"Successful People Reflect On Their Progress Before They Start The New Year"
Reflect On The 9 Most Important Parts Of Your Life Successful People Reflect On Their Progress Before They Start The New Year 2016.
Some People Asked Me How Do I Reflect, So I Took Some Time And I Have Listed Some Questions I Ask Myself To Reflect Every Year ;-) I Hope It Helps You ;-)
Take 1 Hour In Peace To Go Over The Following List Before You Start Taking Action In 2016, It Can Make All The Difference To Create A Successful Year!
What Did I Learn In 2016 ? What Did I Achieve In 2016? How Does This Make Me Feel?
What Did I Learn From Failure And Success? What Am I Proud Of?
Where Am I Balanced And Unbalanced In My Life?
What Do I Want To Improve In 2017?
What Do I Want To Achieve In 2017?
What Were My 5 Biggest Strengths In 2016?
What Are My 3 Weaknesses That I Can Improve To Perform Better?
Am I Happy About My Result? What Am I Not Happy About And Why?
How Can I Make It Better? 1. My Health
Did My Health Improve In 2016?
Did I Gain Weight Or Lose Weight?
Did I Improve My Stamina? How Was My Eating Habit, Healthy Or Unhealthy?
How Many Times I Exercise A Week? Did I Follow My Health Plan?
Is My Body Getting All The Right Nutrition? Did I Feel Energetic, Younger Or Older In 2016?
How Did I Deal With Stress? Whats My Health Goal For 2016?
2. My Surrounding
Who Are The 5-10 People I Spend The Most Time With In 2016?
Are They Bringing Me Up Or Down? Are They Mostly Negative Or Positive?
Are They Big Thinkers Or Small Thinkers? Do We Have Unconditional Love Or Conditional Love?
How Much Are They Earning A Month? Are They Working On Themselves Every Day To Create A Better Life?
Did I Make New Positive Friends In 2016 That Encourage Me To Follow My Dreams? Help Me To Think Bigger? Give Me A Vision Of Better Life?
How Can I Improve My Surrounding In 2017?
3. Self Education
What Books Did I Read In 2016 That Made A Positive Impact In My Life? What Self-Help Seminars Did I Attend? What Tapes I Listen To That Empower Me?
Am I Reading The Right Books To Bring Me To The Goal I Want To Achieve?
Am I Waiting For Somebody To Inspire Me Or Do I Inspire Myself?
Which People Did I Learn The Most From?
What Do I Want To Learn In 2017?
4. Money Management
How Did I Manage My Money In 2016? Did I Had A Plan? Did I Save? Invest Back In My Business?
Did I Give Charity?
What Is My Plan For 2017?
What Is My Plan To Protect My Wealth From Inflation?
Is My Money Working For Me?
5. Business Skills
How Did I Follow My Business Plan In 2016?
Am I Doing The Business As A Hobby Or As A Business?
Did I Keep Gauges? What Did I Learn From My Gauges? Is This Number Going To Bring Me Where I Want To Go? How Can I Improve This Number?
What Business Skill Do I Want To Learn In 2017?
6. Love And Relationships
How Loved Did I Feel In 2016? How Did I Show My Love To My Friends, Family And My Love?
Did I Spend Quality Time With My Friends And Family In 2016?
Did I Love Myself In 2016? How Did I Practice Self Love?
Did I Easily Forgive Myself In 2016?
What Do I Still Carry With Me That I Want To Let Go Before I Start 2017? Did I Forgive Others?
How Did I Practice Forgiveness?
Take Time To Forgive Now And Let Go ;-) Did I Love Conditionally Or Unconditionally?
What Do I Want To Improve In My Relationships And Love Life For 2017?
What Goals Do I Have Regarding Family, Love And Friends In 2017?
How Can I Make My Relationships More Fulfilling?
7. My Emotions
Did I Spend Most Of My Time Thinking Negative, Blaming, Complaining What I Do Not Have? Living In Fear? Concerned About What Other People Think?
Or Did I Spend Most Of My Time Being Grateful, Focusing On The Good I Have And The Future I Can Build? Helping Others?
What Emotions Do I Want To Have The Most In 2017?
8. My Habits
What Daily Habits Help Me To Create A Better Life And Growing Business?
What Negative Habits Holding Me Back?
What New Empowering Habits I Can Create For 2017?
9. Spirituality
Did I Take Time To Sit Quite And Meditate? How Can I Do This More In 2017?
Was I At Peace With Myself? Or Was My Mind Too Busy? How Can I Be More At Peace With Myself In The World In 2017?
DId I Take Time To Connect With God/The Universe? How Can I Connect More With The Universe/God?
Do I Feel Lonely Most Of The Time Or Can I Be Happy With Myself? How Can I Be More Happy With Myself In 2017?
Do I Have Faith Or Do Worry Too Much? Do I Act Out Of Love Or Out Of Fear?
Did I Follow My Heart? Did I Follow My Intuition? Am I Doing My Passion? Following My Hearts Desire?
