Instead, as you said, breaking challenging work into bits and pieces — e.g. doing something that at least gets you to move forward initially — will get the momentum rolling. That initial momentum will really help propel you forward to biting away at your dreams and aspirations (IMHO).

But you’re right the first steps are the hardest. Years ago I used to keep three lists; my BIG list of life goals, my medium lists of things that might need to happen within 1-2 months, and lastly my daily planner. These days I use my head for most of it-since life goals tend to stay reasonably the same.

But I do my “brainstorming” on a wall sized whiteboard. Home Depot used to have 4×8 tileboard for 10 bucks but I don’t see them anymore. I just use a white cleaner’s plastic suit covering and some dry erase markers.

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Jimmy Sansi presents Memo To Entrecard Users: Get A Clue posted at The Kaizen Business.

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And congrats on quitting your day job and smoking. Way to go, Adam!

My friends and many ex-colleagues think I’m crazy which I take as a sign that I’m headed in the right direction! At the same time they admit to being jealous of my freedom to figure out and pursue what I want to do.

@ Leisa, again, I like your mentor’s approach of mega-sizing our dreams.

@ MindBlogger, it is what made me realize those big dreams are not that shocking big at all when you just look at the very next step. Glad it’s helpful for you, too.

Cheers!

My mentor taught us a trick this past weekend to help with having to small of long-term goals. He had a visualize what we would like our lives to be like in five years. Then he had us do it again and this time “Mega-Size” it. Take the same visualization you did the first time but make it 10 times bigger.

I’ve always been a huge dreamer, but the mega-size exercise helped because not only did I picture my dreams bigger, but I visualized the impact on others. So readers mega-size your dreams. How can you make it bigger? How will your dream make a positive impact on the world? How will it affect the ones you love?