The Calendar Code

Tunde-Success Osideko

Description

Learn how to optimize the gift of a new year using planning and management principles to optimize the use of time, talents, and resources.
At the beginning of the calendar year, individuals are in a frenzy to move forward with a clean slate.
Full of hope and energy, most people begin the new year expecting to take control of their life. While individuals invest in goal setting masterclasses, organizations, and nations, engage in strategic reviews and budgeting exercises to plot a path to a better future.
As a strategy enthusiast, the author believes that individuals, organizations, and governments must be intentional during different phases of the calendar year to optimize the use of time, talents, and resources. In this book, learn how to:
• adopt a structure to escalate results throughout the year;
• pace yourself and take control your life’s journey
• increase your happiness level sustainably
• motivate yourself to achieve goals
The author emphasizes that to turn a new year into a great year, you must set different types of goals, including a destination goal, an impact goal, a financial goal, a growth goal, a relationship goal, a routine goal, and an effectiveness goal. Each type of goal is explained in detail in this book.
Leverage the chance to be better, do better, and experience better with the insights and action steps in The Calendar Code.

Sujets

• Positivity
• Self-help
• Planning

Informations

• Publié par: AuthorHouse UK
• Date de parution: 31 mai 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798823082839
• Langue: English

Extrait

The Calendar Code
 
 
 
CRACKING THE PATH TO SUCCESS IN A NEW YEAR
 
 
 
 
TUNDE-SUCCESS OSIDEKO
 
 
 
 
 

 
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Published by AuthorHouse  05/31/2023
 
ISBN: 979-8-8230-8284-6 (sc)
ISBN: 979-8-8230-8283-9 (e)
 
 
 
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Preface
 
Chapter 1     Introduction
Chapter 2     Destination Goals
Chapter 3     Impact Goals
Chapter 4     Financial Goals
Chapter 5     Growth Goals
Chapter 6     Relationship Goals
Chapter 7     Routine Goals
Chapter 8     Effectiveness Goals
Chapter 9     Conclusion—Aligning All the Goals
 