Am I Spending Time Quite In Nature?
Am I Grateful Everyday For The Simple Things In Life? Am I Happy In The Now? Was I Flowing In The Present Or Always In The Future With My Mind? How Can I Be More Present In 2017?
What Daily Habits Can I Create In 2017 To Be More Present, More In The Flow With Nature, More At Peace With Myself And More Connected With God?
What New Empowering Habits I Can Create For 2017?
Commitment:
What Am I Committed To Change And Improve And Why?
Do I Need A Mentor A Coach?
My Why:
What Is My BIG WHY To Improve My Life?
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Personal development is a choice that you have to make – again and again. Unlike the clothes you buy, the car you drive, the latest faddy diet or accessory, personal development is for life – literally and figuratively. Personal development is not something that you should dip in and out of – nor is it something that is a once of choice. Not too many people will tell you that personal development requires a daily, lifetime commitment. But it does. And personal development is not a choice to be made lightly – because, once on the road, there are enorous dangers in trying to turn back, Pandora’s Box will have been opened! And it can be scary for people to realize that there life is how it is because of their own choices and decisions. Bizarrely, it can be even scarier for people when they realize that they can change everything, start over and live the life that they want. Unfortunately, much of the conventional wisdom out there would have you believe that personal development is easy, quick and painless and something about which you make a once in a lifetime choice - as in 'I've read a book and now I understand' or 'I've done a course that has changed my life'. Life is not that simple. In particular, life is complicated by the fact that the way we're hard-wired will always leave the subconscious mind yearning for a return to the simple, mundane, ordinary, not-too-bad life. This is a psychological fact. On top of that, those who have actually experienced a life changing moment of truth are very thin on the ground. However, all the evidence suggests that those who actually do find themselves at this cross-roads have arrived there by virtue of the fact that they've actually run out of road - they've hit rock bottom. I know very few people who have descended all the way down to rock bottom. Maybe if more of us did we might have a big enough reason to wake up from our not-so-bad existence and realize the potential and possibilities of life. For most ordinary people life is ordinary, with its challenges, worries, ups and downs. We don't become desperate enough to take a once and for all leap into the unknown because our known is not so bad. Consequently, we trudge along from day to day in the fog created by our subconscious mind's obsession with our formative years. If you want to transform this routine half-life, you're going to have to get used to taking action - real action - every single day.
Read: You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life In fact, it's more like moment-to-moment action that's called for. Of course, you trudge through life out of choice and each thing you do or don't do moment-to-moment is the result of choice also. But it's your subconscious that makes these choices. And it makes them out of a preoccupation with the past and a longing for the future to be as dull and boring as the present. And, as a result, we short-change ourselves, going through life without realizing that we're missing it. But, if you've arrived at the point of restlessness or mild dissatisfaction that you simply cannot shake, then you will have browsed personal development websites, you might have read a couple of books, you will have arrived at reading this article. And you will have come across all kinds of advice from all kinds of people, from those that would have you believe that if you get that new car, condo or yacht, your life will be different, to those that will tell you that, to get what you want out of life, all you have to do is believe and leave the rest to universal energy. Sure enough, universal energy is responsive to our input - quantum physics has proven the communicative and responsive nature of the energy that you, I and the universe are made of. But this responsive universe exists moment to moment, in the same way that life must be lived moment to moment. And that presents most of us with a big challenge - you have to choose to be present and engaged, moment to moment. The point that I'm making is that personal development is a moment-to-moment thing. If you do really and truly want to change your life the changes are derived from the small changes that you make moment to moment. That means commitment, vigilance and the perseverance to pick yourself up and start over each and every time that you falter. A client once asked my 'Does that mean that if I falter forty times today, I have to pick myself up and start over forty one times?' The simple answer is yes. And that is why the steps that you take need to become part and parcel of who you are and what you do moment to moment.
Read: How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life This means that you need to find ways of choosing to be focused throughout the day, rather than allowing your subconscious mind to focus on the conditioning that inevitably results in a mundane life. This means that, for example, even those who meditate to focus their mind first thing in the morning but don't take steps to maintain their focus during the day will inevitably falter and, perhaps, never realize that it's during the cut and thrust of the normal day that you need your focus most. And that will only lead to frustration, disillusionment and the conclusion that this personal development thing was of no benefit in the first place. But it is. It is life-changing. It is transformative. And the amazing thing is that it is all these things as a result of tiny, apparently insignificant, steps that you take moment-to-moment. Like, for example, choosing to brush your teeth in a non-routine way, choosing to break with routine and have something completely different for dinner or, indeed, something as ridiculously simple as choosing to sit in a non-routine place to eat that dinner. You see, by breaking down the small routine in our lives, our minds become attuned to the ease with which routine can be broken. Once you break up your small routine by doing little things differently, you begin to dismantle the very fabric of your repetitive life. When you do this everything changes - you open yourself up to a world of unlimited possibilities - the real world. Remember, however, if you're not the kind of person who can commit, if perseverance if too much of an effort for you - then this is not an option.
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