A Goal Without a Plan is Only a Dream. ( My third speech at Toastmasters , 5th Jan 2011 )

Dear Fellow Toastmasters
First, Very happy New Year to you!
I believe it will be the best year of your life.
As some of you already know
I am George Rusky and on the 15 December I told you how you can get everything you want faster than you ever thought possible!
If you remember we were talking about setting goals, writing them down making plans to achieve the goals and taking actions toward your goals every single day.
You saw these steps written here:…………..
-write down your goals
-make plans to work on your goals
- take actions every day!
Last time we learned how to write down your goals.
And
Today we are moving to the next step of this life-changing process- making plans.
And I believe that after hearing my presentation you will be able to make your own plans to achieve your goals.
How we can make and write down plans?
As you have already written down your goals and actions you have to take, put this paper in front of you and look at it critically.
“What exactly and when do I have to accomplish?”
That’s the question you should ask
The next question is this:
“How regularly should I do the steps toward accomplishing my goals? Once a day, twice a week, or three times a month, etc…”
Only you can answer this question. Less Brown says: ”I am responsible!!!”
After that you take a peace of paper and make a table where you put on the top 12 columns (the months of the year) and down list all the basic goals for the year and the actions to take, as you see on the table.
That is the Plan for the Year!
The next step is very important! The essence of the whole idea: A week Plan where we numerate not only all activities we have to do but also the time planned and spent for this activity.
Here’s this essential question again:
“How regularly should I do the steps toward accomplishing my goals? Once a day, twice a week, or three times a month, etc…”
Now, do you think without week plans you can to monitor your progress?
OK
Look at this typical weekly plan of mine.
What you can see here, is a merely copy of all activities numerated in the year plan, but!
Attention: here you write down the time you plan to spend for each activity each day!
And at the end of the day you report to yourself whether you have done all that was written for this day.
Look here!
On my week plan you can see that as a future professional speaker, I consider this goal the most important one. Then I predict how much time I can devote to each activity every day. You can also think of doing these things on week-ends. But only you know how much and how soon you want to be where you want to be.
For example:…….
Of course, you may ask:”What if you are unable to do what is planned?”
Good question.
So, answer it! Say why you were unable to make it. If the reason is accidental, you will do it next day. If the problem has a regular character, this daily activity should be planned on another week or month, or simply cancelled.
Remember: nothing in your plans is written in stone. You are the Manager of your success, the creator and maker of your brilliant future. Remember: “I am responsible”
As soon as you finish with the first goal go to another one and do the same.
A word of warning: be serious and realistic about what you can do and how much time you can devote to this goal!
When you finish with planning, start doing. Be a doer!
But we will be talking about that next month!
Live on this plan for a couple of weeks and you will see what works and what doesn’t.
Then sit in a quiet place and analyze the situation, identify the problems.
Correct them and make your week plan more real.

Dear friends, now after hearing my presentation you are able to make your own year and week plans to achieve your goals if you really want them to achieve.
Next time I will tell you how to take actions in order to make your plans work for you effectively.
Thank you for listening. I am George Rusky, till next time.