Embracing change in all aspects of your professional and personal life is the key to a successful and satisfied life today. Take the change challenge to see how you rate as a change champion by honestly answering Yes or No to the following questions.
During the last year have you:
1. Reviewed your professional goals and strategy to enable you to succeed in the market place?
2. Aligned all your skills and resources to achieve those goals and made the necessary changes?
3. Communicated those goals to every possible person who can help you achieve them?
4. Set CSMART personal goals for all areas of your life, career or profession, family, relationships, personal growth, health & fitness, spirituality?
5. Achieved all your personal and professional goals?
6. Started to plan for the next 12 months learning from this year’s experiences?
7. Achieved a good work/life balance?
8. Developed your personal leadership skills to help you to continuously embrace change?
9. Done at least one significant thing differently?
10. Coached, developed or mentored at least one other person in the last year?
11. Found and developed a working relationship with at least one person who will challenge you to think outside the box?
12. Asked for open and honest feedback from people you respect and acted upon it?
13. Taken at least one significant risk or done something that took you to the edge of your comfort zone?
14. Celebrated your/ your colleagues/ your families/ friends successes however great or small?
15. Achieved a greater degree of contentment?
Score: 12-15
Congratulations! Pat yourself on the back! You are stunningly successful at planning for and embracing change in most areas of your life. The challenge now is to achieve 100% success in all areas! Take time now to review where you can make extra effort that will make all the difference.
Score: 8-12
You’re on the way to your dreams! But what is it that is stopping you getting there? To change we have to really want it. We have to be prepared to face our fears. How much do you really want to make changes? How much do you really want that sweet smell of success? Can you picture, smell, hear, feel what it will be like when you have got where you want to be? Wow, it’s wonderful isn’t it? Just be there and enjoy. Feel the pleasure. Now what extra effort/ support do you need to get there?
Score: 0-8
You are doing well but may need a little help. Achieving small steps at a time on your journey will make it achievable. When you work with a personal coach or mentor you will see the differences you need to make, to make change possible. Then you will have the key top the door! Enjoy the ride, you will!