I bet you thought I gave up on my website, eh? Not hardly . . .

Just overwhelmingly occupied with other business interests. One of my companies is in the pest control market and I spend every available ‘work’ minute just trying to keep up with customer orders. Anyhow . . .

This is a reprint of an earlier article that has timeless information for me and I hope for you too. These are some of the ways I get results in my life and I wanted to share them with you again. Remember repetition is important and I trust that you will get something different this time around.

I know that when I reread books, I am not the same person or in the same mindset as when I read it the first time around, and something usually jumps right out at me that I swear wasn’t there the first time. Here’s hoping that is true for you also.

How To Get More Done
By Al Smith

I was looking through my journal and came across an entry I made quite some time ago. At the time I was feeling as if my goals were getting away from me. I just didn’t seem to be getting the results I wanted, and quite frankly I was feeling down about it.

I decided to ask myself some questions about why I wasn’t getting the job done, and what I could change. Of course this led to some good quality answers that I decided to proceed with from that day. I needed to create some new habits.

Any one of these strategies will help you get more done each day you use it. The key is to use it. Practice more of them and you will find that rarely will you not feel like doing what you need to do. You will create a new habit of getting it all done regularly, and loving every moment of it. Your goal setting program will exponentially produce maximum results.

In fact you will become unstoppable! I started to get real results as soon as I began implementing just the first one. I am not perfect and sometimes catch myself resorting to old habits. But I catch myself more often these days and much sooner than I used to.

By the way, these are not new principles, I just hadn’t been putting them into action in my life. Like everything else, I am just reciting old info as new again. Here is what I wrote down that I was going to start that night and maintain.

1. Set my intention and expectations each and every day. Decide in advance that I am going to max out my day, I am going to fill it with life, passion and joy.

2. Write out my goals first thing each morning so that I start my day positively and enthusiastically knowing what I am doing and why I am doing it.

3. Make a list of 3-5 of the most important things to complete in the time I have. Prioritize them and begin with #1. Only fight the fires and urgencies that must be fought, and return to priority immediately.

4. Expect to be high energy. Act high energy, Eat for high energy. Stay oxygenated and hydrated throughout the day.

5. Exercise 20-30 minutes. Make it extreme high priority and get it done no matter what.

6. Plan rewards into my day. Laugh a lot and be playful. Enjoy the day. After all, it’s my life! I am after anything that drives me forward. Think about it.

7. Watch my vocabulary and self talk. Affirm to myself that I need a completion today. Tomorrow is unacceptable, I want to finish it today!

8. Go to sleep assured that I have done all I could possibly have done and I will start out fresh again in the morning.

Try any one of these and notice the difference. Try more of them and watch how much more you get done while enjoying the process. I know they work, just as the experts said they would. After all that is where I first got them, I am just passing them on.

– Al Smith