Tomorrow, tomorrow, you’re always a day away!
 
Annie’s anticipation of a better day in tomorrow is evidence of her optimistic outlook on life despite her dreary circumstances.
 
And there’s nothing wrong in being optimistic, but when it comes to setting, planning and achieving goals in life, tomorrow can turn out to be our nemesis.
 
Tomorrow holds idyllic promise and implies future.
Tomorrow does not call for commitment and action.
Tomorrow invites avoidance and delay.
 
Carpe Diem!
 
When you are really committed to change in your life, rather take up the call of “Carpe Diem” – Seize the day! Get stuck in there making consistent, sustainable change day after day until the change you wanted is part of your life. Start today!
 
This every day thing is not the easy path but then again, nothing worthwhile just drops from the sky. Actually, when it is harder to get something, the achievement is all the more satisfactory.
 
But, how do you get from where you are now to where you want to be?
 
One way is to start with GROW, a model created by Sir John Witmore in the 1980s. The acronym stands for:
 
Goals – start off by defining what you want to achieve, SMART goals obviously (Specific, Measurable, Achieveable, Realistic and Time Bound, and writing in the present tense)
Reality – look at where you are today and identify obstacles preventing you from achieving your goal
Options – brainstorm different solutions to overcome the obstacles in your reality
Will – what do you need to do to take action and implement a plan (specific, detailed planning is not an option!)
 
In summary,

• Identify what you want to change
• Define your goal using the SMART approach (other blog articles go into detail!)
• Be honest about what is required to get from where you are now to where you want to be – what can stop you, who can stop you and what can you do about it?
• Commit by plotting out the actions that are needed from today (seize the day, remember?), step by step until the day that you plan to achieve your change

 
How can a Life Coach help, you might ask? Firstly, a life coach will guide you through the process that I’ve outlined above. More importantly though, a life coach will be your support, your cheer leader, your adviser and your partner from start to finish. How can you be without one?

You can only give away what you have.
 
Well, that certainly makes sense: how can you give something away when you don’t have it?
 
My thoughts today are not so much on what we have but on what we are giving away. And how, in what you give away, there is a big clue about what you have going on inside of you. Actually, it gives evidence of how you feel about yourself. What you give away is a reflection on you, not another person or a situation.
 
Think about how you respond to different situations and people as you go through the day…..
Do you tend to be impatient, frustrated and abrupt? Are you demanding and intolerant?
Or are you calm, responding with empathy and understanding, patient and accommodating of others? Of course, there are many variations between these two states of being.
 
Which of the two extremes would you prefer to be? Which of the two extremes would you link to a fulfilled, healthy (in mind and body), mature human being?  
 
If you find yourself feeling out of control, constantly stressed, feeling unwell and struggling in your interactions with people, consider investing in a Life Coach. Through Life Coaching, you will have the opportunity to examine you and what is stopping you from being the person you want to be.