“The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value!”

-- Stephen R. Covey

In 2000, I decided to record my goals for the new millennium. I started off in a typical business-like manner. I used to coach goal setting at work so I know the traditional/accepted approaches to achieving your goals.

After many drafts, I found a way of setting goals which came from my true feelings. My goals include: I desire peace, I desire serenity, I desire health, etc. Then I identified criteria in each of these areas which I could accomplish to achieve my desires. I recognized my criteria were many of the things I used to enjoy and had stopped due to the pressures and stresses which I let take over my life.

Then I kind of put my goals on the shelf, contrary to what all the experts say about accomplishing goals. I didn’t make an action plan. I didn’t take any daily actions to accomplish my goals. I didn’t direct my energies to my goals.

I did make up a life board with pictures of all the things important in my life and guess what, when I took a good look, they represented my goals. I hung this in my bathroom and I look at it every day.

At the end of 2000, I reviewed my goals on the computer and lo and behold … Subconsciously and subliminally, I was accomplishing them! Not in big measures and not all of them yet, but enough to realize I was on my way.

Every year since then I have held true to those goals and every day I am accomplishing all of them in many little ways!! I do have an action plan now, but it’s a spiritual one, not a results- driven one.

~ Brenda Lofstrom