Choose a theme to guide your day-to-day decisions

::Choose a theme to guide your day-to-day decisions

Choose a theme to guide your day-to-day decisions

Tracy Twyman - TransitionsThe new year has come and gone, and likely so have any new year’s resolutions you made. However, that doesn’t mean you have to consign 2018 to the “what will be, will be” basket.

Anyone who has held their focus in one area for any length of time will tell you it is focussed attention which sees results. But so often our attention is scattered because we don’t have anything that tangibly ties our goals together.

One technique for overcoming this, is to choose a theme to guide your day-to-day decisions.

This theme should relate to the things you have identified as being the most important to you. However, other than that, your theme can be a single guiding light or one that provides you with questions to check whether your actions are aligned to what you really want.

For example, in 2017, Ryan Levesque of The ASK Method, chose a theme of Less but Better. Feed the Best. He then eliminated the things which, although profitable in their own right weren’t related to his pared back focus and making those things world class. A decision which saw his company enter the list of the 500 fastest growing companies in America.

Joel Kendall of MODE has chosen for 2018: Quicker. Easier. Shinier., because he knows these three things are key to achieving the stretch goals he has set himself. They also make it simple for Joel to ask himself HOW what he is planning will make MODE quicker to respond, or easier to use, or visually more appealing.

Berenice Chaston of Decor Tiling Ltd, has chosen two statements to guide her company’s 2018 decision making: We think ahead and We eliminate anything making us less than the best. Like Joel, she now has a simple litmus test when debriefing their jobs:

  • Were issues resolved before they became a problem? And if not,

  • What do we need to do to make sure next time they are?

But the beauty of choosing a theme, is it works just as well on a personal level. Although, in this case I recommend choosing your theme from your heart rather than your head.

Why? Because your head is home to your rational thinking and therefore serves up what you think you want.

So how to choose from your heart?

It is whatever immediately pops into your head as the answer to the following question. BUT before you read the question, close your eyes, take a deep breath and allow yourself to feel the anticipation of receiving the truth of what is really in your heart. Then open your eyes, and continue reading.

What is it I most deeply yearn for?

The answer may be something you already knew on a conscious level. It may be something you weren’t expecting. However, in either case you now have a choice: fully commit to honouring what you truly want or put it aside for another year.

Whatever your choice, best wishes for a great year.

By | 2018-01-12T12:49:27+00:00 Friday, 12 January 2018|Personal Development|0 Comments

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Tracy Twyman
I created Transitions to enable people like you to utilise my knowledge, skills and experience to fast-track obtaining the results they were seeking.

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