Its no secret that it’s a particularly challenging time we’re all going through right now, so how about instead of having some vague plan to survive we actually make a success plan?

What’s a success plan ? Its simply a plan or a goal setting exercise that will take you closer to reaching your goals in say 60 to 90 days. Even better than doing this exercise would be doing it with other people in your circle, other businesses if possible so you could spur each other on!

So, how can we do this? Firstly, we need to create a vision ! What do you want to be, do and have – be specific. It helps to create a vision board, cut out images from magazines to go with your goals, whether they be business, health or relationships, because lets face it, life works better when its in balance.

Vision boards are very cool, don’t dismiss them as Tony Hart meets earth mother, they’re actually a great way of getting your RAS or reticular activation system to focus on what you want to achieve (rather than what you don’t want to achieve)

Your RAS looks for patterns in all the gazillion pieces of information it processes daily to see which pieces match the images you’ve already set out in your brain (for example in your vision boards) It’s a super cool, intelligent and sophisticated system that most of us don’t really know how to use to our advantage.

Once you’ve laid down your vision, and its clear, not fluffy round the edges, the RAS system starts to work, noticing people, opportunities and basically anything that seems useful to it in getting you closer to your vision or goal.

You’ll suddenly find that you’ll meet someone really useful to you, or a magazine you pick up will have an article on exactly the problem you were bumbling around in your own head trying to solve.

So, today is a day for vision boards, and a clear plan of what you want to achieve in the next 90 days.

We’ll go through the next steps later in the week.