Sunday Inspiration #7
Today’s thought … Raise Your Standards
When you raise your standards to reflect your needs and values, the universe will line up behind your boundaries.
Today’s Coaching Exercise
Spend 5 or so minutes identifying 3 areas in your professional life where you need to raise your standards and log this information in your journal. Now, spend 10 or so minutes creating a plan of action for raising your personal standards in these areas. This may mean making a firm decision not to work on Sundays before 2PM so you can attend religious services (this is an example from my days as a law firm associate …) and making this decision clear to your team, law partners and clients. Or, it could involve letting your team or law partners know that your blackberry is off between 6:30PM and 8:00PM so you can enjoy dinner with your significant other or put your kids to bed.
When you define your boundaries and make it clear how they will not affect your work, you will be amazed at the change in your stress level and increased fulfillment at work and home.
Until next time … Take GREAT Care!
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Sunday Inspiration #6
Today’s Thought …. The Significance of 30 Minutes
30 minutes a day can transform your career and your life. Commit to spending 20 minutes a day learning something new and 10 minutes a day incorporating what you have learn into your life.
Today’s Coaching Exercise
Spend 30 minutes every day this week focusing on what is important to your professional development. To jumpstart this exercise, make a list in your journal of all the things you want to learn more about that will have a real impact on your professional life. Then, split the remaining 10 minutes between creating a list of resources for information and scheduling in your daily 30 minutes for personal and career success. put your plan in motion.
For the rest of the week, spend 20 minutes learning something new via articles, blogs, productive programming like that found on The Success Network and your own resources and 10 minutes on how you will implement the new learning into your life.
If you cannot commit to doing this every day, make the decision to spend 30 minutes on this exercise no less than 3 days a week. Remember … if you do not invest in yourself, no one else will … .
Best wishes as you get 2008 off to a FANTASTIC start! Let us know if we can help you create and maintain the structure necessary to achieved accelerated success in this new year! We are committed to your accelerated success!
Until next time … Take GREAT Care!
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Sunday Inspiration #5
Today’s Thought … Awareness: Awareness is the first step toward sustainable growth and development.
A Short Coaching Exercise
Spend time listing a couple of problematic areas in your career that you have been stepping over or pushing aside. Now, spend 5 to 10 minutes (longer if necessary) considering the root cause of the problems. This is called creating greater awareness.
What can be learned or gained from your awareness? Record your thoughts (in great detail) in your journal.
Now … create a plan of action (consisting of several small concrete steps) for resolving these problematic areas and moving forward to accelerated success in 2008! Let us know if we can support you in creating a plan of action and structure that helps you move from awareness to action!
We look forward to a most blessed and prosperous 2008 for us all!
Happy New Year!
Until next year :-) … Take GREAT Care!
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