We're almost at mid year and it's the perfect time reflect. 

To look back on the year so far and evaluate whether you’ve made progress on the things we wanted to get done this year. 

And even better, it’s a chance to look at the year ahead and make any adjustments needed so you can either stay the course if things are going well or maybe get things back on track if you don’t feel you’ve made the progress you wanted to make up to now.

When most of us think about goal setting and personal development, we focus on the WHAT and the HOW. So, what we want to accomplish and how we plan to do it.

That approach can work of course. But WHAT and HOW will only get you so far. So that’s a good approach to use when you’re going for career or life tweaks. Small shifts.  

Today, I wanted to talk about those times in life when you want BIG TRANSFORMATION. When you want to significantly change one - or maybe several – areas of your life.

When that’s what you’re going for, focusing on the HOW is not going to work. You’ll need to focus on the WHO. 

Specifically, WHO you’ve been in your work and life so far this year. 

And WHO you NEED to be going forward so you create the results you’re looking for in your career and life. Transformative results. Unexpected results. WOW results.

This is a very different – and I think a far more impactful – way of thinking about goal setting and achievement. It’s a helpful perspective to consider using during times in your life where small and incremental change just isn’t going to cut it. And I think it’s going to be super interesting.

So, let’s dive in.

Like I said earlier, this is not how we’re taught to approach goal setting or any other aspect of our life for that matter. 

Typically, when we think about where we want to go it’s ALWAYS from the perspective of where we are today. 

That seems logical, right?

It seems logical because it’s linear. 

And there’s no denying that each of us are where we are in our life. 

We have a very specific role in the current world. 

A level of income.  

A job title.

A set of skills to offer.

A set of people, possessions and things that make up our life.

Where we live, who we associate with, our daily routines and habits, our interests, activities. All of it.  

So, when we think about what we WANT to achieve or do NEXT, most of us think about our possibilities from that perspective. 

We think about building our future from where we are today.

And you can certainly do that. 

There are times in life where that makes perfect sense. And like I said, it’s what most of us do.

BUT what I want to offer today is a very different perspective. 

I want to come at personal development from the OPPOSITE point of view.

I want to think about personal development and goal achievement in a way that’s completely divorced from your current identity. Meaning, who you think you are in the world and how you think about your possibilities.

For more, give the episode a listen.

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