So, How did I lose 140 pounds? For twenty years I have been a life coach that specializes in money, helping a small community of affluent clients make smart choices about their money so they could accomplish their goals for the reasons that matter most to them. Well, once I resolved to address my health & fitness obstacles it occurred to me that the same S.O.A.R. process I had developed for my clients with very large and challenging financial objectives might just work for my goal to get healthier & fitter... It worked!
I now believe this simple process will work for any large goal requring effort to achieve it.
Here's the process I follow...
S.O.A.R. To Success
1.Spirit: Resolve to make up your mind
2.Others: Surround yourself with greatness & know-how
3.Accountability: is simply no-nonsense encouragement
4.Relentlessly implement a sensible plan
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• Establish your goal (with four elements)
• Name of your goal
• Date of your goal
• Quantity to measure to know you've achieved your goal
• Words that describe how you think & feel when your goal is achieved
• Now establish the weekly activities to measure that will drive the best result.
• Finally document the daily activities to measure that will drive the result. Focus each day on establishing the three daily critical results that will improve the probability of accomplishing your goal.
• Once each month contemplate behavior changes that will help improve your progress. Establish those things that are no longer acceptable and resolve to eliminate those things to accelerate your results.
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After making up your mind and establishing the resolve necessary to take action, the very next step is to establish a plan for a time, a weak moment, when you might contemplate giving up.
Here are some keys to your "plan for discouragement:"
• It's important to create your "plan for discouragement" before it comes (while you are highly motivated)
• Come up with 10 fun, encouraging actions that will "break the mood" of negativity (EX: share your positive goal with someone who cares about you... let them know you could use a little encouragement)
• Review your SRM (specifically your values) with someone who cares about you. Explain what was in your mind originally that let you to decide the goal was worth the effort.
• Share your progress with someone you haven't spoken with in a while (BONUS: if they are struggling with their weight, you'll undoubetedly inspire them)
• Read & then update your "Ideal Scene" (a short, 1 - 2 page, narrative which is a positive vision of your ideal future... written in the present tense, after you have achieved your goal).
• Schedule an appointment with your doctor, nutritionist or other health professional (who helps hold you accountable). Let them outline the health benefits of achieving your health & fitness goals.
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• Do what top athletes do: Picture your goal accomplished
• Live in the moment... Let's say it's the target date of you're goal & you made it... you accomplished your goal:
• View the scene from your perspective (from within your eyes, not like a movie where other's are watching you achieve your goal)
• What does it feel like?
• Who is there with you experiencing you achieve your goal?
• What was accomplished that was worthwhile? What are people saying about you now that you've accomplished your goal? What are you saying to yourself, internally?
• Was it worth the effort?
Look at Jeff MacInnis' 6-step rules of the race
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