Living the Five Pillars

achieving-goals.jpgAn integral and vital aspect of becoming free, happy and successful is the integration of the 5 pillars into your life. This is best done with discipline through a process of continuous improvement, ensuring that each pillar is in balance and moderation.

The following steps will give you a good recipe to achieving this:

  1. Decide what success means to you.
    • Review each of the pillars, determine what is important to you, write it down and possibly come back a little later to check it again. These should all align to your life purpose.
  2. Write down your goals to achieving this success, include due dates of when you want to achieve them
    • If you want to achieve anything big and meaningful, set your goal 10x higher than you initially wanted, and remember that achieving it will require 10x the action than you first thought… Only you can decide it it’s worth it for you, live a life of getting by or taking control and getting what you want.
  3. Put a plan together on how to achieve these goals
    • You don’t need to have a full picture of how you’re going to get there but just the next step or next couple of steps, the rest of the picture will present itself when you get started
  4. Take massive immediate action to achieve the plan
    • Do something immediately, take that first step, be relentless in chasing what you want
  5. Be disciplined every day
    • Even when things are tough, draw from your burning desire and push to achieving the goals you’ve set. Success is in incrementally moving towards your goals one step at a time. This may also include visualisation techniques, re-writing your goals daily, anything to reinforce the goals in your mind and what’s needed to achieve them and also what’s at stake.
  6. Track progress regularly
    • This can be as regularly as daily or weekly depending on the goal but if you wait for the end of the year to check your progress, there is no way of correcting course if you are not on track.
  7. Review your goals
    • Make sure your goals are still relevant and still fit in with your purpose by reviewing them monthly or annually and loop back to point 1.