Get What You Want

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Step Right Up and Get What You Want! 

 Continuous Improvement - Part 1

Continuous improvement is empowering!  Adopt continuous improvement as an approach to your life, your work and your relationships.  You will start to tweak your choices so that they have a positive impact on what matters most to you.  I use a process to coach myself and others called, Coaching Choices, it’s based on the legendary work of Dr. William Glasser’s, Choice Theory®.   Choice Theory teaches a person that the only behavior one can control is their own, yet there are many effective ways to influence the behavior of others.

Coaching yourself begins with identifying what you want to have in your life, keep in your life, and work for in your life.  Discover what in your life needs attention and what you might need to give up.  You will be adding to your wants and adjusting your wants throughout your continuous improvement journey.   The first step is for you to dig in and explore what you want.

Purchase a five-section spiral notebook.  Begin to explore and record what you want in the first section dedicated to Wanting.  Utilize the other four sections of your notebook to create four separate categories.  Write on the section dividers the category headings.  Here are ones I suggest: 

Relationship Matters

                  Family

                  Friends

                  Work

                  Others

Health and Welfare

Self-Care

Spiritual

Work

Financial

Fun, Fears and Feats

                  Pleasure

                  Learning

                  Avoiding

                  Achievements

Planning

                  Prioritizing

Overcoming obstacles and objections

                  Boundaries

Next, turn back to your Wanting section, pick up your pen, and focus on what you want.  Begin to write down everything you can think of that you have that you want to keep or make better.   Next list all the things you don’t have that you believe would make your life better.  Don’t edit, don’t count off for spelling or worry that you might be writing out a want that you can‘t have or one that might conflict with other wants.  Most wants present challenges. Coaching Choices will help you uncover what your choices are around what you want. Refining your wants will be what you work on next.

Stay plugged in to my blog for inspiration on how to organize and determine what you want. This is a process that can change your life, improve your personal and professional effectiveness and ramp up the quality of your relationships.  Are you willing to engage in the process?

Goal setting is coming up next…

Still Learning,

Honey Shelton