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you’re going to create your own dream diary and fill it with your own dreams
and goals. Follow these steps:- Buy or create your dream diary. Just make sure that you’re going to
enjoy working with it every day; get some colourful dividers, and
pens too. - Draw and fill in a wheel of life (as we illustrate in Figure 4-1).
- Pick the areas in your life that you want to address and label each
divider with one such area.
You may decide to work on only one or two areas to start with.
- Think of some goals for each area.
Consider both long-term (lifetime, five years, a year or more) and short-
term (six months to a year) goals.
- Apply the well-formed outcome process to your goals.
Refer to the earlier section ‘Becoming smarter than SMART: Creating
well-formed outcomes’.
- Write down your goals and include the date by which you want to
achieve them. - Break the goals down into monthly, weekly, and daily goals, and write
them in your diary along with their dates. - Each night before you go to sleep (and this takes only a few minutes)
look at your dreams and make a list of what you’re going to do the
next day in order to meet your goals.
Savour the sense of achievement when you come to tick off the goals you have
achieved and do this with a sense of gratitude, both for the opportunities
you’ve had and the people you’ve met along the way who’ve enabled you to
get to where you are.After all that activity, put your feet up for some well-earned rest and recu-
peration, watch the movie UP, and see how Ellie creates her journal (turn to
Chapter 24 for more on UP and Ellie’s diary.)Just Go for It
In her ‘Passion to Publication’ writing workshops, Kate coaches many budding
authors at various stages of their projects, authors such as Janice.