Take 10

Have you ever been frustrated about not making progress towards achieving a goal? I know I have and it can feel defeating. I was listening to Rory Cohen, Co-Founder of Entelekey Inc. last night speak about Take 10 Now!, a system to help people take action towards their goals. It's actually quite simple, by taking 10 minutes of focused energy/time towards a particular goal each day, you will successfully achieve it. In fact, the cover story for Entrepreneur magazine features this concept, "Start a Business 10 Minutes a Day". So I decided to put the concept to the test with a very small goal. I've been wanting to organize and set up a file system for a pile of articles/resource material for months, and as the pile grew larger the less I wanted to tackle the goal. Well in just 10 minutes I was on my way to organizing the pile. I tossed half of it-and made smaller piles by topic. I then took 10 minutes the next day and created folders for each small pile. In two days, goal accomplished. And this was a small goal relatively speaking. My final thought is to "chunk" the time you spend on taking action towards achieving your goal into minutes rather than hours. Action is "King" when it comes to ahieving any goal. I challenge you to try this on.