thebodymindandsoul - mind - coaching - coaching course 3

Step 3: Creating balanced goals

In the last module we explored your values and the role that mindset can play in creating barriers to going forward. We now look at setting goals which allow you to lead a balanced lifestyle in achieving your plan.

Take your journal and open it at a fresh page or find an A4 sheet of paper. Draw a circle, but leave enough space to add additional comments around the outside. Split the circle into eight segments and label them:

• Body and health
• Financial well-being
• Work/ career
• Personal relationships
• Fun and adventure/ personal growth
• Contributions to others

The remaining two I leave to you. It could be spiritual well-being or you might want to separate immediate family from friends under personal relationships.

Put a 0 at the centre of the circle and label the circumference as 10. Put a line across each segment to indicate how satisfied you are with each section between 0 and 10. Is it helping you get to your life plan, mission statement and roles?

Taking each slice of the circle and ask yourself:

What would make it congruent with my values and beliefs?

Why is it important to achieve?

What action will I take? Make this specific, measurable and realistic and time bound because this is going to form your goal.

Eg. Goal: To improve my cardiovascular efficiency from XXX to XXX by 31st December 2005

Take time to really think through the questions and scribble your answers down on the same sheet of paper in the space you left around the diagram.

This will give you an indication of where you might want to start. In the next module we will be looking at building an action plan for one segment. We deliberately draw your life as a ‘whole’ because any action taken on one section will impact on the others.



 

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