Whether or not you stick to a recipe, they're a pretty handy guide to bring about a successful outcome.
What's success? It's what you define it as. Sometimes it will be about acheiving a long term goal, others it's just keeping your head above water. Both are pretty good really.
The Benefits of This Month's Lemonade Recipe
- Get your head around all the challenges you know you are currently facing, or suspect will be coming up.
- Use what you learned in last month's Lemonade Recipe Review to refine your approach for this month, making it better than the last.
The Monthly Lemonade Plan Review Process
Record all you have working for and against you this month so you can work out the best way to use it to your advantage for a successful month ahead.
This activity is usually best done after you've just completed your Monthly Lemonade Plan Review, which you can read about in The Monthly Lemonade Plan Review article.
This Month’s Lemonade Recipe is located immediately before the Monthly layout in the 3-Month Undated Planner.
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Your Lemons
- Give your problems, limitations and annoyances a name.
- The act of writing them down can help release their power over you and activate your brain to come up with ways to overcome them.
Your Sweeteners
- No matter what you have or are experiencing, you will have lots going for you.
- Personality traits, physical resources, friendships, The Lemonaders Facebook Group are all sweeteners you can draw upon to keep yourself moving in the right direction.
Methods
- You can’t expect a recipe to succeed without devising an appropriate method.
- Bring your lemons and sweeteners together to come up with the right strategy to maintain steady progress, however slow it might be.
Tips For Success
- Give yourself plenty of whatever motivates you.
- Some might be motivated by regular habit reminders, inspirational quotes, positive affirmations, or a reminder of something massive you’ve achieved.
Buy your Lemonade Planner or download your free copy of This Month's Lemonade Recipe Digital Download to give it a go.
Completing This Month's Lemonade Recipe immediately after you’ve reviewed your previous month can provide some interesting insights. You don’t need to wait until the end of the month to update your plan. Sometimes we are thrown a few surprise lemons or sweeteners throughout the month. It doesn’t hurt to come back and see where they fit in the bigger scheme of things.
Next week we'll be looking at using your Lemonade Planner lists and grids to suit your lifestyle.
An Introduction to This Month's Lemonade Recipe