How To Enhance Your Life - Dean Amory
Techniques for enhancing the quality of your life
Techniques for enhancing the quality of your life
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WHAT IT TAKES TO ENHANCE YOUR LIFE<br />
Happiness, Good Health, Wealth, Success, ... are wishes. Wishing for the<br />
sky won't improve the quality of your life and well-being. If wishes were<br />
horses, beggars might ride ...<br />
Neither will "wanting to succeed", "wanting to quit smoking", "wanting to<br />
lose weight" or "wanting to become more social, assertive, ..." be of much<br />
help to you. These are intentions.<br />
What it takes to be successful at enhancing your life is: GRASP IT!<br />
GRASP stands for: a Goal, a Reason, Action, a Strategy and Perseverance.<br />
Now, let's look into these elements in some more detail:<br />
GOAL<br />
Some of us may find it difficult to identify their dream, while others have so many dreams that their main<br />
problem is to prioritise among them. In either case, it is important to remember that most dreams will<br />
remain just that: dreams. Unless we prioritise and then transform our most urgent or important objective<br />
into a smart goal..<br />
SMART, meaning: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Rewarding and Time bound or Traceable.<br />
Now, write this goal down as a positive and concrete statement.<br />
For example: I will lose 10 kilos by the end of this year and will lose 2 kilos per month.<br />
Hint: It may be a good idea to paste your goal in visible, prominent areas around you to be regularly<br />
reminded of it.<br />
REASON<br />
Motivation is very important. The path to success is almost never a smooth one. If you are not prepared<br />
for setbacks, you may discover that your goal suddenly seems a lot less important when the going gets<br />
though.<br />
Motivation is what sparked the fire in the first place. It's the reason why you selected this goal and want to<br />
achieve it.<br />
But along the way, the intensity and direction of your motivation will vary. Maybe you started your path<br />
with one important reason in mind, but discover after some time that this is not the real reason why you<br />
want to achieve this specific goal. That is o.k. as long as your reasons fuel the enthusiasm and courage that<br />
you need to learn from failure and continue toward the fulfilment of your goal.<br />
Hint: A visualization board to help you visualize yourself enjoying the benefits which you will experience<br />
once you have accomplished your goal, may prove very helpful to get you through difficult moments.<br />
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