goals

Why take this challenge?

Clarity about who you want to become

A practical set of steps to get there

Planning the resources that will support you

This is the last in this series of adventures, and so it is fitting that it is about setting aside a serious time out to plan your next voyage, wherever that will take you. It is about scheduling a meeting with yourself.

Blaise Pascal once said ‘All human evil comes from a single cause, our inability to sit still in a room’

And lets face it, in these ‘always on’ days, sitting alone in a room does not happen by accident. There are so many calls on our time, so many distractions, so many things rattling around our head, that getting time to ourselves is a rare thing. And when we do get it, it is probably as a result of a mindfulness or Yoga exercise, and our minds are deliberately occupied with emptiness.

But what we are talking about here is a place of calm where we can think, clearly and deeply, about what we want, and how we can bring it about. It is about programming ourselves with the impact we want to have. It is about the things we have talked about in adventure numbers 43, 45 and 46 – direction, values, motivation. And it is about getting some serious time and space to work it through and make sure you get the benefits you want from it.

A meeting with yourself

So there are no tracks in this final adventure – only a choice about where, when and how long you are going to spend on it.

We recommend a solid day. Somewhere peaceful, undisturbed, perhaps at a distance, and in an inspiring location. With the phones and email off. The do not disturb sign on. A meeting solely with yourself. And the only thing on the agenda is: What do I want? Where am I starting from? How do I get between the two? (These are expanded in the list below)

And the only step you need to do today is to block the time in your calendar, and to book the location and any travel required.

You may find the following resources helpful in tackling your challenge or in gaining further benefits from the skills and insights you develop

• SWOT Analysis (As covered in adventure 16)
• Forcefield Analysis (As covered in adventure 17)
• Kipling List to plan out or analyse the who what when where …

To catch up on past adventures you may have missed, feel free to browse our Adventures Library

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