Welcome back!
If by some chance you have came directly to this post please start at How To Set Goals.
Although this coaching module is spread out over 5 days you should not feel like this is the end or that you need to complete it in 5 days – but make sure you do go through the entire module. The whole purpose of the exercises is to give you something constructive to work with towards achieving your life objectives.
There is just so many ways that you can continue to use this module as a way to set goals for every facet of your life for the future. The whole point is that you create a process for yourself and prove to yourself that the exercises work for you. You should do this for any and all goal setting exercises. Just because someone came up with some fancy acronym doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to assist you in getting results for your life.
That being said, I would ask that you leave any thoughts, suggestions and specifics of what worked for you in the comments section below. This module is best suited for a one-on-one or classroom setup and this is the first time I have put it online in this format. I am always keen to learn, so feel free to let me know how it can be better presented to future visitors. Email me (admin@theselfhelpsphere{dot}com) if you prefer.
Ok so let’s wrap things up.
When we started out I said that through these exercises you would learn 5 things. Let’s go through each one and see whether we did in fact cover everything and then finish off by discussing the 5th point at the end.
- What’s really important to you – in your own life?
In doing the wish list exercise you uncovered all the desires you have for your life and by measuring these up against whether each would improve an area of your life you discovered what was truly important in your life at this moment.
- Where your life is right now
You covered this by highlighting in one sentence the scenario in each area of your life sticking to the facts
- What action steps you need to take to improve every area of your life
By creating an action step for each area, something you felt was achievable with in a few hours but no longer than a couple of days, you created 8 action steps you could take to improve each area of your life.
- How to commit to taking these action steps
We worked through the 5 step action process to taking committed action. As I mentioned this was a crucial part of the process because otherwise all this entire module would be about is ‘wishing and hoping’. Being told to create a goal list in a shopping-list or to-do list kind of way is, IMHO, counterintuitive. You first have to discover what you truly want to go after in your life, set out a course of action, work on it and then measure the results. Anything short of this is merely meandering.
- How to build on what you have learnt and ’stay the course’
It gets a little tricky here because this step actually is all about you.
You have to decide whether this is a course of action you want to follow for your life, whether this will be just another thing you ‘had a go at’ or whether you will take what resonated and start working to understand more about it.
There is no cookie-cutter system and don’t listen to a anyone who says different. Your aspirations are personal. Don’t follow the crowd. Find your own path, become who you are, become your passion and success will follow. Discover what works, chuck out the rest, rinse and repeat.
If this process has produced, even in this short time, results for you or you have uncovered the facts of why this works for yourself then the best way to build on what you have learnt is to continue with the exercises and going through the entire process as many times as necessary for it to become second nature.
Once you start to see the power in how quickly you can get results and start to get feedback from the people around you as they see the positive changes you are making in your life it will start to become a part of how you live your life every day.
