Hello and welcome to this newsletter! This is not a new approach to reaching out in order to sell or persuade you something! It is a new channel in my communication ecosystem to spread my ideas and messages to a larger audience.

So I’d like to thank you for being here! By the way, did you spend most of your time chasing the wrong things?

This is not bad. It is a common situation. BUT, the problem is that in the process you lose focus, energy, disposition and above all time you cannot replace. And in the end you lose the one thing you need to keep on moving on: your motivation, your personal brand of why you do what are you doing!

To break this pattern, you must change your mindset and approach your professional and personal life with balance.

You should interview yourself to identify your core values and beliefs that may limit your goals. To achieve your goals, look for unique ways that match your character and lifestyle.

​Finally, you need a new course of action, a new path towards the achievement of your goals that would take into account all the above parameters and limitations and would lead you towards the materialization of the things you want to be/do/have in the future.​

This new approach would/should include:

1. Clear, SMART, time-bound, action-centric and tailor-made (to you) goals to capture the essence of what you want to achieve and provide the results you want to have.
2. A clear path of action, a plan to navigate you safely through or around the obstacles you want to overcome and lead you towards your goals.
3. A consistent batch of focused bite-sized actions to help you execute with accuracy and in a limited time whatever you need to do while you bring the results you want
4. Simple ways and systems to track down your progress (or the absence of), to evaluate what you have done by far or why you are stalling at the moment and direct you back to your own plan of getting the results you want.

All these components should co-exist in the new approach in a mixture that would be unique and customized to your own needs, obstacles, assets, and requirements, my friend!

This is what I do when I think that I am not moving toward what I really want or when I think that I am drifting towards odd directions and escapades.

Do you have any more ideas about what you need to do in a similar situation? Please write me a word or two and tell me what do you do?

Stay tuned, stay intentional and stay focused!

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Kind regards,

Takis Athanassiou

P.S. Feel free to share this with your loved ones – everyone can benefit from some extra motivation and organization in their lives!