Want to fire up your drive and determination?
 
Create a compelling vision!
 
Without a vision for the future that excites and motivates you, your days can seem long and difficult. Without a compelling future, each step forward can feel like slogging through mud.
 
Sometimes we lose sight of why we got started in business and slip into a rut.
 
Here are some strategies to maintain a compelling outcome and change your life for the better: 
Make a list of your highest values. Write down the emotions and states of being that are most important to you. Ideas like connection with friends, freedom, achievement or contribution

• Visualise a compelling outcome for every goal. List all of your major goals. Now associate a compelling outcome for each goal. Make your outcome as appealing as possible. Intensely imagine what you will feel and experience when you accomplish that goal.
  
  
• For example, imagine you have the goal of hitting your revenue targets by November every year and taking a vacation all of January. What will you experience when you complete that goal?
  
  
• Envision and write down all the reasons achieving that goal will be so satisfying.  Think about all the ways reaching your goals will help you meet your highest values. For example, how this vacation will meet your values of freedom and connection.
  
  

Include all of your senses. What will you see, hear, feel, smell, and think when you accomplish your goal? What is the air temperature in your surroundings? Who will be with you? Fill in every possible detail. Make it an immersive experience.


Your compelling vision will improve over time. Keep adding details and changing things around until you find the perfect version.


A compelling vision should be revisited at least once each day. Be sure to spend a few minutes visualizing this compelling outcome each day. Even better would be two or more times each day. Keep it vivid in your mind.


When you’re feeling stuck or overwhelmed return to your compelling vision. Your compelling outcome is a tool to be used whenever necessary. If you’re having a hard time motivating yourself to do something, use your compelling future to provide a boost of motivation.


When faced with decisions in your life, remember your compelling vision. It’s much easier to make choices when you remember what you’re trying to accomplish.

Imagine that vision is to be able to work from home and be with your family as much as possible, and you’re not sure if you should buy House A or House B.

• It’s as simple as asking yourself which living situation will make it more likely for you to reach your compelling outcome.
  
  
• The right decision becomes much clearer when you have a compelling outcome to serve as a guide. When you aren’t clear on your values, what you’re trying to accomplish, and why, how can you make an effective decision?

 
Compelling visions are like a guiding star and a source of motivation that are always available. Our minds work in pictures, so have a clear and exciting vision for your future. Creating a vision of a compelling outcome also forces you to clearly define what you desire for your life. Many people are foggy about their desired outcome.
 
Without a compelling vision for your future, you’re standing still.

Define what you want for your life.

Ensure that it’s motivating and use it to your advantage each day.

What do you want your future to look like?

Regardless of how much society advances with new technology that’s supposed to enable us to do more in less time, there never seems to be enough time to do everything that needs to be done.
 
But what if you could essentially add another hour or two to your day? How would you use that time?
 
While you can’t create time, you can free up additional time with these techniques: 

1. Eliminate unnecessary tasks. Maybe you just have too many things to do! Take a detailed look at your life and determine if there are any tasks that you’re doing that are simply unnecessary. There are bound to be a few things you can eliminate from your life without suffering any negative impact.
   
   
2. Limit social media accounts. Social media platforms can be valuable, but they are also great time wasters. There’s also a lot of evidence that social media use can be harmful to your mental health. Consider using your phone’s app restriction function to limit your social media accounts to a set number of minutes per day.  
   
   
3. Disable notifications. Do you really need to be notified of every text, email, and app activity in real time? Turn all of it off and take a quick peek every few hours to see if you’re missing something important.
   
   
4. Avoid perfection. Some tasks require a high level of attention. Others do not. It’s not necessary to clean out your desk drawers with the same level of perfection as a surgeon performing a heart transplant. Ask yourself how well a task really needs to be done and perform it at an appropriate level of effort and detail.
   
   
5. Ask yourself how you can do this task better and faster. Are you sure you’re taking the best route to work? Are you cleaning your house efficiently? Think about every task you do on a regular basis and search for a more efficient way of doing it.
   
   
6. Outsource. It’s possible to outsource much of your life. No one can eat, sleep, or exercise for you, but you can pay others to do a lot of things for you. There are people that will clean, do laundry, mow grass, drive, shop, cook, do your taxes, and build your new deck for you. You might even have a partner or children that can carry some of your load.
   
   
7. Schedule tomorrow’s activities today. A decent plan is lightyears better than no plan at all. Think about what you need to accomplish and make a list. Stick to your list and you’re bound to get more done in less time each day.
   
   
8. Track your time. Where are you wasting time? How are you spending all of your time? You might be surprised where your time is going if you’ve never taken a hard look at it. Spend a couple of days logging your tasks and how much time you spend on them. Pay particular attention to the time spent on electronic devices and other amusing activities.
   
   
9. Consider your mealtimes. Eating takes more time than people realize. You have to shop for the food, cook it, eat it, and clean up afterwards. If you eat three meals a day, that’s a lot of time.

• Plan meals in advance. So, you spend less time deciding what to eat. This also reduces the number of impulsive meal choices that are not so healthy.
• Some meals are much quicker to eat and prepare than others. Keep this in mind when deciding what to eat.
• Consider batch-preparing meals rather than cooking every meal from scratch and cleaning up.
• Shop for foods that are easy to prepare and have minimal cleanup. Also, shop as infrequently as possible. Each trip to the store can take an hour or more.

 
Everyone gets the same 24 hours each day to live life. Whether your 24-hour day is easy and carefree or extremely busy, it’s also helpful to find additional time to use as you see fit.
 
You can’t make a day last longer, but you create additional hours by being more effective, more efficient, and reducing unnecessary tasks and responsibilities.