HGD Crossroads

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  • 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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  • 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 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.

  • HGD Crossroads Week 8 Action Plan

    HGD Crossroads Week 8 Action Plan

    Welcome back, Goal Investigator, to the Week 8 Action Plan. This week, you will look at when motivation isn’t enough to keep you going and when it’s better to form habits. Keep working on your happiness list. Continue your weekly tracking.

    • When motivation isn’t enough
    • Your Happiness List
    • Weekly Tracking

    When motivation isn’t enough

    If you are like me, you are very excited and motivated when you first start a goal or project. But what happens when your motivation wanes? Do you struggle through, or do you move on to the next goal or project because you have lost interest in the current one? It would be better to build habits around your Crossroads Journey than to rely solely on motivation.

    Some things to think about when setting up habits around your Crossroads Journey:

    • Do you have dedicated time each week, each day, each month to work on your current goal?
    • Do you have about five hours each week dedicated to your goals?
    • Or how much time each week do you want dedicated to taking action on your goal or project?
    • What habits can you form to achieve what you have set out to achieve?
    • Have you added this time and habit to your diary or planner so it can be tracked?
    • It may help if you set a time each day or, at the very least, each week marked specifically for your goal.
    • Is there a repetitive activity? If so, have you scheduled it into your planner or diary?
    • What else can you do to form habits?

    Happiness list

    As you will know by now, if you have been following along with each week’s action plan, that happiness list is a list of activities that make you happy. You do at least one happiness activity daily. But also as a reward for achieving something from your Crossroads Journey. And also when you are struggling because it is an off day or you have done one of the roadblock and sabotage activities.

    If you have been following along since week one, then you will have a good selection of activities to do that make you happy. Is there anything else you would like to add to the list? What has been your favourite activity to do?

    One thing I have been doing that makes me happy is focusing on my self-care. I used to be a nail picker, and years before that I was a nail biter. I am coming up to about week 8 of growing my natural nails. I am surprised that they are stronger than they used to be. I have also been applying body lotion each night before I get into my pyjamas.

    I have also purchased an empty makeup palette off Amazon, and I have added the makeup that I made: mineral foundation; it was loose, but I pressed it into one of the empty pans. I have also added two of the three lipsticks I made. And I have made a list of the makeup that I want to make next. I have also priced how much it will cost to buy the ingredients, but I will have to get the ingredients I don’t have a little at a time. The first project I want to do next is make myself a mascara, as I am fully out. For now, my goal is to create all the products for this makeup pallet… but I am thinking of getting a couple more pallets so that I can have a pallet for different occasions. In the meantime, I can use the commercial products that I still have.

    15 pan makeup pallet:

    1. Pressed mineral foundation (already have)
    2. Blusher (using a commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)
    3. Highlighter (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)
    4. Bronzer (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)
    5. Mascara (I am completely out, so this will be my next project)
    6. Concealer (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)
    7. Lipstick (already have) – pale purple lavender/violet ish
    8. Lipstick (already have) – red brown
    9. Lipstick (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients) – pink
    10. Eyeshadow (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)
    11. Eyeshadow (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)
    12. Eyeshadow (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)
    13. Eyeshadow (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)
    14. Eyeshadow (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)
    15. Eyeshadow (using commercial product that I already have until I can get more ingredients)

    Makeup Ingredients I already have:

    • Sericite mica
    • Zinc oxide
    • Boron nitride
    • Magnesium myristate
    • Jojoba oil
    • Vitamin E oil
    • Emulsifying wax (getting low so will go on needs list)
    • Vegetable glycerine
    • Broad spectrum preservative
    • Pigments:
      • Red iron oxide
      • Yellow iron oxide
      • Bronze mica
      • Titanium dioxide
      • Brown iron oxide
      • Blue ultramarine
      • Rogue red lake

    Makeup ingredients I need (top 3 are for the mascara but are also used in some of the other products):

    • Sunflower wax 100g NZD$12
    • White kaolin clay 100g NZD$10
    • Black iron oxide 100g NZD$10
    • Arrowroot starch
    • Magnesium myristate
    • Calcium carbonate
    • Emulsifying wax

    If you are interested, I am using the recipes from the book Make It Up by Marie Rayma. Here is the affiliate link: https://amzn.to/4cIzdTY, and I got started with the lipstick kit https://www.gonative.co.nz/products/lipstick-kit?variant=49653416689947 and mineral foundation kit https://www.gonative.co.nz/products/mineral-foundation-kit from Go Native. These aren’t affiliate links.

    Weekly tracking

    Continue with your weekly tracking because nine times out of ten, if it isn’t tracked, it isn’t achieved. Use your HGD Ultimate Crossroads Planner, the HGD Quarterly Planner or even your own planner to track your actions and goals.

    • 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 go deeper, HGD Crossroads Module 1 is free for the self-led option. If you are one of the next 12 to sign up, you will also get 15 minutes of WhatsApp Goal Investigation Support for free. You can get support by sending multimedia and text messages to your Goal Detective. You can ask questions about your Goal Investigation and your goals to get accountability with your goals. The minutes are only counted for your Goal Detective’s time, not the time you spend on the messages.

    Module 1 + 15 Minutes WhatsApp Goal Investigation Support

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    WhatsApp 15 Minutes

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