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Step 4: Taking your first step

First, choose the segment you want to focus on from our previous exercise. You were asked to define one SMART goal but before we develop a plan of action we need to make sure you will know how to prioritise your options. You are going to be asked to think through as many ways as possible to achieve your goal in a minute but you need to be able to rank them.

What criteria are you going to use?
Also, you have your life plan, but how are you going to measure success?

Eg. Goal: To improve my cardiovascular efficiency from XXX to XXX by 31st December 2005
Success criteria 1: Can walk up and down the stairs without getting out of breath.
Prioritisation criteria 1: Can be done in short bursts around my busy lifestyle.

We have shown just one for each criteria type here. We would expect you to come up with at least 3 for each.

OK now I would like you to physically move position to give your mind the chance to adjust. Let your right brain think about what you could do to get what you want. Go for it! Even sleep on it and see what your dreams tell you.

Rank your ideas using your criteria. You could use a grid and put all the options down the left hand side and the criteria across the top and put a tick or cross in each box.

Take the top three and think about the milestones you would like to get to between now and your end point.

What little steps could you take now?
What support do you need?
Who needs to know about it?
What resources do you require? What’s it going to cost? (financial and non financial)
When will you do it?

What one thing would you need to change to take your first step towards this future or to move away from the present?

Write the answers to these questions into an action plan and pin it up on a board, or put deadlines in your PDA or on your outlook calendar. Whichever method will allow you to keep track.

Week 1: Begin to notice your environment, how you respond to events and think more about what you need to change. Make a detailed picture of the change you want to see in yourself. Think about what you will look like, what you will tell others and how you are with others.

Week 2: Start to build a new habit and start the actions you have written and notice the reaction of others and how you feel.

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