Leaving the Crisis Zone
Welcome to Phase 3, the implementation phase! Think about how you address issues in your life. Are you generally effective? Do you have a logical, disciplined approach, or is it more haphazard? Do you frequently find yourself shooting from the hip? Perhaps it’s time to change your approach. This milestone will give you some ideas for how to go about just that. Take out your Exceptional Living Plan. Collect the data necessary to fill in any missing baseline measurements, and compare these to your Platinum Standard of living. Where do the largest gaps between your ideal life and reality lie? These are the areas where you’ve got fires burning, and so you should devote your immediate attention to putting out the fires. Focus on why these are problem areas for you, and start to figure out solutions. Once you’ve defined the problems that you want to work on, do some brainstorming to generate a broad list of options for how to go about solving them. If you’re confronting issues you can’t seem to find a solution for, give The Five Why’s activity a try!
