Writing notes

Write your thoughts, your plans somewhere. Several people have phones with them. Instead of whatsapping, facebooking spend some time writing about yourself. Write your goals, what do you want to do. Do you really want to lose your valuable time writing about something which does not matter at all? Is your time that useless? Are ‘you’ so useless!

If you are thinking what should you write, here are a few which could get you started.

• Write what do you want to do
• Write what you wish should be done
• Write what you want others to do it for you
• Write about why your life is great or mediocre or miserable
• Write what you want to become tomorrow, next month, next year, in life
• Write what would make this world a better place
• Write about memories which you never want to forget

Revisiting your plans

If you made plans in the past, hopefully you wrote about it or maybe just kept them in the back of your mind, then try to revisit them. Check what you planned, what worked, what didn’t. Did your plan worked? Perfect! This is time to make new plans. This is time to improve, make bigger plans. If your plan did not work, then think why didn’t things happened as you wished. Were you not careful enough. Were you not motivated enough. Maybe there were external factors, maybe there were bigger priorities, maybe you found a better plan and succeded in that. Or, maybe, you just didn’t worked hard enough and let your life pass by. Does it make sense to have a purpose in life?

Learn from your past achievements/mistakes.

Observing

People who are successful are keen observers. You don’t have to start looking around for everything. You just have to observe about things which you like most. Chances are that you are a good observer about the things that appeal to you. When you explore things that you like most, you start seeing patterns. You start seeing the things that could be improved in them.

Working backwards

After you have a plan, or a vague idea of what things could be improved. First you need to imagine a layout/picture of what it should look like. Start writing the features that it should have. As you start writing you would start getting a better picture of it. Start taking notes on each aspect of your goal. Once you have a rough draft of what you would like to be done, now comes the most important part. The most important part is to break apart your draft into smaller components. You need to identify components, you need to decompose the whole into parts. You need to decompose until you have something to work with. You don’t have to completely understand all of it because you only have to start with a few. As a result of decomposition you might have to revisit your original idea. This back and forth refinement of your idea will give you a better appetite, and increase your interest in working towards your goal.