Daily Checkilsts To Hold You To Your Goals

As part of my goals project, I have established a list of things to do on a daily basis–every day. The vast majority (affirmations, pray, read mission statement) takes less than a minute or two to do–but has a profoundly positive impact on my life. I’ve completed the gist of them.

GTD has made it possible for me to “trust my list.”

So, the “Release Candidate 1″ of my daily list…is as follows:

Now–this is the CHECK OFF STUFF

• 4:45 wakeup.*** Thursdays: 4am wakeup.
• 12 OZ H20
• Vitamin.
• Get food for work into car.
• Let Dog Out/Feed Dog
• Affirmations
• Read Bible. (5-10 minutes)
• Prayer List (bang it out)
• Read Personal Mission Statement
• Read FAMILY mission statement
• Read Business Mission Statement
• Write Goals
• Write 10 Things I’m grateful For
• Meditate on Gratitudes
• Meditate on Goals
• Morning Pages (20 minutes)
• Read 30 pages (am) positive material.
• Write blog entry/pod cast (30 minutes)
• Execute DAILY MARKETING
• 10 Minutes of Home Cleaning/Organizing
• Get food for work.
• Eat something.
• Grab IPOD/with positive stuff.

LEAVE FOR GYM BY 6:30. (5:30 on Thursdays)

• 30 minutes of cardio EVERY DAY
• 40 minutes of weights on M-W-F.
• Shower/Shave
• Get to office by 8:15 am.
• Write Goals Again #2
• Review last day’s 4×4 chart
• Update all clients (10-15 minutes)
• Review Pipeline.
• Review Weekly numbers–check for gaps
• Review Projects in process
• Send out appreciation
• Read prospecting scripts (out loud).
• Return/log phone calls
• Columbus Mortgage News Blog Post
• Print Call List
• Complete contacts for day. (1-2 hours)
  
• Write goals #3
• Review Pipeline (before lunch)
• Process New Leads into system
• Return Morning’s calls.
• Check Pricing/Lock loans if needed
• Update numbers
• Write Goals #4.
• Make final contacts; last thing is to make 2 sphere and 2 business contacts each day.
• Do 4×4 sheet.

Home by 6:30 (T-TH-F)

• Walk Dog
• Dinner by 7p
• Do something fun with Jack/H.
• Devotional W/H (faith matters, kids)
• Jack to bed by 8:30.
• Check Bank balance.
• Prepare clothing and food for the next day
• Final check in for blog stuff.
• Write Goals#5.
• Read 40 pages
• DO and fold a load of laundry.
• clear dishes/ 15-30 minutes of house stuff

Set up next day:

• Look at household “to do” projects
• Put clothing out for the next day.
• Write down food for the next day.
• Pack up breakfast.
• Make a plan for any “unfinished” work from the day

I’ll probably add stuff to this in lieu of taking it out; it also works best with the dates on top; i’ve used the dates on the side for this stuff before.

Of course, this all works better with a database, but making this SHARABLE and DOABLE for the people around is a reasonable constraint to work from.

***This may be moved to 4:30 if I can swing it–I think that that would give me a good chance at the day. With another kid on the way, I don’t know what happens next.