Wake up, Jump into your life - A Journey into Self Observation

By Steve Lentini
 

 Twenty Strategies for a Life of Joy, Satisfaction and Success

So let's take a look at Strategy Three and Four this week.

Strategy 3 - Record and journal the reactions to your choices.

Recording your choices can be of great value if you are looking for new results in your life. Often, we react to situations that arise in our life with a "default" response. The one that we have been conditioned to choose over time.

Keeping a journal for a period of time can help you see the patterns in your choices. In the beginning, just noting the events or people that anger you, frustrate you, make you jealous, envious, etc., will be of value.

You can go back and read the journal after a month and look at where you are reacting the same old way and still expecting new results.

Beginning with the end in mind, that new desired result, you can begin to note in the journal the new choices that would be required to get that new result.

As you implement the new choices, the journal can again serve to you as proof that new actions and choices are getting new results. You learn that you have power as you no longer are waiting for others to change. You see that as you make new choices, events and people around you change. You change and things change.

If you can manage a program of change without writing things down, then journaling is not for you. If the idea of journaling sounds "uncomfortable," then perhaps this signals that a new choice is required.

Strategy 4 - Participate in a "safe group" of like minded others.

When I suggest that you could participate in a "safe group" of like minded others let me explain.

I have been in a training group for over three years and I am committed for another four years. I will be in this kind of training for the rest of my life. The value of the group that I am in now is that they know me inside and out. I feel safe with them. I can point out the default patterns of those around me in class and they feel safe enough with me to do the same for me.

How many people do you have around you that will tell you what you need to hear rather that what you want to hear?

Seminars are wonderful, training weekends are wonderful, you take with you new learning for sure. Do you think you can really get down to the program that is running your programs?

Patti Salvucci of BNI has said to me that "it's key to be working harder on yourself than on you business, because your business benefits more in the long run."

I am offering a weekend program in December at the Publik House and Inn that is designed to get at your default programs. It is the first in a year long program that will meet every other month for one year. The total number of weekends is five including the introductory weekend. You attend the introduction and then decide if the year commitment is for you. Once you sign up, you are committed to pay for every weekend, no matter what. You can miss one weekend and still graduate. Learning how to really commit to things in life is one of the lessons of the course. Paul Scoglio will be assisting. If you are interested, please register or call me with questions. Once the introductory period is over, the class remains closed to the participants who signed on so that we can create the "safe group" environment.