Just Focus – for 31 Days in a row

Well, this site was set up in October 2007 and was called 90 Day Trial, and as you might have noticed, it’s been up a lot longer than 90 Days by now. The point is that saying your goals out loud twice a day for 90 consecutive days sounds easy, but it is simply isn’t. Not one person in our Mastermind group (7 people) has achieved more than about 2 weeks, or 15 days.

But, Persistence is key, and I read somewhere that it takes 21 consecutive days to adopt a new habit, so we’re all giving it another go. We obviously need a new tactic, so I suggested we all choose a single goal, small or large, serious or just for fun, that we want to achieve, set a definite date when we want to have achieved it by and that we focus on that goal alone for the next month – for 31 days. Then we all see where we are at the end of the month.

So every morning for 31 days in a row, I am sending myself and anyone else who’s asked to join in, an email with a positive thought to read throughout the day, plus a reminder to spend 10 minutes imagining myself on the date in question, in full possession of my chosen goal. Hopefully, by riding on the daily habit of checking my email, I will successfully form a new habit of spending time on my goal and then can continue on easily into the full 90 Day Trial.

As it’s worked out, my group has started this 31 Day trial at different times. The first test group has been doing it for 14 days now, and the second group just 7. Of the first group, one member, has been visualising herself lying on a beach in the lap of luxury this summer and on Day 6 was offered a job living in with a wealthy family in the Bahamas. She leaves to start her new adventure next week. Of the second group, another member is visualising herself taking her children and partner on a huge road trip to visit friends and family this Christmas. On Day 3 she was contacted unexpectedly by a friend 8000 miles away (on her chosen route) who she hadn’t seen or been in contact with for a couple of years. And personally, I am visualising myself working succcessfully coaching lots of people and making my artwork by the beginning of September and on Day 13, I was already in a different country ready to start a new job on Friday which involves meeting lots of people and working in a creative environment.

But the 31 Days isn’t over yet, so I’ll stick with it and let you know how we all get on…