Eek! October Already!  

 Back in January where had you expected to be in your life, in your business, by October?   If you’re not where you wanted to be, now is the time to take action so 2012 can be your best year yet.  This action involves planning, and probably letting go of some old habits, systems or beliefs, so you can continue to grow. 

There are 3 stages to follow to make this easier:  Clarity, Confidence and Motivation.  Choose just one area of your life to start with e.g. career, finances, relationship, health.

Clarity

If you don’t know where you are and where you are going, how can you expect to find your way?

1. Where are you now?   Measure and write down, whether in dollar figures, profit or loss, kilograms, satisfaction level out of 10, as applicable.
2. Where do you want to be?   Once again, write down specific, measurable amounts or tasks achieved. E.g. book published,  30% nett growth, maintenance weight 73kg.
3. Why haven’t you already achieved this?   An Ouch question, but be honest with yourself.  ‘Not enough time’ is very likely really ‘other higher priorities’ or ‘poor boundary setting’ or ‘fear of success or failure’ or ‘not good enough’.

Confidence

After knowing where you are and where you want to be, you need the confidence to take consistent action.

1. List your strengths.   Email 10 contacts from across your life that you respect, and ask them to write a few lines to describe you.  If you feel more comfortable doing so, tell them your coach set you the task.  Add their comments to your list.
2. List your weaknesses, designating them into either the Delegation or Education list.  In other words, either delegate that task or learn how to do it well so it is no longer a weakness.
3. Get rid of your limiting self beliefs and habits from Clarity 3.  Use positive affirmations, persistence and brute will power, or hire an NLP trained coach or practitioner to help you make fast, lasting changes easily. (NLP = Neuro Linguistic Programming)

Motivation

You are now confidently clutching your map to success, so all you need is the inspired motivation to keep going when the weather clouds in or you trip.

1. Focus on and write your goals in terms of what you do want, rather than what you don’t. E.g.  ‘healthy body weighing  67kg’, rather than ‘not fat’.
2. Work out why you really want your goals e.g. for greater freedom, for better sex, to feel secure, and spend 15 minutes twice each day visualising on having that.  Use all of your senses – how will it look, sound, feel, taste, smell, and soak up the feeling of having achieved it.
3. Now a Time Line of Action Steps. You have your big goal, reverse engineer it, to work out your time line of small and medium actions to get you there.  What is the first thing you can do right now to step towards your vision? A phone call or email perhaps?  Every small step/action counts!

 Remember, you don’t have to do this alone.  Get your team helping you, and absolutely a coach should be part of that team for ongoing accountability, support and trouble-shooting.

Get yourself off to a flying start and spend a day developing YOUR absolute clarity, authentic confidence and inspired motivation.  Let Go And Grow Workshop 13 November  9 a.m. –  4:30 p.m.

Special Early Bird price.  Book here:    http://letgoandgrow.eventbrite.com/