I hope you are enjoying the blog. I also hope you are using it as a resource to help you live an amazing life because that’s what you were created to do.
There’s an old saying, “If you plan to fail, you fail to plan.” I must admit it took me a little time to accept this as a truth for my life. By nature, I’m kind of a fly by the seat of my pants girl…if you know what I mean! So the thought of actually writing down a plan seemed a little restrictive to me. But after being self reflective, I noticed I wasn’t making any substantial progress in certain areas of my life. The more I read about planning and goal setting, the more clearly I could see that my failure to plan was the reason I was stagnant in those areas.
I decided to take about a month examining every area of my life, creating a vision and developing action steps. These are some of the questions I asked:
1. What do I want my life to look like in 1 year, including health, wealth, relationship and spiritual walk?
2. Where am I now in these areas?
3. What will it take for me to get from where I am currently to where I want to be?
4. What will I gain if I accomplish these goals?
5. What will I lose if I don’t accomplish these goals?
It’s not enough to want change; we need strategic steps to get there because nothing just happens! Change doesn’t have to take forever, but it must be purposeful. It must be a conscious decision to consistently make quality choices that agree with our goals. Developing a written plan that I revisit often helps me remember why I’m not eating chocolate cake or why I’m not going to the mall with my girlfriends because without a compelling why, we will never follow through on the best laid out plans.
If there are some areas in your life where you’re ready for change, I encourage you to spend some time developing a vision. Don’t just think about it…INK it! Put it in writing!
In my blog, I going to talk about the keys to developing winning strategies, but in the meantime…
Let’s do something amazing!
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Have a great day!
