I love the beer adds for the ever so popular Long Weekend. You know when we all try and cram a lifetime of fun into 3 days off. So as we enter into what our minds think of as the last long weekend of the year, Labour Day weekend, our minds are building lists of the things we want to experience. Basically, we've had a fun summer and now it's the time when we make plans for the coming months, this stretch between September and May, when we think of our "winter projects" and hunker down to get those projects done.
It is a well-known fact that the passions we have outside of our work lives fuel and energize us for our lives inside our careers. So as we head into the Labour Day weekend 2007, I want to make a suggestion for us all. Jot down a list of all the experiences you want to have this fall and winter. And start to cross them off. As you do this, just notice how you feel about your job. Whether your current job is your chosen passion or not, observe how you feel about yourself, your family, friends and colleagues. See how you inspire others around you this fall/winter to go after their un-dones as well.
Here's how it works: motivation is a physics equation, motivation comes from movement. Its inertia that carries us forward. So, by writing the list, movement occurs, moving you forward towards the list. Then perhaps you pick up the phone and make an appointment, that's movement. So literally pick up your pen, and perhaps your feet and move towards your goals.
Jot down some goals in a few general categories:
Physical
Relationships
Spiritual
Mental
Optional Area (Some goal that would really stretch you) This is what I call a Gutsy Goal.
Here is your challenge, cause lord knows we all need a few of these, write down 2 goals in each of these areas. You have 7 months to get it done! And as usual Linda wants to hear all about them. Email her at info@lindaedgecombe.com with your goals.
Linda Edgecombe, CSP