Planning & Action-Taking
Creating a vision for your life and working on your mindset are both important but without taking action, nothing will change. And that’s why it’s useful to learn skills and develop habits that will help you successfully take action.
Planning
Before talking about the planning approach I recommend, remember that we’re each different and that will have an impact on how you’ll prefer to plan.
I’m a big picture thinker who loves to create a vision but I’m not so comfortable in the nitty-gritty detail (and to be honest, I tend to avoid it unless absolutely necessary!). You might be similar. Or perhaps you struggle with creating a vision but really enjoy the finer details. There’s no right or wrong, it’s just different depending on our own unique personalities.
And of course, that’s going to have an impact on how you’ll plan. So as you read through this information, take the concepts and apply them in a way that works for you.
We’re going to start by planning for a month and then chunk that down into a week view. If you’ve got a copy of the Live Well Life Planner, this will be familiar to you and I highly recommend you use the pages and prompts in it to do this work. If you don’t have a Life Planner, here are two templates for you to use: monthly planning and weekly planning.
At the start of each month
Think about the planning you’ve done for the year, including your life vision (using the Your Whole Life approach), if you have a business - your business vision, your values, intention, goals or priorities, and anything else that is important to you. Then think about the month ahead:
Set an intention (this is how you want to be or feel)
Identify your top 3 goals or priorities that align with and support what you want to do, achieve and experience this year
At the start of each week
Rather than thinking about the year, this time, refer to what you said was important for the month and then:
Set an intention (this is how you want to be or feel)
Identify your top 3 goals or priorities for the week
At the end of each week
This is an important but often overlooked step! Commit time to look at how the week went, in particular, identify:
what went well
what didn’t go well
what lessons you learnt
what you’re grateful for
what you’re ready to release
At the end of the month
As you did at the end of each week, repeat the process but this time, look at how the month went. So that’s identifying:
what went well
what didn’t go well
what lessons you learnt
what you’re grateful for
what you’re ready to release
RESET
If you’re not already a member of my free RESET group, it’s available for you to join. In the group I provide insights, tips and strategies each week that you can add to your Live Well toolkit. Plus, each month there’s a live (online) session where I guide you through the 4-step RESET planning approach:
Review what’s gone well and not gone well
Reflect on the lessons learnt and what you’re grateful for
Release what no longer serves you
Reset your focus for the next month
To join, click here.
Action-Taking
The key to creating change is, of course, taking action! If you already have some strategies that work well for you, stick with them. But if you find yourself holding back from taking action, then jump back to the Mindset Mastery section. Specifically, look at the beliefs and habits information.