Achieving your goals
Therese Linton
Helping professionals build flourishing careers, optimise performance, get promoted, and live happier, more fulfilling lives! I transform mindsets and ways of working to take you from NOW to NEXT!
Once you have identified your purpose in life, it’s important to decide how you want to live your life and what you will do to achieve your purpose. Until you complete these steps then you’re only dreaming and don’t have sufficient direction to get started on the doing…
These concepts and more are covered in Module 1 of The POSITIVE Lawyer program?
You can find out more below…
How to deliver on your purpose?
Let’s take your purpose statement and expand on it so that you are more specific about what you do in the world.
Consider the contribution you make to the world. Your purpose is the why and now it’s important to define the what. REMEMBER – the WHY of your life IS DIFFERENT to WHAT you actually do with your life.
1. Step 1 - State your purpose – the purpose of my life is to…
2. Step 2 - Take the next step to state the why…I do this by…
I’ll share mine…
“The purpose of my life is to share knowledge and create change!
…I do this by transforming the way lawyers work through legal project management, legal process improvement, and The POSITIVE Lawyer program.”
How do you want to live your life?
This quote from Michelle Obama has inspired the concept of BE Statements
Don’t be afraid…Be focused - Be determined -Be hopeful - Be empowered! Michelle Obama
These 4 small statements are extremely powerful constructs to guide how you live your life each day and how you interact with the world moment by moment. You can apply them to every situation so that at the end of the day you have moved towards your purpose and lived a more positive life.
Consider these 4 questions to develop your own Be statements –
1. Whom do you want to be?
2. How do you want to live your life?
3. How do you think about yourself?
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4. How do others describe you?
Developing your BE statements
These 4 small statements are extremely powerful constructs to guide how you live your life each day and how you interact with the world moment by moment. You can apply them to every situation so that at the end of the day you have moved towards your purpose and lived a more positive life.
1. Step 1 - Grab a blank piece of paper, reflect on the questions above and brainstorm all the words that best describe how you want to live your life and be remembered. Don’t edit yourself. Simply write them down, there will be more than 4 and that’s okay.
2. Step 2 - When you’ve slowed down then consider each word and select the ones that provide you with higher-order inspiration and support your purpose. You may already have the 4 magic words that are your Be statements, or you may have a few extra ones.
If you can get it down to 4 that’s great, although it’s not mandatory. You can have 5 or 6 or 7 if you like. I don’t recommend more than 7 as our short-term memory has limited capacity and can only store around 7 items at a time.
It might take you just a few minutes or you might have a working list that you refine over the next week, or possibly the next few years. You can always come back and refine them with important life events or when you feel you’re not living as positively as you can.
Take it deeper - You might like to take it one step further and keep a daily journal that records your reflections on how you went in terms of living your Be statements. Remember there is no right or wrong, and you can always try them out for a while and then come back and refine them later.
Plan your outcomes, prioritise, and take action
Once you’ve put in the effort to develop your purpose, decide whom you want to BE, and figure out how you will achieve your purpose, the next step is to develop clear outcomes and priorities so that you can take action. In theory, this is relatively easy, in reality, many people struggle with this step.
That’s why it’s critical to get clear on your goals and then implement personal systems and daily habits that support you to achieve those goals. The personal productivity skills that you need to ensure you make progress and achieve your goals and included in Module 5 of The POSITIVE Lawyer? and all participants also get an amazing BONUS of the Personal Productivity Online Course for FREE – that’s an additional $497 USD of value. The true value is priceless as the prioritisation skills and small disciplines covered in this module can set you free and provide the framework to hit those goals right out of the park.
Find out more…
Purpose and meaning are covered in detail in Module 1 of The POSITIVE Lawyer program and the productivity concepts that you need to actually take action and get it done are covered in Module 5. In addition, you get access to the entire Personal Productivity online course as a BONUS. That’s $497 USD for FREE when you sign up for The POSITIVE Lawyer?.
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My aim is to inspire you to transform your working life and achieve great things and I look forward to joining you on your journey!