Transcript Turning Resolutions into Reality! Not Just for the Health

Turning Resolutions into Reality!
Not Just for the Health of It!
Merrilee Shopland, M.A.
Not just for the health of it!
“Remember, it takes less effort to stay the same than it does to
change. Most goals require stepping out of your comfort zone
and that is why many people give up. Yet, stepping out results
in growth, achievement and increased self-esteem. Each year
we can extend ourselves in new ways, but these resolutions
need to be based on our passions and our purpose, followed by
a detailed plan and support in order for us to succeed.”
Beverly Beuermann-King
www.WorkSmartLiveSmart.com
Not just for the health of it
Increased Self Esteem
 Nourished by Challenge
and Mastery
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Mind
He who controls the mind
controls the game.
Your intention is only as
powerful as it’s clarity
and vividness
Exercise 1
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Write your Intention in the first box
Present tense
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What? How? Challenges? Feels?
Picture the Pay Off
Assessment
Current Situation
(in relationship to your Intention)
Cost
Past Approaches
3 Biggest Challenges
Action Steps
Attach a timeline
Are there Additional Support
Systems to Assist You?
Reconsider your Intention
Do you want to revise/change directions, or go
forward?
“Sometimes we climb the ladder all the way to
the top, only to discover that we have placed it
against the wrong wall.” - Joseph Campbell
Discipline
It’s about Starting
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the
fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what
we want now for what we want eventually.
--Stephen R. Covey
Discipline
People who exercise their embryonic freedom
day after day, little by little, expand that
freedom. People who do not will find that it
withers until they are literally 'being lived.'
They are acting out scripts written by parents,
associates, and society.
--Stephen R. Covey
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Intention
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Pay Off
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Assessment
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Costs
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Past Approaches
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Challenges
Strategies
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Action Steps
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Timeline
Insider Tips
Get ready for the Gremlin
 Support Action Steps with
Visualization
 Who you gonna call?
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The Gifts of Commitment
When you Cultivate Will or
Master Something You
Have more Energy
 Have more Self-Esteem
 Feel more Focused, In Control
 Are Nourished by Challenge
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Nourished by Challenge
The value of an ambitious goal is not measured by what it will bring to you.
The worth of a goal is measured by what it will make of you in the
process of following and attaining it.
An outrageous and impractical goal can be just as valuable as a prudent
and pragmatic one. What matters is not how realistic or practical your
objective may be, but how much it compels you to push beyond your
limitations.
There are stunningly brilliant possibilities for your life that you've never even
imagined. Set yourself on a meaningful and ambitious course, and the
best of those possibilities will begin snapping into focus.
It pays to dream big dreams. And it certainly pays to follow the biggest and
most ambitious of them. For the biggest dreams will put you face to face
with the biggest challenges. And those challenges, difficult as they may
be, will nourish you in ways that nothing else can.
Commitment
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"Until
one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to
draw back, always ineffectivness. Concerning all acts of
initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the
ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:
that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then
Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one
that would never otherwise have occurred. The whole stream
of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all
manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material
his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's
couplets: 'Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.'"
- W.H. Murray, "The Scottish Himalayan Expedition“
Resource
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For questions on this talk contact:
Merrilee Shopland, M.A.
512-223-7885
HBC 601.2
[email protected]
http://www.austincc.edu/shopland/