Take your dreams and goals into reality
A New Year often means a new beginning and a fresh start for many of us. We all get stuck in our habitual ways. I know I do!
I often find myself excited about a New Year to start all of the things that have been on my mind, but kept putting off. One of them was coming back to this Blog and keeping you all updated on fun and effective ways that you can incorporate ABM NeuroMovement® into your life everyday.
Why do we put off our dreams and goals? How do we get out of this habitual rut?
When we have a dream it might feel overwhelming and we don't know where to even begin with this giant mountain in front of us. Focusing on the top of the mountain could be keeping us from taking the first step that is right in front of us. We need to make the goal more attainable. In ABM NeuroMovement® we can make goals attainable by breaking it down into tiny doable steps. We can still imagine and dream about what it will be like at the end goal, but by breaking into tiny steps and keeping our goals achievable we're setting ourselves up for success.
When I give ABM NeuroMovement® lessons to children, their parents come to me with goals, usually the big milestones such as rolling, sitting, crawling and walking. How can we help a child that is currently unable to roll, achieve those goals to eventually come to standing and walking? It can feel very overwhelming for parents if we are only focused on the end goal such as walking. When we break down these goals to first meet the child where they are in their development, we can start the process. Instead of focusing on a child walking, our first goal may be for the child to roll. Can we break down that goal even further? The goal can be for the child to roll to their side, or maybe we can break it down even further. By breaking the movement down into tiny achievable goals where the child can be successful, little by little the child continues to move forward and before long something that once seemed so far out of reach is attained.We can apply this to our life everyday. My goal for this Blog is to do monthly updates. That's 12 in a year! Whoa, what am I getting myself into?! I haven't even done an update in 2 years! Okay, before I go running and screaming away from my mountain, how can I make this goal more achievable? Instead of focusing on the fact that there are 12 Blogs I'd like to do this year, how about I focus on just this one first? My goal is already broken down into a much more achievable goal. I can do one Blog this month. I feel that's doable! I don't have to worry about all of them at once. Can I break it down into an even smaller step? Week one my goal is to choose my topic. Week two, I can start writing down some ideas. Week three I can start putting my ideas into my Blog and week four is fine tuning and publishing. Done! The smaller the goal, the easier it is to achieve.
What have you been dreaming about? How can you make your goal more achievable? Let me know!
I'm already a step closer to my goal!
Happy New Year!
Renee Gray
ABM NeuroMovement Practitioner®
www.moveintegrate.com
Calgary, AB
