HGD Crossroads

Author: Goal Detective Cindy

  • HGD Crossroads Week 13 Action Plan

    HGD Crossroads Week 13 Action Plan

    Hey Goal Investigator, if you have been following the Action Plan from week 1, then you have been taking Action for a full quarter. Well done. 

    • Find time for your goals
    • Review your month and set the plan for the coming month
    • Happiness List
    • Evaluate your week and plan the next

    Finding time for your goals

    As you travel your Crossroads Journey and living your life you may start to get busy. The Time Finder is a tool that you can use to help you find time to take action on your Crossroads Journey. This article also has a PDF that you can download and print it out. 

    Review your month and set the plan for the coming month

    In this exercise you will review the month that has just been and in the same exercise you will plan the coming month. This article will guide you through the steps. You will need your weekly planner/dairy, and your Crossroads Journal. 

    Happiness List

    If I am being honest, I have slipped a little on doing daily Happiness Activities. But that is okay, I have noticed and I will rectify that today and go to bed a little earlier than I normally would have and read an extra chapter in the current fiction book I am reading. 

    Evaluate your week and plan for the next

    As you were introduced to last week, do an evaluation of this week and make a plan for next week. And if you are part of the HGD Crossroads Journey community you will have access to the Weekly Tracking form where you get to ask a question about your Crossroads Journey. Module 1 is free, you just need to add it to your cart, then you will get instant access to down load the workbook, and a link to the Google Classroom where you can access the Weekly Tracking Form and the discussion threads.

    This concludes this weeks Action Plan. You have found time for your Crossroads Journey. You have reviewed your month and set a plan for next month. You are renewing doing daily Happiness activities, and you have evaluated your week and planned the next.

    Do you need help with navigating your Crossroads Journey? Book in for a Goal Investigation Session or WhatsApp Goal Investigation Support.

  • Review your month and plan the coming month

    Review your month and plan the coming month

    Hey Goal Investigator, in this exercise you will review the month that has just been and in the same exercise you will plan the coming month. This article will guide you through the steps. You will need your weekly planner/dairy, and your Crossroads Journal. 

    Evaluate this past Month.

    • What did you achieve this past month?
    • How do you feel about what you achieved?
    • What actions did you take?
    • What are the consequences of the action you took?
    • What will you do differently?
    • What won’t you do again?
    • What are you carrying over to next month?

    Reflect on what you would like to achieve in the coming Month.

    Now you will think about all the things that you would like to accomplish in the coming month. This will help you with your plan for the coming month.

    • What are your first three action steps?
    • What is the monthly focus?
    • What are your thoughts and feelings about the focus?
    • What action steps do you have next week?
    • Are there any dates that you have plans for? Plot them in your planner now if you haven’t already done so.
    • Do you have any deadlines this month?
    • What are the consequences of these new actions?
    • What does success look like for you?
    • What resources do you already have?
    • What resources do you need?

    Do you need help with navigating your Crossroads Journey? Book in for a Goal Investigation Session or WhatsApp Goal Investigation Support.

  • Evaluating your week and setting a plan for next week

    Evaluating your week and setting a plan for next week

    For the last quarter I have shown you a way to evaluate your weeks, this week I am showing you a new way to evaluate your week and set a plan for next week all in one plan. This article will step you through the process. Although you will be familiar with it if you have been evaluating your life areas in the last few weeks.

    Evaluate this past week.

    • What did you achieve this week?
    • How do you feel about what you achieved this week?
    • What actions did you take this week?
    • What are the consequences of the action you took?
    • What will you do differently?
    • What won’t you do again?
    • What are you carrying over to next week?

    Reflect on what you would like to achieve in the next week.

    Now you will think about all the things that you would like to accomplish in the next week. This will help you with your plan for the next quarter.

    • What do you want to focus on next week?
    • What are your thoughts and feelings about the focus for next week?
    • What action steps do you have next week?
    • What appointments do you have next week?
    • Do you have any deadlines next week?
    • What are the consequences of these new actions?
    • What does success look like for you next week?
    • What resources do you already have?
    • What resources do you need?
    • What are your first three action steps?

    Remember to add the action steps to your diary or planner, and track your actions in the weekly tracking. And most importantly, start taking action.

    Do you need help with navigating your Crossroads Journey? Book in for a Goal Investigation Session or WhatsApp Goal Investigation Support.

  • Evaluating the quarter and setting a plan for the next quarter

    Evaluating the quarter and setting a plan for the next quarter

    We are coming to the end of the quarter, and now it is time to evaluate what happened in the last three months. You will reflect on what you would like to happen in the next quarter. Then you will set a plan of action for the next three months.

    Evaluate this past quarter.

    • What did you achieve this quarter?
    • How do you feel about what you achieved this quarter?
    • What actions did you take this quarter?
    • What are the consequences of the action you took?
    • What will you do differently?
    • What won’t you do again?
    • What are you carrying over to next quarter?

    Reflect on what you would like to achieve in the next three months.

    Now you will think about all the things that you would like to accomplish in the next three months. This will help you with your plan for the next quarter.

    • What do you want your holistic life to look like in the next three months: financial, relationships, and well-being life areas?
    • What are your thoughts and feelings about the changes that you want to make?
    • Think of all of the goals that you currently have, including the ones that you have set in the last three weeks when you evaluated your life area pillars. What action steps do you have to take in the next three months?
    • What are the consequences of these new actions?

    The plan for the coming quarter

    You have now evaluated the last quarter, and you have reflected on what you want. It is time to make a plan for the next quarter. This will help you stay on track and to help with the weekly and monthly tracking and reviews.

    • What is the focus for the quarter?
    • This plan is for the next three months: what quarter are you planning for?
    • What three goals will you be focusing on this quarter?
    • What does success look like?
    • What action steps do you need to take? Give them deadlines.
    • What tools and resources do you already have?
    • What tools and resources do you need?
    • What are your first three action steps?

    Remember to add the action steps to your diary or planner, and track your actions in the weekly tracking. And most importantly, start taking action.

    Do you need help with navigating your Crossroads Journey? Book in for a Goal Investigation Session or WhatsApp Goal Investigation Support.

  • Evaluating your wellbeing life area

    Evaluating your wellbeing life area

    Evaluating your wellbeing life area gives you a clear picture of where you are now, where you want to be, and an action plan you want to try. Use your Crossroads Ultimate Planner or the journal you use to track your Crossroads Journey.

    Your relationship life area includes:

    • Free time activities
    • Hobbies
    • Crafts
    • Health
    • Exercises
    • Living conditions
    • Relaxedness
    • Feeling of being in control of your life
    • Personal care

    Your current Wellbeing Life Area

    • What does your current wellbeing life area look like?
    • How do you feel about your current wellbeing?
    • What actions do you currently take in your wellbeing?
    • What are the consequences of the action you are currently taking?

    Your future Wellbeing Life Area

    Next, you will look at what you would like to change:

    • What do you want your wellbeing life area to look like?
    • What are your thoughts and feelings about the changes that you want to make?
    • What actions do you want to take instead of the ones that you currently take?
    • What are the consequences of these new actions?

    Trial plan of action for your relationships

    Now that you know what your wellbeing currently looks like and what you want it to look like in the future. It is time to create an action plan to help you get to where you want your wellbeing to be in the future. This trial should have a timeframe of three months or less.

    • What is the path you are going to trial?
    • How long is the trial period? Set a date and put it into your diary.
    • What is the focus of the trial path?
    • What does success look like?
    • What action steps do you need to take? Give them deadlines.
    • What tools and resources do you already have?
    • What tools and resources do you need?
    • What are your first three action steps?

    Remember to add the action steps to your diary or planner, and track your actions in the weekly tracking. And most importantly, start taking action.

    Do you need help with navigating your Crossroads Journey? Book in for a Goal Investigation Session or WhatsApp Goal Investigation Support.

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  • HGD Crossroads Week 12 Action Plan

    HGD Crossroads Week 12 Action Plan

    Welcome Goal Investigator to Week 12 Action Plan. This week you will finish with the three life pillars by evaluating your wellbeing life area. As the quarter comes to an end you will review what you have accomplished, and then you will plan for the fourth quarter. 

    • Evaluating your wellbeing life area
    • Evaluating your third quarter
    • Your Happiness List
    • Weekly Tracking
    • Weekly Planning

    Evaluating your wellbeing life area

    Evaluating your wellbeing life area gives you a clear picture of where you are now, where you want to be, and an action plan you want to try. Use your Crossroads Ultimate Planner or the journal you use to track your Crossroads Journey.

    Your relationship life area includes:

    • Free time activities
    • Hobbies
    • Crafts
    • Health
    • Exercises
    • Living conditions
    • Relaxedness
    • Feeling of being in control of your life
    • Personal care

    Evaluating the quarter and setting a plan for the next quarter

    We are coming to the end of the quarter, and now it is time to evaluate what happened in the last three months. You will reflect on what you would like to happen in the next quarter. Then you will set a plan of action for the next three months.

    Your Happiness List

    How do you think doing things from your Happiness List has helped your life over the last three months? Have you been selecting one item over others more? Is there more things like this that you could add to your list to do or to try? 

    One of my busy and overwhelmed clients got herself a pretty bunch of flowers and put it on her dining table. I like this because in the first place it made her happy, then as she’s going about her week she gets little nudges of happiness when she sees those flowers. 

    Evaluating your week and setting a plan for next week

    For the last quarter I have shown you a way to evaluate your weeks, this week I am showing you a new way to evaluate your week and set a plan for next week all in one plan. This article will step you through the process. Although you will be familiar with it if you have been evaluating your life areas in the last few weeks.

    Do you need help with navigating your Crossroads Journey? Book in for a Goal Investigation Session or WhatsApp Goal Investigation Support.

  • HGD Crossroads Week 11 Action Plan

    HGD Crossroads Week 11 Action Plan

    Welcome, Goal Investigator. This is the Week 11 Action Plan. This week you will investigate your Relationship Life Area. You will examine how to deal with overwhelm. Continue working with your Happiness List and your weekly tracking. Also look at planning your week.

    • Your Relationship Life Area
    • Dealing with overwhelm
    • Your Happiness List
    • Weekly Tracking

    Your Relationship Life Area

    The purpose of evaluating your relationship life is to have a clear picture of where you are now, where you want to be, and to set out a plan of action that you would like to try. Use your Crossroads Ultimate Planner or your journal that you are tracking your Crossroads Journey in

    Dealing With Overwhelm

    Do you feel overwhelmed and consistently have tightness in your chest or belly? Are you getting headaches more often? This article will give you some tools to try to help minimise the overwhelm. Over time, you will learn what works for you.

    Your Happiness List

    Some more items you can add to your Happiness List are memories that make you happy. If you don’t want to, or you can’t do an activity from your happiness list. Just take a few moments to think of a memory that makes you happy.

    For more about the Happiness List, read more here.

    Your Weekly Tracking

    Tracking your activities each week will help you stay focused, see what you have achieved in the week that has passed, and help you work out what you want to focus on next week. Use your journal or Ultimate Crossroads Planner.

    Tracking your weeks helps in a few ways:

    • So you can see what you have achieved in the past week.
    • Record your accomplishments
    • So you can evaluate how your week went.

    Planning Your Week

    To help facilitate your weekly tracking, it is a good idea to have a plan for the coming week. It helps you to focus on

    • What you want to achieve in the coming week.
    • Taking baby steps towards your goals (short-, mid-, and long-term goals).
    • Allocating time for the tasks you need to get done in the coming week
    • Balancing priorities

    Do you need help with navigating your Crossroads Journey? Book in for a Goal Investigation Session or WhatsApp Goal Investigation Support.

  • Weekly Tracking

    Weekly Tracking

    Tracking your activities each week will help you stay focused, see what you have achieved in the week that has passed, and help you work out what you want to focus on next week. Use your journal or Ultimate Crossroads Planner.

    Tracking your weeks helps in a few ways:

    • So you can see what you have achieved in the past week.
    • Record your accomplishments
    • So you can evaluate how your week went.

    Weekly Tracking

    • Focus of the week
    • Top 3 Tasks of the Week
    • Resources required
    • Accomplishments of the week
    • Weekly Tasks/habits
    • Weekly Notes
    • Top 3 Action Steps for next week

    Focus of the week

    Looking back at your weekly plan, what was the focus of the week? Now evaluate whether you stuck to the direction or if you deviated from the focus.

    What were your top 3 tasks of the week?

    • What were the top 3 tasks of the week?
    • Did you complete them? If not, why?
    • And what did you do instead?

    Resources required

    • Did you have all the resources you required this week?
    • What other resources did you need?
    • What resources did you not need?

    Weekly Tasks and Habits

    • Did you get all of your tasks and habits done this past week?
    • What did you do instead?
    • What would you do differently?
    • What will you not do again?
    • What have you got outstanding?
    • What are you transferring to next week?
    • What will you be stopping? Why?

    Weekly notes

    Have you got any other notes about the week that has passed?

    What is the focus for next week?

