THE 10-PERCENT KEY TO CREATING A HIGH PAYOFF LIFE

By Linda Feinholz, “Your High Payoff Catalyst”

It’s not at all unusual for my coaching club members to feel their life is a bit out of balance. Taking the time to get back in touch with their goals can completely re-orient how they use their time and efforts, and the success they create.

Working with new clients this week got me to thinking: why not give a “coach’s challenge” to my newsletter readers to get back in touch with their own Goals. This challenge can help you focus your personal and professional time for a month, a year, and beyond.

If you’ll set aside 10 minutes today to read through this list of 10 areas in life, and set a goal for yourself to increase your attention and energy by 10 percent in any or all of them, it will lead you on the golden road to a High Payoff Life!

Ready to get started? Here are 10 Key Areas that help you create that High Payoff path.
1. Health. What attention do you give to creating health in your life? Do you have an image of what you’d like your health to be? Setting aside all the exercise fads and diet programs, do you choose ‘health’ when you select your food? Do you move your body beyond the floors of your home or office? Do you spend even eight hours a week breathing air that hasn’t been re-circulated?
2. Family. Do you have your soul fed by ‘family’ time? For some of us that means parents and children, brothers and sisters and cousins. For others it’s the family we create with the people we share our lives with. How much of your life contains life’s celebrations and comfort with family?
3. Friends. How much time do you spend with others who share your interests? Do you actually have interests beyond your profession, your job, your career? The creativity and solutions we find in our work life are often found in through rest of our lives. The richer we make our relationships, the richer our ability to revitalize the rest of our life.
4. Finances. Do you look money straight in the eye? So many of us are taught to avoid looking at our finances as if it’s the luck of the draw what we earn, what we keep, how we use money. The clearer you set your money goals, the easier it is to lay out the systematic steps that will give you the power over money in your life..
5. Career. Were you aware you make most of your life a career? You spend your weekday daylight hours out in the world on a professional path. You may do it as an employee or employer. Whether you make your mark as an entrepreneur or professional, or as a business owner the goals you set are the goals you achieve
6. Learning. Do you gift yourself with life long learning? Learning comes in those moments when you ‘stretch’ yourself beyond the familiar. Learning may come to you through conversations with others, sports activities, books, magazines or even deliberately listening to talk show hosts you don’t agree with!
7. Recreation. How do you play? I mean do you ever let loose in ways that let exuberant energy flood you and burst out in laughter? At times it may be physical play through sports, or mental play through attending concerts, lectures, theater. Hike, bike, dance, picnic, rent a horse or paint a house.
8. Community. Do you have a connection with the people living around you? More than saying “Hi!” to the checker at the grocery store, have you let yourself become part of the web of connections at your local schools, library, or recreation center. The more people you connect with, the more avenues you create for yourself to build relationships in all the other areas of your life.
9. Giving. When do you turn your attention from acquiring for yourself to helping those in need? Donating your time, attention, energy and intelligence is often as valuable as your funds. Your community is filled with organizations designed to offer assistance. You can join as a board participant, an advisor, or even as an event volunteer. Every one of those activities can be gifts that reshape the world.
10. Spiritual. Do you feed your spirit? For some of us it’s found though joining people in organized religious participation. For others it’s in quiet moments in nature. There is even the opportunity for connection within our daily routine through meditation, singing, and other pursuits.

Set a goal to add just 10 percent more in any of these areas. Share this list with others in your life and create the shared goals that will build a rich life for years to come.

November 25, 2007 | Filed Under Goal Setting, Ideas, Inspiration, Vision 

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