Endorsements
About the Author
References
 
The Calendar Code
Cracking the Path to Success in a New Year
FOREWORD
In this brilliant and well-researched body of work, Tunde Success has shown how to own the year and win on a consistent basis through the concept of goal calendarization, which is an intentional effort to make every second count with measurable impact.
The book emphasizes how “time” is a multiplier asset which requires full stewardship and execution mastery to be translated into value creating equity for the immediate and long term.
The chapters dimensionalize goals (destination, financial, relationship, growth, effectiveness etc.) and how to align these goals for optimal life fulfilment with practical principles and proven methods that work. The book amplifies the importance of goal trade-off, power of habit, willpower and the price that must be paid to win the prize of personal realization.
The book stands very different from others by its worksheet which is at the end of each chapter. This section makes it a practical handbook to support personal reflection and immediate execution.
This book is very rich with practical insights and real-world use cases. It copiously referenced many great management and leadership gurus, while finding a compelling niche as a compendium of practical execution laced with wisdom, facts, personal stories and memorable anecdotes.
It demonstrates great thought leadership, business acumen and hands-on execution best practices
It comes well recommended as a combo on goal planning, prioritization, and progress.
- Bayo Adekanmbi, CEO and Founder, DSNai Lagos/Lo ndon
This is to set you up for the joyride that is to come in this riveting book: The Calendar Code
I am pleased to write this foreword, not only because the author Tunde-Success Osideko has been a cerebral colleague for more than a decade. I have also read his books in the past. In this one, I believe he deeply delves into areas that not only are educative but provide the value that will enrich and strengthen anyone’s learning with life’s lessons; he espouses what will ignite their passions and establish them on the right pedestal.
The author gives a lot of insights into how anyone could make their years and time worthwhile. In addition, he gives nuggets on moving in the right direction and achieving all your goals in a year. If you embrace the right attitude, you will find it much easier to get where you want to go. According to Mark Twain, “Anybody can have ideas—the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”
From chapter 1, the author gives us guidelines on how the New Year heralds the beginning of the archetypal calendars; a cursory history into the origins of calendars, from the Romans’ ten-month calendar in 46 BC to the contemporary twelve-month calendar; and the transcendental impacts of having a plan for each day and each month. In chapter 8, he explains effectiveness goals, a conscious effort to unveil some self-sabotaging challenges and avoid habits that diminish your goals, and the need to choose an accountability partner, which will help you avoid fatal errors. This book will be a pathfinder and help you set directional checkpoints as you plan your years in a rough economy and sociopolitical challenges. I strongly recommend it for technocrats, students, and entrepreneurs.
—Dr Kester Osahenye, Visiting Lecturer, Rome Busin ess School; Adjunct Professor, CEMI MBA Stu dies
PREFACE
At the beginning of the calendar year, individuals are in a frenzy to begin on a clean slate of experience. Hope for a better year is renewed, confidence for a better bargain is energised, and strength for conquest is restored. A lot of planning is expected to be done to take control of the new calendar year. Corporate organisations and nations engage in strategic reviews and budgeting exercises dominating industrial and continental airwaves. In the retail space, many service providers advertise seminars and masterclasses on goal setting to help people navigate the journey once again during this period of the year.
As a strategy enthusiast, performance management expert, and speaker, I believe that planning at different phases of the calendar year is essential to optimise resources of time, talents, and treasures and scale your results; therefore, I have written this book to provide a structure, motivation, and insights into how to effectively take hold of the calendar year and escalate your results.
This short, easy-to-read, and inspiring planning book helps you take action after every chapter.
My endgame for this book is that if you invest yourself in this publication, at the end of the calendar year, you will be excited by the transformational impact of the content.
Do not just buy one for yourself; gift it to someone you care about.
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Key Takeaway:
Without the calendar, our lives would be one long, unbroken chain of sleeping and waking moments. There would be no birthdays, festivals, or anniversaries. The calendar helps us plan, prioritise, and track the progress of our activities and lives. Indeed, the calendar is essential. However, there is nothing special about it because it is an artificial concept to organise humanity’s activities and civilisation. Therefore, you can minimise the pressure to achieve certain things within specific periods because, in finality, you can control your pace and live life on your terms. You can live intentionally by setting goals around key life parameters. That is what this chapter is about.
 
H appy New Year! Regardless of the time of day, the month, or even the season of your life when you are interacting with this book, I am hoping that it will be an excellent year for you. This is because, according to a famous African proverb, “Whenever you wake up, that is your morning”—which implies that the moment in life when you are conscious of the need for a change is the beginning of your day or your life.
January 1 commemorates a new calendar year and is usually marked with celebratory activities: singing, dancing, fireworks, spiritual rituals, and personal renewal. The biggest question that this book attempts to answer is how to crack the calendar code and transform a new year into a great year.
To begin our conversation, let’s look at the origin of the calendar, which has become an integral element of life. Beyond the science of the moon, stars, earth, and seasons, the calendar is a guide for managing the affairs of our lives. A calendar helps us with the chronological study of life and events and is critical for any civilisation.
The concept of the yearly calendar is a collaboration between science and humanity, evidenced in the bare facts of the existence of astronomical occurrence—like how the earth rotates on its axis or the sun orbits—and the organisation of these scientific phenomena to make meaning for humanity and its activities. This is in addition to some legends that the months of the year are primarily agricultural in significance.
The astronomical discovery of science and the interpretational expertise of humans also explain why we have twelve months in a year, twenty-four hours in a day, and sixty minutes in an hour.
The twelve-month calendar has been credited to the efforts of Julius Caesar, who changed the Romans’ ten-month calendar in 46 BC with the addition of January and February. This calendar combined the Roman month names, the fixed length of the Egyptian calendar, and the 365.25 days known by Greek astronomy.
The current calendar used by most countries except Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Iran, Nepal, and Saudi Arabia is called the Gregorian calendar. It is a modification of the Julian calendar adopted by Julius Caesar. Other calendars, such as the Islamic calendar, various Hindu calendars, and the Mayan calendar, are used as timekeeping systems in certain parts of the world.
The adoption