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Matching Your Energy Level to Maximize Goal Achievement

Have you ever wondered how you could be more productive each and every day?

Here's a simple five-step strategy for helping you become more efficient in the achievement of your goals.

Step 1:
Identify a goal you would like to accomplish.

Step 2:
Break this goal down into the smaller steps necessary for its achievement.

Step 3:
Look at the individual pieces you've come up with and decide which ones will have the biggest impact for achieving the goal. These are your "critical tasks," because accomplishing these is an essential part of achieving the desired goal.

Step 4:
Match up these "critical tasks" with your "high productive" times of the day. In other words, think about when you have the most energy and ability to focus, and then use that time for the accomplishment of these important tasks.

For example, let's say your goal is overhauling your website. When you break that goal down into smaller pieces, one of those pieces might be "writing new copy for the site." This type of "critical task" requires an ability to be creative, alert, and focused. So, you simply analyze how you typically feel throughout the course of a day, and then schedule this activity into your calendar during those times when you're "creative, alert, and focused."

Step 5:
Take your "low energy" times and match them up with the menial tasks that require little thought and/or effort.

For example, in the afternoon between 12-2pm is a "low" period for me. I'm not at my best when I find myself working on things that require focus or creative thinking during this time period. So instead I work on other tasks that are "easier," such as making lunch, walking my dogs, meditating, filing, paperwork, and things like that.

I'm sure you'll find that implementing this approach helps you to stay on track and accomplish those goals that you've identified as most important to your future happiness and success.

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About Kim Smith

Kim Smith has been a full-time Life Success Coach since 1997. Combining a burning desire for continued personal growth, with an unwavering search for purpose and meaning, Kim has dedicated himself to helping others live more passionate lives.

His knowledge, expertise, and experience in the areas of goal setting and personal achievement allow him to help his clients accomplish more than they ever thought possible. Kim's contagious, upbeat attitude makes it easy for those he works with to begin to realize their true potential. His style is positive, outgoing, warm and caring.

Kim holds the Vision that everyone can tap into their unlimited capacity for personal growth and achievement to live a happier more fulfilling life. His Mission as a Coach is to help others harness the power of their own minds, and use that power to design and live truly extraordinary lives.

Kim has worked in a variety of different careers during the past 20 years. His experiences include: the start up and daily operation of three small businesses; Sales; Management; Corporate Training; Customer Service; and Manufacturing and Design.

In 1992, Kim came upon a "crossroads" in his life, feeling empty, unfulfilled and yearning for more. Finding motivation and encouragement in the works of Anthony Robbins, Wayne Dyer, Brian Tracy and many others, he was inspired to return to school to study the psychology of human behavior. He received his Masters degree in Guidance and Counseling in 1995. Soon after he discovered "Coaching" and immediately knew that this was the path he should follow. He became introduced to the work of Robert Stuberg in 1998 and began being personally coached by Robert Stuberg in 1999. Kim continues Master's level Coaching with Robert and has become one of the founding Coaches at Success Systems International.

Kim is constantly seeking to expand his training and coaching credentials on an ongoing basis. As a graduate of the "Coach Training Program," at prestigious Coach University, he has coached CEO's, Managers, Entrepreneurs, Professionals and Athletes from around the world, including Australia, Belgium, and London.

Some of the characteristics that make Kim's approach to coaching unique are:

* He works only with a very limited number of clients who are serious about taking their lives to the next level.

* He is consistently happy, upbeat and positive.

* He is exceptionally well versed and educated in the field of personal success and achievement, spending the last 10 years studying, implementing, and refining the principles of success and happiness (which includes reading more than 200 books focused on Happiness, Success, Spirituality, Psychology, Finance and Personal Achievement).

* He knows how to truly listen.

* He has applied what he has learned to make tremendous changes in his own life, "walking his talk" and "practicing what he preaches."

* He incorporates fun and humor into his life and work.

Kim is an avid runner and marathoner, and often describes Coaching as "personal training for the mind." When he's not coaching, running, or playing basketball, he can be found reading up on the psychology of personal achievement and success.

He shares his life with his wife, Christine, and their two Soft-Coated Wheaten Terriers, Kayla and Maggie.