“Giving up blaming others for your unhappiness, your perceived failures, and your life may leave you silent for a while. But the silence is worth it. It leads to a clamoring awareness.”

–Anne Wilson Schaef

In an earlier entry I wrote about how successful people live balanced lives. They nurture body, mind, and spirit. They have a plan for success that is based on goals and objectives.
A goal is long-term and focuses on a specific category such as career/profession, education, spiritual, personal health & fitness, social, relationship, cultural and undoubtedly others that an individual identifies as important to living a balanced and successful life.
Objectives are short-term tasks that lead you to the achievement of your goal. Let’s use the category of education as an example of a goal – this goal might be earning a specific college degree or it may be becoming an accomplished pianist. Your initial short-term objectives might include:
1) investigation of what you need do to accomplish the goal;
2) contact some good places to get the required knowledge to accomplish your goal;
3) determine costs involved (time, money); and anything you think you need to begin.
You may want to consider getting some help in your plan for success. We offer individual consultation and group workshops specifically to help you.

What is success? There is no one answer to this question. Success is something different to all of us. Some of us may immediately plug into the ‘American Dream’ as our answer, though I wonder how true this is for any of us. Most of us probably want parts of the traditional American Dream – a house that fits our needs or our dreams, enough money to live to our desired standard. It’s likely that we define the greater picture of success from our own unique perspective.
One way to determine your definition of success was talked about in a past entry. There I wrote about finding a job you love, a job for which you have a passion. But a job, a career, is only part of success.
Successful people live balanced lives. They nurture body, mind, and spirit. They have a plan for success.
It has been proven time and time again that successful people, those who live a balanced life and find joy in living, have this plan for success grounded in specific goals. These goals include a long-term (three to ten years or more) goals with short-term (six to twelve month) objectives.
You’ll find more about developing your individual success plan in another entry.

“Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It’s not what they’re doing or should be doing that’s the issue. The issue is your own response to the situation and what YOU should be doing.”

–Stephen R. Covey

“If you don’t love yourself, nobody else will. Not only that-you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.”

–Dr. Wayne W. Dyer