Focus On The Results In Your Life!

The Essential Question to Ask Yourself?

In regard to your personal or professional life,

What are you working towards?

This is perhaps the most important question to ask yourself. Most people cannot answer this question. If you are not sure where you want to go in your life, it will be absolutely impossible to accomplish and perform at your best! It will be impossible to achieve the life you desire, both personally and professionally. If you are looking for a promotion, an improvement in health, to change careers, to start a business, or to simply enjoy the essence of life, you must focus on what it is you want!

Identify What You Want and Expect it to Happen!

In its simplest terms, you have been put on this earth to get results of some kind. This may manifest in the form of a job or position in life, raising a successful family, creating positive change in someone's life, or to fulfill an area of passion. First, define your "Why" in the area of your life you want to further develop and expect to achieve your end result! What does your end result look like, sound like, and feel like?

Identify Your Focus Area

A key focus area is defined as something which you are completely passionate about and committed to. A focus area is a want or a desire that tugs at your emotional core which manifests in your conscious mind. Your self statements might echo statements like, "I wish I could do that" or " I would love to do that" or "I know that would be fulfilling." It is the energy you put towards your focus area that becomes a contributing factor towards your success.

Assess Yourself

Once you have determined your focus area(s), the second step is for you to grade yourself on a scale of 1-10 for each focus area(s) (It is alright to only have one focus area). How close are you to achieving your end result? Are you getting excellent results or are you under performing?

Choose to Become Excellent

The fact is that many people have procrastination issues and therefore struggle to take action. Refuse to rationalize, justify or defend the reasons why you are not taking action. Instead, identify them clearly. Set a goal and make a plan to become very good in your area of focus. Remember, once you focus on an area that you are passionate about, it will be very difficult to fail! Here is one of the greatest questions you will ever ask and answer: "What one area of focus, if I developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my life, career, family, etc.?" Print out this statement and read it daily! Use this question to guide your life! Look into yourself for the answer. You usually know what it is.

Change Agent Power Exercise

1. Identify the key area of focus. What is it? Write down what the end result looks like. If you concentrated your time on this focus area and pursued it with excellence, what would it look like? On a level of 1-10 where would you be now? Give yourself a grade from 1-10. Next, determine the area of focus that, if you did it in an excellent manner, would help you the most in your life.

2. Conduct this exercise every week until you achieve your focus area.

3. Download a free A.C.T.I.O.N. Plan template from my website.