Dear Reader,
Let’s take it as a given that you’ll be flipping some pancakes tonight. I know I will be.
In fact, let’s skip Shrove Tuesday and jump to Ash Wednesday (which also happens to be my birthday).
Don’t worry about missing a day out: I’m going to show you how to add a week to your life…
How to add that extra week to your life
The usual fare is chocolate or some kind of fatty, unhealthy food. But whatever your plans for the 40 days of lent, I’d like to propose giving up a little time.
You see when I thought about it today, the first thing that came to my mind was a question: What could you achieve in that time, during those 40 days?
When we put a timescale to something, we feel more accountable. Adding a timescale the achievement becomes more tangible, it’s less abstract.
Rather than ‘I want to achieve X’, saying ‘I want to achieve X in 40 days time’ makes the possibility of achieving X more real.
Now, I’m not proposing you give up the whole 40 days of lent to achieve whatever your X maybe. What I do propose is giving up an hour each day during lent to dedicate to the goal you set yourself.
An hour a day for 40 days and you’ve pretty much got an average working week…
A week you might not otherwise have; a week you might spend lounged in front of the TV or wandering aimlessly around the internet.
The goal doesn’t need to be too extravagant, just something that in 40 days time you’ll be pleased to have achieved. And remember you’ve got 40 hours.
It could be something financial – dedicate an hour each day solely to find ways to save money around the house. In 40 days time your house could be a much more cost efficient place.
It could be based around a second income opportunity or home business. You could dedicate the hour each day to setting up a second income stream or developing an area of an online home business. Or even steps to survive the credit crunch.
You could dedicate the hour to writing a daily blog or a report or guide which you could then go on to sell when the 40 days are up.
Or if could be a personal goal. In my case, I’m going to make this particular goal a business one. A goal I set myself at the beginning of the year is to help 30 people become more successful in whatever they choose, so over the next 40 days I have revived my free 30 minute coaching offer.
The upshot is that in 40 days time you’ll have spent the equivalent of an entire working week on achieving your goal. That’s good going by any standard.
Test yourself by putting it in writing
As I say it’s completely up to you what 40 day goal you set yourself but as I mentioned earlier, the key to achieving a goal is to make its achievement seem more tangible.
Putting a timescale on it helps but another way is to put it down on paper…
Admitting to a goal is the first step in achieving it.
Er, that might sound a little like an Alcoholics Anonymous lecture but it’s true. When you admit you’re aiming to achieve something, it gives you an added drive to actually achieve it.
Need help setting a goal
To help you I’d like to invite you to take a free 30 minute coaching session to focus on where you might set a goal, click here to register your interest.
Then if it interests you I’d like to help you set a 40 day goal. I’ll keep a record of all your goals and in 20 days I’ll remind you of that goal. In 40 days we’ll see how many readers achieved their 40 day goals.
Or you can do it yourself and send me your goal, my email address is paul@pamcoaching.com, that email again is paul@pamcoaching.com. I look forward to either hearing from you or seeing what goal you set yourself.
What goal would you like to have done by Easter?
Best wishes and happy Pancake Day!
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