5.Develop a Strategy to Get What You Want To achieve your goals, you need to create an action plan. Planning bridges gap between where you are now and where you want to be in future. What are steps you must take to move you forward?

6.Measure Your Progress Create mechanisms that will allow you to evaluate your progress. Use charts, write to do lists, track your actions, etc. Use anything that will encourage you to stay on track and to help you to see when adjustment is needed.

7.Develop a Support System Use buddy system. Surround yourself with people who encourage and challenge you to get what you want. Be accountable to someone other than yourself.

8.Commit to Personal Growth Process Success will not come over night, so allow process to unfold. Know that there will be times when you feel like quitting, but remember that “winners never quit.” Commit to doing whatever it takes to make your dreams come true.

9.Celebrate Your Success As you achieve smaller goals, stop and acknowledge it! Appreciate yourself for coming as far as you have! Build on your successes, and take bigger risks next time.

To ensure your success, be sure to set S.M.A.R.T. goals. Specific-the goal is clear, you know precisely what you are going after. Measurable-the goal is able to be measured, you will know when you have achieved it. Action-oriented-the goal is something you can take tangible action on. Reality-based-the goal is something that can be done, you will be able to do it. Time-limited-the goal is limited to a certain time frame, you will have parameters as to when you will have completed it.

Now is time to start setting goals for yourself so that you can begin creating life as you would like it! Good luck and Go For It!

Begin to listen to yourself, really listen to what you say to yourself and what you say to others about yourself. Learn that what you say is what creates your life. If you begin to see that words that you use when you are talking about yourself are true, hopefully you will begin to change them in order to change your reality. This includes jokes that you make at your own expense! Putting yourself down using humor is like wearing a neon sign that says, “I have low self esteem! I will make fun of myself before you can make fun of me!” You may be life of party doing this, but you are never going to empower your life.

Stop “diss-ing” yourself! Change disempowering words to empowering ones and create reality that you deserve.