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Creating Structure and Staying with it will help You to Transform your life.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

I believe that having structure in my life helps me better accomplish my goals.  This is especially true when there are a variety of projects happening at the same time.  The structure that I create helps me to monitor my efforts and also to be accountable for my actions, my behavior that is essentially directed at achieving what I say I want out of life.  I especially use this approach in my music profession and the project that I have taken on developing or creating for myself.

In my counseling work with clients I always attempt to enroll them into this type of strategy for managing their life.  For the most part, there is a great deal of resistance with respect to the entire goal setting process.  Many clients will go through the process of creating structure and then do not follow through with it.  Some refuse to do it completely.  The resistance to creating structure that will help you to follow through with what you say you want is merely a statement that you truly want to stay the same.  The pay off is that the individual does not have to be responsible for his life.  I believe that the only way we will change or transform our life is through creating structure.

This structure will appear as having a general plan for what you are wanting to do and also a daily action plan.  The general plan is a the goals of what I want to have happen and the daily action plan is how, everyday, I will go about making them happen.  The more specific and positive the goals the better.  The more time and place specific for the daily action plan the better.

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To Transform my Life is Work and Requires Accountability..

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

My own desire to transform my life presents itself every morning that I wake up.  I set my goals for the day and begin the process of working on them.  Monitoring them throughout the day helps but usually I do not get all that I set out to do done.  While one could find fault with falling short with the daily goals, I do not.  I seem to get more done now that I stay present to my daily goals.  This process is even more important for me today as I move into a new venture.

For many years I practiced counseling.  I still do but not as much now.  In addition to being a counselor, I am also a musician.  For years I created music and always wondered what it would be like to offer my music to the world and be able to do it in a manner where I could make a living at it.  Given this notion, I have recently switched my work roles.  Where I worked full time doing counseling I now work full time with my music.

For me the use of monitoring my daily activities is absolutely crucial.  It helps me to be accountable and responsible to myself.   There is always the tendency to not complete on what we take on in life.  This is especially apparent when we start to create something new for our life.  The monitoring of my daily work helps me to stay present to what I truly want to do with my life.  To transform my life is work.

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Our Nature as Human Being Involves Resistance.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

As human beings we do not really want or like to change.  We like for things to be the same, for us not to have to put forth much effect to have what we say we want.  We do not want to change and even, will resist change especially if another human being attempts to help us.  Yes, we do change but we have to first get it that we do not want to change.  Accepting our resistance is important for the process.  We must first accept the fact that we will resist change in order for us to take it into consideration in our planning to transform our lives.  It is important for us to plan and to make goals but it is equally important for us to plan how we will resist the process, will resist our achieving the goals we set.  Such planning gives us power to respond appropriately when needed.

In my work in recovery I counsel people in how to recognize when they are resisting, when they are doing things to counter the goals they set and say they want.  Such insight is important and necessary if individuals are to say in the program of recovery.  The resistance will also show up in the very suggestions that are given, by a sponsor or therapist.  The tendency is not only to resist but to continue to do it his or her way, with the results usually the same, much of how it was in the past.  Our tendency is to try to do things and life our way, even when we continue to get the same results.

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Chapter Seven – Unleash the Power of Goal-Setting

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

A key component to effective goal setting is to convert your goals to specific, measurable goals and objectives. The more specific and measurable the goal and objective the better. As Canfield says, vague goals achieve vague results.

Given that we are goal seeking beings, such a process will also utilize the power of your subconscious mind, helping you to move towards and achieve your chosen goals even while you are sleeping.

Always write your goals and objectives down, putting them into written form. Making your goals and objectives concrete through writing them down also helps you to even more effectively engage your subconscious mind in this process.

While goals need to be obtainable, be sure to create goals that stretch you, as Canfield states. Create a breakthrough goal, a goal such that to achieve it would change everything in your life.

Be sure to review your goals daily. Be sure to read your goals three times a day. Read each goal out loud and with passion, closing your eyes to visualize your achieving the goal.

Such a process of stating and visualizing yous goals creates, as Canfield states, what is referred to as structural tension, between how things are and how you want them to be in your life. The more the structural tension the more the mind will work to close the gap. Read your goals each day. Make them visual to see each day, as with writing them down using 3 x 5 index cards.

Canfield also suggests carrying your more important goal in your wallet.

However, there are things that will attempt to stop you, once you have created and started to work on achieving your goal. Considerations are reasons the mind creates for why you should not achieve the goal you want. Fears are the second thing that will attempt to stop you, for example, fear of failing, of making a fool of yourself, etc. Roadblocks are external circumstances or situations that appear once you start work on achieving your goal. Considerations, fears and roadblocks will appear in the process of your working towards achieving your goal and the work anyone is to face them and move through them to achieve what you want, your goal.

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