Turning Resolutions into Reality! Not Just for the Health of It!

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Turning Resolutions into Reality! Not Just for
the Health of It!

• Merrilee Shopland, M.A.

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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

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Not just for the health of it

• Increased Self Esteem
• Nourished by Challenge
• and Mastery

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Mind
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• He who controls the mind controls the game.

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• Your intention is only as powerful as its
  clarity and vividness

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Exercise 1

• Write your Intention in the first box
• Present tense
• What? How? Challenges? Feels?

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Picture the Pay Off
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Assessment
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Current Situation(in relationship to your
Intention)
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Cost
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Past Approaches
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3 Biggest Challenges
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Action Steps
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Attach a timeline
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Are there Additional Support Systems to Assist
You?
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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

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Discipline

• Its 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

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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
• Pay Off
• Assessment
• Costs
• Past Approaches
• Challenges
• Strategies
• Action Steps
• Timeline

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Insider Tips

• Get ready for the Gremlin
• Support Action Steps with Visualization
• Who you gonna call?

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The Gifts of CommitmentWhen 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.

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Commitment

• "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

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Resource

• PowerPoint for this talk is located at
  http//www.austincc.edu/hr/profdev/eworkshops/docs
  .php
• For questions on this talk contact
• Merrilee Shopland, M.A.
• 512-223-7885
• HBC 601.2
• merrilee_at_austincc.edu
• http//www.austincc.edu/shopland/