Do you have a goal or dream you’ve been waiting to start? When you have more time, you’ve finished your certification, or are you procrastinating? Procrastination is your obstacle to overcome on the way to achieving your goals.

Set to Repeat

Let me guess, you wake up every day with your dream in your heart, thinking that maybe today is the day that you’ll have time to get started. Only to end your day with yet again another day of waiting to start on that goal.

Living each day as if you’re on repeat. Life is happening right now; it’s not three months from now when you’ll have that certification or more time.

Here is the hard truth: you will never have more time. Now, this is important; you’ll still have the same 24 hours in the day that you have now.

When I woke up to this truth, I began to shift. I stopped letting procrastination be my biggest obstacle. After that, I went from hoping something would happen to creating plans and believing it was happening.

You need to do the scary thing to move forward.

The bigger the dream goal, the more the brain will kick in to keep us safe. This is normal. Put it aside and start making your dreams a priority. Choose your goal.

To put it another way, no more choosing the obstacles of procrastination. In the end, the choice is always yours.

By the way, If you need help getting out of the repeat cycle of procrastination, I got you. This is what I do with my private coaching clients. Here is the link to my private coaching application.

Create the Map

Then with all your action items, begin to create a road map of all the small steps that you need to do to make it happen.

The trick is to take your list of action items and start to put them in order. Some prefer to reverse engineer the goal, beginning with the end in mind and working backward.

By working backward, you will see a clear vision of all the actions to be done.

Here’s the big secret: block time on your calendar to get the work done. By doing this, you’re creating space in your day to overcome the procrastination obstacle.

Time on your calendar means you know precisely what to do and when. Suddenly, your days will go from waiting to start to doable and done.

Do you have a big goal that you’ve been waiting for more time to start? I invite you back next week as I kick off my series on creating routines to simplify your life to stop being so busy.

When we create routines it helps us to simplify our lives to eliminate everyday decisions and give you more time and brain space to go after your dreams.

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

• Procrastination is your obstacle to overcome on the way to achieving your goals.
• Here is the hard truth: you will never have more time.
• You need to do the scary thing to move forward.
• When we are not clear, it will put us in the procrastination cycle.
• Here’s the big secret: block time on your calendar to get the work done. By doing this, you’re creating space in your day to overcome the procrastination obstacle.

It’s that time of year again when you hear the buzz New Year, New You. In other words, setting resolutions and goals for the new improved vision you have of becoming a better you.

What if

Let me ask, are you in a repeat cycle of starting and stopping? If this is you, you’re not alone. Most give up on themselves after only a few days.

What if this year was the year that you stop stopping? What if this year you stuck to the commitment of becoming a Better You?

Two Goals

Last year. I set two simple goals, just two simple goals so I thought. To complete my Yes Supply Coaching Certification and to upload a new YouTube video every single week. I had the mantra Business is easy when I take messy imperfect action. Do you know what? I’m keeping this mantra in 2022 because it pushed me to do the uncomfortable.

You guessed it, I did both of these.

Did it come with struggles? Oh, you bet it did!

So many times I had to talk myself into recording a video for my YouTube channel. In the beginning, I had my son edit all of them because I knew if I did it I would never, ever publish them.

In the beginning, my enough thoughts were rampant.

But, I kept my head down and stayed true to my word and my commitment to myself. I took action even when I really, really, really, really, really didn’t want to. Trust me there were many times when I didn’t really want to record a YouTube video.

Along the way, I celebrated my progress. I gave myself grace when my limiting thoughts came up.

And I keep going anyway.

I am capable of becoming a better me.

You see, I’m the only one that holds the ability to become a better me.

As much as I’d like to push this off on someone else. It’s me. I’m the only one that can become a better me.

I have to hold the belief that I am capable of becoming a better me.

My Other Goal

You may be wondering about my other goal for last year to finish my Yes Supply Coaching Certification. I did that one too. But getting the certification was the easy part.

Do you want to know the hard part? Self-coaching myself through all the limiting beliefs and garbage thoughts I had swirling around in my head.

I’ve known deep down inside since I started out as a virtual assistant I had a strong desire and inner calling to be a life coach. The problem is I pushed that desire down and covered it up.

Those Dang Limiting Beliefs

I allowed my limiting beliefs to win for years! FOR YEARS!

I allowed them to make me believe that I could not be a life coach. I was so worried about what would people say or what would they think. Oh, look at Michele calling herself a life coach, like the world, needs another life coach. Blah, blah, blah.

I don’t know do you find that same repeat conversion going on in your head?

I know now why. I had to first be my own best coach. I know now why I had to work through my own limiting beliefs. I know now why I had to be my own best client.

The work that I did was teaching me how to coach myself on anything that my creative mind came up with. I finally understand that the good LORD gave me everything I needed to be an amazing life and success coach.

I Found The Proof

If that wasn’t enough, in a search for something else I came across the emails from my friends and clients on My Superpowers.

If anyone has taken Marie Forleo’s B-School you know exactly what I’m talking about. When you send an email to a small number of people that you respect and trust and ask what they believe are your three best, strongest qualities.

These are were the most common qualities that came back to me: great listener, compassionate, giving, helpful, trustworthy.

I don’t know about you, but those are qualities that I look for when I’m hiring my next life and success coach.

My Goal For This Year Is Scary Too

Here it goes, this one is scary for me to share and put other there. This year, the goal on my Magic Chalkboard is to impact 26 lives as a life and success coach through my six-month private coaching.

This goal matters because of the impact it will create. Making an impact on someONE to help them believe they are capable of doing hard things. I want to help 26 people discover they are capable of achieving their dreams. You’re capable of doing the hard thing, they are capable of doing so much more than you give yourself credit for.

I know, if I could coach myself through all the limiting beliefs, self-doubt, and garbage that swirls around in my head, then I know, I KNOW, I can coach anyone else through their garbage and limiting beliefs.

If this is you with a head full of limiting beliefs and garage I invite you to apply to work with me. Apply now! 

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

• Let me ask are you in a repeat cycle of starting snd stopping?
• What if this year was the year that you stop stopping?
• What if this year you stuck to the commitment of becoming a Better YOU?
• What soundtrack do you have playing in your head that is telling you that the current you is not enough?
• I know that soundtrack oh so well. You’re not thin enough. You’re not smart enough, You’re not focused enough. Blah, blah, blah.
• You’ll probably laugh at me when I say this, but it’s your thoughts.
• It’s all the crap that you have going on between your ears that allows you to throw in the towel and give up on your goals and your dreams.
• It’s our limiting thoughts that like to keep us coming back to the same place.
• You see, you’re the only one that holds the ability to become a better you.
• You have to hold the belief that YOU ARE capable of becoming a better you.