All to often I find my clients make their goals concrete and then stall out with a sense of not knowing what to do to get to them.
They’re not alone. We all tend to focus on creating lists of future accomplishments, writing them in our calendars, putting them on vision boards, sending ourselves year end letters.
These are wonderful techniques for telling our sub-conscious that we’re really serious – this is what we’re aiming for!
What gets lost is our own memory that we’ve set forth and accomplished plenty over the years. Somewhere in our minds IS the know how to accomplish our goals, every time we step up to them.
Think back to a complex challenge you took on and solved recently.
Ask yourself:
“What 7 to 10 steps did I use in order to accomplish that goal?”
Write down the practical actions you used from the moment you set the goal, to the moment you declared it “done!”
This may fill a half page or 5 pages. Either way, make it detailed enough that you could explain it to another person so that they could actually see you taking those actions in their mind as you describe them.
Now give those steps a name, and post them on the wall or near your computer. Each day for the next 21 days reread that list so it shifts from actions you happened to take in the past, to a technique you deliberately use to get stuff done.
