Confidence Tips: New Year goal setting success

15 December 2014

Madeleine Morgan of Growu talks about how to achieve your New Year goals in 2015: Part 2

 

Madeleine  writes:

I saw this quotation recently: “I would say happy New Year but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.”  Robert Clark

So why was it so difficult to make that new personal, career or business life happen in 2014 and achieve your goals? How can you make sure the New Year is better, that you achieve your goals in 2015 and that your life is more fun and rewarding?

Last week I shared 2 of the obstacles to creating the new you, new career or new business goals you might have encountered in 2014 and 2 ways to overcome them and achieve your goals in 2015.

  1. You make the same old things important, e.g.:
    You make staying in your comfort zone more important than trying something new.
    This can happen even if we feel that comfort zone is actually uncomfortable. For instance:
    • You may stick in the same old job with the same difficult colleagues or boring tasks because it’s ‘better the devil you know’. Maybe you’re worried that you’ll jump from the frying pan to the fire and the change won’t be any better than you already have.
    • You may be settling for an uncomfortable kind of harmony rather than having the difficult conversation with your employee, partner, family member, client or friend.
    • You may just be making yourself too busy to get your head round taking a step into the unknown. When we’re busy we tend to fall back on our ‘default modes’…the things we’re used to doing.
    As Craig Lounsbrough says, “We desire an exciting future, but the demand for familiar and comfortable tempers our steps to the point that often our steps are little more than stepping in the same place.”
    If you want changes in your life, start making curiosity, learning and adventure more important than staying in your comfort zone when setting and going for your goals in the New Year.
  1. You haven’t got the skills and knowledge you need
    Set yourself up for success by getting the skills and knowledge you need to succeed in achieving your goals in the New Year. For instance, to achieve your goals, do you need to know more about:

    • Dealing with difficult people?
    • Marketing and selling yourself, your business or your ideas?
    • Presenting?
    • Mastering your emotions – anger, stress, confidence etc?
    • Managing your money?
    • Getting clear about what you want and how to get it?
    • ?

    Find out if your employer will invest in coaching and training to help you plug some of the gaps and if they won’t… invest in coaching and training for yourself.

    Clients I have been working with have often received 100% - 400% and more return on the money they have invested in their coaching because of salary raises, better jobs and higher profits they’ve achieved in their career or business. And…their increased confidence and greater ability to create brilliant relationships has been priceless.

  1. You’re surrounded by the wrong people
    They say that our wealth is the average of the 5 people we spend most time with. At the same time negative and discouraging people can put a drag on our personal, career and business development. So…
    1. Surround yourself with people who are encouraging, creative, positive, adventurous, open-minded and mature and who have a ‘can do’ attitude. These are the kinds of people who will help you achieve your goals in the New Year.
    2. Help others to achieve their goals in the New Year by being that person for them too. And remember… like attracts like, so you’ll attract more positive people to you J
    3. Build a team of people who can help you achieve your goals in the New Year. Share your goals with friends, colleagues, suppliers, a life coach, a career coach, a leadership coach or a business coach

Are you interested in making 2015 your best year yet in your personal, career and business life?

If you are, I’d like to offer you a free, confidential ‘Best Year Yet’ Coaching Discovery Session

I have 5 sessions left out of the 10 sessions I intend to give away in December.

During that 60 minute session,

  • We’ll discuss where you are with your personal, career or business life.
  • We’ll uncover hidden barriers to your success.
  • We’ll get clear about how you’d like your life to be.
  • Then I’ll show you how you can bridge that gap. You’ll go away feeling positive, excited and confident about making 2015 your best year yet.

If you would like to apply for a session, just email me:madeleine@growu.co.uk

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