A 7-Step Guide to Start a Successful New Chapter

Starting over is part of the human experience. You’ve done it many times over the course of your life and probably took it for granted. When have you started over? When you graduated public school and started at the bottom again in high school; when you rose to the graduate year in high school and then left to either start over on the bottom rung at university or college, or began your work life chapter. How many times did you start over in relationships? How about when you started a new chapter as a parent?

And how many times have you started over in your career?

For the most part, we just go about making the change happen, and it does. But what happens when you perceive the risk of starting over in a new chapter as too high, or where you have had a failure when starting a new chapter and are now reluctant and afraid to start over again?

Here’s the first thing to understand: you have all the talent and capability to start a new chapter and have incredible success! Period! You do not lack the ability to do so and you are already a proven success!

If that’s the case then, how do you ensure success in your new chapter?

Here’s a 7 Step Guide:

1. First, give yourself permission to start over.

Too often we just back into our next chapter without any real planning or thinking about what we really want, and more often than not it’s comfortably along the same lines as we’ve been experiencing. Give yourself permission to start a brand new chapter – something totally different if that’s what you want because your success matters - on every level of your well-being: intellectual, emotional, physical and spiritual. And not only that, but your success affects everyone whose lives you touch.

Realize right here and now that you have it within you to create massive success in any new undertaking. You don’t lack the talent! That’s not what stops you.

2. Explore and discover what you really want to do.

Rarely do we actually take a look at what it is we truly would love to do - we let other people’s opinions affect our decisions. Ask yourself what you would love to do if you knew you would succeed. What have you always wanted to do but maybe "parked" because of other things going on in your life, or never got around to? Then look at what I call your “sweet spot”, which is the intersection of what you love to do, what you’re really good at (and would enjoy getting better and better at), and how you can help people (i.e. provide service). If you want to achieve big goals you must be in service.

Give yourself permission to explore your sweet spot – and yes you can explore new industries, companies, careers, conduct your research etc. But when it comes down to it, the ease of your success is directly related to how much you are in your sweet spot. When you're in it, you are in an amazing vibe and you are then incredibly productive.

3. Align your self-image with what you want to do

Right now your self-image is in complete alignment with your current results, professionally and personally. Whether you like your results or not, your self-image is the key component that has put you there. That’s a fact!

You are already successful in so many areas of your life, and in those areas your self-image has been in alignment to support what you were doing. New chapter dream goals are outside your current programming, including your self-image programming.

You don’t lack the talent or capability to start any new chapter you truly desire, you just need to align key aspects of your subconscious conditioning, the biggest of which is your self-image, with the success you desire in your new chapter.

4. Make the decision to go for it

Decision is the top attribute of successful people – this is based on decades of research. Your ability to go all-in, no excuses, is a game changer, or rather a life changer! The minute you make a committed decision and close off other paths (of escape), your mind then goes hard at work to make your decided path happen. Until that decision is made, your mind is not firing at the higher and focused level of your dream goal, generating new ideas etc., to manifest your new chapter. If it's not firing new ideas, the 'how to get there’ eludes you. And so you stay stuck and don’t make the decision to make your new chapter happen.

Decide right now that you are going for it, and let your marvelous mind go to work for you. It will!

5. Create new habits that will support your new chapter.

Right now your habits, that is your habitual ways of thinking, feeling and acting are giving you your current results. Change your habits and your results will change. What habits do you work on? How about the way you think and feel about money, selling, networking, work-life balance, risk, and the list goes on. Ask yourself what 2 or 3 new habits would make it so much easier to achieve your goal, then work on establishing them as new habits.

People form habits and habits form futures. New habits form new futures.

6. Protect your vibe

Everything is energy in this universe, and that includes our thoughts, feelings and obviously physical action. Energy vibrates, and it vibrates on frequencies. Start to understand and be aware of your vibration. When you are down, frustrated, worried or fearful, you are on a lower vibration. When you are excited, confident, elated or joyful, you can absolutely feel that higher vibration. How productive are you when in a lower vibration? When in a higher vibe?

There’s a world of difference so protect your vibe. And here’s the thing – you can only attract what is on the same frequency as that which you are vibrating on! That’s physics!

Imagine if you knew how to control your vibration and kept it at a much higher level (which is where dream goals are)? Just imagine what you would attract compared to what you attract now. Success in your new chapter depends on your ability to bring your vibe up to the level of your dream goal and thus attract the resources, clients, opportunities you need to be successful.

Here are some simple ways to control your vibe: gratitude, finding things to celebrate throughout the day, managing your attitude, and knowing how to shut out the “noise”.

As Napoleon Hill puts it in his masterpiece "Think and Grow Rich", “have a mind closed tightly against all negative and discouraging influences (that includes negative noise from friends and family).”

7. A regular alliance with one or more people who encourage and support you towards your goal.

Our motto is “Together We Thrive”. It’s so true and there’s a reason for that. No one has achieved any measure of true and remarkable success without the help of others who are in a position to help them. If you think you can go it alone, think again! You cannot!

We are way better, and way stronger together.

What you are capable of when you multiply your power with the minds of like minded, open minded, and goal achieving individuals is staggering!

Find people to mastermind with, even if it starts with just one other, whom you trust and who fills the above description. Be selective, it’s worth it. YOU are worth it!

When you know how success works, that there is a step by step process and a certain order of doing these steps, success becomes almost mathematical. When you embrace these principles, not only is success probable, it’s inevitable!

Here’s to your successful new chapters, and to stepping into your inspired destiny!

Sandy Rutherford

Sandy Rutherford is a world class Success Mindset Coach, Cut the C.R.A.P. Mentor, Destiny Maker and Success Accelerator, as well as International Speaker and Best Selling Author. Her versatile professional chapters include stints in Health Care, Show Business, Multinational Corporate Leadership and Entrepreneurship. Taught and mentored by Bob Proctor, Sandy uses her global coaching practice and life-changing programs, including her life-changing The Self-Image of Your Dreams program, to show people how to step into their inspired destinies.

Check out more about Sandy and her programs at https://www.inspireddestinies.com

You can learn about the core of Sandy’s teachings in her best selling book Navigating the “High C’s” to Success, available on Amazon and at www.inspireddestinies.com