Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
Alfred A. Montapert
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
It is only by changing our thoughts that we can start to improve our lives.
Source The Female Mind
My comment: We need to change how we feel about things too.
I came across this quote which has a message worth considering:
When you’re lying on your death bed, you won’t wish you spent more hours in the office.
Robin Sharma
This was originally posted at Forty Plus Two, another blog of mine.
I have been working with the book Your Best Year Yet – The 10 questions that will change your life forever and figured I should put my result on my blog. Two reasons for that, putting pressure on myself and hopefully to inspire others to work with that book.
My guidelines
• Trust my heart and inner truth.
• Face the music!
• Do what I love.
New paradigm.
I create my own destiny.
Major focus.
My own business, with focus on coaching.
My top ten goals.
- Care for my mind – body – spirit.
- Be visible and valuable.
- Build a profitable business.
- Build friendships.
- Network locally – with a purpose, in real life.
- Create and follow a blogging schedule.
- Network virtually – with a purpose.
- Become a certified coach.
- Maintain and rebuild family connections.
- Be flexible!
I put taking good care of myself as goal one simply since if I am not well then everything else will falter too.
Credit: Photo by JoF.
This was originally posted at Forty Plus Two, another blog of mine.
This review is about Your Best Year Yet – The 10 questions that will change your life forever, written by Jinny Ditzler. I came across this book since it should be the topic for a breakfast seminar at CoachCompanion. The book felt right and I ordered the book at once, before being at the seminar.
I like this book a lot, it is well written and has a clear concept. The book is in three parts, first an introduction, then a part with a chapter for each of the ten questions and finally a workshop with forms for each of the ten questions. It says ‘three hours to change your life’, that is what the workshop part will take you.
You can go straight to working with the ten questions but I found it very useful to read part one and two before that. In part two with chapters per question you will get an understanding of why these questions, why in this order and what will you gain in the process. There are also examples for each question that helps you get started.
The strongest motivation for doing Best Year Yet is that you find the way to live your life so it shows what really matters to you – so you are true to yourself.
These are the ten questions, you start with looking back on your past year and then start working on the coming year:
1. What did I accomplish?
2. What were my biggest disappointments?
3. What did I learn?
4. How do I limit myself, and how can I stop?
5. What are my personal values?
6. What roles do I play in my life?
7. Which role is my major focus for the next year?
8. What are my goals for each role?
9. What are my top ten goals for the next year?
10. How can I make sure I achieve them?
Question four is about how we limit ourselves and how to stop that.
Our limiting beliefs about ourselves become like brick walls in front of us, keeping us from even thinking about how to make the big changes or set the big goals.
Question five is about personal values, that chapter has an interesting part about life pursuits. Which one is yours?
I What can I do to prove myself? To be good enough?
II What can I do with the gifts I have?
Question six is about our roles in life. Jinny points out the importance of taking care of ourselves:
You must take care of yourself so you can take care of others and carry out your responsibilities.
In question eight about goals, Jinny connects back to values from question five:
Value-driven goals lead to behaviour and performance which are true expressions of who we are.
Summary
I highly recommend this book if you want a toolbox that helps you improve your life. Learn from the past and more about yourself, all in order to make the next year your best year yet.
Read more:
Best Year Yet, FREE Online Workshop
Your Best Year Yet! – the introduction
Best Year Yet – website
Know Yourself Change Yourself, a great book about beliefs and values.
This was originally posted at Forty Plus Two, another blog of mine.
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