Sunday, December 12, 2004
Getting your goals
Only 19 days to 2005 and to another tradition, the Annual New Year's Resolutions. Will you make one or more New Year's resolutions on January 1st? You have heard that goals have to be SMART - specific, measurable, etc. and it is true. The sad truth is that most of us play that game year after year and we sometimes get discouraged when we must admit that we did not even come close. The reason is often that we forgot that the first rule to reach a goal is to evaluate how strong our desire is to reach that particular goal. Without a strong desire, we will not be able to sustain the effort.
On a scale of 1 to 100, how strong do you rate your desire for this year's resolution? Whether you want to change job, go back to school, remove toxic people or habits out of your life or make any other life change, how strong is your desire? Maybe it's 80 or even 90, which sounds pretty good, except that it still leaves 10 or 20 points off and that gap can ruin your best efforts.
Coach's challenge: Use the next 19 days to work on increasing your score of "Desire" to 100. We reach our goals when we make succeeding so compelling that we leave no room for excuses. Use visuatization to imagine your success. See what it will look like, taste your success, hear what you will say. Write down how your life will be different (list all the benefits of this change). Let yourself enjoy it, as if you were already there.
Marguerite Tennier, M.A.
The coach who wants to change the world,
One Man at a Time
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On a scale of 1 to 100, how strong do you rate your desire for this year's resolution? Whether you want to change job, go back to school, remove toxic people or habits out of your life or make any other life change, how strong is your desire? Maybe it's 80 or even 90, which sounds pretty good, except that it still leaves 10 or 20 points off and that gap can ruin your best efforts.
Coach's challenge: Use the next 19 days to work on increasing your score of "Desire" to 100. We reach our goals when we make succeeding so compelling that we leave no room for excuses. Use visuatization to imagine your success. See what it will look like, taste your success, hear what you will say. Write down how your life will be different (list all the benefits of this change). Let yourself enjoy it, as if you were already there.
Marguerite Tennier, M.A.
The coach who wants to change the world,
One Man at a Time
Subscribe to my new monthly newsletter
subscribe-956610422@ezinedirector.netDecember's free coaching: Tuesday, December, 28, from 9:00 a.m. to noonemail me to reserve a spot: marguerite@canadascoach.com
http://www.canadascoach.com
