Changing my Mindset to "Consider. It. Done." P.1

byMPerron

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10 years ago

July 15th, 2015

Lately, I’ve been reading lots of books on confidence, motivation, success, achievement, accomplishment, accountability, etc, etc, etc… Now it’s time to start implementing what I’ve learned.

Why? Believe it or not, I have given myself several different answers. None have felt true. More accurately, none have addressed the core of my dissatisfactions with my current circumstances.

The challenge has become to define what satisfaction is and what it means. This will develop, change, and evolve as we go forward. The first step is to challenge this overwhelming feeling of stagnation. To do this I have to start. That’s really it: just start…

Starting somewhere is a decision to set the base from which to move forward. So why is it so hard sometimes? Fear is the core of it. Fear of failure, fear of success, fear of judgement (from others and ourselves), fear of not being good enough, fear of confronting our excuses, and fear of change. It starts with a decision…. so here it goes.

I, like many of you, occasionally have millions of thoughts racing around in my head, so I am right up front letting you that my topics may be occasionally all over the place, but I have faith that they will become more and more focused in time. I’m asking you to also forgive yourselves for your amazingly creative minds and to simply have faith that what you need to think, feel, and do will also become more focused with time and practice.

So, let’s start with a few affirmations, quotes, sayings, and other such soul-jarring statements. I can and will revisit them in future blog postings.

Please trust that there is madness in my method, or is it a method to my madness?

“If you Fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” by B. Franklin

My plan right now is share my daily progress as I work to change my career. The steps I’ve set before me so far realizable, a key to any goal setting. At the end of every day I take time to evaluate the accomplishment of those goals to determine which require to be broken into smaller sub-goals, or turned up to much me further.

Yes, I know this is vague-ish. So, here’s today’s actual goals (without the minutia of details like meal breaks, etc.)

1- Up at 6h30: prep family for morning routine

2- 8h45: Answer emails.

3- 9h00: Do exercise routine while reading self-improvement book.

4- 10h00: Write this blog post.

5- 11h15: Search job sites for jobs to apply to, research companies of interest, send cold-letters or cold calls for jobs of interest.

6- (after lunch) 1h30: Complete next lesson on Affiliate Marketing program, I’m enrolled in.

7- 3h00: Answer emails and/or phone messages.

8- 3h30: Help daughter with homework.

9- 4h00: prep for supper.

10- (after dinner) 6h00 to 8h00: Family time

11- Open to energy level (see how to handle this in latter blogs)

Note: of course, there are some breaks in this and room for changes. Eg: Getting up earlier and starting my day by writing down my plan of action!

“If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else” by L.J. Peter

Setting goals is the most common instruction in all the self-improvement books and blogs I’ve read. As some one once said to me in the past: “Give yourself some grace to make mistakes, and have faith that it’s ok to make changes.”

Goals are the path we set to get somewhere. While this is as obvious as saying “Everywhere you go, there you are”, it has deeper meaning. Always picture where you want to go, then draw your roadmap to getting there. Trust that there may always be a better way there, but that is something you can learn while getting there. You can always course-correct. It doesn’t always have to be a race.

“Just Do It!” by Nike

Embrace this as much as possible. It goes along with a wonderful book by Susan Jeffers: “Feel the Fear and Do It anyway!”

Also try telling yourself that there is no such thing as failure, there are only results. We can always make adjustment after we’ve learned from results.

“If you think you can do a thing, or you can’t do a thing, you are right” by H. Ford

This is helpful to those who make it a mantra! So many books talk about turning negative thought into positive thoughts. Start with saying this to yourself after every statement, spoken or thought you produce. It will become second nature and the pause will help you change your habits from unproductive to productive.

The following are from the ebook “Outperform The Norm” by Scott Welle

Fear = “What if (insert a negative statement)”

Fearlessness = “What if (insert a positive statement)”

These last two are a breakdown of Henry Ford’s famous quote. Most of us live with self-doubt and a pest inner voice that is self-defeating. Please consider that that inner voice is really the culmination of your thought habits. Habits can be changed. All it takes is practice and commitment. As simple as changing “What if I’m wrong?” for “What if I’m right?”, but don’t stop there, the job is only half done. Answer yourself: “What IF, I am right?, What Then?”

“Consider. It. Done.”

This one may be best seen much latter on, but I’m including it as part of my goal setting practices. I want to get to the point of when I decide to do something, I can say with complete confidence… “Consider It Done”.

I believe that we all learn as we teach and I am certain that I will learn from many of you, so please don’t be shy with the comments and questions.

See you soon on The Blog.

M.