Sure Fire Success!
What would your life be like if you ate healthy meals, exercised and got enough sleep? What if you saved money, stopped using credit cards and paid cash for everything? What if you stopped procrastinating, overcame your fears, and began networking with people in your field? Would your life be different? I bet it would!
There are 86,400 seconds in every single day; 1,440 minutes in every 24 hours, seven days in one week, 365 days in a year and who knows how many days in a lifetime.
We can change at any moment. Is it hard or is it easy? It’s a choice we have the opportunity to make every single day.
What will your 2009 be like? Well, that’s up to you and I would love to see you experience more health, happiness, success and wealth. Even if life is purring along beautifully, make it even better! Here are the Top Ten Goals that, if implemented, will accelerate the speed and ease of you living more of the life you want.
#1 Take the time to Honour yourself – first!
When the oxygen mask falls from the ceiling the rule of thumb is use it on yourself first so that then you can aid others. The same rule applies when it comes to your overall wellbeing.
Sure, there are 7 billion people on the planet – it’s not just a world that’s ‘all about me’. We are of limited value, joy, inspiration or service to others if we are burnt out physically, emotionally or mentally.
It’s a fundamental law of life – to honour others, you must first honour yourself.
When you love yourself enough you will start doing what is healthy for you physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually and you’ll leave what isn’t healthy – people, beliefs and habits, the things that keep you small.
#2 Make your health and vitality your guiding light – not your body image.
Your body is one of the best barometers that you have. Use it by listening to it. Bodies only become unwell when they aren’t treated with the respect they need to operate effectively or when emotional and environmental stresses impact on it and we don’t do anything to counter-balance their impact.
How your body functions impacts heavily on how you feel emotionally so how you feel is so much more important than how you look.
#3 Consciously decide how you are going to ‘do’ each day.
What do you want your day to be like? How do you want things to work? What do you want to create?
Invest the time and energy in designing your day because rest assured, if you don’t somebody else will. You’re worth it! Consciously intend and plan how you want to do life.
#4 Embrace the day and the people you encounter.
The people who make a difference in your life aren't the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They're the ones who care. Now it’s your turn to be one of those people.
Improve your ability to put a smile on someone else’s face – it’s that simple.
Some of the most successful individuals and business people I have had the pleasure to work with live by the saying that “relationships are king”. They have the ability to lift the mood of the people around them, they acknowledge others and greet them and the world with a smile and an energy that you can’t help but be drawn to.
Look others in the eyes and greet them with the warmth that you innately have. Respect for the people around you and a desire to bring them joy will feed your soul bringing you a sense of increase self-worth, harmony and love.
#5 Release your old love and love the one your with and that just could be yourself.
Let go of grudges and broken hearts – they’ll kill you stone dead. Move on. If there is old heartache, take the time and write down what it is that you learnt and then make sure you live by it now!
If there is someone that you would just die to be in relationship with, write down all the positive attributes that they have and start bringing these out in yourself. We are typically head over heals with someone because they express repressed or undenied parts of ourselves.
Enjoy your relationship; after all, you’ve created it! Be with the one your with when you are with them i.e. don’t go getting hooked up on past relationships or the possibility of being with someone else and how much better it would be.
Dedicate the time and energy into your relationships to keep them alive. Relationships are continually growing or decaying – there is no static. Put something in to get something out.
#6 Become mentally tough.
The first step to becoming mentally tough is refusing to be a victim and accepting 100% responsibility for your actions. It’s not your partner’s fault, your bosses fault, your parents fault or the fault of the government.
Your relationships, financial situation and health are all a direct result of what you’ve thought and done. Own it!
There is no way in heck that you can be mentally tough when you blame others for your lot in life and there is nothing more empowering to accept responsibility for your fate.
When we blame someone or something else, we are handing our personal power over to them on a platter and we go weak.
#7 Limit your T.V viewing and Internet surfing and engage in learning.
Both the T.V. and net are a great procrastinator’s hideout for tension-relieving rather than getting on with the business of designing and living the life you truly want.
Does your screen have more power than you? Does it hold the power to hold you on a couch or in a chair? I think not.
Invest the time in learning new knowledge and skills that you can use in your life to make it more meaningful and successful. School under equips us for a successful life. Take responsibility for your own learning and use and broaden your mind.
#8 Do what you hate to do and handle procrastination.
Yes, I’m serious! Make a list of five necessary but unpleasant projects you've been putting off, with a completion date for each project. Immediate action on unpleasant projects reduces stress and tension. It is very difficult to be active and depressed at the same time.
#9 Develop a state of appreciation and gratitude.
When you are appreciative and grateful, you are thankfully focused on who you are, what you do and what you have instead of complaining about all those things that don’t fit into you view of a perfect world. You’ll always get more of what you focus on, so beware.
Think about it. The more grateful people are for the gifts we give them, the more inclined we are to give them more gifts. Their gratitude and appreciation reinforces our giving. The same principle holds true on a universal and spiritual level as it does on an interpersonal level.
#10 Break out of the box.
Like it or not, we all get to the top of ‘the box in which we live’ and it gets comfy. We can lead a happy and mediocre life here. Well, if that’s what you want, so be it but if not;
Challenge yourself daily. Do something that will make you stretch be in engaging in conversation with people you wouldn’t normally speak with, walk the extra kilometre, learn something new.
Most people don’t take the calculated risks necessary in order to break out of the box or rise to the next level because it takes vulnerability, you might screw up. Grow you mental and emotional muscles and chew on some lighting bolts – take risks, stretch!
I challenge you to choose this day to start living more of the life that you truly want. Make a choice TODAY. Do not spend another day in a life where you do not belong!
Copyright © 2008 Powerhouse Coaching & Consulting
Catherine Taylor, Director of Powerhouse Coaching & Consulting, is a Coach, Educator, Business Growth Strategist and Keynote Speaker with twenty years experience. “Life Mastery” and “Powerhouse Woman”, just two of the workshops she offers have produced positive life-changing results for participants. |
