Keeping New Years Resolutions For 2006 – The Very Best Method
By Terry
Vermeylen
If you really want to grow and develop as a person it takes more then
just setting goals haphazardly. It takes a step-by-step, but optimality
simple approach that will bring a rich, joyful, wealthy and healthy life
leading to balance and sustainability.
The habits, rituals, and choices we make in life are all derived from our
goal setting. Goal setting is derived from our core values. Core values come
from our own meaning and purpose statement. Or as some people call it – our
mission statement.
Almost all our goals that are met and sustained can be derived using this
optimality simple approach.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Meaning and purpose statement first.
Core values second.
Goal setting third.
New rituals, choices or habits fourth.
Let’s use Lance Armstrong as an example of someone who has achieved his
goals. Breaking down his thinking will illustrate the steps in a simple and
effective manner.
What would be part of his meaning and purpose? Lets make this very
simple. Meaning and purpose isn’t that complicated. You are on this earth
for a reason. To be a dad? To be an athlete? To teach? All of these?
At one point Lance decided to be an athlete. Therefore his meaning and
purpose statement would include.
I am an athlete….
In order to be an athlete and become world class would someone like Lance
Armstrong have any core values?
Very simply his core values might be
Health
Perseverance
Self – discipline
To live according to those core values, would he have any goals? I
certainly hope so.
Ride my bike six times a week for six hours.
Eat a balanced diet.
Get eight hours of sleep.
Did these goals turn into habits or rituals? Of course they
did. If they hadn’t, we might know him as Lance Armstrong, copy machine
salesman.
So there you have it.
1. Meaning and purpose.
2. Core Values.
3. Goal Setting third.
4. New rituals, choices or habits.
Review them daily. Live them.
Simple yet incredibly effective.
2006 is around the corner. Start reflecting now on your values and goals
for 2006.
Terry Vermeylen is one of those rare people that is passionately driven
to help others unlock their own barriers toward fulfillment, meaning and
purpose. He is the founder of
http://www.mylifechanges.com/, an Internet value identification and goal
setting enterprise. His primary passion is wealth building using common
sense.
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