What is your breakthrough goal for this week?

What do you mean that you haven’t got one?

I believe the word ‘breakthrough’ is the most descriptive word because it means that you have broken through a challenge or barrier in your own thinking. Let me give you an example. Let’s say you’ve been having difficulty getting in contact with a key prospect. So you make this a breakthrough goal. Then you follow it up with a session to help you will come up with new and unique ideas that you have not used before to get in contact with this key prospect. You list all of the ideas, and select the top 5 that you want to work on this week. Then you take action.

How do you expect to move forward or enhance your life if you have not set (in writing) what you want to achieve this week?

When will you take action on this?

Have you ever heard the line – life is what you make it?

In other words life is all about the actions you take to live it to the fullest, isn’t it?

Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Historian and Essayist, 1795-1881) said “The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.”  To me this means that when things are tough or challenging it is not the time to sit back and suffer through those challenges. The challenges are opportunities for us learn from them. It is to find the positive growth gem in the tough times.

What is a question you can ask yourself the next time you are challenged?

Better still, what question can you ask yourself that will make you think of how this challenge is a positive growth gem?

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Is there value in the challenges that life offer us?

Do you learn and grow from the problems in your life?

I believe learning is one of the keys to being a valued person, both personal and in business. If we don’t consciously learn, we are doomed. I say that because if you aren’t learning and growing you are no better than you were before. Who wants to be the type of person that does not develop and grow?

What can you do today that will help you learn, develop and grow as a person?

What type of service do you offer?

This question is due to a recent experience with my internet provider.

I was having a small challenge so I called their service department. Sadly the technical support person did not know anything about service or listening skills. Every time I said something, his response was ‘I agree with you, but…’ It is the ‘but’ that was the challenge. When people say the word ‘but’ after agreeing what they are saying is ‘but you are wrong’. All that he had to say was ‘I agree with you, and did you consider this‘. Then he would have had me, and we could have had a discussion.

The next time you are in a discussion with someone of the opposite view, watch yourself and the other person for how many times the word ‘but’ is used. Then change your response from the word ‘but’ to ‘and’ and you will see an improvement in how the other person listens to you.

When can you do this, today?