Coach Ken Donaldson On Setting Goals for the New Year
As you think about the New Year, resolutions and new goals, here’s a template to help you be more clear, concise and thorough with your goal-setting and your goal-getting (no sense in setting them if you can’t “get them”, right?!!).
Start with the eight primary areas of your life and answer the corresponding questions from each area, and then add your own questions to formulate your goals.
Remember to make your goals SMART: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-Oriented.
Here are the eight primary areas of your life to start with:
SOCIAL NETWORK AND FRIENDS
- How are your friendships?
- How is your support network?
- How do you feel about your interpersonal skills?
FAMILY AND YOUR INNER CIRCLE
- How are your relationships with your parents, siblings, children, spouse and extended family?
- How is your “chosen” family; your inner circle?
VOCATIONAL, WORK AND VOLUNTEER INVOLVEMENT
- How satisfied are you with your current career?
- What would you rather be doing?
- What type of work has brought you the most satisfaction in the past?
- What do you do to “give back”?
PHYSICAL AND HEALTH
- How are your eating habits?
- How is your regular exercise program?
- How are your sleeping patterns?
- How is your weight?
- How often do you see your medical professionals?
RECREATIONAL, HOBBIES AND VACATIONS
- What do you do in your leisure time?
- How do you relax and have fun?
- What creative outlets do you have?
FINANCIAL AND CASH FLOW
- What is your debt level?
- What are you doing to plan for the future?
- How do you want your financial future to be different?
SPIRITUAL AND PERSONAL GROWTH
- How is your spirituality?
- How do you release your emotions?
- What do you do with emotional overload?
- What do you engage in (books, audios, workshops, etc.) to promote your personal growth?
RELATIONAL, ROMANCE AND SIGNIFICANT OTHER
- How is your love life?
- What do you do to keep the passion alive?
- How well do you communicate about the more difficult issues?
- How are your conflict resolution skills?
- If you’re single, how is the dating going?
- What do you want to be different here?
Then go a bit deeper into the core of your life (I dare you!!) and answer the following:
LIFE PURPOSE AND VISION
- Do you know what your life purpose is?
- Have you written your life purpose?
- Do you say it aloud daily?
- Do you have a vision for your life?
- Have you written your vision and/or created a vision map?
- Do you review your vision on a regular basis?
Now you may ask, why go to all this effort?
First of all, as the old saying goes, “No one plans to fail; people just fail to plan.”
And second, if you don’t have a personalized guidance system, some rules, some guidelines or some kind of tailored compass, you’re bound to get lost, feel confused and have an overall unproductive experience.
Create a plan for this New Year, and for your life, and you’re much more likely to achieve and experience everything you desire, and you’re much more likely to be happy, healthy, wealthy and very, very wise!
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Ken Donaldson, Marry YourSelf First and Your Ultimate Life
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Want more passion, power, purpose and prosperity in your life? Here’s the official Ken Donaldson Marry YourSelf First!® 20 Core Success Principles to Create Your Ultimate Life, Relationships and Career!
#1 Allow your life purpose to be the flashlight to keep you on the pathway of your life.
#2 Create your vision and you’ll have the magnet that will pull you into your ultimate and utmost future.
#3 Allow your values and priorities to be the guides on your path that will keep you going in the direction of your purpose and your vision.
#4 Create and live your legacy today.
#5 Live by the Law of Attraction and put your focus, energy, emotions AND action toward what you truly desire in this lifetime.
#6 Give unconditionally and anonymously.
#7 Practice the daily rituals that evoke your unique spirituality and invite your True Essence and your Highest Self to shine.
#8 Know and live by your deal-makers and deal-breakers.
#9 Discern between accepting and settling. Accept what you cannot change, but never settle for anything below your standards.
#10 Live by your integrity, and allow yourself to be true to you first and foremost.
#11 Know, practice and learn from your boundaries (proactive and reactive, inner and outer), and by doing so you allow yourself to be in your power, in the present moment and in the highest degree of balance possible.
#12 Find and use the support networks that encourage your passion, power, purpose and prosperity, and invite your whole self to shine.
#13 Learn the communication strategies and tactics that will further empower you, reinforce your boundaries and fulfill all your needs.
#14 Understand and live in accordance with the relationship developmental process. In doing so you’ll have the closest relationships only with those who truly support, accept and encourage you.
#15 Always be willing to step out of your comfort zone to promote growth, change and unlimited possibility into your life.
#16 Commit to finalize all your unfinished business from the past and in doing so allow yourself to be present in the present.
#17 Separate “who you are” – your being – from “what you do” your doing – and choose to live more from your being state.
#18 Learn to go with the flow in life. Navigate through and around the challenging times and be focused on the journey, not the destination.
#19 Practice frequent silliness, deliberate breathing and conscious walking, all to give yourself the proactive medicine of health and well-being.
#20 Recognize, accept and embrace the perfect imperfection of you.
Any questions ( leave them below, as well as any comments you might have)?
Now…go live your life to the fullest…more passion…more power…more purpose…and more prosperity!
It’s time for YOU to get with the Marry YourSelf First! movement
2010 Vision Map Workshop at Yoga Village
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Join us for the 2010 Vision Map Workshop at Yoga Village.
Click here to go directly to their website to register.
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Top 20 Benefits of Creating a Vision Map
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Want more passion, power, purpose and peace in your life?
Then make yourself a Vision Map…better, yet, join me for the next Vision Map workshop…scroll down for more information.
1.) Your Vision Map will better define your life purpose.
2.) Your Vision Map will keep you better aligned with your values.
3.) Your Vision Map will reinforce your boundaries.
4.) Your Vision Map will guide you to happier and healthier relationships.
5.) Your Vision Map will give your career a boost…and maybe the change it’s needed.
6.) Your Vision Map will add more balance to your life.
7.) Your Vision Map will help you stay more focused on your goals.
8.) Your Vision Map will help to make your priorities more clear.
9.) Your Vision Map will get you better tuned in to your spirituality.
10.) Your Vision Map will empower you.
11.) Your Vision Map will help you pick better friends.
12.) Your Vision Map will enhance your health.
13.) Your Vision Map will get you more connected with your creativity.
14.) Your Vision Map will help you get more fun in your life.
15.) Your Vision Map is a great stress management tool.
16.) Your Vision Map will remind you of your greatness.
17.) Your Vision Map will give you a daily affirmation.
18.) Your Vision Map will help you stay focused on your future (instead of your past).
19.) Your Vision Map will help you embrace positive changes in your life.
20.) Your Vision Map will give you the vision you need to get to where you truly deserve – and desire – to be in life.
Click here for the official page of the next 201o Vision Map workshop at Yoga Village in Clearwater.
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Ken Donaldson: Vision Map 2010
Have you made your Vision Map for 2010 yet?
Want more health, wealth and happiness in this new year?
Then it’s time to create your Vision Map!
Here’s short video about the Vision Map and some examples of how to make yours.
Remember: If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?
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