http://forums.thinkarete.com/forums/the-big-ideas/topics/roles-amp-goals en-us 60 <p>Creating our ideal lives. </p><p>I love that process.</p><p>Stephen Covey provides a useful tool to help us imagine and create our ideals.</p><p>He likes to say that we all have &ldquo;Roles&rdquo; that we play and that, to be effective, we need to create &ldquo;Goals&rdquo; for all those roles.</p><p>Roles and Goals.</p><p>Flows nicely, eh?</p><p>(For the record: Tony Robbins talks about &ldquo;Categories of Improvement&rdquo; for which you create your ideal vision&hellip; more on that another time&hellip;)</p><p>So, what Roles do <em>you </em>have?</p><p>Perhaps Husband or Wife?</p><p>Mother or Father?</p><p>Friend?</p><p>Entrepreneur or scholar or professional?</p><p>Identify these Roles.</p><p>Then create your Goals for each.</p><p>&hellip;</p><p>Some of my Roles? </p><p>Student of Life, Teacher, Lover/Partner, Friend, Entrepreneur&hellip;</p><p>Some of my (long-term/high level) Goals (as of 7:45 am on Thursday, October 17, 2007)?</p><p><em>Student of Life</em>: I passionately soak up all the wisdom I possibly can&mdash;viewing life as my classroom as I strive to grow in every moment.</p><p><em>Teacher</em>: I take the time to share the wisdom I&rsquo;m learning in fun, inspiring and practical bits of wisdom people can integrate into their lives immediately&mdash;empowering them to discover <em>their </em>truth and to go out and change their life.</p><p><em>Lover/Partner: </em>I give myself to my relationship&mdash;supporting my Goddess in living her highest potential and most fully expressing her creative gifts, re-committing to the ideals of our relationship when we face challenges and remembering the amazing spiritual growth and connection I get by being in relationship.</p><p><em>Friend</em>: I have fun with and support my friends by holding a mirror to their highest potential&mdash;giving them the space and encouragement to let their light shine fully!</p><p><em>Entrepreneur</em>: I circulate abundance in the world as I give my creativity and receive abundance in return.</p><p>&hellip;</p><p>From there we can drill deeper into the more near-term Goals. So, for example, today I may have these goals:</p><p><em>Student of Life</em>: Today I will notice when I start drifting from my highest self and shift back to what my ideal self would do in any challenging moment.</p><p><em>Teacher</em>: I will write 10 &ldquo;Big Ideas&rdquo; today! (This is already #9. :))</p><p><em>Lover/Partner: </em>I will communicate with my Goddess about our little tiff last night and dissolve the tension. :) [note: it&rsquo;s 8:18am on the same day and we just had an <em>amazing </em>conversation with equally amazing distinctions (for another Big Idea :))&hellip; how <em>great </em>it feels to honor our commitments and hit our goals! :))]</p><p><em>Friend</em>: I&rsquo;ll have an awesome hike with Dave today and be present and available to support him however I can.</p><p><em>Entrepreneur</em>: I will fine-tune the ideal map of the new thinkArete.com site and communicate this in detail with my (brilliant!) developer and designer as we get ready to launch next week.</p><p>&hellip;</p><p>How about you?</p> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:43:14 -0000 forums.thinkarete.com:503:237:237 brian http://forums.thinkarete.com/forums/503/topics/237