Where to start when your life turns upside down?

Each journey starts with a first step, or as some say, with a decision.?

As the expert who turns a change into progress, I recognise 3 phases of such a life transition. Today I tell you about phase 1, and 9 steps my clients take to transition in life and career to complete this phase.

To make it easier and more interesting to read, let’s say my client is a professional football player, who just finishing his sports career. Unfortunately for him, it was sudden, and he didn’t have a chance to prepare for it.

It all starts with 3 discovery steps.

Step 1 -? he needs a new vision for his life. Until now, he was training and spending most of the time with his team. Now his world crumbled, and although it will be tough emotionally, he needs a new purpose.

We can say metaphorically, that he needs to see the light at the end of a tunnel and go through this light to a new life on the other side.?

Step 2 - is turning the vision into a mission. That’s the practical part of new life with all the how-tos, whys, whats, for whom, whom with, etc.?

Step 3 - is all about values. He needs to know specifically how his values thermostat works. What’s important, and often forgotten, is that there are positive and negative values. To function in harmony with himself, he needs to know and understand both.

The following 3 steps are about positioning.

Step 4 - now he’s ready to discover his place in work and life. Basically, it’s awareness of which area of life is crucial to him, and how it relates to other areas of his life. This step will teach him what are his priorities in a new life.?

Step 5 - is a goal-setting program. Yes, that’s the first moment when he is ready to talk about specific goals on a personal, professional, and economical level.?

Step 6 - makes him realise he is an actor. He needs to be aware of the different roles he needs to play in different situations, to achieve his goals. For example, if he decided to become a football coach, he must behave like a football coach as soon as he enters his club. He used to behave like a football player, but this part of his life has ended.

This situation shows you how difficult it might be, and why we need to learn to “play the right role at the right time”.

It’s time for a successful plan.

Step 7 - with all the previous steps completed our ex-footballer is ready to plan the next year of his professional career. Of course, I’m going to show him a very specific and effective way of doing it.?

Step 8 - it’s about resourcefulness. Our ex-footballer is going to discover resources he never thought are within his reach. I believe that saying “it takes money to make money” tells you only part of the truth. In my opinion “it takes resources to make wealth”, and my clients build wealth.?

Step 9 - now it’s a perfect time to see the whole picture. We going to strategise the goals in time, which means for my client, that he is living a new life.

What’s changed!?

Let’s get back to the beginning. Professional footballer’s career suddenly ended. He was devastated and lost. After taking those 9 steps he has now personalised the blueprint of his new life. That’s an incredible transition, isn’t it?

Have you been in his shoes, or do you know someone who was?

Let me know as it’s just the first part of the full transformation!