2. “You’ve got to be very
careful if you don’t
know where you are
going. Because you
might not get there.”
Yogi Berra
3. The way your life turns out is not an accident, you have a great deal of control over
it. However, if you don’t decide what you want, you are leaving some pretty
important things up to fate.
At some point most people who recover realise that no-one else can do it for them,
that they have to take charge of their recoveries.
Taking one’s own risks, setting one’s own goals and path, and learning one’s own
lessons are essential parts of recovery.
You can’t take all the paths in the woods, but once you select one, throw yourself
fully into that journey and don’t keep thinking about the path you didn’t take.
For the secret to success is knowing what you want. Otherwise you risk drifting
through life.
Choosing the path forward
4. Choosing the path forward
Consider the following questions:
• How CLEAR are you on what you want your life to
be about? (i.e. life goals & values)
• What are you AVOIDING or nor willing to
experience? (e.g. situations, experiences, emotions,
thoughts, memories)
• What would you DO if you knew you couldn’t FAIL?
• What REASONS are you GIVING for not
progressing?
• What mind activities are you ENTANGLED with? (e.g.
rigid rules, preoccupation, rumination, worry)
5. The One Degree Effect
Life is always going to push you off course. Think
about a plane’s flight path. A pilot must make
constant course corrections to keep the plane on
course because a one-degree change in course will
take the plane far from its intended destination. For
example, if you decided to start at the equator and fly
around the earth, one degree off would land you
almost 500 miles off target!
There is no need for despair if you are off course.
However, there is a need to do something about it.
Stay vigilant and make corrections to get back to
where you need to be.
6. We don’t have to change that
much for it to make a great
deal of difference. A few simple
disciplines can have a major
impact on how your life works
out in the next 90 days, let
alone in the next 12 months or
the next 3 years.”
7.
8. Atomic Habits: How to Get 1% Better Every Day
• Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.
• Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-
run.
• Habits are a double-edged sword. They can work for you or
against you, which is why understanding the details is essential.
• Small changes often appear to make no difference until you
cross
• a critical threshold. The most powerful outcomes of any
compounding process are delayed. You need to be patient.
• An atomic habit is a little habit that is part of a larger system.
Just as atoms are the building blocks of molecules, atomic
habits are the building blocks of remarkable results.
• If you want better results, then forget about setting goals.
Focus
• on your system instead.
9. Instructions:
Answer the questions below. These questions aim to provide a
not define the journey or its destination.
1. Do you have anything to look forward to?
2. Have you started to think of things that you could possibly do and
3. What options do you have?
4. What else could you do?
5. What would you do if you have complete control?
--- Draw a line across your page ---
6. What are you going to do?
7. How is that going to contribute to achieving your desired state?
8. When will you do it by?
9. What will stop you?
10.What support do you need and how will you get it?
11.Rate your level of commitment from 1-10 to do this.
12.What would you need to improve your level of commitment by 1?
Silent coaching exercise
