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Have you ever been driving home and suddenly realized you hadn't been paying attention to the road for half the trip? While that may be scary, what about your goals? Have you ever realized that you have yet to progress significantly towards your goals in months? In both cases, it could mean you have become distracted by demands unimportant to your goals. Putting aside your dreams is easy if you have lost hope or focus. What if you took one hour weekly to plan real progress toward your goal?
How To Get Started: The Weekly Planning Process
Anthony Robbins "Rapid Planning Method" Time of Your Life Program
Success is intentional and will only happen with focus and action. Tony Robbins has developed a straightforward tool to help you regain control of your life and direction. The mechanism to make conscious decisions to accomplish and reinvigorate your goals is the following four-step weekly planning process:
- Connect to your driving force.
- Own your roles, goals, and resources.
- Create an RPM plan for a great week.
- Set yourself up to win.
The weekly planning process starts with connecting to your driving force because massive action requires powerful emotion. Define the ultimate vision for your life that brings up the most powerful you have. Why is it so vital that you achieve that vision? What is your identity? What is your code of conduct, values, rules, and virtues? Your answers should excite you. They should be so juicy that it pulls you into action.
Next, reconnect with the roles, goals, and resources you have for your personal life, professional life, and your company. Only you can define and live up to your roles in your management areas. These roles should empower you. Review your goals and believe once again that they are possible. Think about how amazing it will feel when you accomplish that goal. What is the resource you need to win? Which do you have already? How will you get the rest?
After the first two steps, you should be juiced and ready to create an RPM plan for a great week. First, review your last week. What did you accomplish? What essential tasks were left undone? Next, use your projects or master plan to determine what to complete this week. Create a schedule that allows you to learn from your mistakes and create results this week.
Finally, highlight the most important 3-5 outcomes. Once you complete your weekly plan, you should be overly confident that you can accomplish it. Knowing these most critical outcomes is how you set yourself up to win. If the only results you achieve this week are your 3-5 outcomes, you will be fulfilled and happy. Lastly, consider obvious challenges and objections that could prevent you from succeeding. Go back over the previous steps if necessary and recreate a weekly plan that guarantees you will achieve all your goals. With practice, you will soon be able to complete this weekly planning process within one hour. You will be amazed how one hour can empower the other 167 hours of your week.
Every successful person you admire built their success one week at a time. At some point, they started as an ill-formed thought in someone's mind. You cannot change the past; you can only decide what you will do now. This process will help you regain your confidence by enabling you to design a weekly plan that ensures you will win. Even if you have to scale down your lofty goals to baby steps each week, it will always be a step forward.
Follow this four-stage process to create impressive results this week. The worst thing that will happen is that you will generate data to build success on. You will be encouraged to keep going as you inch closer to your ultimate outcomes. The hardest part of this process is simple to get started. The only way to reach your destination is to stay on the best route without being distracted.
Works Cited
Robbins, Anthony. "How To Get Started: The Weekly Planning Process" Rapid Planning Method, Robbins Research International, 2017. pp. 151 - 158
