| This Week's Topic: Ignite Your Fire - 8 Week Challenge
Dear Friend, "You are not who you used to be, and you are not yet who you will become" ~Unknown We are just about eight weeks away from the end of the 2009. Between now and the end of the year we have a season filled with joy and celebration. This week, as your coach, I am issuing you a challenge! The challenge is this take the next 8 weeks to knock out one thing that is bugging you, nagging at you or just plain driving you crazy! Use the Ignite Your Fire - 8 Week Challenge to finish 2009 with a bang ... and kick start 2010!
The question is...are you up for the challenge? I know, you have it in you, but are you willing to step out of your comfort zone and commit to taking specific actions in your life? The only rule of this game is you need to be able to produce - specific measurable results. In other words tonight or tomorrow morning you need to decide exactly what it is you want to commit to ... what are you willing to change in your life in order to achieve your goal?
Here are three questions to help you decide what to work during the Ignite Your Fire - 8 Week Challenge:
1) What one thing if you could wave a magic wand and eliminate would make you feel better?
2) When you think of your life, what stands out as your "sore thumb"?
3) What in your life, if others knew, would you be embarrassed of?
If you are struggling here are some suggestions ... take on what feels right for you:
· Eliminate Gossiping
· Get on an Exercise Program
· Minimize - Television, Video Games, Internet, Texting, etc
· Stop Wasting Resources - Time, Energy, Gas, Plastic, etc
· Clean Your Clutter
· Remove the Garbage from your Diet
· Drink Less Alcohol
· Smile More
· Organize Your - Home, Desk, Car, etc
· Give More
Make It Happen
Here is how you play...
Step 1: Decide what you are going to change, reshape, get rid of, or add to your life (This must be a specific, measurable goal. For example, increase sales by 20% vs. increase sales or increase GPA from 2.9 to 3.5 vs. increase GPA.)
Step 2: Pick a coach who wants to support you. This can be a friend, family member or co-worker. Or if you would like, I would be honored to be your coach and partner - just email me at mp@margaretpundmann.com.
Step 3: Pick a celebration of any type to reward yourself at the end.
Step 4: Chunk it down. Break your goal into 8 pieces - for the 8 weeks of the challenge. Each Sunday/Monday you will put together a plan for that week. If you can't make the plan yourself - get a 'SME' - subject matter expert - who can advise you and help you develop a plan.
Step 5: Go for it! Believe in yourself!
Step 6: Share your journey with friends, family and your coach! | | | Blessings to you,
Margaret. P.S. Encourage your friends, family, and colleagues by sharing this newsletter with them and invite them to subscribe! Direct them to www.MargaretPundmann.com where they can sign up. Margaret Pundmann is a life and business coach, speaker, and author of numerous articles on living your most powerful life. Stay tuned, Margaret's first book for emerging women will be available for pre-order in the coming weeks. | Please feel free to forward the "Powerful Living, Powerful You" newsletter to friends and colleagues, but please forward in its entirety. The "Powerful Living, Powerful You" newsletter is written and distributed by Emerge Enterprise. Copyright © 2008 Margaret Pundmann. All rights reserved. www.MargaretPundmann.com. | |
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