If You Want It, Declare It!

Stever Robbins, www.steverrobbins.com

“When scheduling a meeting with myself to work on a report that was due a week ago, of course I find reasons to schedule something else on top of it,” confesses Stever Robbins. Robbins is an executive coach and host of the iTunes Top 10 business podcast The Get-it-Done Guy. “After all, more important stuff comes up! Like that cute cat picture on social media. Commitments to ourselves are easy to break.” He adds,

But that’s so not true about commitments to others.

Declaring your intention to another person is powerful. It becomes more real. You feel peer pressure to get started. And by getting your intent out there, people will spot opportunities and send them your way.

When I set ...

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