If you’ve been following The Two-Week Work Detox Series so far, you’ll have a good idea now of what you want to achieve from your working life.
You may have noticed, as a few of the commentors did, that the questions around goals in the last post were deliberately open. They did not ask you to focus on your current job or your status quo life. They may have taken you, to use Marion Anderson’s words, into the realms on “how else…?” or “what else…?” That’s fine.
If they didn’t it’s time to go back to your answers to those original questions and challenge yourself. Are you really stepping up to your own plate in the way you’ve approached them?
Off you go and check. I’ll be right here when you’re ready.
Ready?
Today’s key takeaway point
Goals only get realised when you decide you’re going to achieve them, and then put your focus and energy behind doing just that.
It’s that simple. If you say you want something, but you do something else, you’ll get something else. In which case you haven’t got goals, you’ve got fantasies.
Exercise
So, what are the things you must do to enable you to achieve your goals? Start off with a list, or a mindmap, or whatever works for you when you’re thinking freely. Then look at your list, and figure out the few things that, if you gave them all your attention, would really allow you to motor.
Then
What proportion of your time would you ideally need to spend on these things to see them gain traction?
Note, I’m not asking you to think about what proportion of your available time after you’ve done your job and all your other chores. I’m asking, blank sheet of paper, if you were reinventing your life – because, in a way, you really are – how much time do your key activities deserve?
Draw yourself a blank grid of seven days and map it out. Or, better still, download my Ideal Week pdf and use it.
Create your ideal week, step back and feel how good it is to see your life mapped out in front of you, full of the things you really want to be doing.
This is the blueprint you need to take your work detox to the next level on Monday. Meantime, have a great weekend and don’t forget to let me know how it’s all shaping up for you!
Introducing The Two-Week Work Detox Series
photo credit: Dominic Sayers
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Twitter: CoachScotland
Hi Christine
I really like the ideal week planner and I am going to follow through on the exercise. I have had trouble downloading it – may just be my system. I have drawn it out.
.-= Marion Anderson´s last blog ..How to Succed with Success =-.
Brilliant, Marion. Sorry that PDF isn’t loading. I’ve checked again my end and it seems fine? If you want, however, DM me your email address. I’d be happy to get a copy to you that way if it’s useful. I’ll be curious to hear how you find the exercise when you’ve done it!
Have a great weekend.
Twitter: HeavenandEl
Great practical advice Christine. I need to remember to do this in September when the children get back to school.
In the meantime, I just wanted to let you know the pdf downloads great here. I noticed though that if you click on the image, it just opens up the png image. It might be a good idea to change the destination link to Ideal-week.pdf so that when someone clicks on the image, it will download the file for them.
Just a thought.
El x
.-= Eleanor Edwards´s last blog ..What are you smiling about today =-.
Thanks, El. Hope you do remember to do the exercise in September. I suspect it could be immensely valuable to you.
And thanks for the tip about the image. I’ll go and fix it now! Brilliant, practical blogging advice, as ever
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