Growing pains or growing gains?

Change happens all the time, how we use those changes to determine where we go and what we do constitutes growth.

Now growth can be a painful experience, you learn by your mistakes. Or it can be an interesting, challenging and rewarding experience - if you are willing to allow yourself to be interested, challenged and ultimately rewarded that is. You see - most people aren't willing to think differently which is why they will never grow, will never get anything different from their days / weeks / months and years. Imagine what your life will be like in 12 months if you made no changes to your day-to-day life and existence. You ate the same foods, went to the same kinds of entertainment, read the same kinds of books, thought the same kinds of thoughts, interacted with the same kinds of people. Yes there will be differences - namely the number of candles on your birthday cake, and the date on the calendar, but that's about it. Imagine how tedious that would be if every day looked the same as the one before.

You don't have 20 years experience - you have one year's experience repeated 20 times.

So - assuming that you do want things to be different for you in the future, you have to be willing to ask yourself some things.

What did I do today?
What did I learn today?
How will that impact on what I will do or be able to do tomorrow?
How will that new information add value to the services that I am able to provide. (BTW - Services of course is everything that you do. To washing the dishes for your parents, to the clients you sell cars to and everything in between).

Where do I want to be in 12 months time? Five years time? 10 years? And if you don't know, then consider this - if you are 50 now, in 10 years you should be thinking about retiring from the normal work force - what plans have you got for life beyond "work".

If you are of school age, say 15 or 20 - what do you want to be when you "grow up"? Are the classes you are taking going to get you there? Goal setting is about deciding what changes you want to make within a specified time frame and then working out if the steps you are taking today are actually getting you there or not.

  
With Many thoughts,
Elle
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