Committing to Goals and Keeping Them

This is the seventh and last in a series of posts on the story behind the making of my new book, 52 Week Game Changer:  How She Leads

Ok, we can all admit to it!  We’ve made goals countless times but more frequently than not have never met them.  I bet for most of us, goals we made five, ten, or maybe even twenty years ago are still out there in the stratosphere floating around.

I was first introduced to the idea of simple or single daily actions in a 12-week goal-setting workshop I took. (Blue Sky Visioning with Ben Dean and Anne Durand).  What a wonderful idea, I thought!  Small steps accumulated over time turn into big accomplishments.  Since that workshop, I have used this technique countless times in helping people move forward in achieving their goals and because of its success I wanted to incorporate the technique as singular process in the 52 Week Game Changer.

Having a personal vision is essential for leadership, but a vision is usually big, powerful and amorphous.  Getting your arms around how to turn vision to reality can be overpowering.  In fact many women I know become paralyzed with inaction not knowing where to start. That’s where simple daily actions can come to the rescue.

Simple daily actions are actions that you can control.  They are consistent, meaningful, and purposeful and taken together, they are so powerful that change the game……that’s why game changers will spend 26 weeks learning how to set simple daily actions and make them work. 

Be a Game Changer

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Being companion, confidant, cheerleader, supporter, and sponsor

The following is the fourth in the series of how my book, 52 Week Game Changer: How She LEADS, went from vision to reality.

 

I was steadfast that my new-to-be book’s structure must serve the functions of companion, confidant, cheerleader, supporter and a sponsor to every woman who walked the game changing journey.

That’s why there are elements and exercises in the 52 Week Game Changer that serve all these roles.  Each week there is a companion, confidant, cheerleader, supporter or sponsor there for you.  In the beginning of the journey you learn how living gratitude and celebrating your successes frames your perspective for success.  Throughout the 52 week journey, Gratitude and Success journal are your companions, confidants, and cheerleaders. 

Vision and purpose are your supporters and the simple daily actions you perform over 26  weeks are the sponsors that motivate and drive you forward in fulfilling your leadership potential.

Knowing that journeys and game changing can be difficult, I strategically placed “Way Stations” along the way so that journeyers could clarify where they are and where they are going, and be given the opportunity to adjustments.

I decided that 52 Week Game Changer should have two parts.  Part 1 would be a series of brief (very brief) chapters describing one element of the framework.  The purpose of the book is not to be an academic work (there are enough of these already).  The book’s thrust is “Changing the Game” and therefore is devoted to action.  The introductory chapters are brief, but substantive enough to help game changers understand the framework.  Part 1 of the book is a mere 15 pages.

Part 2 of the book is where the action happens.  It is the heart of the process, containing 136 pages devoted to changing the game.  It is in Part 2 that game changers will find their companions, confidants, cheerleaders, supporters and sponsors.  It is here where the game begins to change by celebrating who you are, identifying what you want to accomplish, defining the steps you want to take and taking action to change the game!