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A new way of calendering

Here is a career/ life tip.  What would happen in your life if you listed events in your calendar as achievements, rather than to-do items?  So instead of saying you have a marketing meeting at 2:00, you said instead Completed the brochure and  approved the  Q-4 budget,  stated in the past tense as if you had already achieved the results. Would the visioning required to put the language into past tense make it more real for you?  Would you be more motivated and focused at the meeting knowing it was to complete the brochure and approve the budget, rather than the softer language of marketing meeting?

What would you feel like if you could sit down and read your calendar and see a series of accomplishments, rather than an onerous never ending list of tasks to complete?  Could that uplift your spirits to action and enthusiasm? 

I get tired of my never ending list of to-do items.  It gets defeating sometimes.  We'll never finish our to-do list. It's like waves on an ocean. We can anticipate more and more. 




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