Philosophy
The Principle of Chunking
The best way to achieve large goals is to break them down into small specific actions. This demystifies the goal, which makes it less intimidating, which leads to less procrastination. Chunking a goal also helps you understand the scope of the goal and what's need to accomplish it.
With JourneyPage, you divide your one-month goal into three specific actions you take everyday of the month.
The Principle of Frog Eating
Mark Twain once said, “Eat a live frog first thing every morning and its doubtful anything worse will happen to you all day.”
With JourneyPage, everyday you create your three most important outcomes and take action on them FIRST. Ironically, the three most important outcomes are often the ones that you're most likely to procrastinate on. This is why doing them first changes everything.
The Principle of Accountability
There are extremely powerful accountability systems set up around school and work. Just consider the fact that many students think their whole life will end if they do poorly on one test! Furthermore, there are people such as teachers, parents, and bosses who collectively increase the accountability to school and work. But, what about your own dreams? Will anybody care if you don't get started?
JourneyPage creates an accountability system from the start of your dream to the end with supporters and accountability partners. Just like all professional athletes have and benefit from coaches, so can you!
The Principle of Satisfaction
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
The Principle of Habit
Napoleon Hill, author of Think & Grow Rich, said, "All of your successes and failures are results of habits you have formed." Getting started is half the journey, because it requires breaking old habits and creating new ones! This is why most people never get started on their 'grand plans'. By eating the frog first on a daily basis, it gets easier and easier over time.
By visiting JourneyPage daily and charting your progress with an accountability partner, you create powerful habits that lead to the achievement of your goals.
The Principle of Prioritization
Working on what's most important to you and working on what's in front of you is the difference between working and pretending to work. According to the 80/20 principle, your top three outcomes are generally just as important as the next twelve. This is also called the "Pareto Principle" after its founder, the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who found that virtually all economic activity was subject to this principle.
By prioritizing what's most important on a daily basis with JourneyPage, you dramatically increase your effectiveness.
The Principle of Inspiration
A goal without inspiration is a car without any gas station. You've heard the saying, "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime." Well, we say, "If you don't give a man the inspiration to fish, then the knowledge is useless.
By setting goal and consequences with JourneyPage that inspire you and supporting someone else, you give yourself the fuel for the highs and lows of dream action.
The Principle of Planning
Abraham Lincoln once said, "If I had 10 hours to a chop down a tree, I would spend the first 7 sharpening my saw." Planning your three outcomes on a daily basis with JourneyPage is the equivalent of sharpening your saw. Brian Tracy, the author of Eat that Frog!, says, "It takes only about 10 to 12 minutes for you to plan out your day, but this small investment of time will save you up to two hours (100 to 120 minutes) in wasted time and diffused effort through out the day."