Transform Your Life: 10 Steps to Real Results. Carole Gaskell

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      Personal Reward for Completing Step 1

      

Write down here how you will reward yourself when you have completed Step 1:

      Quick Transformation Quiz

       Answer the questions below by ticking the appropriate box and calculating your score as follows: 2 points = Yes/Agree/Not Applicable, 1 point = Agree sometimes, 0 point = No/Disagree

      Initial Score

Score on Completion of Step 1

      Final Score on Completion of Book

      

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

      Dale E. Turner

      

Confirm your Commitment

      As you begin the 10-step process, it’s important to acknowledge that whilst ideas, dreams and goals have a valuable place in your life, they’re only as good as your commitment to achieving them. Are you ready to start taking the steps required to turn your ideas into reality?

      

How committed are you to transforming your life? Rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being not particularly committed at all and 10 being totally committed: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

      

How committed are you to actively participating in the exercises in this book? Again, 1 is not particularly committed and 10 totally committed: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

      

How will you keep yourself disciplined to follow this process?

      You may think that it will be hard to keep to your commitment, that you will not have enough time to do it. But when you take charge of your life, you can find sufficient time to work on yourself. Your day can include time to go for a jog or to the gym, to meditate, catch up with friends or family, develop a business plan, write a book or plan a holiday … It’s a matter of making a choice and taking action! When you start a process like this, you’ll find your life is not just changing during the time you read the book but during the 10,000 minutes of every week!

      State your commitment to transformation by making a written agreement with yourself. Either use the following outline or develop your own wording to make your commitment more personal to you:

      My Agreement to Transform my Life

      I …………………… am committed to transforming my life. I understand I will get as much out of the process as I put into it and that it’s up to me to create my own value from each of the steps. I acknowledge that a lot will be asked of me. I am willing to experiment with changing my behaviour, trying new things, reassessing the assumptions and perceptions I hold, setting goals that are bigger, removing sources of stress in my life and starting to redesign the way I spend my time. I agree to complete the assignments to the best of my ability and to take action on the plans I write.

      I commit to devoting …… hours/days/weeks to transforming my life

      I will be honest with myself when the going gets tough and will ask for support when I realize I need it. Above all else I will relax, take time, progress at my own pace and enjoy the process.

      Your signature here …………………………………………

      Date ……………………………………………………

      

Gain Perspective from the Bigger Picture

      The first part of this step aims to get you thinking about yourself and your life slightly differently. I’d like you to stand back for a moment and see the bigger picture before you get down to some of the finer details of how you want to transform your life. I want you to allow yourself the space – and creativity – to see your life from a broader perspective.

      It’s an incredibly useful experience every once in a while to lift yourself out of the day-to-day pressures of your life and to look at things from a different vantage point. The benefits might not be immediately apparent, but stick with it – as you progress through the book your answers to some of these early questions could well prove to be invaluable to you! Take some time now to answer the following questions:

      Life Perspective Questions

      If you were totally financially independent and money wasn’t an issue for you, how would you spend your time? Be as specific as you can and write down what you would spend your time doing.

      

Who are your top three heroes or role models (alive or dead)? What do you admire most about them and why?

      

What are the three most important elements in your current life and what did you do to make them possible?

      

What experience in your life to date has become particularly important to you? (This can be a positive or negative experience, but either way, you know it has, or is likely to have, a significant impact on your life.)

      

Fast-forward your life and imagine yourself as a fly on the wall at your own funeral. How would you like to be remembered?

      

If you could choose a current problem or challenge in the world today that you could be involved in seeking a solution for, what would it be?

      

If you could start your life again with a totally clean slate but with the knowledge you’ve gained from all your experiences, what would you do differently next time?

      

Establish Where You Are Now

      Now consider your current life. The chances are it’s hectic and complicated. Life is like that. Most of us are so busy, we rarely have time to think, let alone make long-term plans. Your days are probably jam-packed full of work, chores, dashing from A to ? and back again. Perhaps you get up, dash madly around the house preparing for the day, drop the children off at school, commute to work, rush through your day-to-day tasks, pop out for shopping