HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2015--- please read it all!! Instead of simply letting 2014 just bleed into 2015 and then limp into 2016… let’s figure out how to start winning this 2015 year! I’d like to offer you the half-dozen ways that you can explode off the starting blocks and set yourself up to not only stay in the race (this time), but actually finish victorious! 1. Big 3 If you are using Living Your Best Year Ever, it guides you through making several goals in all 8 key areas of your life. And then it helps you reduce your plethora of goals down to your Big 3. I know you will want to accomplish ALL your goals, but it is crucial that you reduce it down to just 3 to be supremely focused on. Pick the 3 goals that are most important to you: what would have the most dramatic impact on your life and lifestyle. Resist the urge to chase after other shiny objects that come into your field of vision. 2. One Thing As Curly in City Slickers said, “Find your ‘One Thing’.” In this case, it is the one key behavior that is most important to you accomplishing each of your Big 3 goals. Examples: If your goal is to liberate 20 pounds to become ideal weight of 180, Then your Key one behavior can be 45 minutes of exercise, 3 times per week at a sustained target heart rate of 175. Or maybe your goal is to deepen the intimacy with your spouse. Thus, your Key behavior can be to saying something appreciative or acknowledging, if that’s your spouse’s love language, 3 times per day throughout the week. 3. Installation Remember this key point: Goal achievement doesn’t come down to dreaming, writing it out, doing a vision board, or even planning. It comes down to the day-to-day decisions and behaviors of DOING what you said you were going to do, long enough for you to make it to the end point. In order to ensure, as best as possible, that you will actually do, and keep doing, you will need to install your One Thing into a routine that you can do, eventually without thinking about it. 4. Tracking it This is the key of the key points. As mentioned as one of the stumbling points: You can’t improve what you can’t measure. Tracking your One Thing is the key to keeping your awareness on it and then continuing to improve on it. 5. Reinforce This is a big tip to staying on track past where your willpower normally wanes and fails: Find reinforcements. This can be a peak performance partner, a mentor, a mastermind group, public accountability (blog or post your goal and progress on website, blog or facebook) or join a group to stimulate competition. 6. Have Fun Lighten up and be sure to celebrate your day-to-day victories. Bring joy to the journey. We are all pleasure-seeking creatures. If you neglect yourself for too long you will crack. You have to let some steam out of the kettle so to speak. No matter the goal I always have a lax or cheat day. One day a week I am not going to track and monitor my behavior, and whatever flows, goes!
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 04:46:40 +0000
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