With the holidays right around the corner, it truly is a wonderful time of year!

Unfortunately for many, it’s also followed by the anxiety, fear, and despair of the next 12 months…

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to skip those emotions and make this year your best year ever?

Let me help you…

To begin, you must answer this question:

“Who will I be 12 months from now?”

When we dream about our lives (and we should) it’s common to focus on the things we wish to have or milestones we hope to accomplish:

• a new home
• a new car
• lose 10 pounds
• a vacation
• a new career

While these are all very legitimate goals to strive for, we often fall short and in turn, blame it on our circumstances or worse, blame our failure on someone else.

In reality, the problem was most likely:

Your strategy – you were simply doing the wrong things.

Your work ethic – you weren’t consistently taking action over a long enough period of time.

The good news is both of these issues can be solved.

You could search out the “right” things to do and you could strong-arm yourself to do them consistently.

The first is simple enough, the second…not so much.

This is where many people repeat their cycle of failure.

DREAM -> PLAN -> LACK OF CONSISTENT ACTION -> FAIL -> DECREASED SELF-ESTEEM -> REPEAT

This brings us back to our question and why you must answer this question for success in 2018.

“Who will I be 12 months from now?”

Who will I be, not only what do I want…

Will you work to become the type of person who is willing to do what is necessary to become successful?

Here are step-by-step instructions for beginning to answer this question and 2018 your best yet!

STEP ONE – AUDIT SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE

What character traits do ultra-successful people exhibit?

Integrity, passion, optimism, self-responsibility, patience and drive just to name a few.

Start with an exhaustive list of the character traits common to successful people and make note of the traits you habitually exhibit and the ones you are lacking.

STEP TWO – BUILD POSITIVE HABITS

Thinking about who you want/need to be will not on its own turn you into that person. It’s only through consistent action that you will develop yourself into the type of person required to meet your goals.

One lesson to learn from successful people is the importance of positive habits. Use this concept and apply it to the character traits you’d like to add to your personal list.

For example, if optimism is a trait you you want to develop, start every day by writing a list of 3 things you are looking forward to.

STEP THREE – AWARENESS & ACCOUNTABILITY

There is no quick fix for building the character traits that will yield success in your life.

Once you’ve created the list of character traits required for your success, and you’ve identified a positive habit that will help you develop each one, the next step is to pay attention. Try to catch yourself when you fall back into old patterns and quickly correct the course.

Apps like Habit List can be helpful in holding yourself accountable.

PRO TIP

Don’t wait until January to start becoming the person you will need to become if success in all areas of life is on your wish list – your new life starts now!

By waiting you only dig yourself into a deeper hole. Set aside time as soon as possible to start this process.

THE POINT

While defining what you want is very important to your future success, it’s “who you are” that precedes both and that won’t change unless you commit to taking the correct actions to develop yourself.

What do you think are the top 3 character traits for building extraordinary success?

Dr. Steven Gall has been offering exceptional chiropractic care to infants, children and adults for over 25 years. He has spent his life learning, and improving his knowledge, skills and ability to provide his care. As a public speaker and health coach he strives to assist people in seeing and attaining a life of extraordinary health. Contact the office to join others who have started the same journey.

How often do your resolutions become reality?

If you’re like most, it’s about 8% of the time, and that’s not even terrible considering less than 25% of people stay committed to the end of the first 30 days!

This year, ditch the resolutions and do this instead.

The primary reason traditional resolutions rarely work is because they focus too much attention on the end result as opposed to the process it’ll take to get there.

“I’m going to lose 10 pounds this year!”

It’s a worthy goal, but that declaration has nothing to do with the success path or day-to-day commitments required to make it real.

Follow this process to improve your life in 2021 and beyond.

ASSESS YOUR LONG-TERM GOALS  

It’s not as though goal setting has no value, only that revisiting your long-term vision is step one, not the only step.

Dream big as most tend to underestimate what they can accomplish in a lifetime and overestimate what they can do today.

ASSIGN A DOLLAR AMOUNT

Living in reality is a fantastic way to create the future you’re dreaming of.

Just about everything has a monetary cost, so it only makes sense to assign that cost.

“What will the mortgage be on our dream house?”

“How much do we save for life experiences?”

“How much will we need to save for the kids education?”

Once you have a monthly expense total for your Dream Life, you can reverse engineer the revenue you’ll need to earn and what you’ll need to accomplish to earn it.

Aside from a real sense of peace that comes with knowing your numbers, it also

gives a deeper purpose to the day-to-day actions that you’ll be completing.

PLAN LIKE A CORPORATION

Split your year into 4 quarters and approach your life planning no differently than Amazon or Apple would schedule there’s.

Success leaves clues, and it only makes sense we follow the trail and follow suit.

Every 90 days, host a detailed strategy session for yourself or your family during which you’ll review your successes and failures, your proximity to the future goals, and what changes, if any, need to be made.

CREATE COMMITMENTS

Once you’ve made it this far, you can easily replace your annual resolutions with commitments to each and any action steps required to move you closer to your future dreams.

Whether that dream is retirement or losing 10 pounds, it’s all the exact same process.

Set your daily schedule to support keeping your commitments and encourage those around you to help keep you accountable to them.

When you apply this process over time, the results become exponential.

You’re not only able to complete one commitment and replace it with another but instead; many prior commitments simply become your new habits.

Those well thought out habits push the unconscious, and often detrimental routines aside, leaving you with progressively more and more strong, life-enhancing automatic actions to guide your success.

Now, if given two choices, which do you think is better?

A New Year’s resolution or an entirely new you… every year!

Dr. Steven Gall has been offering exceptional chiropractic care to infants, children and adults for over 25 years. He has spent his life learning, and improving his knowledge, skills and ability to provide his care. As a public speaker and health coach he strives to assist people in seeing and attaining a life of extraordinary health. Contact the office to join others who have started the same journey.

It’s easy to get fixed on goal setting, especially when the holidays finish up and a fresh New Year is upon us.

The tendency is to focus too much on “lag” measures… goals… the end point vs. “lead” measures…action steps…and consistent to-dos.

Here are 20 actions to predict health success in 2020.

Dr. Steven Gall has been offering exceptional chiropractic care to infants, children and adults for over 25 years. He has spent his life learning, and improving his knowledge, skills and ability to provide his care. As a public speaker and health coach he strives to assist people in seeing and attaining a life of extraordinary health. Contact the office to join others who have started the same journey.