How to Win the Next Six Months

REMEMBER THE 6 A’S

A – ASSESS

• Start by assessing the last six months.
• This is not a judgement, it’s an internal audit in any area of your life.
• Relationships, mental health, finance, and career are a few examples.
• Look at and assess any area you want to improve.
• Don’t spend too much time on this.
• You don’t want to dwell on the past.
• You’re not looking back to criticize.
• This is to evaluate where you were and where you are.
• Make a quick assessment and rate yourself in each area.

A – ACCEPT

• After you assess, the next step is acceptance.
• This means being accepting of yourself; being content that you are a work in progress.
• Take a moment and make sure that you aren’t comparing yourself to anyone else, only the best version of yourself.
• The other part of acceptance is acknowledging that you can’t change the past.
• Accept what you can’t change and change what you can’t accept.

A – ASPIRE

• Once you’ve gone back and assessed the past and accepted your current circumstance, the next step is to find your aspirations.
• Ask yourself what you’re seeking to attain or accomplish in the next six months.
• Assessing and accepting is focusing on where you were.
• Now, focus on where you want to go.
• Your brain is organized to be inspired by big thinking.
• Be sure to reach for things that don’t just touch your head, but also touch your heart.

A – ACT

• Eckhart Tolle said: “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you have chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.”
• Knowledge is not power; it only has the potential to power.
• Information without application is useless.
• The aim of education is not just having knowledge for knowledge’s sake. It’s action.
• You want to think like a person of action, and act like a person of thought.
• Knowledge x Action = Power
• For every hour you spend learning something, whether it’s listening to a podcast, reading, or studying, spend one hour applying what you just learned.

A – AXE

• You also need to stop doing certain actions.
• This is where you put an axe to bad habits—you cut them.
• Create your not-to-do-list.
• Ask yourself: What are you going to stop doing?
• Look at your current habits and behaviors.
• Which ones held you back? Or will hold you back?
• Make a plan to stop those actions so you can move forward.

A – ADD

• You can’t just stop doing something, you have to replace it with a different action.
• Stop one habit and start another.
• If you simply stop doing something, you’ll have a void where that habit was.
• Think about what you are going to replace that bad habit with.
• Maybe instead of binge-watching, you’ll spend that time reading.
• Make it specific.
• Remember: Stop one, start one.

FINAL THOUGHTS

• There are some things you can only learn in a storm.
• The last six months have been challenging. Stay strong.
• Focus on what you can do to control the controllables.
• There is always sunshine behind the clouds, and not every storm comes to disrupt your life.
• You might not see results today, or tomorrow. Some things take time.
• That’s why you constantly assess, to look back and see how far you’ve come.
• Big things have small beginnings.
• There’s a version of yourself you haven’t met yet.
• Keep working hard, showing up, and learning.
• Every moment has two paths: You can step forward into growth and possibility, or you can step back.
• But sometimes the smallest step in the right direction can lead to the biggest leap in your life.
• Little by little, a little becomes a lot, and you’re one step closer every single day.

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