Craig Harper: Renovate Your Life Sydney Workshop

Today, I attended Craig Harper's Renovate Your Life Sydney workshop. It is now up to me to utilise his knowledge, ideas, strategies and tools to create amazing in my own life.

Lesson 1: To be different you must do different.

So, the first thing I will do is create a detailed plan of how I will achieve my goals. I've done goal setting before, but not to the extent that Craig does. I need to first identify the goal, identify the outcomes from achieving that goals. But I think what I haven't ever really done is set progressive goals. I have simply written 'I want to lose 15 kg by my birthday/Christmas' or 'I want a university degree.' People who know me will know I have never had a proper study timetable, and they'll know how much of a procrastinator I am, and how I love chocolate. I can sometimes easily and happily spend 3 hours a day swimming, cycling, running (which is a slow jog at the moment!) but eating rubbish after or before that will be simply undoing my good work. Those behaviours will not allow me to effectively achieve my goal (setting non-negotiable behaviours will be discussed soon).

Craig gave us an A4 version of his Goal Setting Framework. Until physical space and money becomes available when I can invest in a large whiteboard, I will do the butcher paper method and stick it on my wall.