Follow - up 

You should understand that follow-up is important.  90% of anything that you do is follow up and only 10% is initiation.  If you do not follow-up the chances are that a thing may not be done.  You should have a checklist as follows: 

1.         Things to be followed up every year:  E.g. renewing your insurance policy. 

2.         Things to be followed up every six months: E.g. checking your weight

             and  other health parameters.           

3.        Monthly follow-up:   E.g. checking your bank balance and checking the entries.

4.        Fortnightly follow-up:  E.g. keeping an eye on your progress towards your 'A' priorities.

5.        Weekly follow-up:  E.g. linking your long-term goal and short term daily activities through your weekly Schedules.

6.      Daily follow-up:   Following up important issues on a day-to-day basis.  

You may have your own ways of following up things.  You can use simple notepads to Casio diaries.  Your computers will give you lot of programmes where you can have a pre-set programs for following up many things. 

Use your diary effectively to note down and following up important activities.  You can even use ordinary cards.  A friend of mine used to have cards of three different colours for follow up.  Red for very urgent, yellow for medium urgent and blue for not urgent but important.  Use of colour cards will draw your attention much more than plain cards. 

Today list down things that you have not followed up for the past few days. Think about the consequences. 

What are you going to follow up today?

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