New Years Resolution, Eat That Frog!

It is that time of year!

New Years Eve, 2012.

We look back at what we have accomplished, how our lives have changed and think about what we want to do differently next year. It is important to remember that writing down your goals has UTMOST importance. I was recently encouraged to read a book called Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy ( You can read the whole thing here online). It is a quick easy read (took me 3 hours) that will seriously change the rest of your life. I really encourage that you read this, and I will apply a small snip-it of his theories to the New Years Resolution below:

First, divide your life into different sections - 

Family, Work, and Self, or Mom, Wife, and Self, etc. 

It is only natural that we will have different goals for each of these areas of our lives.

Write down what your goals are in each area. Then look at that list, and prioritize it based on what will have the most impact on your future. Re-order the list beginning with the goal that will have the most impact and then down to the least impact. 

It is always difficult to get started on a list of 10 things you hope to accomplish in 1 year, so don't think about it like that! Break it down. Take the first item on your list (which should have the most impact on your future) and put it on it's own piece of paper. Then give yourself a deadline and start mapping out a plan of action for you reach that goal. Write down everything that you can think of that you will need to do to be able to reach your goal.

I am a personal trainer, and my biggest goal is to increase my income in 2013.

To do this, there are about a million things I will need to do, like:

marketing, advertising, selling camp Gladiator, perfecting my craft, be on the cutting edge of new fitness trends, be everywhere there are people spreading the news and importance of fitness and health! - just to name a few.

Once I write all of my ideas on paper, I rate myself on all of those things on a scale of 1-10, 

1=I dread this; 10=I am awesome at this.

Then I can easily pick out the WEAKEST thing on my list. That one thing will hold me back and potentially inhibit me from reaching my goal.

Once you find that weak link, you know where to start. You have to convince yourself to bite the bullet and get better at that one thing, and do it NOW! It doesn't matter how great you are at all the other things on the list, if you suck at one, you will NOT be your most successful self until you improve your weakest link!

(Your list could be for anything. If losing 30lbs would make the most impact on your "Self" next year, then your list would include completely different things.)

These lists are all works in progress, and you should be constantly adding to these lists during the year and as things come into your thoughts. 

Once you find the weakest link that is prohibiting you from reaching your goals, implement ways to get better at it into your daily life. As you get better at this, start working on other low ranking areas that you need to improve on! 

This has changed my life and it has only been 2 days since I read the book! I did all the exercises he tells you to, and in the past 2 days, I have been more productive than I have in a long time! Heck, this blog post was on my list of things to do for the WEEK and it is getting done on MONDAY, because guess what, by implementing his theories, my MONDAY tasks were accomplished in record time. I shaved off all the little wastes of time that are usually interspersed throughout my day, and I was done with my REAL WORK by 1:30! Get that!

So DON'T WAIT! Read Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy, and get ready to reach your 2013 goals at mind-blowing speed!

Happy New Year!

I am sure you are planning an amazing one!

Cheers! from rainy Dallas, Texas!

-Whitney