The Future Starts Today
If your life depended on taking action, what would you do?
An excerpt from my book “The Future Starts Today”;
“At this stage, our first step will be to determine your short-term goals that lead to your long-term goal. You can use your strengths when you are setting short-term goals. If there are people who will challenge you in your weaknesses on the way to the goal, you can set specific goals for yourself to overcome them in the short-term period. While you may have great opportunities that will support you on your way to your goal, you should also think about what you should work on with possible threats and which direction you should take while determining your short-term goals.“
Now, it’s time to use all your abilities. You have all the power and potential. You can handle this situation. Maybe, in the past, you made mistakes or made wrong decisions because you were not experienced enough. It may not have been easy for you to break through your rigid patterns and move forward.
It may not have been easy to get out of your safe space, take action and deal with the pain of transformation, but with COACHING, you will be able to open a brand new and beautiful door in your life. You will be able to find all the keys you need for solutions within yourself. You will not wait to experience destruction to take action and come to powerful phases in your life. You will be able to go through all the phases with COACHING.
If you are the one creating problems and unrest, or if you are experiencing them projected from the outside, you will notice them and you will be able to solve them by becoming free from limitations in action. You can also get to know and identify yourself again in your search for renewed meaning. You can find different solutions with the “Renewed You”.
You may realize ways you were not able to see before. You can find ways to deal with the people who get in your way and the obstacles you allow; you can also find ways to protect your own space. You may realize the issues, situations, and people you need to move away from and keep out. After all the clarification, you can find your direction right when you find yourself and you can determine the path you are going to go by getting stronger. You can be someone who can manage the process and guide him/ herself.
I have to direct my own life according my own wishes.
When you come to the awareness where you will say, “I have to direct my own life according to my own wishes!” your inner expansion begins. With the coaching tools and the rating of your living spaces, at the point where you rate each one, you can make improvements by addressing it subject by subject. You can “STOP” all the stalling you ignore.
- How do you feel in the life you are currently living in?
- How do you want to feel?
- A life where you experience these feelings, how would that be like?
- What are the similarities and differences between your values in your current life and the values in the life you want to create?
- What do you prefer to live with your values?
- What do you not prefer to live with your values?
- What are the POWERS you have with the values that make you, you?
Now, I ask you to list your strengths. Write each one down and consider. List your weaknesses that will challenge you in the new life you want to create later on. Write them down one by one and consider them as well. As you move towards the new life that you aim for in the long term, you can set certain short-term goals that will enable you to overcome your weaknesses.
The Future Starts Today
Life; always offers opportunities to those who know their way and who are on the way. But you are the one who will create those opportunities in your life! You are the one who will see the opportunities that will support you on this path for this new life that you aim for and want to experience! Now look at your resources and please list opportunities that can support you on your way to your goal.
Think about the compatibility these opportunities have with your values, and take and utilize the opportunities that are compatible with your short-term goals. Do not forget that some opportunities may be presented before you on the way!
On your way to your goals, there will be threats and obstacles that you may encounter every time you want to move forward. These things happen all the time, but think about what you should improve as well as which direction you should take with these threats and obstacles. List these obstacles and threats one by one and work through them one at a time.
First Action
The area you are working on here is, once again, YOU! Look again at how you feel with your awareness and specific solutions with which you are prepared; they will give you strength and speed to move forward. The path you set with short-term goals will lead you to your long-term goal. At this point, the first step is the FIRST ACTION that you will take action in your life.
“If your life depended on taking action, what would you do?” Ask yourself this question again and answer. In addition, when you find the feeling that holds you back with COACHING in your plans that you are working on and structuring, and when you change that, you will progress quickly. Here, Coaching is a very powerful tool that makes you find all these, and you will be able to coach yourself with my book “THE FUTURE STARTS TODAY” that I wrote for you, which enables you to have your own internal communication.
You will become aware of the core power that will enable you to firmly stick to the path to your self-determined goal. Furthermore, you will become aware of the emotion that is holding you back from progressing on your path. You will also know how to manage your emotions and how you can change the emotion that occurs at that moment.
You will take responsibility for your life with your actions and realize that you can choose your own role in life. When you achieve your short-term goals one by one, you will experience the delightful success of getting closer to your main goal. You are the one who will appreciate this achievement first. Again, you will enable yourself to experience the most beautiful victory celebrations that you have decided. You will give yourself small rewards that will motivate you. You will have checkpoints where you will know whether or not you have met your goals.
- How do you know if you have reached your goal?
- What would happen for you to achieve your goal?
- How would you feel when you have reached your goal?
- How would you live if you achieved your goal?
- What would change for you to achieve your goal?
In order to cope with the changes, it is important to realize how you meet the changes and transformations happening in your life! You may also encounter some setback, time lags and unexpected surprises. Realize how precious you are in those moments. Let go of what needs to go from your life.
Leave the past in the past. Recognize that in this re-starting process, there can sometimes be periods of stagnation before changes take place. Use these interludes as opportunities for self-development. Writing down your expectations on a piece of paper and realizing what you really want will always help you overcome stagnation in your life.
Of course, you will be able to make short-term revisions, re-evaluations, and some updates according to the needs of your goals. Afterwards, you will be able to continue your long-term goal with motivation, once again and quickly, on the path that will ensure that you experience the emotions you want to feel and lead you to the life you prefer to live with your values.
Please think about how better your life will be after this big change. Consider the feelings underlying this desire for change. Think about how it would have been if this change had taken place.
Now, I say our book, “THE FUTURE STARTS TODAY” because we are one there, you and I. Today, I ask you to read the section “Personal Swot While Reaching Your Goal”, and to do the practices there. I hope you can share with me the great awareness and decision this small action you will take for yourself will create in your life.
All along the way, you will benefit from the practices you have done in writing on the pages of our book, and the writing practices in our book “THE FUTURE STARTS TODAY” with which we can create an action plan together, which, especially the action plan, will enable you to make a time plan that will always keep you on track and review what you are planning to do.
It will be much easier for you to follow your own plan with honesty, openness, and clarity and to proceed step by step. I am with you as you coach yourself in our book where you can write down all the action steps and realization dates to achieve your goal. When you have completed the relevant section of our book, you may want to share it with me. Yes, now that you are reading this blog post, as well; Now Is the Time for Action! I am waiting for you in our book “The Future Starts Today”.
The Future Starts Today was published Turkish in May, 2021. Soon, it will be published in English, as well. So you can follow the updates relating to the book here, on my website.
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