Setting a Transformative Goal
I wanted to share this post from Karen Kimsey House (Coaches’ Training Institute) here with you. It perfectly summarizes the essence of good coaching:
The New Year is upon us. . .that time of new beginnings, new intentions, New Year’s Resolutions. Enrollment at health clubs soar. People clean up, clean out, shape up and get down…In my experience all this huffing and puffing usually peters out before the earth dries from the winter rain and snow.
What then does make a “goal” stick? What turns a goal from a good idea into something truly transformational and life changing? Here are a few of my “top tips” for setting transformative goals:
Begin from inside yourself.
A long time ago, I heard a motivational speaker Jim Rhon say, “Set goals not for the goal itself but for who you will become in the process of achieving it.” Every goal holds the potential to evolve and grow our consciousness. What needs brightening in your consciousness? Set goals that will allow you to nourish and grow that part of your inner garden.
Use emotion to fuel passion and intention.
Our emotions are like the coal in the engine of our intention. They fuel and focus our vision and our desire to express ourselves in the world. What is the emotion or energy that will source and power your goal? Is it love? Fierceness? Determination? Is it Lust? Emotions are energy in motion and carry great power. How will you harness the power of your emotion to fuel your vision of your goal?
Do your homework.
WHY do you want to accomplish a certain something? What’s important about it? What is the experience it will bring you? What are the limiting beliefs that you will need to overcome? The self identity you will need to change? In order to accomplish a significant goal, you’ll need to become someone new. In order to become someone new, you’ll need to generate a different image of yourself BEFORE you start.
Create a structure to carry you through.
In the noise of the day to day, it’s easy to forget our desire and longing. Bills, phone calls, work things are loud and demanding. Our own heart’s desire to change and grow. . .not so much. What are structures that will help you remember what is most important? Perhaps it will help you to create a vision board or share your goal with a partner.
Remember that the goal is about YOU.
A goal is only useful in so much as it points your intention and desire and provides an arena for your own evolution and growth. Where do you need to put your attention during the process so that you win whether you accomplish the goal or not?
In this whole life changing goal accomplishing domain, it’s easy to get focused on the outcome: “Beat the pattern! Take the hill!” While changing an existing pattern does require a certain “git-er-done” energy, it is the RIDE that is most alive, most nourishing and most transformative.
…Take this with you into the new year!!!
