Getting from Here to There

This morning I was listening to motivational guru, Tony Robbins and I even though I don’t ascribe to the power of self for change, I do believe that faith-filled people can benefit some of the principles that are taught by the self-help advocates.  

The steps that Tony laid out for reaching your goals are:

1. Get clear on what you want. This speaks to desired outcomes in life.  This reminds of the adage, “If you aim at nothing you’ll hit it every time.”  This to me, getting clarity about life and destiny directly correlates with our faith: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Heb. 11:1.  A vision needs to clear, concise and filled with faith.  If it’s not then it’s too small.
2. Take action. This means put your faith before your fears. I recently read recently (I think it was Brian Souza who said) that on the other side of fear is where living can be found.  Why do we so often allow fear hinder us from living the lives that we dream of having?  We need to take action, even if they are small steps each day to get through our fears and experience successes that move us towards actualizing our dreams.
3. Measure your results; know what you are getting.  Someone once said that the definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results. If we aren’t measuring our progress then we’ll never know what or why the things we’re doing are getting us to where we want to be.
4. Make adjustments or course corrections.  I heard it said that airplanes are off course 90% of the time so the need to constantly be making course corrections in order to get to their destination.  I think this is a common problem for many of us. We’ve tried this, that or the other thing and it just didn’t work so we gave up and returned to living, “safe” instead of by faith and persistence.  

I think what really hit home for me was determining the “what”.  My life tends to be more about the “who”; about being and less about doing, but what I’m realizing is the importance of having a clear picture of who I want to be, what I want to do, what I want to have and why.  Once there’s clarity, then we can take action, measure our results and finally make the adjustments that we need to become the people we were created to be and have the impact that we were intended to have.  

What are your thought about this process?