ACTIONS FOR BENCHMARKS

In day 2, you created your one big goal, stated why you want to achieve it and when you want to achieve it.


On day 2, you broke the big goal into smaller goals that will be achieved at specific period of time which are called benchmarks.


Today, you will learn what to do next. We will ask you further questions to help you achieve your goals.


Let us use the example of traveling abroad again here. You already have four benchmarks (small goals), namely,

Getting a passport
Booking ticket
Getting to the airport
Boarding the airplane


Now, for you to get to the Passport, what are the things you need to do? What actions or steps do you need to take to have an International Passport? Write four actions or steps that you will need to take to achieve the small goals or benchmarks.


For instance, for the International Passport, you may need to visit the NIS (Nigeria Immigration Office), make enquiry about the requirement, take passports and pay. Those are four simple actions to take to achieve that first benchmark. It then means that for that first benchmark, you have outlined four actions to achieve it, namely

Visitation to NIS
Inquiry about it
Taking passport photographs
Paying


You will now do the same for the other three benchmarks remaining - Booking Ticket, Getting to the airport, Boarding the aircraft.

In the end, you will have 16 simple actions for all the benchmarks.

Does it sound hard? Read this:

What we are literally doing is creating four actions for each of the benchmarks so that we can know what to do to achieve each of it.


CAVEAT:

You may not know all the actions for all of the benchmarks now. But you should strive to write the four actions for the first two benchmarks. I bet you that by the time you would finish taking actions of those ones, you would have discovered what to do on others.


EXERCISES/CHALLENGE

1. Write your four benchmarks again
2. List four actions that you will take to achieve each of those benchmarks.
3. Send this to me as a Whatsapp message to access it (07030340696)


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