Life Strategy

How do you create strategy in your life and not only plan and set goals but also roll with ways that change comes up. We can have a goal in our life to win the game and so we can also create the strategy on how to win.

Where people get stuck is when they get so focused on the goal that when change comes up they automatically feel that the issue or change is stopping the goal and they forget to focus on the opportunity to roll with what shows up. What is showing up has to be dealt with in order to get to the goal.

That's why it's called a rebound. Just because the shot was missed doesn't mean that we or someone on our team can't catch the rebound and reshoot and still score. We CAN rebound through these times as long as we stay focused on the goal. And if we don't win today, we can reset our strategy, look at the tapes of our lives, figure out where we didn't quite like the consequences of our choices and rechoose how to play for our goal.

So, commitments to actions:

1. Know the goals you have. List them out and know the game you are playing to get this goal. Write them write them write them. Have them in reminder places and keep thinking about them in positive ways and seeing yourself living in that accomplished goal. Imagine already being there and what you would look like doing so. Known for years that golfers to basketball see the ball and where they want it to be before they make the shot. you can't throw a football without knowing where you want it to go and aim for the target.

2. If you are looking at what you want in your life are you in a strategy to get it in a huge and awesome way? I've said that before, and will continue to say it: Are you focused on the negative and keep complaining? How much time and energy are you complaining? Take the time to look at your strategy. If things aren't the way you wanted them to be, how do you make the rebound and use a different strategy to get where you want to be.

3.   If you are behind in your goal, what do you need to do to get back on target. Look at your team mates. Are the people around you in the same frame of mind you are about your goal? Do you need to make some trades? Do you need to have a talk with the team and get all of you pumped up again? Do you need to hire a coach?

Are you living to thrive or to survive? Put life into place for a goal to thrive and see what shows up!

Teams do that all the time, they win and they don't fire the coach. They keep the coach on board to keep the team in a common goal, to look at what they need to get to that goal. Yet we often don't think we need coaches for our personal lives which is more important than any sport. If people heard that a team was going to the playoffs with absolutely no coaches, everyone would think that was crazy! But people run around in their lives, wishing things to be different and they don't have a coach. So find your coach, find a mentor, listen to tapes, watch video of mentors, read their books, hire a coach! Take classes. It's a good thing! The Lakers and The Nuggets went into the playoffs with goals, strategies, team mates and coaches. What does your team look like?