Friday, 29 May 2020

How to create life of your dreams


                  



By Bayo Ogunmupe
    There is a minimum proven process of five years for building the life of your dreams. I celebrated my fifth year anniversary as an author and student of self improvement in Abuja in 2017. My main accomplishment was publishing in 2011, a best seller which sold more than a million copies in five countries: United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. It sold only 60 copies in Nigeria. But it enabled me to grow my readership from zero to millions. I quit seeking employment to become a full time freelance economics correspondent, columnist and literary critic.
    Having crossed the five-year threshold as an author,  I can vouch that being on your own works. You will experience phenomenal growth In the beginning, you might not be perfect at the new skill you are trying to forge. But in time, you won't just become better and more successful, you will suddenly gain fame and experience greater success. In the end, each day you become a little wiser than you were  when you woke up. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily on the fast lane. Then, you will build discipline that prepares you for fast spurts. If you live long enough, you get what you deserve at the end. 
    Spend your first 90 days working on your new path, skill or project without restraint. You will quickly learn not only what it takes to succeed but whether you like doing it. This helps you more than any amount of research or studying  will teach you. In the event the path doesn't seem like fitting, you didn't waste that much time in discovering.  For the rule of 100, learn to do something 100 times to get good at it. By the time you write 100 blog posts, record 100 podcasts and pitch 100 new clients, you are on the path of excellence.
    The distinguished American management expert, Peter Drucker and author of Managing Oneself, talked about using 18-month benchmarks to track your overall progress. That length of time is long enough to give you enough data but not long enough to deter you from creating unrealistic  goals. But for the best selling author, Gary Keller, who teaches The Only One Thing rule of focus. You are to ask yourself, What is the one thing you can do, such that by doing it, everything will be easier or unnecessary? You can use that rule to reverse long-term goals into actionable goals and key performance indicators. 
  You are expected to use this One Thing Rule for 18 months, then for the quarter, then for each month, for each week and for each day.  Going by this  mode, your skills compound like an investment account in five years. By engaging this framework for every new goal or decision, you will achieve a level of progress you didn't dream possible.

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