Comments on: Are you a worm or a bird?

By: admin

admin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:25:13 +0000

Hey Witold, good news that you’ve recognised that emails are one of the things you’ve been allowing to block you getting into action.

I guess the question is what’s the next specific action step on each of your goals? and the power of this lies being willing to really break that step down into the next single action…

Have fun,

Anth.

By: Witold

Witold — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:29:52 +0000

Hi Anth ,
I am spending hours every day reading emails about various topics and not getting into action on my goals . I enjoy your emails but am cutting back till I achieve some goals .
Cheers

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:53:03 +0000

Thanks Anth, I’ve never really looked at it like that! I think the questions could work wonders as it can apply to everything you do.

By: Usha

Usha — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:21:44 +0000

Hi Anth
Today i received my first tip. I think i am a bird. I have never done anything in my life consistently. Yes i agree that i have procrastination. i will start to do something but at the same time i will be thinking too much about completing the task that i will never finish my work. After reading your article i feel that i have wasted so much time in thinking and i have not achieved anything in my life so far. I don’t want to be a looser or unwanted person anymore.
So i am thinking of having a small small goals at the beginning of everyday and try to achieve them during the day.At the the end of the day i can see how much i achieved for the day.

Thank you so much Anth.

By: Jani

Jani — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:14:20 +0000

BINGO! (I’ve read this article several times to apply it to ME) I’m taking it I’m a worm. I’m am so busy w/non-important items for the future. I have lots of hobbies, but have not done or accomplished one thing in them. Ex: Quilting/crocheting/knitting/sewing, drawing/oil painting, love to read, gardening–perenial/veggies, grandchildren and keeping our paper flow organized. Paper organizing is my way of not doing any of my interests. And the paper organization is a failure too, as I am unable to find anything. I have folders filed–I’d cut up recipes out of the magazines and mixed them w/my favorites–now I can’t find my favorites–I made indexes years ago, and I have over 18– 3″ notebooks full of recipes that I’ll never use in my life time. Oh, I could go on and on– No wonder I don’t get into fun hobbies or finish a project–I’m too busy!
Oh, young man, you have given me something to really work on to improve my life–If its called procrastinating w/my paper shuffling and being a worm in organizing nothing/useless papers–I want to be both the worm/and bird! Now its how to get my compulsiveness w/paper organizing into my importance of the future.
I’ve been reading your coaching wire each day, but only a couple items seem to hit, but not enough to carry through. After I finish this note to you, I’m throwing away all my ‘never will use loose/filed unimportant papers and having a big fire outside. (That’s what my children will do when I’m gone)
Thank you

By: Magdalene

Magdalene — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:40:06 +0000

I am definitely a bird. I am full of grand ideas but I have always avoided ilisting the actions actions and doing them. Thanks for your advice.

By: Prabhu

Prabhu — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:48:42 +0000

Hello,

I am neither worm or bird. After reading this article I will work on “What’s my purpose? and follow Jim Prior method religiously to find my purpose and achieve.

Regards
Prabhu

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:47:01 +0000

I’m such a bird usually. Thank you Anth, I’ll remeber this adivce.

By: jim prior

jim prior — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:36:48 +0000

Hello,

Purely co-incidentally, I’ve been struggling to balance big picture/small actions for the last few days-I’ve started using a very “bottom up” (no double entendre intended!) method of listing every activity I can think of and cycling through the list, doing what stands out. After a few days I was feeling a bit rudderless, so I had to say to myself “Why am I doing this?” to reconnect with the big picture. I think “To what purpose?” is a better question to ask yourself, so I will be using it in the future.
One simple thing that may be worth sharing- I have made a list of my major goals, health, finances, being more organised, social life etc put it on my desk and I am briefly visualising desired outcomes-I mean brief, just a few seconds each, several times a day. It only takes 5-10 minutes in total. Essentially, it is an answer to the “To what purpose?” question.
Regards
Jim