As a person grows up, his thoughts and ambitions constantly change. Most often, the rhetoric of achieving goals consists of two stages. At the first stage, in adolescence, you tell yourself that you will be able to achieve everything, that you will be successful, and that everything will work out for you. Then you finish college or university, enter adult life, and it quickly clips your wings. At that very moment comes the realization that life is not so simple. Far from everything depends only on you. There are other factors that can undermine your plans: the wrong family, the wrong circle, the wrong city or country. You can find plenty of reasons, and, most likely, some of them will turn out to be quite valid. By choosing a particular goal, you may end up in significantly worse conditions than others. Or unfavorable factors of productivity may act upon you — there will be a whole section about them later.
As a rule, after this stage people no longer change their view of life. And wrongly so! At some point I realized that achieving something in life is actually easier than it may seem. So, let us list all the stages that you, in essence, must go through:
1) Everything will work out for me (teenagers).
2) It is not so simple; there are many factors because of which I am unlikely to manage everything, or even much (adults).
3) In fact it is simple, and everything will work out for me (adults as well).
And I do not remember the first point in my own youth. I had no particular goals in childhood. I spent an interesting childhood and adolescence: a lot of football, a bicycle, fishing, Pokémon pogs, a Dendy console (later a computer with GTA, Need For Speed, FIFA, Counter-Strike and other cult games). So someone may not have point 1, but point 3 must be there. It is very important that you do not get stuck on point 2.
To achieve what you want in life, you need only two things:
1) To have a clear plan.
2) To follow the clear plan.
That is all.
Throughout almost the entire second book we will talk about what to do if you cannot draw up a clear plan. For example, you draw one up, but you do not have time or cannot complete all the points. And also about what to do if you fail to follow a clear plan. In this first book we will discuss habits, laziness, motivation, praise, prejudices, and other factors, both favorable and slowing ones.
Always keep in mind the thought that I have read more than a dozen books on productivity and have been doing planning for about 10 years, so to some extent I will venture to call myself an expert in this field — one who certainly possesses more experience than you. That is why I have tried many working and non-working tools on myself and present to you the most effective and proven ones.
