• Put your plans on paper. Spell out your goals and ways to reach them.
  
• Be specific. The advice you give yourself must be such that you can put it into practice.
  
• Break the task down into small pieces so that you can handle them easily.
  
• Establish checkpoints on your progress as well as rewards.
  

• Remind yourself of the benefits you expect from your tasks completion.
  

• Avoid temptations and circumstances that might sidetrack you.
  
• Recognize your limitations. Don’t set unrealistic goals.
  
• Take advantage of your own energy peaks!
  
• Use negative motivation. Remind yourself of the consequences of inaction.
  
• Keep a time-control budget. Don’t let one task take control over others.
  
• Set deadlines and hold yourself to them.
  
• Make an honest distinction between “I can’t” and “I don’t want to”.
  
• Get started now. Don’t stall.
  
• Improve your self-persuasion ability. Learn the difference between reasoning and
  
• rationalizing.
  
• Be optimistic. Your chances for success will increase.
  
• Decide how you want to start, what needs to be done first.
  
• Read, especially literature related to your situation.
  
• Use self-signaling devices – notes, signs, cues, reminders.
  
• Promise yourself rewards.
  
• Use the stimulation provided by good news to do extra work.
  
• Recognize conflicts and make a choice.
  
• Give yourself the right to make mistakes. No one is perfect.
  
• Exercise your sense of humor. Laughter indicates a realistic point of view.
  

I stumbled across this and thought to share it with you guys, My favourite’s “Make an honest distinction between “I can’t” and “I don’t want to”…. I hope you find it helpful as you put in a little extra this week trying to achieve your dream..Have a great week people… and remember;