Where Conscious People Come to Create a Balanced LifeThere are two powerful energies in your life. These are the urge for strong, healthy relationships and challenging, purposeful work or creative self expression. You need to consciously develop both of these energies to create a balanced life. It doesn't matter where you start. What matters is that you start. |
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Getting from Global Intentions to Goals then Into Action Steps
One approach to achieving your goals this year is to start with your global intention or desire and then become more specific.
For example, you may state your global intention as a desire to be healthy.
Then you would expand your intention into a goal: “My goal is to continue to be healthy by remaining active, eating more healthy foods, getting back into exercise, and losing some weight.
Becoming more specific you would flesh out action items and a timetable for accomplishing your goal by saying,
To Create a Balanced Life Consider 3 Things When Setting Goals: Basic Needs, Desires and Dreams
As you grow, you have the opportunity to provide for yourself and others at two levels.
The first is a basic survival level. These are needs for food, clothing, shelter, and medical attention, as well as the money to attain these necessities.
The second level involves things you want.
You do not need that red dress or new Prius, but you may want it!
Unlike survival needs, which, if unmet, can result in illness or even death, wants can be modified.
Goal Setting For Conscious Entrepreneurial Couples: Create a Balanced Life Together
This week the Video Ezine Assignment is focused on conscious, committed couples. I think of these couples as “business partners” or “entrepreneurial couples” whether one works in the home or if one or both work in a corporation. Managing a relationship, a family, running a household and going to work—inside or outside the home—is a massive challenge. It’s an entrepreneurial adventure! So, the more conscious you become and the more you set goals and take action together, the smoother your life will run AND the more you’ll reach for your Big Picture Dreams together!
When Goal-Setting to Create a Balanced Life, Put Your Doubts Aside
Doubts are simply obstacles.
For example, a potential obstacle to a short term Daily Detail goal might be your disbelief that your husband would ever agree to cook twice a week or plan an entire date night for the two of you—including hiring the babysitter—so you dismiss your desire without writing it on your list.
Your Big Picture Dream may be traveling toChinaat the end of next year, but you have no idea if your partner would like to go, how you will pay for it, or how to navigate this foreign country and language.
Do You Have Experience with Goal-Setting?
Did you know that people who set goals create a balanced life and tend to be happier?
You may already be an active goal-setter. Or maybe you are one of those people who doesn’t like or know how to set goals.
The facts are:
• People who set goals achieve more in life.
• When two people try to accomplish something together, they need to choose the same target and synchronize their efforts.
• Those who clarify what they want and decide how they will work to achieve their dreams will do just that.
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