Surely, you as many other, want to reach a success that can be maintained in time, but you don’t know how to do it. Here I give you 6 steps to create sustainable success.
Let me guess: You define goals, create a plan to achieve them, start taking action but after a few days or weeks your enthusiasm decreases, you lose motivation and you even wonder if it’s worth to continue trying…
You are not alone; it has happened to me and to many others.
It is like you’re living on cycles of motivation ➡️ setting goals ➡️ taking action ➡️ disillusion ➡️ quitting on and on again.
Would you like to change the cycle and create a line of continual success?
A line of continual success is what I call Sustainable Success, this is “achieving the results you want at personal and professional level, in a way that can be maintained in the long-term, without depleting your personal resources, or causing harm to your wellbeing and your immediate environment”.
When you focus only on your goals, you unconsciously disconnect from your long-term vision, why you want to get those goals and how you want to feel reaching it.
Your vision is the compass that guides your journey; your why, is the drive behind the goals and your feelings are the lighthouse showing if you’re going in the right direction or not. They help you to regain the sense of purpose, meaning and direction
These 6 steps will help you to reconnect with yourself and create sustainable success.
1. Set your Vision
“Everything you can imagine is real”. Pablo Picasso
Everything is created twice, once in the mind of the creator and another one in the reality through his actions. Setting a Vision is to create in your mind your most desired outcome for your future in your life, career or business.
To begin to create your vision you can respond the question:
How would your life be, if you could create it the way you want?
2. Create Emotional Connection
“If you don’t have an emotional connection to why you’re trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you won’t reach them or will quit trying”. Brett Hoebel
The Emotional Connection gives you the motivation, excitement and push to take action, even when you feel like not doing it.
To create Emotional Connection with your vision, answer these questions:
If you were living the life you would love to live, how would you feel? What are the most important gains that life would give you? How would you feel every day?
3. Create your Roadmap
“Planning is bringing the future into the present so you can do something about it now”. Alan Lakein
Creating a Roadmap is key to connect with your vision in the present and define the steps that will take you from where you are to where you want to be.
To do that you need to visualize how close to your vision you could be in 5 years, 2 years and 1 year, for example. This helps you set goals and actions based on these scenarios.
Therefore, the questions to answer will be:
To get closer to your vision, what do you want to achieve in 5 years? in 2 years? In one year?
4. Take Intentional Action
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out”. Robert Collier
To create your vision, you need to take Intentional Actions day in and day out. Actions that get closer to your long-term vision and make you feel the way you want every day.
Take few minutes at the beginning of each week and ask yourself:
What can I do this week to get closer to my vision? Write it down on your planner.
Then, ask yourself every morning:
How can I feel today the way I want to feel? and what can I do today to get closer to my weekly goals?
CAUTION: Do not set more than 2 or 3 actions per day, to avoid the feeling overwhelmed syndrome, which usually ends in procrastination.
5. Measure your Performance
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it”. Peter Drucker
The best way to improve your Performance is knowing what has gone well and what hasn’t. It’s important that you define advance and result indicators and review your Performance at least weekly, that way you will identify the actions you’ve been avoiding and why, what has come easy and most of all, how much you have achieved that week.
Sometimes, although you have been busy every day, you feel like you have achieved nothing, the indicators will help you clearly see your results and even identify opportunities for improvement.
Answer this question:
What indicators can you use to assess your performance?
6. Celebrate your Wins
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate”. Oprah Winfrey
Each action taken either small or big brings you closer to your vision. When you Celebrate your wins, your motivation and excitement increase, helping you move forward and take action.
You don’t need complicated and expensive ways of celebrating, what’s important is to give yourself permission to celebrate and congratulate yourself for your effort. A walk in the park, a coffee in your favorite coffee shop, an ice cream, a half an hour nap, are all ways to celebrate your wins.
Therefore, it’s important to define:
How will you celebrate your weekly achievements? Are you willing to celebrate your daily wins too?
You are the CEO, General Manager and Director of your life, you have the power to create the life you want to live because you are who takes the decisions.
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