in trim.

4) Maintain Contact.....I am sure that the majority of us have phones, access to emails, pens, paper etc.  We are able to write letters to people who we may have lost contact with, they may well appreciate.  Hook up with people that you have not spoken to for ages on Social Media.  There are quite simply many ways to keep up that contact and majority of you need not be alone.

5) Read A Book(or even write your own).....how many of us have said - "I really want to read that book" or "one day I'll read that book again" or "I have this great idea for a story I must do something about it one day"?  Well now we have the opportunity to do just that!

6) Create A Routine.....yes they can be boring but if you can create some sort of varied routine to stop you from just sitting and brooding.

7. Study.....this is an ideal time to work towards a new qualification or skill.  There are many online platforms that can provide such training BSY / UDEMY are just a couple.  Some of the courses are free whilst others will require a little financial outlay (depending on what your choices are)

8. Learn A New Skill..... this could be knitting, it could be a therapy based skill, art, design, playing a musical instrument (there is a huge list of choices)

9. Get Fit.....follow an exercise programme (there are plenty offered online)

10. You could even drop me a letter, call me (07731 510040) if you want to just talk or email me

11. You could learn a meditation or visualisation technique - this is very good if you are feeling a wee bit stressed by the current situation.

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY

12. Remember that you are not alone!

I would like to thank you for taking the time to read this post and if you have found it useful please click here to drop me a quick email and tell me about your progress.  

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The preparation of the new and different 2021 Workbook is underway! 

(the first copies should be available by the end of January)

However if you wish to order a copy of the outgoing 2020 workbook please navigate to the Shopping Page

Business Developer / Coach Emma Kersey said this about the 2018 Workbook

"Sorry I didn't get round to fully utilizing the e-book but please know that just reading it helped massively........... just needed a push and the book did that so thank you"

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About Dave   I am a personal development coach; a therapist; speaker; and  radio presenter.  A number of years ago I founded The Blue Sky Company to enable me to develop my work in more ways.  In addition I am also a therapist and that work includes music therapy; crystal therapy; Reiki and I will soon be offering an introduction to  Mindfulness.

If you would like to know more about my therapy work etc, then please email me.

If you would like to join our Facebook group just follow the link below to the Under Blue Skies page. The page is home to a group of like - minded people (affectionately knows as "the tribe").

By way of a thank you for their continued support Tribe Members regularly receive exclusive content that I do not post anywhere else.  The page also provides advanced information about forthcoming projects and events.

So please spread the word about the blog, the tribe etc. to your friends and family and I hope to see you as a member of our "Tribe" soon.

Under Blue Skies Private group · 27 members Join Group This group aims to concentrate primarily on Personal Change although at times there may be elements of Business Change or a cross over point somewhere...

LINKS

Website:

www.moonshadowmedia.wixsite.com/bluesky

Wytchwynd Photography

http://moonshadowmedia.wixsite.com/photographyportfolio

Pinterest:

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/davethemerlin/under-blue-skies/

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Have a fantastic day, live a life of Passion and Power.

And above all

Don't Predict The Future - CREATE IT!

The Cup Of Tea (Strategy Planning Your Progress)

The Cup Of Tea

Hi and thank you for joining me today as we explore something that could, for some people, be a new and radical strategy / approach to goal setting

All too often we set personal goals but we do not really create a plan of how we aim to achieve the goal or challenge. So I have given this matter some serious thought and I have decided that to achieve the required motivation it is necessary to look at the object or state that we want to achieve. To put it another way we have to “start at the end” to achieve success.

Having done this we move on to the Next Step 

In this part of the process we need to list everything that has to happen for to achieve (or realise) this goal.   It is all very well to have the goal in mind but unless we know the steps to take we are at a great disadvantage.

So that said, it is useful make a note of all your answers no matter how ridiculous you think they are. They can be as crazy or as far-fetched as you like because they are all useful!

But, instead of theorising let us take a look at a practical example.

The example that I have chosen provides an illustration of how to make a cup of tea.

So if we illustrate (or picture) the cup of tea that is to be the finished article then using the approach that we have outlined we well see that stepping backwards we will require a teapot and we will also need a kettle (to boil the water) we will also  need a cup and saucer and we will need the tea.

We will also need an amount of milk, some sugar, water (for the kettle) power to provide the heat to boil the water.

A third thought string will us that we will need teabags, plus maybe a tea strainer and this will involve shopping and paying the bill

And the final fourth string shows us that we need will electricity, so if that is the case, then it might be that we will have to put coins into a meter and finally we will also need to plug the kettle in.

So you can see, by using this method you are guided to think about all of the steps involved in reaching your goal, rather than just setting a long-term "off in the distance" goal and then not having a clue about how you are going to get there.

If you don’t have a plan then you may end up in totally the wrong place.

This piece forms part of my success progress development concept.

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The 2021 Workbook is now in progress!

However if you wish to order a copy of the outgoing 2020 workbook please navigate to the Shopping Page

Business Developer / Coach Emma Kersey said this about the 2018 Workbook

"Sorry I didn't get round to fully utilizing the e-book but please know that just reading it helped massively........... just needed a push and the book did that so thank you"

ooo000ooo

About Dave   I am a personal development coach; a therapist; speaker; and  radio presenter.  A number of years ago I founded The Blue Sky Company to enable me to develop my work in more ways.  In addition I am also a therapist and my therapy work includes music therapy; crystal therapy, Reiki and I am working towards a Diploma in Mindfulness.

If you would like to know more about my therapy work etc, then please email me.

If you would like to join our Facebook group just follow the link below to the Under Blue Skies page. The page is home to a group of like - minded people (affectionately knows as "the tribe").

By way of a thank you for their continued support Tribe Members regularly receive exclusive content that I do not post anywhere else.  The page also provides advanced information about forthcoming projects and events.

So please spread the word about the blog, the tribe etc. to your friends and family and I hope to see you as a member of our "Tribe" soon.

Under Blue Skies Private group · 27 members Join Group This group aims to concentrate primarily on Personal Change although at times there may be elements of Business Change or a cross over point somewhere...

LINKS

Website:

www.moonshadowmedia.wixsite.com/bluesky

Wytchwynd Photography

http://moonshadowmedia.wixsite.com/photographyportfolio

Pinterest:

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/davethemerlin/under-blue-skies/

To subscribe to the blog please go over to the right hand side of this page and click the button that says “Follow”.  Once you do that you will be added to our list of subscribers.

Feel free to share this and other posts with your friends and associates

Inspirational Phrases

In addition to the above I send out a daily email containing an Inspirational Phrase. 

To ensure that we comply with the relevant regulations this is a subscription only service and to  be included please send an email using “add me” as the subject to:- 

underblueskies@zoho.com

Once you have subscribed the phrases will be delivered to your mail box every day at no cost to you whatsoever.

Have a fantastic day, live a life of Passion and Power.

And above all

Don't Predict The Future - CREATE IT!