FIG. 25 Living a domino run.
I have this dialogue with people every day. It’s particularly
effective when they ask me what they should do. I turn it around and
say, “Before I answer your question, let me ask you something:
Where are you going, and where do you want to be someday?”
Without fail, as I walk them through Goal Setting to the Now, they
catch on quickly and come up with their own answers, and by the time
they tell me the ONE Thing they should be doing right now, I
laughingly ask, “So why are you still talking to me?”
Your last step is to write down your answers. Much has been
written about writing down goals and for a very good reason—it
works.
In 2008, Dr. Gail Matthews of the Dominican University of
California, recruited 267 participants from a wide range of
professions (lawyers, accountants, nonprofit employees, marketers,
etc.) and a variety of countries. Those who wrote down their goals
were 39.5 percent more likely to accomplish them. Writing down
your goals and your most important priority is your final step to
living by priority.