4. How would my life change if I achieved that goal? | Stating the obvious

This morning I had an aha moment concerning a number of things including my procrastination. I will be honest to share that it has lasted for the past two weeks but feels like it’s been long over a month. It looked like falling off the wagon with regards to reading, struggling along with my dissertation, not honoring my morning gym session, not podcasting etc.?

This was triggered by my posture going to bed last night. I was at a point of being sick and tired of being sick and tired. I was livid. Angry really. This trigger made me reflect on the areas that need cleaning up this week and I landed on a statement that gave me peace as I geared up for my Monday...

Life is mapped out in years and months but we need to have the grace to live it out in the seconds, minutes, hours and days as each one ripples into eternity.

This gave me a new peace that I needed as I stepped into week 10 of 52.

I needed it especially because I have not been writing as much as I hoped to and lost my streak for the past two weeks for my newsletter and that's not okay.

What have you been struggling with? What emotions have surfaced because of constantly putting it off?

How would my life change?

I am coming to the appreciation that as we honor the promises we make to ourselves and the goals we set for ourselves the world is made better by that simple act. As we change ourselves the world changes (I'm sure there's a quote out there that sounds like this)

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”-Gandhi

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.”-Gandhi

Something shifts within us and ultimately the scope and weight of impact moves in proportion to how we honor those commitments. I am learning this for myself in a new way today.

Therefore, I am posturing myself this week in this realization and committing to myself to take these baby steps in terms of changing myself first.

The one thing that has stopped my movement in the past few weeks has been the overwhelm i feel when I try think about everything all at once. It caused me a little bit of anxiety and this morning I am taking back my power and I am hoping you will too.

Homework

Write down 5 goals/ the things you've been putting off in relation to the goals set during question no.1 and answer the question 'How will my life change if I achieve this goal?'. Write down 1 reason against each goal for the next seven days before you go to bed.

Winning the battle against inconsistency

• I am declaring this week as one filled with you and I winning against inconsistency in all the arenas we will step into.
• I am declaring that there will be no overwhelm, as we face the hard tasks first and have the courage to eat the frog.
• I am declaring that this will be a great week.

What are you declaring over yourself this morning?

Have a blessed week ahead!