I’m ~ possible Coaching: Daily Tools for the year
Keep Choosing No Matter What!
Staying committed to your goals
“Only those that sees the invisible can do the impossible.” -Unknown

I recently had a conversation with a friend who was feeling frustrated and disappointed in herself for not achieving her financial goals and her desire to marry before age 35. As I listened to her talk about how hopeless she felt and how she wondered if her life will ever look like how she imagines it, I realized it’s wonderful to dream, but we all need tools to support us in accomplishing those dreams. When we don’t have the support or the tools, giving up on your dreams seem far more practical than taking mini steps to achieve them.

In achieving our dreams we must first understand our role as the visionary. The visionary believes in her capacity to create something out of an idea. She has no proof other than how she feels; all she has is the desire to create something not yet seen into something visible. With that desire comes the thrill, the thrill of not knowing how it will turn out, but knowing it will. I believe this knowingness, speak to our capacity for greatness.

As you remain committed to pursuing what’s important, remember the following:

1.Believing is seeing: We have been taught in our culture that seeing is believing, but if we look at our lives more closely - we’ll see believing is seeing. Anything that has ever been created started first in thought, and the outcome is a result of that thought. Take for instance, computers, stop lights, cars, all of these things are a result of someone’s thought ultimately becoming a part of our reality.

2. Do one thing every day. As we define what is important to us we must also schedule it into our daily lives. Taking action toward your goal everyday keeps you committed and pull you closer to your goal. The momentum that is created by taking action doesn’t allow room for doubt or the impossible.

3. Speak it into being. Research has finally caught up with what we’ve known all along - words are powerful, they carry energy and that energy brings us closer to our goals or farther away from it. Being aware of the conversations we have with ourselves is even more important than the conversations we have with others.

4. Toleration -free. It is very difficult to remain committed to a goal if our lives are overwhelming. Tolerations are those things that prevent you from functioning at your best. For instance, a cluttered house, debt, unhappy relationship, a job you hate, all of these things can drain your energy and make the task of accomplishment a goal seem unrealistic. So while, you’re trying to make that career transition, organize that closet, resolve that bill, make those calls you’ve been delaying, but above all make room for what really matters.

5. Develop your own fan-club. Anyone who has ever done something worthwhile had people who supported and believed in them. Surround yourself around people who believe in you and what you’re about. By this I do not mean a “yes” team, but people who are independent thinkers, optimistic, resourceful, and willing to present a new way of thinking and being. We all need our own fan-club especially when we’re starting something new.

6. Write a mission statement. A mission statement allows us to keep focused on what’s important and it reminds us what we’re about, why we’re here. It connects you with what you’re doing and who you’re being.

7. Give yourself a scheduled time out. Take time a side to check in with yourself, are you creating what’s important, or are you allowing other things to take precedent over what really matters. Check in with your self, you are the only person who knows whether you’re truly happy or not.

The steps outlined above could be taken simultaneously. There is no sequence, the only consistent theme is in order to stay committed you must keep choosing no matter what!

Keep Choosing Tools

This week pay attention to your thoughts. Thoughts are like magnets they go out into the world and attract the substances that match them.

Your emotions energize your thoughts, the stronger your emotions the quicker you create what you want. Because energy follows thought, it’s more important to focus on what you do want instead of what you don’t want. Whatever you focus on is what you get!

The moment you catch yourself thinking “maybe I need to just forget about this replace with “I am committed to my goals and dreams.”

Deborah West is a Professional Life coach and Licensed clinical Social Worker. She is Trained with the Graduate School of Coaching, and the Business School of Coaching. She’s also an active member of the International Coaching Association. She owns and operates I’m ~ Possible Coaching LLC, a coaching service for adults & teens. She can be contacted for a complimentary coaching session, at (410)772-1073 or @ KeepChoosing247@yahoo.com 

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