I have started my new years gola setting and it is really taking the form of a big list right now. I hope that you read the bit I wrote a couple of days ago about Setting New Years Goals as it really laid out a great overview of what you need to do this week.

I know that some people think that it is best to sit down for a couple of hours and really do the work of setting goals but I hate the idea. I tend to have a one track mind at a time and am sure that I would miss stuff so I am just working with the first couple of bits right now.

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This book to the left is important. You will know that by then end of this post. One of the big things related to planning your day and getting motivated to do things is getting rid of all of those distractions in your head. On a daily basis we apparently think about the same 98% of things that we thought about the day before.

We are living distracted and the worst thing about it is that we are always finding more and more things on the internet to distract us from our goals instead of of simplifying our lives.

I fall into this distraction trap as badly as anyone. I am looking for a new digital camera and must have spent 20 hours researching forums, websites, reviews on Amazon and more. Guess what, earlier this month I was looking for a new pair of headphones to listen to movies with and went through the same process. I spent 10 hours deciding what headphones to buy and in the end I spent $23 on ebay for a pair of headphones. All this work is not at all worth the time that we spend.

The main help for many of our distractions is lists. David Allen of Getting Things Done fame says that your mind will not let go of distractions and ideas and thoughts until you put them somewhere that your mind will trust. One thing that I do in some parts of my life is to have lists. For this and other blogs I will have a list of post ideas and for around the house I do the same. Some parts of my mind are not always clear though. I do not have all the processes in place. Read the rest of this entry »