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	<title>Phat Marketing &#187; Life Planning</title>
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		<title>The Secret To A Very Cool Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony (Phat Marketing)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[personal development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Planning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here's the MOST important bunch of questions you'll ask yourself today...

Q: If I do nothing but wait will abundance and riches come my way?

Q: Does anybody owe me a living?

Q: Is it my divine right that someone else should do all the work to make me rich with no effort on my part?

It's very doubtful.

Here's the more likely scenario:

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.phatmarketing.net%2Fblog%2F2009%2F10%2Fthe-secret-to-a-very-cool-life%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.phatmarketing.net%2Fblog%2F2009%2F10%2Fthe-secret-to-a-very-cool-life%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Here&#8217;s the MOST important bunch of questions you&#8217;ll ask yourself today&#8230;</p>
<p>Q: If I do nothing but wait will abundance and riches come my way?</p>
<p>Q: Does anybody owe me a living?</p>
<p>Q: Is it my divine right that someone else should do all the work to make me rich with no effort on my part?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s very doubtful.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the more likely scenario:<br />
<strong>If I don&#8217;t make my own plans and execute them then all I&#8217;m left with is someone else&#8217;s plans&#8230; and guess what &#8211; they don&#8217;t have good things in store for me (or YOU, for that matter!)</strong></p>
<p>So, what can we do? Simple: Dream.<br />
Dream BIG. Write it down, make a plan.</p>
<p>I &#8216;ve already covered a bit on goal setting in the past, <a title="The Fatal Flaw I Made" href="http://www.phatmarketing.net/blog/2009/07/the-fatal-flaw-i-made/">here</a> and the <a title="Zig Ziglar Videos - Setting Goals" href="http://www.phatmarketing.net/blog/2008/09/zig-ziglar-setting-goals/">goalsetting videos</a> here, so I won&#8217;t harp on about how to do it.</p>
<p><strong>Here are some wise words I heard yesterday:</strong></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Tony: are you working off the old script or your new script?&#8221;</em></p>
<p>This followed a conversation about how many of my goals I&#8217;d achieved&#8230;</p>
<ol>
<li> We have a new house</li>
<li> We have a baby due any day</li>
<li>I have an online income</li>
<li> I have a new Job as Head of Marketing on considerably more money than my last, crummy job.</li>
<li> I work with adults who respect me and value my skills and knowledge.</li>
<li> I&#8217;m associating with the right kinds of people.</li>
</ol>
<p>The list goes on&#8230;</p>
<p>but the key point is that you need to review your goals often; I&#8217;ve achieved many of them and now there&#8217;s space for more&#8230; but by not updating my desires, then I fall into the plans of &#8220;The Man&#8221; again, and we know that <em>those</em> aren&#8217;t great!</p>
<p><strong>Actions:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Review your Goals Often</li>
<li>Read them first thing in the morning and last thing at night</li>
<li>Every day before you check your emails, do your best thing first&#8230; whether it&#8217;s a blog post, a video, whather you need to do &#8211; DO. THAT. FIRST.<br />
Nothing Else&#8230; JUST. THAT.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>My</strong> best first thing?<br />
Today, it was writing this post <img src='http://www.phatmarketing.net/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>If you found this post helpful, please comment, tweet, cry, laugh sing, or whatever you feel is appropriate <img src='http://www.phatmarketing.net/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>UPDATE 1: Now go check this post by David King &#8211; it follows on nicely from mine: <a title="David Be King blog" href="http://davidbeking.com/he-said-it-was-a-scam/personal-development-personal-development-self-help-self-help">He Said It Was A Scam</a></p>


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