Think Create - Leon Grey's Blog

The year of 2008 and is coming to an end and the festivities to celebrate are just beginning.  Christmas is right around the corner and during our holidays I think it worthwhile to reflect on the accomplishments that you have made.

Here are my accomplishments for 2008

• I got married to my wonderful wife Kirsty
• I graduated and became a fully fledged volunteer docent at Perth Zoo
• I made a few career moves and have landed in a great position at Fairfax Digital
• I lost weight then gained it back with a huge number of reinforcements (a new battle will be waged in 2009 with success)
• I bought a massive 60″ Plasma TV (a present for my wife. hehe)
• I joined an indoor cricket team
• I have made some great new friends and reconnected with old ones
• I started this blog and hopefully have made some differences in peoples lives

This is just a small sample of my reflections for the year 2008 and will be celebrated with lots of joy. Reflecting on the year has shown me that I have grown throughout this year and as they say, ‘If you’re not growing, you’re dying’.  There is no middle ground of limbo here, its either one or the other.

An important part of my Christmas holidays is to dedicate one whole day to goal setting for 2009. This gives me the chance to really think of what I would like to achieve for the year to come.  I really encourage you to take some time out and set some goals for yourself.  Don’t call them new years resolutions because society has linked the term to failure and made it completely okay and funny not to meet your resolutions.

A key to setting your goals is by getting massive leverage on yourself.  This means that you need to know the consequences of not reaching your goal.

E.g

My goal: Lose 30kg by 1st December 2009.

My Leverage:

If I don’t meet this goal:

• I will feel lethargic and fat for another year
• I won’t perform to my peak ability when playing sport and let down my team
• I will need to buy new clothes if I get bigger which will cost me money
• My confidence will shrink because I would feel self conscious about my size
• I will feel depressed because I am fat

You need to really think to yourself how it would make you feel to be fat for another year.  You must feel the feelings with intensity.  If you do this right then you can be certain that you have strong leverage to reach your goals.

On the other hand you can also think of the great things you will recieve from recieving your goal, thats the easy bit so Ill leave that with you to figure out.

I wish all my readers a wonderful Christmas and a propserous new year.

Have a Safe and Happy Holidays

Leon