The Ultimate Annual Personal Success Plan – Part 1 – Let’s Get Started!

Success Plan, Personal Success Plan, Annual Plan, Resolutions, Goals… nope, lets combine it all into The Ultimate Annual Personal Success Plan, now is the time! As many of my readers have seen I have been working on an e-book for the Ultimate Personal Success Plan. As I have been working on it there has been one thing that kept bugging me. – I hate e-books… Usually when someone gives away an e-book, I download it, I browse through it, and then it goes in a folder where e-books go to rest and ultimately sit unopened forever more.

So I decided to do something different than what I had set out to do. I decided that I would release the Ultimate Personal Success Plan content as a series of self-study blog posts. Delivering the content this way will allow you to take the content in bites and be able to digest it, ask questions, and have time to really put the time and effort into developing each part for yourself. I will still give away the completed e-book at the end of the blog post series. The completed e-book will be greatly enhanced by participation and questions that come up during the course of these posts. This will allow me to add this content to the e-book for those wanting the compiled version of all these posts.

Why The Personal Success Plan

For the last 3 years I have been obsessed with finding a format or a model that would help to organize, track and guarantee the success of my annual goals. I have a grand vision of success for my life, and I knew that if I did not consistently execute on my annual goals, that I would never reach the success I was dreaming of. This search was much harder than I had anticipated. I read books, purchased material on life-plans, kept up with blogs of experts, researched annual resolutions, and much, much more. In the end, nothing satisfied me, so I decided to create my own plan.

The plan started in 2011 on my blog as the “Personal Success Plan.” During that year I learned a lot about what worked and didn’t work in the plan I created. While I had a lot of success that year, the next year brought more changes. In 2012 I updated the model I was working on and created the “Ultimate Personal Success Plan.” Again this year I learned a lot more about how to achieve goals and create better success in my own life. These include a deeper understanding of various parts of the model as well as more background information to make sure that I executed on the plan. I also learned a lot more about managing the constant balancing act between my personal goals, family goals, and professional goals.

What is the Personal Success Plan

When I set out to create the ultimate personal success plan, there was one overriding principle that I really tried to maintain throughout the plan. That principle was, SIMPLICITY. If a plan is tough to manage, administer, or track, it’s doomed to failure. No one, not the least of those is me, wants to fail because we could not keep up with the work of maintaining and tracking a plan.

So the concept of a one-page annual success plan spurred into my mind. This one-page document would not be for tracking, but for defining what one wants to achieve. I felt that if I could not fit my annual goals onto a single 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of paper, than I was probably making too many goals. I further knew that this one-page, had to hold ALL of the information about my goals, the reason I was doing them, the high-level steps, my purpose, my destination, and everything else to clearly define what the year really was going to be about.

As I explore the plan, I will go deep into the components of the plan to make sure you have a comprehensive understanding. In all honesty, I did not have a good understanding of some components until recently, because in the middle of this year I basically scrapped my plan and changed course because of some personal changes I was making in my life. This caused me to do a lot of reflection and adjustment on various parts of the plan.

In this series of blog posts (Probably 12 Parts) and ultimately the e-book, I will lay out the changes for the NEW Annual One-Page Success Plan. It has various modifications this year that may seem to be only aesthetic, but are extremely powerful to one’s success. I’ll go very deep into each section, and into the tools and systems that you can use to monitor your success throughout the year. I’ll be providing worksheets that you can download for different parts, to build the elements of what will become YOUR personal success plan.

Furthermore, I will be providing many new constructive ideas for organizing your plan, figuring out what should be in it, and a lot more on how to actually execute and achieve your goals. So stay tuned and get ready to start working the next month on creating your 2013 Personal Success Plan.

Let’s Get Started on YOUR Personal Success Plan!

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