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Blast Off Strategies to Get You Inspired and Reach Your Goals
Allison Maslan has been an entrepreneur for the past 25 years and has a vibrant array of nine successful businesses to her credit. She is an author, life and business coach, homeopathic physician and international speaker. Allison is the president of The Blast Off Life and Business Coaching where she specialises in helping people tap into their passion and purpose and launching them into a new business and the best chapter of their lives.
Launching her new book – ‘Blast Off! The Surefire Success Plan to Launch Your Dreams into Reality ’, today, January 19th 2010 on Amazon – here Allison provides a sneak peek into her book with a guest post on strategies to ‘Get Inspired and Reach Your Goal’
What are some of your bigger goals or dreams that are sitting on the shelf…
…because life has gotten too busy for you to even think about them? You might be thinking, “I will get to them next month, next year.” Well, we know how that goes. The year passes you by and those desires are still sitting on the shelf, collecting dust. And then the frustration begins to creep in again because there is a deep longing inside you to bring these dreams to life.
Maintaining the Momentum whilst Continuing Life as You Know it
Week One: Clarify what it is you want
Nothing will happen until you get clear about your goals. Find 30 minutes of private time during one day this week and take out a pad of paper to do some creative scribbling, drawing, or journaling about what you would like to see unfold. Maybe you would like to take a trip to Portugal, learn another language, plant an herb garden, write a book, or remodel your bathroom. Perhaps a lifestyle uplift by taking more alone time for yourself, or beginning an exercise program.
Week Two: What are the large steps that need to happen to reach your goal?
If it is to plan a trip, write down all the steps involved such as research on flights, hotels, travel sites you are interested in. If you want to write a book but don’t know where to start, maybe the first thing you need to do is to read a book about writing a book. If you want to plant a garden, but not sure what you would like it to consist of, one of your large steps (I call these Mile Steps) would be to spend some time researching plants or flowers. You are not actually doing any of this work yet, you are merely writing them down. By seeing your large goals broken down into smaller steps, they are much more palatable and easier to swallow.
You can also do this entire process on Blastation, the software I developed to help make your dreams come true.
Week 3: Break it down into daily action steps
Take your Mile Steps from Week 2 and break each one of these down into small increments. For instance, take your garden research and break it down into 10 minute increments per day. I call these Mini Feats, small steps of Accomplishment. Read your ‘How To’ book for 10 minutes each day. Try doing three Mini Feats per day toward your larger goal, and by the end of the week you are at least 15 steps closer to attaining it. And if you say you don’t have 30 minutes somewhere in your day, I will have to reply, “I don’t believe you!” Wake up 20 minutes earlier, take 10 minutes during lunch, and watch one less football game during the day… I could go on.
Week 4: Write down your Mini Feats
Make sure you write down your three Mini Feats for each day and give them a time, like an appointment. This way you will be much more committed to making them happen. For more momentum, plan your Mini Feat’s the Sunday of each week. You will be that much closer to your dream by the following Saturday!
And Beyond: Live life to the fullest
You don’t want to look back in ten years and realise that you’re still at the same place in your life then as now. Even if you love your life now, growth is a necessary part of your evolvement on this planet. Every single day of your life is precious. Embrace it, and those you love, to the fullest.
For a full strategic and inspirational life and business plan grab a copy of ‘Blast Off! The Surefire Success Plan to Launch Your Dreams Into Reality’ (Morgan James, 2010) when it’s released January 19th 2010.
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Hi,
Nice article. I’m interested in ‘grab a copy’ .. but the link doesn’t work….
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