If you have goals you want to pursue in your life then to help you achieve them it's useful
to put in place a planning process.
So in this video, I'm going to break down a highly effective planning process that will
help you focus on your goals and avoid distraction.
In this video, we cover the Tony Robbins Rapid Planning Method.
I have implemented this process in my life and frankly speaking when I first came across
it, it shifted my perspective on how I go about trying to achieve my goals, as not only
did I find I would end up putting needless focus on areas that didn't necessarily serve
a clear purpose or deliver results, but that would in turn take my attention away from
those things that I needed to focus on instead.
What's really important to understand here is this process takes more time than simply
writing a To Do list, but ultimately in the long run will help save time and effort as
you identify where you need to focus.
Now just a heads up later in the video I will summarise the key points of this process to
help you have a clear structure to take away and apply, so be sure to watch until the end
to get the most from this.
So, let's not waste time, and break down the key elements of the Rapid Planning method,
starting out with the three fundamental questions you should always ask yourself when trying
to pursue a goal, with the first question being...
What Do I Want?
Knowing your outcomes as part of your goals are fundamental in order to achieve them,
as if you don't know what you want, how are you able to reach them?
Therefore, it's important to go through a process of asking yourself "what do I want?".
I'd suggest writing it down on paper so you can articulate it in the most effective way,
but equally because you can start being specific in clarifying your goals.
The more detail you can offer, the greater clarity you'll have.
So let's say you want a better salary, then rather than just saying the outcome I want
is to earn more, it's more effective to say I want to earn 50,000, or 100,000 or why not,
a million each year.
By doing this, you put into perspective what outcome you're working towards, it gives clarity
to the goal and even moreso, gives you more tangible results to work towards.
It's not limited to just financial goals either, rather this process is designed to help you
try and maximise how you use your energy in all areas of your life, so that you can have
a well rounded life that's meaningful and valuable to you, something we'll be delving
deeper into later in the video.
So once you've gone through the process to writing out your outcomes in detail, with
specificity to help you understanding precisely what you're working towards, you can move
on to the next question, which is...
Why Am I Doing This?
If you've watched the content on this channel before, you're probably aware of the importance
I place on asking "why" when finding meaning in life.
Not only is it critical to understand your motivation for pursuing what you do, but fundamentally
it can act as the greatest driving force to achieving your goals.
Here's the principle point to understand, purpose is more important than objective.
You see, saying "I want to earn 100,000 a year" identifies, but the money on its own
will not provide the stimulus to help you achieve that outcome.
So here, you want to clarify why you want to earn 100,000 a year.
Is it to buy certain things that you've always wanted, or maybe you want to invest towards
something else.
Maybe you want to provide a better standard of living for yourself and your loved ones.
Whatever, it is, understanding the why is fundamental to staying focused on achieving
goals, and will be the driving force that keeps you on course when things get hard or
you find you're getting distracted from the course.
And I'm not just talking about a mission statement for the long term why, rather it's important
to break it down to understand why you do individual tasks.
The reason this is critical is that while the long term why will keep you focused on
the long term goal you're targeting, the short term why will help you focus and stay motivated
on incrementally building towards that vision.
So in this step, on the paper where you've written what outcomes you're working towards,
you want to add detail as to why you want to achieve these outcomes.
What's your purpose and again, go into detail.
This leads us to the third and final question...
How Can I Do It?
Tony Robbins describes this as a Massive Action Plan, or map for short.
Simply put you might know your destination and why you want to get there, but without
a map to guide you, getting there isn't going to happen.
This map needs to be the steps you need to take towards achieving your desired outcome.
What do you need to do, why do you need to do it and how will it help you achieve your
outcome.
These are all things we need to consider when thinking through how to achieve your goal.
And here's a critical point about your map, you might make some wrong turns along the
way.
Don't let this stop you, rather adjust and change your map, as it's part of the journey
that all people have to go through.
There's not a single person that's perfect and so it's inevitable we make mistakes along
the way, but our capacity to learn and adjust as necessary is why we're able to progress
and come as far as we can.
So simply put, create a plan, execute that plan and if you don't hit the desired results,
adjust the plan and repeat the process.
In this step go back to your paper where you've written your outcomes and purpose, and this
time you add your map.
Don't just write high level actions, rather break them down into individual tasks.
When you've done this, review what you've written, because what you'll find is you've
written a clear guide on how to achieve your goal, one that you can execute and if it doesn't
work, adjust and improve.
It's a framework to success!
Now if you remember I mentioned before the whole point of Rapid Planning Method isn't
limited to just one area of your life, but rather something you can apply in all aspects.
To do this, you need to apply...
Chunking
The thing is our lives are made up of numerous components and it's easy to quickly feel overwhelmed
if you're trying to improve all areas.
That's where this concept of chunking comes in.
Here you want to try and break down differents aspects of your life to best understand which
areas to focus on.
So for example, the initial breakdown might be to identify your personal and professional
life, and under each you factor the areas important to you.
For example under your personal life it might be your health, relationships and activities
you do for enjoyment.
In your professional life, it might be how much your earn, your skillset and your results,
for example if you do sales then how effectively you sell.
Now what's critical in chunking is you want to make sure you find a good balance of having
clarity without going too deep.
The reason is if you don't have balance, you'll end up overwhelmed.
Let's say you overchunk and thus go into too much detail, the problem here is you'll find
there's too much for you to try and tackle, and when we feel overwhelmed in such sitations
we end up not taking action at all.
However, equally if you underchunk, you'll find that due to the lack of specificity it's
hard to have clarity on outcomes you want.
Effectively, by overchunking you'll tyrannize yourself, while underchunking will bring chaos,
so finding the balance is key.
Once done, you can create your...
Wheel Of Life
Your wheel of life is effectively taking the areas of life identified in chunking and putting
them into a circle, as you can see on screen now.
For each area, you want to rank how well you think you're doing from 0 to 10, where 0 means
you're not achieving your outcome at all, whereas 10 is you've hit it as effectively
as you can possibly imagine.
The thing is for most people there will be areas they're doing well in and others where
they're doing less so.
The ideal is to try and reach a point of satisfaction in all areas, trying to make for a balanced
circle in the wheel of life.
And how do you achieve this?
It goes back to the three questions to identify outcomes, purpose and MAP.
For each area of your life, it's valuable to go through the steps we outlined earlier,
producing and documenting the outcomes your working towards, understanding why you work
towards them and how you plan to achieve them.
So let's summarise the process:
1.
Go through a process of chunking your life and the areas you want to focus on
2.
For each area, identify the outcomes you want 3.
For each outcome, identify the purpose you want to achieve this outcome
4.
Finally for every outcome, create a massive action plan to help you achieve the outcome
However, critically don't forget, if at first you don't succeed, adjust your plan to try
again.
Hopefully this breakdown of the Tony Robbins Rapid Planning Method is of value and will
help you not only focus on your goals, but set you on your way to achieving them!
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