What Have You Done?
Remember those goals you set out at the beginning of the year? So this is March, and what have you done?
Yup, welcome to the reality gut-check post – not for the faint-hearted.
After years of setting goals; achieving some and not others, I realized the difference that makes the difference is you must have a way to measure your progress.
We’re coming to the end of March soon, so this is the quarter-year check. If you haven’t already taken some steps towards achieving your goals, here’s the gut-check: it ain’t gonna happen until you start…now.
My Progress Report
Because point 6 of the Life Coach Manifesto is ‘the most important person you coach is you’, I’d better start with my own reality check.
I committed to living this year with courage. One of my goals to help me strengthen my courage was to meet more people, specifically strangers – people who aren’t friends of friends.
In the last 3 months I’ve made a few new friends online, approached 2 (I can count them!) on the bus (where they couldn’t escape muahaha), made casual chit-chat with store assistants, cashiers, waitresses (2 of my fellow coaches will remember the ‘ice-cream incident’ fondly).
Deciding to live courageously also made me overcome my fear of rejection, and I finally submitted my posts to Lifehacker. It led to not 1, but 2 of my posts being mentioned; and traffic and income both exploded.
That led me closer to my goal of making $1000 a month from Life Coaches Blog. While it hasn’t happened yet, that level of success helped me see that it was possible, and it brought me a step closer.
I’ve also been going to the gym every Sunday – not always but close. This is the longest regular commitment I’ve made to the gym, so it’s a nice step.
I’ve also passed my Basic Theory, the first step towards getting my driving license, and booked my Final Theory to be taken in May. Now all that’s left is to get an instructor.
I’ve also been doing little meditations, not as often, but I’m stepping that up a notch too.
Hmm. This is my first look back, and the last 3 months have been shaping up pretty nicely after all.
Act Before You Lose Any More Time
I find we often overestimate what we can do in a day, but underestimate what we can do in a year.
What else do you want to do now, to take your life in a bigger direction?
I know what I have to do is to set more specific plans towards my goals, and to get my organizer back into place – I’ve been letting it slip too far.
We’ve already spent the a quarter of this new year. If we want to make our ambitions happen, it’s now or never.
my direction tt i want to set in 2006 is tt i want to be more proaactive in activities, being more socialble, walkin out of comfort zone & participate 100% in everything tt is LEGAL…
I still remember one of my watch which has little compass below the watch. This compass reminds me about the true north which set direction of my life everytime i look at it.
Ooi Uncle Paiboon!! Magnetic compass tells magnetic north right?
I carry a compass with me too. To remind me not to lose my direction in life.
This is a great interpretation of a classic goal-management strategy that everyone should use in their personal as well as career development.
Two new studies show why some people are more attractive for members of the opposite sex than others.
The University of Florida, Florida State University found that physically attractive people almost instantly attract the attention of the interlocutor, sobesednitsy with them, literally, it is difficult to make eye. This conclusion was reached by a series of psychological experiments, which were determined by the people who believe in sending the first seconds after the acquaintance. Here, a curious feature: single, unmarried experimental preferred to look at the guys, beauty opposite sex, and family, people most often by representatives of their sex.
The authors believe that this feature developed a behavior as a result of the evolution: a man trying to find a decent pair to acquire offspring. If this is resolved, he wondered potential rivals. Detailed information about this magazine will be published Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
In turn, a joint study of the Rockefeller University, Rockefeller University and Duke University, Duke University in North Carolina revealed that women are perceived differently by men smell. During experiments studied the perception of women one of the ingredients of male pheromone-androstenona smell, which is contained in urine or sweat.
The results were startling: women are part of this repugnant odor, and the other part is very attractive, resembling the smell of vanilla, and the third group have not felt any smell. The authors argue that the reason is that the differences in the receptor responsible for the olfactory system, from different people are different.
It has long been proven that mammals (including human) odor is one way of attracting the attention of representatives of the opposite sex. A detailed article about the journal Nature will publish.