After creating a vision, you need a PLAN.
I KNOW this is where we can get really stuck, so in this week's video I share the tool I use to map out the next steps, including how to work out what to do NOW to progress towards your goals.
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If you want to change your life this year; if this is the year you’re actually going to go to the country that’s been on your list forever, if this is the year you’re going to leave the job you hate, if this is the year you’re determined to change SOMETHING to make your life better: CONGRATULATIONS. You’ve taken the first step to doing something.
You've set an intention.
But let me guess, you’ve had this intention before right? And nothing’s happened.
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What happens if you have loads and loads of things you want to do in your life, but don’t know how to make them all fit into one big vision?
We think we have to choose because we haven’t got enough time to satisfy them all, and they represent fifty different jobs and industries.
We think we have to compromise. We think we can’t have everything, we have to decide which ideas we want the most and stick with that. We wonder whether we’ll even like it if we get it.
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“But Claire, work is supposed to be boring"
So a family friend said to me when I told her that it was because I didn’t think law was going to be for me.
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You’ve probably read articles and bloggers talk about how you need persistence. I used to think this was a ethereal quality that I lacked and somehow need to push through another back-breaking barrier of hard work to achieve.
Now I don’t believe persistence comes about like that.
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A big challenge for many people is feeling as though they don’t have the money to fund their dreams.
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First, a reflection!
My year
This time last year I was facing the same frustrations in my full time job that I'd faced for a while. My employers had agreed for me to go part time, but it hadn’t quite begun and my former role had a few bits and pieces to tie up.
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