Step 7 – Scheduled Maintenance

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Welcome to the last step of planning your road trip called life!

If you haven’t taken the time yet… take one day to list what is most important to you, stack rank these items, dream up your vision for each area of your life, set your short-term goals, write out your action steps, and get your disciplines on your calendar.  Go to a place of peace, comfort, and inspiration… unplug for 8 hours (yes, leave your cell phone at home) and plan your road trip…

Next… find someone you can share your plan with… share it… don’t be scared… it’s liberating!!

Then schedule times to review your plan.  Here is what I do…

My road captain duties are complete but your journey is just beginning.  There is a big, beautiful world out there just waiting to be explored!  God has set the route before you so it’s your turn to throw your leg over the saddle, fire up your V-twin, and hit the road!   Love the journey as you live the journey!! 

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Step 6 – Find a Riding Buddy

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Woo Hoo!  You just finished the toughest thing in your life but you will be met with the greatest accomplishments when you add the action behind your appointments!  Writing a life plan is easy… living a life plan is liberating!  I encourage you to live it!

As with anything else, we need someone in our corner cheering us on… pushing us forward… holding the mirror up to all we want to be.  You’d be crazy to try to do this on your own… when going on a long journey, everyone needs a riding buddy.

In the next day, I want you to find a mentor, a coach, a friend, your spouse, someone you trust to share your life plan with.  Do it now while it’s fresh in your mind and alive in your heart.  In one week, I will be having a conversation with my new coach and I hope that you will find someone to become your accountability partner too!

If you want to share you plan with me, I’d be happy to read it and respond to you.  We’ll come up with a plan of how I can help hold you accountable for all the things you want out of your life.  Feel free to email it to me at Lisa@FullThrottleLiving.com.  This isn’t a journey you were meant to take alone.

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Step 5 – Commit to Your Journey

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I heard a wise man say once “This information I’m giving you today is priceless.  But if you do nothing with it, it is worthless.”  Just as I believe that this Road Trip process is priceless.  So if you haven’t done each step… nothing will change for you.  You’ll keep doing the same things expecting different results.  That, my friends, is the definition of insanity.  I am living proof that this will literally change your life when you Commit to Your Journey!

10 years ago, someone interviewing me asked how I managed my schedule.  My exact words were “I fly by the seat of my pants.” Needless to say, they hired me on the spot!  THAT was the answer they were looking for!  It certainly was the truth but I’ve learned SO much more since then.  When it comes to achieving something, flying by the seat of your pants will NOT get you there.

I’ve learned to calendar everything because I got tired of always flying around and never really landing anything…  It has helped me prioritize my schedule so I don’t let the urgent things take over the important things. Here’s how you do it…

Sample Time Block - use this as a guide for organizing your week around your priorities.

Blank Time Block - here’s a blank one you can use yourself!

We all have the same amount of time… it’s how you use that will have the greatest impact on your life.

A major part of successful living is the ability to put first things first.  Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

 

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Step 4 – Following the Mile Markers

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Remember the scene from Rocky where Paulie ask Rocky why he loves Adrian.  He says that “She’s got gaps… I got gaps… together we fill gaps…”  That’s what this step is all about… filling the gaps.

There’s someplace you want to be in your life but you’re right here at Point A… staring down the road at Point B.  So you’ve identified your destination at Point B and following the Mile Markers will help you draw the line between the two.  Watch this video and come on back for an example…

One of the most important goals to me is to become more engaged in the lives of my children.  You know the “quality of time” vs. the “quantity of time”.  Well… I want both and have come up with a handful of disciplines that will move me closer to the mom I’ve always wanted to be.  <Keep in mind… these are things that will eventually become habits so I can replace them with another discipline.>

1.  Volunteer once a month at school – have lunch with them, help in the classroom, or drive on a field trip

2.  Have a play-date with friends once a month so that they can develop friendships with different children in their class

3.  “Mom and me” time – one night a month, have date night with Dalton and Lauren individually.  Start those great conversations!

4.  Validate/encourage Dalton and Lauren at least once a day.  Tell them why I’m proud of them and find something to praise them about.  ”I love you!”

5.  Write in my “mom journal” once a week so that Dalton and Lauren can read their childhood stories when they are older

6.  Tuesday night is game night!  Friday night is family night!

What gaps do you need to fill between how you’re living now and how you want to live?  Look at your goals and break them into things you need to do on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.  You probably know what it takes to live the life you want but until you write down your action plan, it will elude you and you will never fill the gaps.  

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Step 3 – Stops Along the Way

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Welcome back!  You’ve made it to step three where things will become much clearer!  This is the step where we’re throwing one leg over the saddle and firing up the engine… ready to roll on the throttle and take off!  We have a clear destination in mind and now we’re scheduling the stops along the way.

Watch the video now and then come back to finish the rest of this post… it’ll make more sense!  See you in 3:43!

These stops will be little milestones of achievement that will keep us going full speed ahead to the next level.  Our stops will allow us three things:

1.  time to get off the road and reminice about how our trip has been so far – lessons learned, things we’d do differently, celebrate with others

2.  gas up so we have enough fuel for the next leg of our journey

3.  give us time to look at our map again in case we need to rechart our course and take a different route

The stops along the road that I’m eluding to are the short-term goals we set for ourselves that will help us fulfill our dreams.  It’s impossible to look at your destination and think you’ll get there without doing anything.  When you achieve your short-term goals, you’re one step closer to living the life you’ve envisioned.

Here are examples of my “stops along the way”:

Run the Disney Princess Half-marathon in February 2013 and beat my time from the Chicago race.

Lose 10 pounds by June 2012 by adapting the Paleo Lifestyle and exercising 3 atleast times a week.

Read 3 business or motivational books every month.

Ride the Tail of the Dragon by summer 2014.

Attend one spiritual based retreat/conference every year.

Practice patience when it comes to my children.

Practice discernment while becoming a better listener and improve the depth of my questions.

Fall in love all over again with my husband.

You’ll notice that most of these are things I want to do or accomplish where there is an end date in mind.  Where the last 3 are more a behavioral change that isn’t really measurable but more of a work in progress.  Don’t be afraid to address habits you want to break or values/principles you want to adopt in your life… it’ll build your character!

I love having you on this journey with me!  Take some time to list the stops that you will need to make along the way… Please share them with me so I can encourage you on your journey!

 

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