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18/01/2017 by Lisa McDonald

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“This is the new year the new you. You can pass through another year, coasting on cruise control. Or you can step out of your comfort zone, trying things you have never done before, & make this the year that you elevate from where you are & soar high.
Make it happen!”

– Pablo

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11/01/2017 by Lisa McDonald

New Years Resolutions – Are You Determined To Make This Year Different?

Have you been making resolutions about changes that you want to make in your life?  That you’ll do things differently this year?

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Here’s a funny New Year’s Resolution Song for you to watch … by Rhett and Link.

Will this be you?

Not Really Serious About Your New Year’s Resolutions?

If you’re not really serious about your New Years Resolution, then save yourself some from heartache, lowered self esteem and [Read more…]

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19/08/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

Living An Inspired Life Doesn’t Just Happen Magically

Living an inspired life doesn’t just happen magically.  Some times we can look at the life and success that others have been able to achieve, and mistakenly believe that it happened overnight or that it happened really easy for them.  This is not the reality.

The truth is that you can live an inspired life however, rather than it happening magically,  in reality it takes a variety of steps to live an inspired life.  And it takes focus, time and effort to transform your life from one place to another.

Empower Yourself to Achieve Your Inspired Life

You can empower yourself to achieve more of your goals and live a more inspired life by working through the following steps: [Read more…]

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28/05/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

3 Essential Components of Commitment For Goal Achievement

Commitment is an essential aspect of Goal Achievement.

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For Goal Achievement

There are three key components to commitment:

  1. The act of making a pledge, promise or obligation.  It’s about stopping, considering and deciding that you will take a course of action.  These decisions should not be made lightly, but with full intent to achieve the desired end.  Commitment requires firm decision-making.
  2. Having engagement; involvement.  This aspect of commitment is about actively following through on your commitment.  You will not move forward unless you are taking action regularly and consistently to move you forward.  Commitment requires action.
  3. Following through to completion.  Most goals, especially big stretchy ones require different ways of thinking, feeling and acting, requiring you to do things differently.  Unless you do what’s required you won’t get to the finishing line.  Commitment requires do whatever it takes for however long it takes, until you complete the pledge, promise or obligation.

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25/02/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

The Importance of Strategic Planning To Achieve your Goals

Strategic Planning

Once you have reviewed where you are now and written our your goals.  The next step is to create and write a Strategic Plan of how you’re going to get there.  This is essential whether your planning your own life, or whether you are planning another aspect of your life such as your business or finances.

What is Strategic Planning?

Strategic Planning is a process of decision making, which looks at future direction and how to achieve successful outcomes.  With the desired end in mind, you then work backwards through each key stage of what’s required and how you’re going to get there, up to where you are now.

Some elements of the Strategic Planning process may be continuous, while others may be smaller parts or projects which have specific start and finishing dates within the bigger strategic plan.

5 Reasons Why Strategic Planning Is Important For Achieving Your Goals 

There are lots of reasons why strategic planning is important for life planning and business planning!  Here are five reasons why it’s significant part of achieving your goals.

The Strategic Planning process:

  • Is a Process of defining direction – it gets you visioning and thinking about where you want to be.
  • Defines goal setting – it gets you to define and refine the specific outcomes you are looking to achieve.
  • Identifies actions required achieving goals – it gets you considering the key steps and actions required to progress your goals.
  • Clarifies resources required to execute actions – it gets you looking at the resources you currently have and those you will have to seek out in order to implement your plan.
  • Guides implementation of strategy for goal getting – it gives you a solid plan for  taking action, measuring progress and seeing where you may need to make adjustments to achieve your desired goals.

Strategic Planning is an important part of progressing and achieving your life and business goals.  So, once you have written your goals using my SMARTIES formula, complete the Strategic Planning step.

Empower yourself today by taking at least one step today that will assist in progressing your goals!

If you feel stuck, uncertain or overwhelmed about setting, planning or implementing goals that you’d really love to achieve, or just want some guidance, then I’d love to assist you. Take action today by contacting me to have a FREE initial discussion.

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