The next step is to clarify which goals are specifically aligned with your future vision.

Bill Phillips says an easy way to figure this out is to take a few deep breaths and visualize your future self.  What things does your future self do?  Then ask yourself what things does my future self do that I’m not currently doing.  This is how you can get some really specific goals which are aligned with your future vision and will help you really get clear on where you need to go.

You need to make sure your goals are very specific and that you have put a definite deadline in there.  Open ended goals do you no good…it tells your brain that you have virtually ‘forever’ to reach the goal ~ so what do you do?  You sit back and have Scarlett O’Hara syndrome ~ you talk about how you can do things ‘tomorrow’. This is why you need to put a specific deadline for yourself.  Positive pressure is a great thing when it comes to helping you follow through!

Here are my goals for 2011.

Within the year 2011 :

1. On 1/1/11 I weighed 283 pounds. Within the year 2011 ~ I will weight 180 pounds.

2. I will go every 24 hours without the over eating or binging.

3. I will spend 30 minutes a week meditating on my future vision.

4. I will do one random act of kindness daily for my husband and two children.

5. I will write at least 1 blog post a week about my journey to inspire others.

6. I will work to identify 3 significant resentments which are weighing on me and I will let them go through the process of forgiveness described in Chapter 8 of the Transformation book.

The Transformation book is what I’m using to change my life this year. It’s written by Bill Phillips and it’s full of not only great information about how you can lose weight and get healthy, but it also goes into all of those internal struggles you have with weight loss too.  I like to think about it being my internal doctor…it helps me fix the problems from the inside out.

If you are interested in joining a whole community of like-minded people who are all striving for the same goals ~ check out www.transformation.com .  This is a website / community built around the core principals that Bill Phillips is trying to teach.  Plus…they have a contest where you can win $50,000 just by applying these principals and changing your life for the better.  Talk about win-win!