Life Areas: Take Action for Growth
Taking action is key to overcoming hurdles and reaching goals in each life area. The actions listed with each area offer potential ways to begin your growth and development as you reach for opportunities to thrive—in life and leadership.
Financial
- Participate in a financial planning seminar
- Reduce monthly expenses by designated amount
- Develop a budget
- Allocate specific amount of savings each week
- Sell or refinance your home
- Visit a financial planner
- Evaluate tax savings opportunities
- Reassess discretionary spending
- Have a constructive conversation about financial goals with spouse or significant other
- Consolidate credit card debt
- Sell a vehicle or buy a more economical one
- Eliminate impulse purchases
- Track spending
- Pay cash for all purchases
- Seek a second job
- Hold a garage sale or sell possessions online
Physical
- Schedule a physical
- Exercise
- Quit smoking
- Track your food intake
- Try a new hairstyle
- Drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day
- Get 6-8 hours of sleep every night
- Set a weight-loss goal
- Make healthy food choices
- Sign up for a marathon or other physical challenge
- Participate in a yoga program
- Buy organic or healthy food items
- Join a weight loss program or support group
- Research a new fashion style
- Start a walking or running routine
- Join a wellness program
Emotional
- Make a daily lists of 2–3 things to accomplish and complete them
- Limit TV watching
- Limit time with social media
- Start a hobby
- Read a book on specific topic
- Seek help/counseling with an addiction or dependency
- Join a support group/network
- Clean out closets or drawers
- Limit commitments and say no to further obligations
- Use a planner or organizing system
- Write down one thing that you are grateful for each day
- Join a weight management/wellness program
- Sign up for motivational workshop or audiotape
- Identify stress management techniques
- Begin a mediation program
Professional
- Explore skills, talents, interests, and aptitudes with a career counselor
- Discuss career goals with your boss
- Seek a mentor and set up time to meet at least once this month
- Take an online class
- Start a new hobby
- Teach others a skill or hobby
- Identify and apply for a new job
- Take a job inventory or career assessment
- Attend a job fair or a trade show
- Research careers/companies on the Internet
- Identify a networking resource and make contact
- Update your resume
- Create (or update) a LinkedIn profile
- Attend a professional conference
- Explore a new business venture
- Enroll in college or trade school
Relationship
- Seek counseling to improve relationships
- Identify fun things to do with your spouse/significant other
- Sign up for a marriage encounter weekend
- Set aside time to talk about an important issue
- Spend time listening to a friend
- Write a letter of appreciation to someone important
- Seek honest advice from a friend
- Reexamine friendships; invest time wisely
- Plan or practice having a difficult conversation
- Reconnect with an old friend
- Write a letter of forgiveness
- Join a club, social, or church group
- Set up a night out with good friends
- Become a Big Brother/Big Sister®
- Mail a handwritten card to a important person in your life
- Set up a date night or family night
Spiritual
- Spend some time each day in prayer
- Learn meditation and/or meditate daily
- Join a spiritual study
- Attend a worship service
- Spend time reading faith-based books
- Ask someone about their faith
- Share your faith
- Participate in a daily devotion
- Listen to faith-based music
- Go on a retreat
- Begin a prayer journal
- Lead a faith-based support group
- Go on a mission trip
- Engage in random acts of kindness
- Spend quiet time in nature; be still