Focus on habits…
This year focus on your habits and rituals don’t get fixated on goals and outcomes.
James Clear author of Atomic Habits says
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems”
Whilst we set a desired outcome it is our daily habits that lead us to it.
Make sure you do not let an identity from last year or even further back restrict your progress.
- I’m terrible at strategy
- I don’t speak up at meetings
- I am disorganised
Take on a Growth Mindset (Carol Dweck)
- I will think strategically
- My voice will be heard in meetings
- I will have a clear desk every night
Megan Hellerer career coach to high flying women in the US, talks about the approach of being Destinational or Directional.
She describes Destinational – I want to be CEO (very clear goal and outcome). The route to this might be copied by others who have done it before eg. a very well known path, however somewhere along that route you loose control. You take on the habits of others and you don’t allow for deviation. You reach the desired destination but is it what you wanted or desired.
The Directional approach allows for changes and deviations you have total control, you make your own decisions and create your systems to compliment your route to your goal. You know that the world is not static and you move with the times.
Hellerer uses a road trip as a metaphor, Destinational follow a set road trip, they follow the guide exactly and might have a great trip, however they have not made the trip their own.
Directional co-create the trip depending on the weather and circumstances, they make their own decisions.
To summarise a quote from F.M. Alexander:-
“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures..”
Please do get in touch for a workshop on Habits and Rituals bev@nuggetsoflearning.co.uk
