Wellbeing

A life coach’s top ten tips to achieve anything

Want to lose weight, start a new career, or finally meet your goals? We asked life coach Jo Davison how anyone can achieve what they want…

Want to lose weight, start a new career, or finally meet your goals? We asked life coach Jo Davison how anyone can achieve what they want…

1. Start at the end: Decide what you want in the long term, to ensure shorter-term goals fit with your end game. Otherwise, you could find yourself in a new job when you wanted to run a business, or in a casual relationship when you wanted to start a family.

2. Make it all about you – because if you slim down because someone else has a problem with your weight, or take a course that doesn’t interest you, to further a career you don’t love, you’ll either fail, relapse, or be disappointed with the result.

3. Make it inspiring – because if you’re quitting smoking, losing weight, or getting out of a bad situation, then your internal representation is all about loss. Instead, make it all about exciting possibilities: like saving the money for a fantastic holiday; flaunting your body in a fabulous bikini; or, opening the door to the time of your life!

4. Define why you want it – and write at least a paragraph justifying it to yourself. If you don’t feel good about what you’ve written, then revisit the previous steps because it’s not the right goal for you.

5. Pre-define your measuring stick – for example you might know you’ve achieved your target weight when you jump on the scales, or fit into your favourite skinny jeans. But, if your goal is to be confident, you’ll need to think a little harder about how you’ll know when you’ve got it.

6. Predict the obstacles that could thwart your progress. It might be distraction, your own bad habits, lack of support, time and money shortages, etc.

7. Devise a strategy to leap those hurdles, so that you’re well prepared and don’t get unexpectedly derailed.

8. Gain momentum by working towards it every single day, and turning it into habit.

9. Calibrate regularly by keeping a record of your starting point, and updating your progress, to show just how far you’ve come.

10. Celebrate how well you’re doing, every chance you get, by recognising the smaller achievements on the path to your bigger goal.

Written by Jo Davidson ‘Get a life’ coach from Live Yourself Happy http://www.liveyourselfhappy.com/

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Lucy Trevallion

Article by

Lucy Trevallion