Yes, yes I know. I haven't posted since July.
No excuses. Just been coasting in life, although there has been some major changes.
My son is off to college and I am now an empty nester.
I have moved back to Toronto, mere minutes from my work, saving me about 3 hours a day (often more) of commute time and simplifying my life considerably. Also easing my financial situation at the same time.
After 19 years of parenthood, my life is once again, fully my own.
I am making the most of it.
Once established I partnered up with my good friend Cathy Morenzie. Last year at about this time we did the 100 Day Challenge with some success but neither of us were overly enthralled with the program. It did provide some initial get up and go momentum (or did we do that ourselves?) but certainly wasn't able to carry us through to completion of our goals.
So this year, we've decided to take things one step further. We're creating our own program and testing it on ourselves. Why? Well, for one, because there's nothing like having your own personal success coach in your corner. We've studied all the books, taken courses, watched movies, had coaching, etc. While we're both still enjoying consuming new self-help material, we're also at the point of diminishing returns. It's mostly just rehashing what we already know. So another course or coaching session isn't going to suddenly work magic. It's all about applying what we already know. One of the absolute best ways to get yourself to work it, is to be teaching someone else.
So we're developing an outline for a program, setting goals, and coaching each other. This is a fabulous exercise because it's making us really think about this stuff, no, not just think, live this stuff. We have to think about it to form the program, live it to motivate ourselves and motivate each other.
When we can successfully help each other reach our true potential, then we'll test it on a group of volunteers (sign up now). Once it works for them, we'll roll it out to the world and create another revenue source for ourselves. In the meantime, we're working on other goals which include websites and books.
Cathy and I have already discussed the importance of journaling our journey's because much of that will become material or lessons learned for the very course we're creating. Since this blog, has been my journal (albeit a public one), I will continue to use it for that very purpose. In fact it's ideal, as the ultimate goal of this blog is for you to see someone's struggle from a regular mundane life to outstanding success. And that's what this program we're working on is all about. So there's definitely a synergy.
As always, I'll be upfront with both my achievements and challenges. Hopefully you can learn from both.
I'm excited. This is the beginning of living my life intent. Walking the walk instead of merely talking the talk.
I've so much more to share but that's enough for today. Later my peeps. Thanks for joining me on this ride.
T Preston Squire
