Workamper Dreamers

Part of creating your ideal life is to identify and pre-schedule your days to deliver specific results.  Three different kinds of days are critical:  Focus Days, Buffer Days, and Free Days.  Principle 40 of Jack Canfield’s book- “The Success Principles” describes in detail what these days are like.  Although it may take some time before all of your days fit into one of those categories, you can begin now to increase the number of Focus Days and Free Days.

Remember, a Focus Day is one in which you spend 80% of your time doing the things that will give you the biggest and best return on your investment of time.  Those things will probably be a part of your critical goals that will help you create the life that you want.  Even if it is difficult to set aside an entire day for Focus right now, you can set aside uninterrupted blocks of time for Focus activities.  You are in charge of how you spend your time.  You ultimately choose.  Begin now to take control.

Until later…

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer

If you have been keeping up with everything we have been asking you to do within this blog, you have already taken some great steps towards reaching your Dream of Living the Workamper Lifestyle.

It is time you took a FREE DAY!  Not today, but on Monday – please read Principle 40 in Jack Canfield’s book – “The Success Principles” on Redefining Time.  Jack begins this chapter by stating “The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family and recreation in their lives.”  He then goes on to explain the time management system of FOCUS DAYS; BUFFER DAYS and FREE DAYS.

Today is a FREE DAY where you don’t spend any time on work related, business related or even time working on your goals for your Dream.  Tomorrow you can learn more about scheduling FOCUS, BUFFER and FREE days.

Enjoy your day today…

Until later…

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer

The next question I want you to ask is “Who can I ask support from or delegate any of this too?  Ask yourself if that is feasible?  It might not  be, but think about it.

The last question of this exercise is when will you ask them?  Or when will you delegate all or parts of the task?  Or when would you hire the person if it was someone you were going to hire?

Take a blank piece of paper and make three columns on it.  Label the first column  - What Do I Want to Ask For?  The second column –  Who Do I Want to Ask?  The third column – When Will I Ask Them?

Take a few minutes today and accomplish this little exercise.  It may surprise you.

Until later…

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer

So the next thing is to apply the MTO Model to the mess.  What is the Minimum Goal that you would commit to doing to clean up the mess?  Like in the garage the example that I used the other day, it might be to spend two hours on a Saturday cleaning and reorganizing.  The Target Goal might be to devote one whole Saturday to the garage with the intention of removing all the junk and organizing what is left in the time that you have.

The Outrageous goal might be to take everything out, thoroughly clean it up, hire a painter to come in and repaint the walls, and then you call someone like California Closets to install shelves and storage closets and then you put only those things you really want back into the garage.

This exercise starts to force you to think about what your standards for complete are – what is complete to you as opposed to incomplete.  It also stretches your imagination about what is possible.

Ponder this one for today.

Until later…

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer

So what you should have either today or sometime soon if you didn’t do it, is a list of all the incompletes and messes in your life.  You can divide your list into little incompletes and big messes.  Little incompletes might be like dropping off three dresses to get them hemmed.  A big mess would be cleaning out our garage-something that would take longer to complete, or something that has more emotional energy attached to it – like cleaning up your relationship with your sister.

What I encourage you to do today is take one big mess which you are going to commit to cleaning up by the end of next quarter – that’s by the end of three months from now, and one smaller incomplete that you will commit to handling within the next 30 days.

Give this some thought today and pick one.

Until later…

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer

Yesterday we discussed the first of two reasons it is valuable and necessary to clean up your messes and your incompletes if you want to accelerate your rate of accomplishment in life.

Today #2 – The other reason it is important to handle these incompletes is because of what psychologists call “attention units.”  You can only attend to 7 things at once.  Beyond that you can’t.  So what happens is when you have a cluttered desk, you are constantly seeing all these papers, post-it-notes, to do lists, unanswered letters, and other items that steal your focus away from the task at hand.  You look over and think “Oh, I should move that, I should put that away, this goes in my house, I need to answer that,” and so on.  The more incompletes you have in your life, the more your focus and your creative energies get fractured and scattered.

By handling the incompletes you get more and more time in your life to focus on the really important goals dreams you have.

So the first step is to get all of your incompletes down on one list – either on paper or in your computer.  Once you have captured them on paper, you can prioritize them, and then tackle one a month or one a quarter.  You don’t have to think about the others because you know they are on the list and will be handled in the order of their importance.

Until later…                                                                                                        

Steve Anderson

I hope you have had some insights, something has shown itself as a result of the work we have been doing.

Today, let’s begin talking about cleaning up your messes and your incompletes.  There are two reasons it is valuable and necessary to clean up your messes and your incompletes if you want to accelerate your rate of accomplishment in life.

#1-   It builds your self-confidence and self esteem.  When you have a lot of incompletes in your life, and you are constantly looking at all of these things that are not done, you will feel overwhelmed.  And you will be consciously or unconsciously judging yourself as incompetent and incapable because you aren’t completing them.

Every time you look at these things that aren’t complete and handled, they are reflecting back to you the message, “you aren’t handling me.”  You are either afraid to do it or don’t know how to do it, and this compromises your feelings of competence.

Give this one some thought!    

Until later…

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer

It may seem that we are running down a series of rabbit trails, and if you think about it that is just what life feels like most of the time when you just let it happen.  We are charting those trails so when we do run down them, taking action, we will be closer to our goals.

Your next step is to login to the Workamper Dreamers website and accomplish Dreamer Exercise 13.

Until later…

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer

We are going to truly stretch many of you today with this exercise.  I would like you to think of something you could ask someone for that would be a stretch – but not so big a stretch that it would freeze you up.

Once you have thought of something..take ACTION and DO IT!

This is all preparation for the theme for the next few days which is “Cleaning Up your Messes and Your Incompletes.”  So along with stretching yourself, please also read Chapter 28 in Jack Canfield’s book, “The Success Principles” by next time.

Until later…

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer

You now have a list of your goals with weaknesses that could impact success of obtaining your goal.  The next step is to come up with just one action step you will take towards achieving that goal.  It all begins with that first step.  Many folks never get past this point and their goals fade and life just happens.  By taking that first step you are taking ACTION in the achievement of your goals and the building of your dreams.

I would like you to come up with one next action step for each o f your goals with a completion date of one week from now.  So by the next week what one action step will you have taken on each of your goals.  This could be a minimum first step.  For example, if you have a goal to go on a cruise.  Your next step could be to call a travel agency and ask for some cruise brochures.

Enjoy the journey!

Until later…

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer