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  • HGD Crossroads Week 9 Action Plan

    HGD Crossroads Week 9 Action Plan

    Welcome back, Goal Investigator, to Week 9 Action Plan. This week you will be reviewing the month that has been and then go on and set the plan for the month to come. You will continue on your happiness list activities, bringing a little happiness to your life daily. And finally, you will carry on your weekly tracking.

    • Review your month
    • Monthly Plan
    • Your Happiness List
    • Weekly Tracking

    Review your month

    Having your weekly tracking up to date will help you when you review your month, as you will have a condensed version of what you got up to in the month that has just been. Reviewing your month will help you to see what is working, what isn’t, and what you have achieved.

    In your chosen HGD Crossroads Planner or your journal, start a new spread for the monthly review:

    • What was the focus for the month?
    • What action steps did you complete?
    • What action steps did you do instead?
    • What action steps did you not do? Why?
    • What will you not do again?
    • What do you need to do differently or change?
    • What progress have you made with your goals?
    • What have you still got outstanding?
    • What are you carrying over to next month?
    • Any other notes about the month that has just been?

    The plan for next month

    Now that you have reviewed the month that has just gone, it is time to plan the coming month. Having a plan will help you to have a focus for the month so that you know what you are working towards. This also helps with the weekly tracking because you have milestones that can be measured.

    • What is the focus for the month?
    • What does success look like for you this month?
    • What goals are you focusing on this month?
    • What action steps do you need to take this month?
    • What are the top 3 action steps?
    • What appointments have you got this month?

    Your happiness list

    You will know by now, if you have been following along with the weekly action plans you will know that your happiness list is activities that you enjoy doing and that make you happy. These can be activities like personal care: giving yourself a facial, doing your nails, taking care of your beard, getting a relaxing or therapeutic massage. Arts and crafts: painting, drawing, crocheting, knitting, building something, working on your car. Other activities that make you happy. Then you will do at least one of them daily. You can also use your happiness list as a reward when you achieve something from your goals or action plan. After you have done a roadblocks or sabotage exercise to lift you up. You can also do a happiness activity when you are feeling down.

    After work, I have been doing some crocheting before feeding the animals and myself. I am crocheting a long line cardi/overcoat; it is in an 8-ply acrylic yarn in the colour rhubarb. What have you been doing?

    Weekly tracking

    As you would have discovered in this week’s action plan, it is helpful to do the weekly tracking so that you have a record of what you achieved in the month when you do the monthly review.

    • 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

    This concludes this week’s action plan. If you want to get 1:1 support, purchase the WhatsApp Goal Investigation Support. You can send multimedia and text messages about your goal investigation, get accountability and support. The minutes are counted on the Goal Detectives’ time, not your time in creating the messages.

  • HGD Crossroads Week 1 Action Plan

    HGD Crossroads Week 1 Action Plan

    Hey Goal Investigator, welcome to week 1 of HGD Crossroads. These weekly action plans are intended to help you on your crossroads journey by giving you guidance on navigating your path. This week’s Action Plan is intended to help you take the first steps on your journey:

    • Life Assessment & Reflection
    • Short-term Goal Idea Playground
    • Short-term Goal Roadmap
    • Top 3 Action Steps for the Short-Term Goal (Task Tracker)
    • Start Taking Action
    • Weekly Tracking 

    Life Assessment and Reflection

    Before you can start taking action steps on your Crossroads journey, you need to know where you are starting from. This will give you a clear idea of what your life looks like right now. It will also help you to identify areas of your life that need focusing on.

    In your journal or HGD Crossroads Quarterly Planner, reflect on what your Financial, Relationship, and Wellbeing life areas look like. How important is each life area to you? How satisfied are you with each life area? What area needs your focus right now?

    The 3 life areas:

    1. Financial: How do you make your money? What do you do with your money?
    2. Relationships: All of the relationships in your life: family, partner, workmates, any other relationships.
    3. Wellbeing: your living conditions, what you do in your free time, health, exercise/fitness, living conditions, how relaxed you feel, how in control you are of your life.

    Short-term goal Idea Playground

    This is a brainstorming exercise to help you get all of your thoughts out of your brain and onto paper (or a document that you use for your journal). Use a mind map or free writing. Get as many details dumped out of your brain; this will help you when you plan your first short-term goal roadmap. Free writing is where you write out all of your thoughts in journal writing format.

    Short-term goal roadmap

    This is the plan for your short-term goal. Having done your Idea Playground, you will have a clear idea of what your goal is. Having a written plan of your goal will help you to achieve it because you have all the details of what you have to take action on.

    • Title: What is the goal you are taking action on?
    • Description: What exactly are you trying to achieve? Describe it with as much detail as you can.
    • Deadline: When do you want to achieve your goal?
    • Resources needed: What tools/resources/people/equipment/other do you need to achieve this goal?
    • What resources do you already have for this goal?
    • Record your accomplishments and celebrate your wins.
    • Track your Action Steps: List all of the action steps that you can think of that are required for this goal. What do you need to do for each action step? When do you have to complete the action step? 
    • First 3 Action Steps: What are the first 3 action steps you need to complete first?

    Start taking action

    Now that you know what your first 3 action steps are, it is time to start taking action. If you are feeling overwhelmed by the action step, can you break the action step down into smaller tasks?

    Weekly Tracking

    An important step in your Crossroads Journey is that you track your progress. You can use your journal or The Quarterly Planner.

    • 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

    Next steps

    You can go deeper and get support if you join the HGD Crossroads Program. Module 1 is free https://hgdnz.online/product/crossroads-module-1/; you will just need to go through checkout. Our HGD Crossroads Program is available on Google Classroom, so you will need a Google Account for the group accountability and other resources. You can also download the Module 1 Action Planner PDF after you check out. The Tigers Eye Plan is the self-led option and gives you full access to the Tigers Eye Classroom. 

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