Bernadette Boas walks through a four-step framework for managing change: write down your concrete goals, list the resources and skills you already have, identify what's missing, and use that map to predict and manage change before it hits you.
Hi, this is Bernadette Boas with Shedding the Bitch, and today's Rich Tip is all about the inevitable— change. It's gonna happen to each and every one of us in small pieces or big chunks or both, and it all depends upon how we handle that change that will determine how productive and successful that change is for us. So how can you handle change more productively, more effectively, and more successfully than maybe you do today? A few things: write out in black and white, put it on a piece of paper, in very detailed specifics, what is it you want out of life? What is it at the end of the day, at the end of your lifetime, you want to be able to say that you've accomplished or attained? And then write out what do you have, what do you currently possess that would contribute to you achieving those goals, dreams, or aspirations? Because once you know those, you, you might find out that you have a lot that you can already contribute to that goal or dream. And then you want to lay out what don't you have, what do you need in order to accomplish your goals and dreams, and come up with a specific kind of to-do list, a task list of what is it that you're going to need to do in order to obtain those things that are missing to complete the puzzle, so to speak, of your, your goal achievement. Now, once you look at all of those 4 categories or those 4 lists, you can then see what type of change is going to need to occur in a short period of time or over time in order for you to realize all the riches in life. And some of those changes you're going to be able to predict, and obviously there's going to be some that you're not. But if you could get a handle on those that you can predict, those that you know are going to happen, those that you know you're gonna have to create, that what changes need to occur in order for you to accomplish your goals and dreams, then you have a one step up to all those people that sit around just waiting for life to happen. So manage and control, and in many ways predict your changes in life by simply getting a really good handle, really good view of what it is that you're trying to accomplish in this life. So for today's Rich Tip, this is Bernadette Boas with Shedding the Bitch. And go and change, it's a beautiful thing.
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