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You look at the task and
decide “I Can Do It.”
And, you know “I Want To Do It."
Upon further review you see “That’s Who I Am.”
These first three steps are important but without the specificity
of Direction, of That's Where I'm Going! your chances of arriving at your goal are minimal.
Knowing
you can do it and wanting to do it and seeing yourself with the trapping of success
are very different aspects of reaching your goal.
Using
myself as an example again. As an author I know I can write books and I want to
write books. I see myself as an author. But without Self-Direction, I’d not be a
multi-published author.
In
order to be a multi-published author, at a minimum I had to have characters,
setting, and plot. I had to have a lot more than that to get a book written and
published but I did say “at a minimum.”
So
often we set our goals in global terms.
We
want to be financially secure.
We
want to be happy.
We
want to be healthy.
Because
I write romance, all my characters want to be loved.
But
what do those words “financially secure,” “happy,” “healthy,” and “loved” mean.
What’s
true is that we each have our own personal picture of what those words mean. We
can see in our internal eye what our life will be like when we are financially
secure, happy, healthy and loved.
The
question is whether or not we’ve spent the time defining the intimate details
of those pictures. This time let's use "financially secure" as our example.
How
much money is “financially secure”? That’s changed for me over my lifetime.
When I first worked outside of babysitting (at $.25 an hour), I was paid $0.90 an hour. When
minimum wage went up to $1.00 we were all ecstatic. At that time making $10,000
a year was a fantasy. I could travel around the world if I made that much. Now
I need $6000 a year for property taxes and insurance! No longer can I live on a
gross income of $500 a month like I did when first starting out on my own. (Oh,
and I was a single parent not getting the court ordered $10.00 a week child support on a
regular basis).
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| The Sacred Women's Circle series |
What
my characters face is what we all face. We must have these first four aspects
of success in place before the actions in the next six steps have a chance of
leading us to a successful outcome.
Here’s
my author example to illustrate where we are on this journey:
My
expectations as an author? Yes, I can
write novels and non-fiction.
And
I want to write novels and books.
Writing is fun.
When
I started writing the first book in my Sacred Women’s Circle series, I could
see rudiments of story and/or character in all seven books. I saw myself at the computer and with my
name of the covers of books on the shelf.
From
the beginning I saw the whole stories with characters and setting. I heard the dialogue in my mind, saw
characters move around a scene and felt their joy and pain as the story unfolded.
Now
it’s your turn. Pick a goal and follow along. You’ll be pleased and maybe a bit
amazed at how easy this part can be.
Next
week? Seeing Self-Control in a whole new way. And Click Here to start at the beginning of this series.
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Do
you ever feel as if the world around you is tumbling out of control and there
is nothing you can do to make your world a better place?
Do
you ever wish there was?
Staying
Sane in a Crazy World may help guide you toward stopping the tumbling and
choosing how to take effective control of your life.
The
reality is there is no One answer that fits all but we each have Our answer.
In
this short guide, Judith Ashley leads you through a straight-forward process
that allows you to find Your answers. Answers you’ll use to craft a Personal Staying Sane Plan that will
help you regain and keep your balance whenever the world around you is
out-of-whack.
Staying
Sane is now available at your favorite e-retailer.
© 2018 Judith Ashley
