Major Site Enhancement!
Free Printing of StepOne Vision Boards for Members

We are pleased to announce a new features to our StepOne Members:

You can now print professionally designed Vision Boards right from your StepOne Member site directly to your desktop printer.  

Customize your Vision Board by selecting from a variety of stunning backgrounds and colors.  Members can even add their Mission Statements right into their Vision Boards.

To our knowledge there is no other Vision Board site on the market that makes it this easy to print amazingly formatted Vision Boards. 

The beauty of this tool is that you can effortlessly edit and re-print your Vision Board as often as you wish.  Try doing that with a classic paper and glue Vision Board!

Try us out for yourself.  If you’re a StepOne Member login now.

If you’re not a Member take advantage of our 7 day free trial and experience first hand how liberating it can be to see your goals put to print! Click here to get started.

We’re on a mission to make StepOne the best site on the web for helping you reach your goals.  If you have any comments or suggestions please reply to this e-mail.

Live Courageously!

Susan Nicoll
Editor – Achieve!
snicoll@StepOneVisionBoards.com

P. S.  If you know of someone who might benefit from the message please forward this note to them. 

Mistakes – The Secret Key to Success?
Part 2

In our last edition of ‘Achieve!’ we introduced you to the somewhat controversial idea that mistakes might just be one of the secret keys to success.

In the book entitled, ‘How We Decide’ Johan Lehrer covers in detail how our brain is hardwired to pick up on and adapt to ‘mistakes’.

Mr. Lehrer outlines how masters of any given discipline spend time reviewing, and most importantly, learning from their mistakes.  Take the professional football Quarterback. On top of the hours on the field, hours in the gym and hours learning the play book, the top players spend an incredible amount of time reviewing the footage from their games.  As the Quarterback watches the video he’s asking himself, “Did I pick up the blitz?  Did I pass to the open player?  Did I call the right play?”.  It’s only through disciplined, focused review of performance that he will find his errors and then work to correct them in the next game. 

Master Chess Players do the same thing.  Win or lose they play the game back in their minds, looking for the errors and then thinking through how to avoid them the next time they play.

In my own sport of Shotokan Karate, I’ve been amazed at what a difference this approach can make.  After each practice round of sparring I either have someone point out one or two gaps in my technique or I video tape the sparring session and review my performance.  This process has been incredibly insightful. Often times there are things I’m doing  or not doing in a sparring session that leave me very vulnerable, yet until someone pointed out these errors I had no idea I was making them!

So what does this have to do with Vision Boards and your own goals?

Well, what I’ve come to realize is that without thoughtful reflection it’s unlikely we will realize how we are holding ourselves back from success.

What do I mean by thoughtful reflection? 

First the importance of getting clear on your big goals is critical.  Whatever the goals, get crystal clear on the outcome you are going to attract.  Picture the state you’ll be in when you reach the goal. Write out the goal and add a picture to it.  An image so meaningful to you that makes the hair on your neck stands up.  Next, at sometime during the day or the week ask yourself what you’ve done to make progress to that goal.  Also ask yourself what you’ve done that has held you back from making progress.  That could be things you haven’t done or it could be things you’ve done that undermined your success. An example could be choosing to watch TV for another 30 minutes versus getting up off the couch and exercise.  

Through regular thoughtful reflection you’ll find one or two other ideas that will put you in a better position for the next day.  Put this practice to use and you’ll be consistently removing the obstacles between you and your goal. 

What to go further?  Try sharing your goals.  Share your key goals including timelines and your weaknesses with people you trust.  For example you may have a goal to lose 15 lbs within the next two months.  The challenge you may have is eating after 7 PM.  You then share your goal, time frame and the weakness you need to address, with someone who wants to see you succeed.  Commit to coming back to that person on a regular basis with an update on how you are doing both in terms of progress and what you’ve done to work around or overcome your weakness.

After a couple of days or weeks you go back to your support person good, bad or otherwise with an update.  You’ll find that simply making that commit to follow up will make a real difference.

To really accelerate success, share your goals with three or four people.  Many people find that it’s much more difficult to break a commitment with three or four people than it is with one. 

So let’s review the key points:

1. Get very clear on what you want. Define your top goals.  If you’re a StepOne Member, write out your goal in the appropriate Vision Board category, select the ‘Achieve By’ date and pick the goal image.

2. Get clear on how you need to change your thinking in order to reach the goal.  If you’re a StepOne Member use the Affirmation, Gratitude and Role Model sections of the site help re-cast your thoughts and beliefs around your reaching your goal.

3. Thinking about the things you do to undermine your progress.  Write these damaging habits down and resolve to create tactics that will minimize these harmful behaviors.

4. Share your goal with those who want to see your succeed.  Again, if you’re a StepOne Member use the Share functionality that comes with each Vision Board category.  You can share a Vision Board with up to three friends or family at once.  Ask for their support in advance and then let them see your goal and time line.

5. Take time each day to review your goals, overcoming your weaknesses and picture success.  For StepOne Members it’s as simple as double clicking on your Vision Board icon on your desktop or looking at your printed StepOne Vision Board.

Mistakes are opportunities to leap forward.  If you can become aware of where you are holding yourself back and then remove or minimize that behavior you’ll be amazed at your progress.

Live Courageously!

Conn Nicoll
Guest Writer
StepOneVisionBoards.com

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