What The Cheshire Cat Teaches Us About Personal Development
In the book 'Alice in Wonderland', there comes a point on Alice's journey when she is faced with a fork in the road. Before heading to the left or to the right, a Cheshire cat suddenly appears in front of her. After a few moments, Alice asks the Cheshire cat whether she should take the left road, or the right road.
In response to Alice's question, the Cheshire cat asks Alice where she is headed. She answers honestly by saying, "I don't know", to which the Cheshire cat responds, "Then it doesn't really matter which road you take".
The success of Alice was left up to chance - a left turn or a right turn. If your life is down to chance then you are not in control of what will happen to you.
You have the ability to transform your life and be the person you want to be.
Personal Development enables you to transform your life and achieve what you want.
Get on the R.O.A.D. to Success and Happiness
Every journey requires a R.O.A.D. For you to be successful, you have to get on the R.O.A.D. to success. In short, you need to:
1. Take Responsibility for your life. You must accept that you are in control of your future and that you have the ability to change your future. You also need the willingness to change.
2. Choose the Outcomes that you want. This means knowing what you want, NOT just knowing what you don't want. Knowing what you want gives you direction, focus and purpose.
3. Plan the neceesary Action steps that will enable you to achieve what you want. This enables you to measure your progress and follow a route to achieve what you want.
4. Change your behaviour. You need to be Disciplined so that you break from your old habits. You need to change and begin to create new habits that help you achieve what you want.
If you want to improve your life, learn and apply the R.O.A.D. technique!
StrategA call it the guaranteed success formula.
3 essential Tips
Change both mindset and attitude
Change your language, both your self talk and how you communicate with others
Set goals and monitor your achievement
What This means for you
Your own, successful, business
More time with your family
Finance to educate your children
Better holidays
Improved relationships
How StrategA can Help
StrategA specialise in behaviour change. We have tools and techniques to help individuals get on the R.O.A.D.
We enable individuals to discover what they want - and then change their behaviour and transform their life so that they achieve what they want.
Our mentoring programmes encourage discovery and direction, prompting effective goal setting.
Our coaching programmes prompt discipline, reinforcing fruitful goal achievement and success.
What Next
Ben Sweetland
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
Michael LeBoeuf
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Larry Elder
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein
Success is not final, failure is not final. It is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Andrew Morrison
Managing Director
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