    Now that you have reviewed the week that has passed, what do you want to focus on this week?

    Are you feeling overwhelmed in your Crossroad Journey? Book in for a Goal Investigation Session or WhatsApp Goal Investigation Support.

  • Planning Your Week

    Planning Your Week

    To help facilitate your weekly tracking, it is a good idea to have a plan for the coming week. It helps you to focus on

    • What you want to achieve in the coming week.
    • Taking baby steps towards your goals (short-, mid-, and long-term goals).
    • Allocating time for the tasks you need to get done in the coming week
    • Balancing priorities

    Focus of the week

    I find it helpful to have a focus of the week. This way, as you live out the week and start to get sidetracked by all of the things, you can come back to the focus of the week and prioritise what is important and what can wait.

    Action steps and tasks for the week

    List out all the action steps and tasks you need to get done this week. You can do this in your Quarterly OR Ultimate Crossroads Planner, or you can use a Task Tracker.

    • What tasks do you need to do this week to move your goals forward?
    • What personal tasks do you want/need to complete this week?
    • What work tasks do you want/need to complete this week?
    • Are there any other tasks you need to complete this week?

    As you carry out your week, this list may change. You may realise that there are tasks you don’t need to do now, and postpone them or maybe delete them entirely. Also, new tasks may come up. Refer back to your focus of the week so that you can prioritise them.

    Daily tasks:

    • Once you have your master list of tasks for the week. Decide what day each task needs to be done.
    • Not all of your weekly tasks have to be assigned to days if you prefer some flexible time.
    • You could block out some flexible time in your days for the tasks that are not assigned, or for those tasks that just pop up.

    Daily habits you want to track

    You may have daily habits that you want to track. If you are using one of the Crossroads Planners, then put these in your weekly tracking and tick them off each day you do them.

    Appointments for the coming week

    If you haven’t already, as soon as the appointment is made, put it in the weekly calendar now.

    Resources you will need this week

    Think about your tasks and action steps for the coming week, and list out all the resources you will need to complete the tasks. This will help you to get organised.

    Top 3 tasks of the week

    Now that you have an idea of the tasks that you need to get done this coming week, what are the top 3 tasks that you have to do? These three tasks are what you have to get done no matter what.

    Do you need help with navigating your Crossroads Journey? Book in for a Goal Investigation Session or WhatsApp Goal Investigation Support.

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  • Dealing With Overwhelm

    Dealing With Overwhelm

    Do you feel overwhelmed and consistently have tightness in your chest or belly? Are you getting headaches more often? This article will give you some tools to try to help minimise the overwhelm. Over time, you will learn what works for you.

    Idea Playground: Overwhelm

    Use an Idea Playground to dump everything that is going on in your life. Get all your thoughts and feelings down on paper. Use a mind map or a freewriting exercise for the Idea Playground.

    Things to think about:

    • Out of everything that is going on, what items are important to you?
    • What tasks have deadlines or are time-bound?
    • What items are for your wellness/health?
    • What tasks or items are about your relationships?
    • What items are about your financial life?
    • What items can be delayed?
    • What items have to be done now?
    • What items can be deleted?
    • What can you do to help with your mental health?
    • Can you break the task down to smaller action steps?

    Use your Happiness List

    Once you have dumped your overwhelm in an Idea Playground, refer to your Happiness List and do one of the items from the list. Or think about something or someone that makes you happy, such as a happy memory from your childhood or adult life.

    Take a pause and breathe.

    When you notice all the symptoms of being overwhelmed and you start rushing around, pause and take some deep breaths. Keep doing breath work until you feel calmer and can think again. Then do a couple more breaths just to be safe.

    Break your task down into smaller steps.

    When you are feeling overwhelmed by a big task or project:

    1. Do an Idea Playground to dump all of your thoughts, feelings, and tasks that you can think about the task or project.
    2. Create a Task Tracker and list out all of the tasks: task, due date, start date, finish date.
    3. If you can, break the tasks down into small action steps

    Prioritise what is most important to you.

    Another thing to take into account when you are dealing with overwhelm is to prioritise those tasks that are important to you. This way you are rewarding yourself at the same time. Plus, you will be more invested in the task.

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    Funny thing, as I was trying to write this article, I started to get overwhelmed, so I took some deep breaths and broke the article down by creating the headers. Then I took each section at a time.

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    Do you need help with navigating your Crossroads Journey? Book in for a Goal Investigation Session or WhatsApp Goal Investigation Support.