Christmas is generally a time when people start thinking about what they want; what they want to do on Christmas Day, who they want to spend it with, what they want to buy people and what gifts they would like themselves, what they might want to achieve in the next year ahead.....and so on.

How clear are you on what you actually want from your life? It’s very common not to be sure and not to even spend time thinking about it. Or perhaps you might have an idea but that’s just it, it’s an idea that someday somehow it might happen but you are not bringing to the forefront of your mind to take actions each day to make it happen.

Time flies by very quickly and if we are not careful we can stay in situations we are not happy in for longer than necessary, we can let opportunities pass us by and we can easily get to the stage of looking back and feeling regret.

Thinking about long term goals and setting deadlines by when you will achieve them is a powerful way to create a life you really love. You are also empowering yourself by being at cause to your life rather than just letting life happen to you. Goals might change, what you want now may alter radically in a few years but long term goals can be a work in progress, they can be adaptable. For now they will give you a focus, a direction and a chance to really make what you want happen in your life.


We invite you to take some time out, turn off all distractions and really have a think about what you really want in your life in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2020? What will excite you? What will make you laugh and smile? What will make you feel so proud for making it happen? What will be a huge achievement for you? What would you love?

Take some pieces of paper. At the top of a different page for each section write:

Health
Partner/Relationships
Vocation
Money
Personal Development
Family
Social
Spiritual

Now spend about 10 minutes on each page, writing what you would love for each section. In the next 6 months, in the next year, 2 years, 4 years, 7 years, 10 years......any time in your future. Don’t think about it too much just brainstorm and let the words flow.

Once you have done this look back over everything and by each thing you’d love to achieve set a date by when you would like it. This will help give you a rough idea of a time line.

From this master list, pick the top 3 goals that are your priority to achieve over the 1st 6 months of 2010. Then start to plan how you are going to make them happen! Every day take one action step towards your dreams.

Always refer back to your long term goals, keep updating them and once you start achieving the short term goals keep refreshing and ensuring you are on a stepping stone path to getting everything you want!

When you have an idea of what you want in the future you can start to create it in the NOW!!

Don’t let life pass you by, grab it by the horns and enjoy every moment of it!