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I’m not sure how the Christmas break for you was but mine was a rollercoaster ride. As you can imagine, there was laughter and tears, involving friends and family, just like most households at this time. The majority was positive and, for once, my wife and I got the chance to enjoy a couple of beach walks together, which gave us time to reflect and plan.

2018 has gone into the memory bank and 2019 is already in the second week, starting the journey of creating future memories. There is so much to do this year. 

My main objective is to get to the end of the year, with some important areas of my life, 1 – 2 points up on last year. These are the areas I measure on a scale of 1-10 (10 being the best): You may have different ones!

Family, friends and community (6)

Wellbeing (7)

Health & Fitness (8)

Personal growth (7)

Social & fun (8)

Career (7)

Financial (8)

These areas all have a greater meaning when you unravel them. Personal growth can involve anything from learning something new, through to being more spiritual. By understanding why you score the area, as you do, it helps to identify what you can do to do to improve things.

As you can imagine, these are my measures based on a number of factors and each area is linked or affected by other areas, or the focus you have. If there are tensions within the family it can have an impact on wellbeing or if your focus is to drive a career, it can impact the family friends and community. By improving one area you can also improve another, for example: Improving health and fitness, may also have a positive impact on social and fun.

When it comes to ‘notching’ them up a point or two, it requires tangible actions, that need commitment, so you , or others around you, can see or notice a difference. 

Last year, a person I know of, vowed to run at least 3 miles every day. His motivation crossed a number of the areas above such as wellbeing, health and fitness, personal growth and social / fun. He raised money for a charity, along the way, which also tapped into his ‘being a good person’ area. What I do know is that, after his first run, nothing had changed physically, but, mentally, the process had begun and small successes can take you a long way and keep you going. This is how he achieved 365 days running, 2018 miles completed, 90lbs lost and £6k raised for charity – what a great achievement.

It takes consistency to create results, it never normally happens, perfectly, the first time you try and, sometimes you don’t see or feel the benefits straight away, but if you keep learning and developing the results start to come in.

Whatever you have planned, enjoy the here and now, notice the view and take a good long breath to savour the moment – keep going and keep taking consistent actions.

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