A Ziploc Bag Can Make You a Million Bucks. (Be Prepared Part 1 of 2).

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BEING FLAKY is 100% preventable.

And, it only takes a tiny amount of effort in a few key places to be extraordinary.

So, in order to be prepared to get things done, I decided to have two groups of things with me most or all of the time…

One group, I’d have with me 100% of the time. 100% means 100%. In the shower, in the bathroom, wherever I was, my stuff would be with me.

Another group I’d have with me 90% of the time. 90% means 90%–and we’d strive to have the rest close at hand the other times.

Group 1: 100% of the time.

• A pen and paper. (Office max makes cheap, tiny notebooks–OM96732 if you must know—but searching that gets you nowhere because the officemax people hate to make their stuff easy to find on person or the web).
• My mission statement
• My current goals. (Ginsberg has Philosophy Cards that are a good thing to do.)
• My long term goals.
• My affirmations.
• My minimum daily work standards.
• My cell phone (mostly for jotting stuff.)

The problem is, I take showers. But–when you’re in the shower, how often do you think of an EXCITING AND UNFORGETTABLE IDEA that you just KNOW you’ll always remember? And then, how often does that idea dissapear before you can towel off, get dressed, and get moving?

A ziploc bag, baby. Serious as a heart attack. Part of your arsenal. Have it 100% of the time.

The other thing is to buy a stack of business cards and some business card creation software. The stuff makes horrible business cards, but it makes great portable reminders. All you gotta do then is either laminate it or get some business card sleves, and you’ve got mobile reminders of goals, tasks and reminders.

It’s my dad’s birthday, I’m running late–so I’ll post the rest of this in a few hours.