Do you ever take stock about where you were say, five years ago, compared to where you are now? I find it’s a good practice to see how far you’ve come, and how developing and implementing goals can make your dreams come true.
Looking back is beneficial, but planning ahead is also important. Asking what do I want; what have I always wanted but haven’t done or accomplished; what do I still want to learn, or do, or become!? These are all great questions and when we purposefully develop goals and action steps we can create our best life.
Do your doubts ever hold you back? Our thoughts are where it all starts. You must dream, and allow it, and state it, and make it come true. Believe you can and you will, believe you can’t and you won’t.
Just five years ago, I became a certified holistic health coach. That would not have happened without a dream, a desire to learn, and a passion to help others. I thought about enrolling in a coaching program for two years before I finally took the step. I said yes to it when I felt almost ready, and pushed through the fear and doubt because I listened to my heart and trusted my inner voice. I spent a year focused on learning and growing and a year later I was a certified health coach!
When I first started health coaching I had a new energy I didn’t expect, and it felt a bit unreal.
· I launched my own business.
· I was coaching individual clients for my 6-month program.
· I was meeting new people and conducting consultations.
· I had launched a website, and
· I had a Facebook page and learned how to invite people to engage, and post recipes I was cooking.
In the past five years, my business has grown.
· I’ve created videos on health topics.
· I’ve written and run two seasonal cleanse programs.
· I wrote and made available an elimination diet program.
· I’ve held multiple talks and workshops in the community and for employers on a variety of health related topics.
· I facilitate a 25-week diabetes prevention program for my local YMCA.
· And I’ve continued to coach individual clients.
What’s Next?
Good question! I love health coaching, but I want to reach more and more people. My motivation for becoming a health coach was to help people with their pain, health, and happiness, and that desire is still present. I want to see more people living their best life.
Vision for the Future
My newly created vision board contains a few themes such as family and home surroundings, but also for more abundance in my health coaching career. I’ve got the vision but It’s time again to take what is in my heart and translate that into goals and action steps for the next five years.
In the future, I want serve even more clients and have more people experience my programs to help them feel better.
Do you take stock, look back, and plan forward. What tools do you use? SMART goals, vision boards, annual planners, to do lists? I’d love to hear from you about living your best life!