Different Areas of Your Life

You have your lists of wants, balanced in the different areas of your life. You have checked them against your values, and each supports the other. Now, how do we turn those "wants" into meaningful and achievable goals?

Today, take one of your Balance Wheel sections. One that is always important to me is Family. Traveling as much as I do, it would be very easy for me to lose contact with my children and grandchildren. So, one of my goals is to spend time with each of them, and for them to know that I am always available.

Now, it is important to understand the difference between "want to" and "do." "Wants" set up the "do's" in your life, and your goals will need to be written to reflect the "do." So, when my goal is to spend time with each grandchild, I write the goal like this: "I spend quality time with each of my grandchildren. They all know how important they are to me."

Suppose that you are a single mother, trying to balance work and home and family. It is a difficult road to travel, one filled with many choices. You want to spend as much time with your family, but you have to work. Guilt kicks in as you attempt to do it all. Now, thinking of work as a "have to" causes additional stress, which can shadow your work and home time. To remove the "have to" from work would help a lot, so your goal would be written as, "I love the work I do, because it affords me what I need to spend time with my kids."

One final tip: When you write out your "wants" and goals, make sure you write them in the present tense - the future as now. Take out the "going to" and replace it with "I am." You are seeing your future as if it has already happened.

Take each of your Balance Wheel "wants" and turn them into goals for the future, written in the present tense. You have come a long way in the last few days, and have started on the path to a successful 2012!

 

Linda Sage Supporting Charity Around The World

Supporting Charity Around The World

Linda Sage has been involved with a multitude of charities over the three decades she has been talking about personal empowerment. The more we achieve, the more we need to support others in their own personal journeys who in turn support others.

We never know when or from whom we will need help and support, it needs to be there. The next generation is our future too, as they will be looking after the world when we are less able.

Some countries are struggling to offer their young people even things we take for granted, fresh water, food, a safe place to live and education, in the 21^st Century there should be no child lacking in these things.

With the purchase of Personal Coaching for Change, you will not only improving your life but the life of the orphans as well with a donation from each book sale.

Hand Of God Soccer Project Ministry


GOD GLOWS IN CHILDRENS FACES,
THEY ARE PRECIOUSD IN HIS SIGHT

The children of Hand of God Soccer Project come from a wide range of backgrounds. Some are orphans with no parents to care for them; some are classified as semi-orphans, and have one living parent who cannot feed or educate them due to poverty or illness.  Some of the children have been rejected by their families when a parent has remarried, a common situation in Uganda.  Some are simply abandoned children and are provided with food, a safe place to live, basic education, and much much more....

We offer a sanctuary to vulnerable kids that gives them hope for the future.

The project also offers a spiritual community for the children where we encourage their spiritual growth and well-being.

HAND OF GOD SOCCER PROJECT
TO MAKE CHILDREN IN UGANDA SMILE.

"For God & My Country"

Once we have formed a belief

Once we have formed a belief we become extremely reluctant to relinquish it, even when we are presented with irrefutable proof of its irrelevance or its mistaken foundation. Today's big question is, what do you believe and why do you believe it? Might your passionate enthusiasm for a particular point of view be costing you dearly in emotional and financial terms? Is it time to believe something different?

Every single person goes through ups and downs in life and nobody has a totally smooth run, but our beliefs are what keeps us in bad situations, jobs, relationships, overweight or what ever it may be, because we doubt ourselves and our worthiness to deserve better.

Successful people do not have any less “failures” or “disasters” in their lives, in fact they probably have more, but they way they deal with them are different. They believe they will succeed and they believe in their own ability and their ideas.

Failures do not have to be failures if we learn from them and make changes so we do not do exactly the same again. This is where our belief system comes in, if we are stuck and ridged in our thoughts and beliefs, then change even when things go wrong are hard. Being flexible and adapting makes success far more likely and easier.

Look at what is keeping you back, holding you in place even when you know it is not the right place for you. Very often the fear of the unknown is more scary than however bad a situation is that we are in. But the unknown is only the unknown until we try it, then very soon it becomes comfortable and the new “better” situation.

Go on try it.......................

Each day is a new opportunity

Each day is a new opportunity to change anything you want to, it does not have to be 1^st Jan, or your birthday, or any special date; everyday is special and you can choose to make it “the day”.  Nobody has the power or the privilege to make that choice for you, unless you let them.

Why spend your days in places, with people and doing things you don’t like, or that do not make you happy, fear of change is often greater than the uncomfortable situation we are in.  We create our limits in our minds, then believe them to be the truth.  One thing I learnt very early on in the field of psychology; ‘the truth” is never just that, it is only the truth as we see it.  Just think for a moment, football, baseball, or any sport when you follow one person or a team, they are the best. If that were “true” then everyone would follow or support just that one team or person and we know that is not true.  Snakes, heights, flying some people are terrified of one or maybe all of these, but not everyone.  The actual snake, height or flight is not different, but our personal reaction is depending on our beliefs of the truth.

It is never too late or too soon to make changes for yourself and to change your truth. It does take work and dedication; a little each day makes a world of difference over time.

The only place to start however, is within yourself, being honest with yourself about your situation and make the decision to change, that is what takes the time.  Once the decision is make….. it gets easier.

Here’s to a very different 2012.

January Thought