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Actions and Practices Make it all Come True

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In order to realize your dreams and life goals, you must consistently practice, and take continuous actions. In Coaching Sanctuary, you not only uncover your life goals…you also learn how to act in order to reach goals. With our Practices and Actions support, you move more quickly toward your goals with you're accomplishments, and with a building self-confidence that you really are the master of your destination.

Also check out our the Practice, Practice, Practice section at the end of this page.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Progress and why is it important?

In order to transform, we must evolve, and the best way to measure how successful we are at something is to measure our Progress every step of the way. This can be as simple as standing on the scale every week to see how much weight we have lost, depositing money into a savings account each month to build for retirement, or checking things off our daily to-do list. Each activity gets us closer to our goal and every time we check a Practice or Action off the list, we Progress.

In Coaching Sanctuary, Progress is where you measure your success—your personal growth. Are you moving forward with your goals? Are you completing an Action by the due date or doing your Practices as frequently as you set out to do? You measure your Progress as often as you like. It is as simple as checking something off the list!

How does Coaching Sanctuary measure my Progress?

The Progress tool in Coaching Sanctuary is designed to look like a personal notebook. The first two pages list your most recent accomplishments and current goals. The next two pages show all of your Practices and Actions—the ones you created when defining your goals. This allows you to visualize and manage all your activities in one place. You can even print out a copy to keep with you at all times. You can also hang it on the refrigerator as a daily reminder of what needs to be done.

Each Practice and Action includes the frequency or due date. When something is completed, you simply check it off the list to earn reward points. If you need to update an activity, such as extend a due date or change the frequency of a practice, just click on that activity in your notebook and update the date or frequency in your goal detail. Changes that are made will automatically update in your notebook so you can be assured that your to-do list is always current.

We at Coaching Sanctuary want you to succeed, so we designed the Progress tool to be fun and easy to use. What better way to jump-start your day and get motivated to stay on track than to see your last seven accomplishments listed on the first page of your notebook. Each time you visit your Progress tool and update your activities, you gain greater inspiration and motivation to Progress toward a more fulfilled life.

What is the Assessment why is it so important?

Located on the home screen, the Assessment tool is a visual barometer that captures how you feel about the work you are doing in Coaching Sanctuary.

While Progress measures how you are advancing with the tools, the Assessment measures how you are feeling with your Journey, Journal writing, Goals and scheduled Activities. It will help you to tap into your emotions, highlight areas where you might be procrastinating, and pinpoint where you need to focus more of your energy.

The Assessment works on a sliding scale basis. For each activity, whether it is the Journey, Journal writing, Goals, Practices or Actions, the Assessment tool will measure your emotional state—are you exhilarated, excited, satisfied, unsatisfied or frustrated with yourself?

This self-assessment is an important part of your personal growth in Coaching Sanctuary. By taking an honest emotional inventory, every step of the way, you will learn to become more in tune with yourself and more adept at creating real change.

Your Notepad

The Progress screen shows you a quick overview of all your goals, actions and practices. It's your repository of your life goals and activities.

You can print this beautiful notebook page and hang it on the fridge or your computer as a daily reminder.

Practice, Practice, Practice

Practice makes it all come true

Our habits, whether unconscious or conscious, are what shape our lives. If we’re in the habit of drifting from one activity to another without a clear vision of our goals, we will never see the results we desire. However, when we replace unproductive habits with new ones, we start making progress, and at the same time we boost our self-awareness and self-esteem. Establishing new habits takes practice.

You will set simple actions and practices for each of your goals to provide you with step-by-step instructions toward achieving them. An action is a one-time event, while a practice is more ongoing and requires a larger commitment. You will start by creating various actions associated with each goal. For example, if your goal is to travel to New York to celebrate a friend’s 50th birthday, your actions might include checking out airfares, saving money each month for travel-related expenses, or researching different things to do in New York to make the most of your trip. One fun practice you could assign to this goal would be to collect stories about your friend to create a personalized present for her, such as a memory book that includes pictures and memorabilia that spans the length of your friendship.

Inspirational Quote: “That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself becomes easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet (1803-1882)

Making the most of the Practices

Author Robert Collier states, “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” The Practices are intended to help you succeed at changing behavior one step at a time. With regular Practices, you will begin to see changes in how you deal with situations, how you feel, how you think, and how you act. Sometimes these changes are very subtle; at other times they can be profound.

If one of your goals is to get out of debt, your actions and Practices may include setting a budget for payments, eliminating or reducing unnecessary spending, eating out less each month, or negotiating reduced interest rates with your creditors. By creating an action plan and Practices around this goal, you’ll begin to feel better when you see your balances decrease, think differently about buying that fancy pair of shoes, and experience a sense of empowerment knowing that you took control of your finances with a clear path toward financial security and stability.

Inspirational Quote:
“Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”
- Charles Reade, English Novelist (1814-1884)

It's Progress, not Perfection!

The Webster Dictionary defines Progress as 'a forward, or onward movement, as to an objective or to a goal; a form of gradual betterment; the progressive development of humankind.'

You can choose to grow, learn, and become the person you aspire to be—the master of your own life—or you can choose to stagnate, to hesitate, and remain fearful and doubtful and live an unfulfilled life. By choosing Coaching Sanctuary, you have chosen to become the master of your life, to live it with integrity, intention and the love of friends. You have chosen to evolve, and we are here to help.

When you know where you want to go and what you want to achieve, you will work on yourself and do anything possible to get there. You just need to take that first step. Because you will tackle your goals one step at a time, we also encourage you to measure your success every step of the way. You will measure your Progress in Coaching Sanctuary on a regular basis to provide yourself with rewards, encouragement and inspiration. This will motivate you to want more for yourself.

Behold, you are the rose bud that is growing into the flower, you are the cocoon that holds the butterfly, and you are the woman that you were destined to be—so go out there and find her!

Inspirational Quote: “We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.”
- James Freeman Clarke, American preacher and author (1810-1888)

Measuring your success every step of the way

Self-assessment is an important aspect of your transformation. Looking inward and honestly evaluating how you feel at any given time, whether the feelings are brought about as a result of something you did or didn’t do, is an effective way of measuring your performance and getting closer to attaining your goals.

By embarking on the Journey of transformation, you will learn how to re-shape your moods, thoughts, feelings, words, and actions in order to live a more intentional and fulfilled life. In order to experience true growth, you must practice self-assessment—to look honestly at where you are at any given moment, answer truthfully how you feel about what you have done, and own your own feelings of frustration or satisfaction when they arise.

Too often many of us do the work without experiencing the full benefits. With so many things to do in a given day, we are often moving from task to task without taking the time to look inward at how we feel. We need to learn to do the work, sit back and reflect, and get in tune with our feelings. The Assessment tool in Coaching Sanctuary makes that possible.

The Assessment tool requires you to own your feelings. Are you exhilarated, excited, satisfied, unsatisfied, or frustrated with yourself? You decide—just be honest with yourself, no one is judging you. For each phase of your Journey, in your daily Journal practice, and as part of your scheduled activities, you will assess your emotional barometer, every step of the way.

Inspirational Quote: “Much we learn only to forget it again; to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it.”
- Friedrich Rückert, German Poet (1788-1866)