Life Planning & Goal Setting Tools for Business Owners
How to Turn Hopes into Habits
Here is a simple yet powerful tool to establish habits, learn a skill, or complete a project. I used it to reinforce my daily meditation practice and to write two books.
The method is as old as procrastination but has been attributed recently to billionaire comedian Jerry Seinfeld, as in this frequently cited LifeHacker article, where it is called Don’t Break the Chain. I prefer positive instructions, so let’s name it Link-a-Day.
Buy or make a simple, clean one-year calendar. Do not just print your Outlook or Google calendar; those have too many distracting details for this purpose. You can start your own on any date and fit 365 days on one sheet by downloading my template here in Excel format or use the Google Sheets version here.
Print your calendar and place it in the physical world rather than hide it in a computer or app where it can be too easily ignored. Hang it where you will see it every day. I put mine on the wall right next to my computer monitor.
After you complete the promised activity for the day, mark it complete. When you miss a day or two, start again. No regrets, no excuses. Just start again. You can play games with Link-a-Day by playing for a longer unbroken chain or a shorter gap than last time.
That’s it. As Aristotle observed, a person is what she consistently does. Use this to start doing something you will be proud to be.
The One Experience That Proves You Are an Entrepreneur • PODCAST
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If you haven’t done this, don’t claim you are an entrepreneur. If you have, let’s get together.
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Executive Coach’s One Question Quiz for Incipient Entrepreneurs • PODCAST
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Do you know the most crucial resource for starting a company? Find out here, from the Business Owner’s Executive Coach
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You Are Not Your Results • PODCAST
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Get stronger, more persistent, and happier with this insight.
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VIDEO: For You, It’s a Choice
A quick message from an executive coach on shaking the burden of obligations and picking up the power of choice.
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Top Executive Coaching Newsletter Directory
CEO Executive Coach Tony Mayo has shared a great deal of practical information with business people since re-launching his free e-mail newsletter in 2008. Here is a list of topics covered. Just click on any title to read more.
- Be a Better Business Owner in <5 minutes
- Quick Audio Coaching
- Short Videos to Help You Manage
- Can a Business Owner Relax on Vacation?
- Exercise & Meditation Help Slow Aging
- Therapeutic Listening
- Tony Mayo’s University of Chicago Career Coaching Webinar
- This is Love
- Why we call it stress
- Goal setting that works
- Novels for business owners?
- Confront & Converse: Every Manager’s Responsibility
- Tony Mayo Could be Speaking at Your Next Event
- Improving Delegation
- Expanded 2nd Edition Now Available
- Grow or Die
- Free Tools to Support Your Resolutions and Goal Setting
- A Simple Habit That Can Boost Productivity
- A Simple Tool for Better Habits & Bigger Projects
- How to Write an Ad that Attracts Outstanding Employees
- Bring the Love
- Tony Mayo’s gift to you. And, a request for help.
- How to Apologise. And, Why.
- Stay Green & Growing
- Free Tools to Make 2015 the Year You Planned
- What Trust Is
- What can Tony Mayo do for me?
- Why Work for Nothing?
- Tony Mayo’s #1 Best Selling Book
- Focus Point
- Take a Hike. Generate Fresh Ideas
- Turning Goals into Habits
- Can a Boss Relax on Vacation?
- Concise Coaching
- Are You Rowing, Riding or Resisting?
- Fear is Running Your Career and Your Company
- “Building Community”
- Making Trade Shows and Conferences Pay
- How to Write a One Page Business Plan
- How to Help Your Employees Change and Adapt
- Bad Presentation or Resistant Audience?
- Is Jargon Undermining Your Leadership Effectiveness?
- Status, Stress, and Disease
- When would you steal?
- Samurai CFO
- Killer Stress–and the Cure
- How to Make a Healthful Protein Shake
- How Groups Agree
- How to Reduce Clutter
- Positions Ponder. People Purchase.
- How to Say, “No” & Stay Friends
- Free Goal Tracking Thermometer
- Surprising Remedy for the Blahs
- Tony Mayo’s Love Letter
- Graph your results. Grasp your future.
- Always Learning
- Free Goal Setting Workbook & Guided Meditation
- Performance Review Process: Needs Improvement
- The Oft Evaded “Now”
- 3 Rs of Dispute Resolution
- The Relaxation Response: Meditation for Managers
- Conversations That Make a Difference
- Free Executive Coaching
- Make 2012 a New Year
- Tony Mayo on iTunes
- Is lying part of your job?
- Enough! Enough Already!
- How to Conduct a Customer Listening Session
- Be Kind
- Tony Mayo’s Coaching on “Your Blind Spot”
- Handling Complaints
- Truth or Consequences
- Executive Coaching: Who, Why, What, How, When, & Where
- Conversation for Results
- Responding to Stress
- Love: Valentine’s Day
- Make 2009 a New Year
- Tactics for Tough Times
- How to Increase Sales in Tough Times
Curing Overwhelm • PODCAST
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The one habit to change if you are tired of feeling overwhelmed in this quick audio message from an executive coach.
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For You, It’s a Choice • PODCAST
Podcast: Download
Free Subscription: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS
A quick message from an executive coach on shaking the burden of obligations and picking up the power of choice.
Just click here to listen now or subscribe on your device using Apple’s Tunes, Android, and other podcatchers to have this and all new episodes placed on your device as they become available.
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Make New Habits with My 1 Page Annual Calendar
Here is a simple yet powerful tool to establish habits, learn a skill, or complete a project. I used it to reinforce my daily meditation practice and to write two books.
The method is as old as procrastination but has been attributed recently to billionaire comedian Jerry Seinfeld, as in this frequently cited LifeHacker article, where it is called Don’t Break the Chain. I prefer positive instructions, so let’s name it Link-a-Day.
Buy or make a simple, clean one year calendar. Do not just print your Outlook or Google calendar; those have too many distracting details for this purpose. You can start your own on any date and fit 365 days on one sheet by downloading my template here in Excel format or use the Google Sheets version here.
Place your calendar in the physical world rather than in a computer or app where it can hide. Hang it where you will see it everyday. I put mine on the wall right next to my computer monitor. After you complete the promised activity for the day, mark it complete. When you miss a day or two, start again. No regrets, no excuses. Just start again. You can play games with Link-a-Day by playing for a longer unbroken chain or a shorter gap than last time.
That’s it. As Aristotle observed, a person is what she consistently does. Use this to start doing something you will be proud to be.
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