Okay, you have a S.M.A.R.T. goal, you’ve got plenty of self esteem… but do you have a sound strategy?
Example:
Suppose you need to be in Orlando, Florida at noon on the 15th of August for meetings and you will be leaving from San Francisco, California.
Today is August 14th and at the last minute you decide to drive because it’s the least expensive way to go.
What are your chances of success?
Slim, fat and none. Nevertheless, you throw some clothes in a suitcase, leap into your trusty car and head out at 6:30 in the morning.
After driving nonstop all day and all night, you pull into a roadside motel in El Paso, Texas at midnight. That means you’ve still got 25 hours of driving left to do… and your meeting is 12 hours from now.
Needless to say, You are bleary eyed from driving; You are dizzy from inhaling diesel fumes at that last truck stop where you stopped to gas up…
and your credit card is begging for mercy because of the price of gas.
Your tummy is rumbling because you forgot to pack healthy snacks to bring with you and you don’t have time to stop anywhere to eat something nutritious.
Furthermore, now you’ve missed your appointments!
You start getting upset and begin lamenting: “There must be something wrong with me, maybe I wasn’t meant to go to Florida, maybe I chose the wrong car, and the world is conspiring against me.”
No, none of those thoughts is true.
These thoughts stop from seeing the truth.
Although you had a clea intention, your strategy wasn’t sound, considering your timeline and needs.
Had you stopped to consider your personal situation, you would have realized that, no matter the cost, your only realistic option was to fly.
However, because you narrowly focused on your lack of finances, you missed the bigger picture.
Or maybe you didn’t pay attention and procrastinated too long to realize that you needed to start driving four days earlier.
Remember: Success is your birthright… but, as John Lennon once said, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
Action Step: Look at the desires you wrote down a few days ago.
You know they are the ones you wrote on the right column on the page where you wrote what you wanted and what those things would bring you…Joy, Peace, and Excitement.
Looking at your current strategies for your stated desires, are they aligned?
Are your current strategies leading you in the direction of what you desire?
More importantly are they allowing you to feel those intended desires right
now?
If not, you need to rework your strategies so that they do.
Your strategies must be incomplete alignment with your intended outcome…Joy, happiness, freedom, etc.
