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.

Welcome back, Goal Investigator. This is the Week 10 Action Plan. This week we will look into your financial life area, where you are now, where you want to be, and create a plan to trial one of the paths you have uncovered. You will also continue to work with your happiness list and your weekly tracking.

• Your financial life area
• Your Happiness List
• Weekly Tracking

Your financial life area

Back in week 1, you would have done your life assessment and reflection that would have given you a snapshot of what your financial life looks like. It may have even given you a goal to work on. This week you will evaluate your financial life in more depth. This will help you to have a clear picture of what you need to focus on in your financial life.

• Evaluate your financial life area.

Your happiness list

Your happiness list is important as it is a list of things and activities that make you happy. Doing something from your happiness list daily will not only be a reward for achieving your goals, but it also brings a little bit of happiness to your life regularly. This will help with your mental health as well by increasing your:

• Endorphins that help with reducing stress and blocking pain.
• Dopamine, which helps with your feeling rewarded, motivation, and pleasure
• Serotonin, which helps regulate your mood and long-term well-being
• Oxytocin, which helps build social bonds, trust and love.

If you read last week’s Action Plan, you will know that I am slowly getting the ingredients to create my own makeup. The next item I will be making is mascara; the ingredients I have to buy will also help with the other makeup products on my make list. Making my own cosmetics makes me happy, and it lets me know what ingredients are in my products.

Another thing that makes me happy because it takes the stress out of getting dressed is to have a capsule wardrobe. I have recently acquainted myself with Courtney Caver’s Project 333 (https://amzn.to/3SJ8m3v affiliate link). The principle behind Project 333 is that you have 33 clothing and accessory items and you wear them for three months. It’s not a challenge about restriction or probity; if something wears out or you realise it’s not suiting your needs, then replace it. Then, in three months, change over some of the items that aren’t suited for the season you are heading into.

Here in New Zealand, we are heading into spring, so my wardrobe will need to cater for wet, cold, windy days that will head into warmer, wet, windy days. At the start of the season, I will need to carry over some of my cold weather items, but also factor in some lighter clothing items for the days that it is warmer. Layers are important for spring as the temperatures during the day can fluctuate dramatically.

Weekly tracking

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

This concludes this week’s action plan. Now you will have:

• A plan for your financial life
• Added to your happiness list
• Continued your weekly tracking.

​If you are feeling overwhelmed and at a crossroads in life, book in for a Goal Investigation Session or purchase a WhatsApp Goal Investigation Support Pack.