After Mastering Your Mindset (see last blog), the next step is…to take a step!
When my clients start to Streamline and Vision, their minds go big and grandiose really quickly. It’s either that, or we are barely getting off the starting line. And there’s a lot of middle ground to cover.
To create the right steps for you, start here.
- Define the end result. (Hint, go big, then consider “what can I change in 90 days?) You want the “end result” to be a stretch, yet manageable).
- After you have landed on your end result, ask, “what’s the step before that?”
- Once you have the step before the end result defined, ask yourself, “what’s the step before that?”
- Continue this process for as long as you need to until you arrive at “today.”
Small steps create big results. But not all at once. You CAN have it all, yes…. just…not ALL.AT.ONCE. It’s one of our biggest issues. We get excited, we start, we go along, then “life throws us a curveball” and that’s the end of it. Someone gets sick. It’s a holiday. It’s “the holidays.” We lose our electricity. Our mom pays us a surprise visit. Who knows? Excuses are easy.
Grit is hard. Focusing ahead to discover what might get in your way is a game changer. A common misconception is that by thinking about this, you “invite problems into your life.” Quite the opposite. Do airplane pilots invite crash landings? I hope not. And it’s a good thing they know the drill should a problem occur.
So, picture yourself, moving along, and it gets to be… let’s say… Valentine’s day. You have been moving ahead with your New Life (and business if that’s your desire) – your Simplified and Streamlined life – for about 6 weeks. What might come up for you? Are you tired? You most likely are. Our bodies do not like too much change too quickly. They LOVE homeostasis. That’s a fancy word for “keep me the same so I stay safe and alive.”
So, create for yourself a series of if/then statements. Our brains love those.
For example:
IF my mom asks me to come and stay for a few days THEN I will say “(what will you say?)”
IF I want to eat a Whole Heart of Valentine’s Chocolate THEN I will (what will you do?)
IF you want to quit working out (I’m at a plateau on this scale, I might as well go back to “eating normally”) THEN I will (what will you change, if anything?)
OK! So now, you have looked at your Mindset and some Steps. It’s time to sign up for the 2021 Vision Workshop. Why would you miss that? {insert link to sales page here]
In Simple Abundance for 2021 and always,
Carol