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Five Key
Words and Five Key Principles for
Success
Over the years I have read many articles and books
and attended many seminars on the subjects of
getting organized and steps to success. Some
of my research has been geared towards organizing
my house, some towards organizing my schedule and
life in general, and some for achieving success in
my business endeavours. Often I have come
away feeling defeated and more than ready to give
up because the plans presented were just too
complicated, expensive, or time-consuming.
Or, it was made to appear that if you followed
some specific number of steps all would be “hunky
dory” within short order. The psychological
results were not always pretty when I followed the
steps exactly but met with failure to meet the
expected time frame for success or ultimate
organization! However, not all of that
research has gone to waste. In fact, far
from it.
Do you tend to be a person who gets excited and
jumps head-first into a project without counting
the costs? Perhaps you do count the costs
and often have detailed plans in your mind and can
see what you want to accomplish, but your figuring
does not always line up with the reality of your
current schedule or what others see. Or,
perhaps you are the person who has no idea of what
needs to be changed - you just know something has
to change!
Relax, there are some key principles you can count
on to help you. It has become clear to me
that there are basic steps you always have to keep
in mind, no matter what area you are trying to
organize or change. The first step is to
have goals and realize the need for action to
attain those goals. The second step is to
begin!
Five key words to always remember: BEGIN
TODAY - KEEP IT SIMPLE
Five key principles to always remember:
1. Begin making small changes or small taking
steps to realize your goals in one or two areas at
a time.
2. Go slowly, realizing it takes time to adjust
the mind-set and to establish new routines and
rules.
3. Be flexible and patient - sometimes when we are
tearing down to reestablish, messes are made.
4. Some changes may need emotional adjustment, so
tread lightly and patiently for yourself and your
family or those around you
5. If you have a child or children at home it will
mean that what you are wanting to
accomplish personally will take more time because
of your time commitments in raising your
children. Even with no children, allow
yourself reasonable time!
The five key words and the five key principles are
really quite simple. No, they are not always
easy to follow. Just look at principle
number three! When applied diligently, you
will be surprised what can be accomplished in just
about any setting, whether that be in your home,
your family, within inter-personal relationships,
your work place, your place of worship, the club
you belong to that needs changes, or in the
attaining of short or life-long goals.
The five key principles can be distilled down to:
Take small, slow, flexible and patient
steps that consider emotional adjustment, and
allow yourself reasonable time to accomplish your
goals. And always, “Begin today - Keep it
Simple!”
© December 2008, by Maxine McLellan, author
of “Family Buried Alive . . .Help on the Way” and
“Organizing for Success Charts,” which are
resources for getting organized to realize
success. Owner of JOY Center of Learning, http://www.joycenter.on.ca
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