The Credit Crunch and Managing Motivation: goal-set to motivate your success through ‘singing’ your ‘uni-verse’
In my work as a life-coach I energize people to get from where they are at, to where they want to be.
Getting in tune with your self and your life’s purpose is central to such achievement and success. Getting in tune with you self and your life’s purpose is a matter of harmonization.
Chinese wisdom places great emphasis on harmony. Inner and outer harmony are both important.
Outer harmony depends on inner harmony.
Inner harmony depends on being, doing and having in relation to our life purpose – i.e. getting alignment.
We need to get alignment between head and heart, and between the activities of our inner and outer lives. Then we get ‘flow’ – when we are able to function in energized harmony – like an athlete ‘in the zone’. Episodes of silence are vital.
If we are in a situation we don’t see as getting us toward our dream then ‘see it differently’ – that is see it as a stepping stone, as opposed to a mill-stone!
Decide on your life’s purpose – don’t worry it will evolve via experience – and further reflection.
Just DECIDE and START! (‘Ready. Fire. Aim!)
Set your goals – and work your goals day by day. How? – here’s one way great way.
For every day draw 4 circles.
1st circle = My Lifelong Dream,
2nd circle = My Year,
3rd circle = My month,
4th circle = My day.
Keep the 4 circles of your personal universe in harmony via working to your daily goal-setting.
The ‘universe’ as Wayne Dyer reminds us means ‘one song’.
Live your life singing your single, harmonised, song and you will succeed.
Harmony here is what enables us to be focused, and motivated.
Plan and work every day to achieve toward your monthly goals – etc.
Periodically adjust them all according to each other, so you have the motivation of always operating in a single, harmonized universe.
Keep the dream sharply visualized.
Don’t be afraid of adjustments – think of life as a ship’s journey – course corrections are inevitable and necessary.
Occasionally remind yourself of these two quotations;
1 “If you don’t think about the future, you won’t have one.” Henry Ford
2 “The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke’s statement takes us even deeper by telling us that we create our future by what we are. The current master of ‘being’ is Eckhart Tolle.
Have fun singing your song. Keep the dream – even if a ‘credit crunch’ means you have to do stuff that is a temporary delay.
Sometimes just surviving is the biggest step you can make that particular day – but that day in the future will be seen as being just as important – because you didn’t give up!
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NB This article was inspired by Steve Chandler’s brilliant ‘100 Ways to Motivate Yourself’, one of my Top 10 Personal Development texts.
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