“An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.” -Dale Carnegie
Putting dreams into reality can be an incredibly overwhelming process. Especially with endless possible directions to choose from, how do we even begin to bring our visions to reality?
Setting goals is one of the primary ways to do this….getting it from your head to paper is the first step in to making things ‘real’. The main thing to remember is to focus on one step at a time. Don’t try to focus on all the steps, just the one that sits at your feet. This kind of approach helps block out all the outside ‘noise’ and brings simpler things into focus.
Here are some books that can serve as a guide if you are at this step in the process!
The desire map : a guide to creating goals with soul / Danielle Laporte
Most life-planning tools focus on external attainment and results. Which is valuable. Getting results is what moves your life forward. Except that most goal-setting systems fail to harness the most powerful driver behind any aspiration: your preferred feelings; and they foster an uptight determination that can keep us from the vitality we crave. The Desire Map program is holistic life-planning. The inner meets the outer. The spirit drives the material.
The purpose of The Desire Map is ultimately, to help you remember your light, your true nature, your source. It will show you your heart’s longing — your core desired feelings, and help you use your core desired feelings as a guidance system for making choices.
You will use your desired feelings as a way to access comfort and clarity during painful times, and help you accentuate the positive aspects of your life, while still honouring, and not invalidating, the negative parts that you want to change. You will learn to regard your feelings as road signs to your Soul, so that you can plan your day, your week, your month, your year and, feel great, making a lot of awesome things happen in every area your life.
The 90 Day Life: How to Live More In Three Months Than In Three Years/ Dr. Jen Faber
Too many people think the formula for doing what they want is to wait for a “golden opportunity” to arrive somewhere in the hazy future, rather than taking advantage of the time right in front of them. This leaves them distracted, filling their lives with busy work and chatter.
The 90 Day Life is about helping people stop putting their lives on hold and start taking action now. It is the book for you if you find yourself in a place where you:
■ Feel like there is something more in life for you.
■ Find yourself stuck in a rut.
■ Think you should be happy because you’ve “made it,” but find
yourself searching for more.
To break this addictive and self-perpetuating cycle, The 90 Day Life reveals how to actually break away from feeling stuck in life and create the life you truly want in 90 days. It will guide you on how to stop letting unhappiness, stress, and life routines become your norm, so you can hit the reset button and get more fulfillment and joy from your life. It will help you reassess what’s working for your life right now and what isn’t. It will put the focus back on what you want, rather than what you’re supposed to do.
The 90 Day Life will help you map out a plan for how to reset the course of your life from day-to-day routine to creating your happiness and fulfilling your life goals. Together we’ll go from a transformation from living life on autopilot to being in the driver’s seat.
You were created for a purpose, and it’s time to make it happen. Make It Happen is for women who find themselves worried, anxious, and completely overwhelmed by the constant chase for perfection those seeking the courage to jump into a new venture
working women who are struggling to “do it all” weary wives and moms looking for relief from burning the candle at both ends anyone who dreams of a life lived not by accident, but on purpose Your time has come to take a leap of faith. Join me as we surrender our fears, end the chase for perfection, and say yes to cultivating the meaningful lives God desires for us. You know all those things you’ve always wanted to do? You should go do them.
Your best year ever : a five-step plan for achieving your most important goals / Michael Hyatt
We all want to live a life that matters. We all want to reach our full potential. But too often we find ourselves overwhelmed by the day-to-day. Our big goals get pushed to the back burner–and then, more often than not, they get forgotten. New York Times bestselling author Michael Hyatt wants readers to know that it doesn’t have to be this way. In fact, he thinks that this is the year readers can finally close the gap between reality and their dreams.
In Your Best Year Ever, Hyatt shares a powerful, proven, research-driven system for setting and achieving goals. Readers learn how to design their best year ever in just five hours by learning three simple ways to triple the likelihood of achieving their goals, how to make goals quit proof. He teaches what to do when feeling stuck and much more.
Anyone who is tired of not seeing progress in their personal, intellectual, business, relationship, or financial goals will treasure the field-tested wisdom found in these pages.
Soar! : build your vision from the ground up / T. D. Jakes
Too often we remain in jobs that stifle our souls and leave us on the runway of opportunity with the engine of our deepest passion stalled, watching others make their personal vision a reality and build a legacy for their children-the opposite of what God intends for us. But it’s never too late to get your dreams off the ground! If you long to maximize your unique abilities and aptitudes, if you strive to combine personal fulfillment with professional satisfaction, if you dream of creating exceptional goods and offering transformative services and fulfilling God’s destiny for you, then you are ready to SOAR!
In SOAR! T.D. Jakes reveals how to build the uniquely personal vision within each of us into our special contribution to the world. Blending the practical business acumen of a successful, global CEO with the dynamic inspiration of a life coach, SOAR! provides the tools needed to ignite our imaginations into action and challenges us to embrace our God-given purpose as we align our character and creativity with our careers.
You may have seen the movies and read the books about manifestation, but your power to create your dreams still seems to be missing the mark. Don’t throw in the towel yet-there’s a radically new approach that may reveal the missing piece of the puzzle. With Creating on Purpose, innovative teachers Anodea Judith and Lion Goodman present a comprehensive, systematic method for realizing your highest aspirations. Shared with thousands in their popular nationwide workshops, this unique, step-by-step approach guides us through a rich study of the inner self, the outer world, and how to connect the two to make your dreams come true.
Manifestation is the process of bringing the spiritual and material together to create a better life for yourself, your family, and your community, explain Anodea and Lion. At the heart of this work are the energy centers known as the chakras, which offer us a profound formula for wholeness, a template for transformation, and a sacred map for manifestation. Learn how to make use of the top-down flow of energy between chakras-an ancient key to effective change, and a way of aligning our desires with our highest good.
The 12-week year : get more done in 12 weeks than others do in 12 months / Brian Moran and Michael Lennington
The guide to shortening your execution cycle down from one year to 12 weeks. Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a 12-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking. This book redefines your “year” to be 12 weeks long. In 12 weeks, there just isn’t enough time to get complacent, and urgency increases and intensifies. The 12 Week Year creates focus and clarity on what matters most and a sense of urgency to do it now. In the end more of the important stuff gets done and the impact on results is profound. Explains how to leverage the power of a 12-week year to drive improved results in any area of your life Offers a how-to book for both individuals and organizations seeking to improve their execution effectiveness Authors are leading experts on execution and implementation