Creating the Life that You Want:
The Ten Steps to Accomplishing a Goal
1. State as clearly as possible in a positive manner what it is that you want to create in your life.
2. Be clear why you want this and how your life will be different once you achieve this goal.
3. Be clear about what you are going to have to change in order to accomplish this goal.
4. Understand what you have going for you in relation to achieving this goal.
5. Understand what you have going against you in relation to achieving this goal.
6. Be especially aware of the negative self-talk that sabotages and undermines your attempts to succeed.
7. Be clear about what you need to achieve this goal in terms of skills, resources, support systems, etc.
8. List 3-5 major actions that you need to take to initiate movement toward this goal.
9. Stay focused on what you want to create, not on the difficulties you might be having.
10. Think of ways to care for yourself as you work to achieve this goal.
Key Points:
- Accomplishing a goal always involves changing our current situation.
- Sustaining change involves changing the way we think and act.
- We need to become aware of what we are doing that is creating and sustaining our current situation.
- We need to become aware of how our external environment is creating and sustaining our current situation.
