Goals & Priorities: What Do You Do When You Don't Know What To Do? by Robin Stephens
The information age has completely changed the way we work and live – which means our approach to goal setting has to shift from the notion of doing more things to the concept of getting the right things done.
The key to a POWERful life isn't what you add to it but what you eliminate from it. It's really pretty simple. You don't need any special education or training. In fact, a person of average intelligence will run circles around a genius who lacks focus and direction.
You DO need what I call the 3D mindset: DECIDE what it is you want, DEVELOP a plan or blueprint to achieve it, and DISCIPLINE yourself to take action and stay focused.
We become what we think about most of the time. So be careful to think about what you are thinking about!
In my career as a professional organizer and fitness trainer, I've had the opportunity to help busy professional women take stock of what's weighing them down and release the clutter in their spaces, schedules, minds, and bodies.
I meet many professional women over 40 who ostensibly "have it all". A career they love, a great spouse, kids, home, and friends. But they're not happy.
Somehow along the way they lost touch with themselves - physically and emotionally. Their bodies don't look like the pictures they show me of "back when." Their energy level is low, they are tired and joyless. They sigh, shrug their shoulders and tell me that's the way it is.
"I'm in meetings...
I got an excited phone call from a client this morning. Last week we unearthed over a dozen banker boxes full of old records from her basement. We stacked them up in a corner of her living room and her assignment was to go through them and shred or save the contents.
This weekend's nasty rain storms (winter has arrived in Seattle!) motivated her to get started sorting - where she discovered a still active retirement account with a former employer worth over $9,000!
I never get tired of hearing these stories. I've had clients discover valuable jewelry hidden away in a sugar bowl buried in a china closet, find uncashed checks for hundreds or thousands of dollars, or treasured memorabilia...
Seriously, your life is all about your choices. I'm going to dare you to take a look at how you're living right now and see how the Power of 3 is affecting your future health, energy, and confidence.
The Power of 3 is the connection between:
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August 1st 2009 our family received the news that my mom had terminal liver cancer. September 29th she passed away. I spent the better part of August and all of September helping my sisters care for her - her fervent wish was to die at home, and we were able to honor that wish. Once she received the diagnosis, she immediately began to prepare to die. She stopped eating, refused any treatments to slow the growth of the golf ball sized tumor on her liver, and put the last of her affairs in order.
She had never been the same since my brother died last year of a sudden heart attack at age 51. She told us once that years ago she'd expressed a fear to him that she would get cancer because so many of...
Getting focused is largely about what you choose not to do, rather than what you choose to do. It's a matter of setting aside other work or projects to concentrate on a priority, a kind of temporary clearing the deck of distractions so you can reach a goal. Getting focused is how we get things done. Sometimes the sheer volume of what we have to do makes us freeze right in our tracks.
Why multitasking doesn't work: A study by The Journal of Experimental Psychology study showed that it takes the brain 4 times longer to recognize and process each task you're working on when you switch back and forth among tasks. Trying to manage 2 or more mental tasks at one time...
Perfectionism is a major way the brain can hold your body hostage. You can't change your circumstances if you're busy engaging in self-abuse because you can't do it all perfectly. Detoxing your life – getting fit, organizing your schedule and environment so you relieve stress and have time for what juices you – will never follow a perfect path. And it's not about trying to make it so.
Getting balanced and passionate about your life is about achieving a mental and physical transformation, playing on your strengths, working around the areas where you are vulnerable and just doin' it! Nobody works, eats, trains, or functions perfectly all the time. If you're working hard and keeping your...
Approximately 44% of Americans set New Year's Resolutions. Only 15% or less of all resolutions are every fully realized. Over half of all resolutions made at the New Year are abandoned by Valentine's Day. Why? It's the difference between intention and resolution.
Webster's defines them thus:
Resolution: The decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner.
Intention: An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
I don't know about you, but just reading the words "a decision to behave in a certain way" makes me cringe. It's constricting, dull, and boring. "An outcome that...
Continuing our discussion of procrastination, here's Reason #2: Your mind perceives the task as larger or more difficult than it is.
For example, when you consider exercising, the only thing you can think about is how long it will take, how tired you are, how sore you'll be after your workout and you sabotage yourself from minute one.
There are actually thousands of situational reasons that make people put off doing important tasks... things that are very personal, but there are only four MAIN reasons I've noticed in almost ALL situations where important goals are put off over and over again.
Hello, I'm Robin Stephens, professional organizer, certified personal trainer and life management coach. Welcome to YourLifeinOrder - Lifestyle Fitness for Women.
A healthy body. A healthy home environment that supports and strengthens you. Purposeful goals that encourage you to live with passion and balance. Remembering to put on your own oxygen mask before attempting to assist others. Simple ideas to help you shape every area of your life.
These are all elements of life detox coaching - reclaiming your body, releasing your clutter and renewing your energy and your spirit!
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