The Balancing Act – Part II

Observe What Works to FOCUS on Success

By Kelli Calabrese

In the last two installments I introduced the concept of F.O.C.U.S where “F” represented your Future as fitness professional -- specifically the keys to goal setting and the “O” signified“O”bserving what is going on in your life. This issue moves on to the next critical success step which is to the “C”lairfy what it is that truly makes you happy and that you desire to accomplish. When you have clarity, you can move so much closer to the balanced life that we all preach about to our clients.

The world is coming at us faster than ever before in history and most times it seems that everything has the utmost importance and urgency. From the cell phone ringing to e-mails buzzing and text messages coming through at a high frequency, we always seem to be distracted and it becomes difficult to truly make the best decisions for our career and lives. Distraction is the road to failure – some would say the work of the devil. When you are pulled in the direction of the artificial world it’s near impossible to get ahead and there’s rarely time for introspection to even notice what’s working and not working.

When moving towards clarity regarding who you are, what you want, and the best way to achieve it, it takes some dedicated quiet time and some thought provoking questions for which to come up with answers that give you direction. In order to get clarity you need to first determine what it that you love, what excites you the most, what are you good at and what can you get paid a fair amount to live the lifestyle you aspire to.

Once you figure out with clarity what you love which I am assuming for a grand majority of subscribers is positively influencing the physical transformation of someone’s life, the next step is to decide the best way to achieve it. If you can leave your ego behind for a moment, ask yourself what are the things that only you can do and then what can you delegate.

Literally make a list of all of the things that you do in the course of a day from hour to hour. How is your time spent? Then expand it out over the course of a week. For example you might determine that you currently spend 10 hours a week cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, grocery shopping and running errands. Does it make sense to hire someone to do that if you are worth $70 an hour and those tasks are done at an hourly rate of $10 – 15 an hour? How freeing would it be to turn those tasks over to someone else so that you could be available to do what you love and are paid well to do?

Having clarity makes decision making much easier and your life becomes much more enjoyable. How wonderful would it be to be free to do what you are best at and only what you love and delegate or eliminate the rest? We all have the same amount of time and we can not save it, however we can spend it differently.

Go to www.????.com to see the details on how to clarify your life through more thought provoking questions that will provide you with the answers on how to eliminate the junk and finally make your way to the next level quicker than you dreamed possible.

Kelli Calabrese is the co-author of Personal Training – The Prosperity Formula. Go to www.CalabreseConsulting.com for info on this career escalating program and the monthly coaching offer. Kelli@KelliCalabrese.com

To come in the full article . . .

You can not save time, you can only spend it differently.

What do you need to do more of?
What do you need to do less of?
What do you need to stop?
What do you need to start?