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Where Do I Start?

Ask yourself a future-focused question. If you’re wondering how to think about what your bigger future might look like, a question is a good place to start. It could be a question like Dan Schmidt’s: if everything I’ve done until now is just the beginning, what’s next? Or it could simply be the question, if I were sitting here three years from today, looking back on today, what would have to have happened in that time for me to be happy with my progress? In The Strategic Coach Program™, we call this The R-Factor Question®, where R stands for relationship. In this case, it’s helping you to establish your relationship with your own bigger future.

Set goals. Creating goals for yourself automatically takes you out of the past and creates a bigger future. If you’re having trouble coming up with meaningful goals, a good way to start is to write down five or ten of your accomplishments from the past year and then think about what would represent a further achievement in each area. This is really an exercise to get you answering Dan Schmidt’s question. You will begin to see what you’ve done and what’s next.