February 2019 – Debra Searle MBE

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I Know You Don’t Want To Do This… But Here’s Why You Must!

My twin sister Hayley Barnard is a marathon open water swimmer. She’s even swum the English Channel… in just a bathing suit… in October… that’s bonkers! Every day she looks forward to downloading the data from her watch after a training session and seeing how far she’s swum and at what speed and then entering that on to her spreadsheet against her planned mileage. Maybe she’s just a geek but it’s what drives her on.

Research shows that monitoring goal progress is a crucial process that intervenes between setting and attaining a goal and helps to ensure that goals are translated into action. Whatever success looks like for you – whether it’s lifting that award in the air or finally finishing your novel – a crucial step is finding a way of tracking your progress that works for you. Unfortunately, not all of us are like Hayley when it comes to goal monitoring, so in this show I get really practical about the ways I have found helpful to monitor my goal progress and what the research tells us about which methods work best.

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Resources from this week’s Choose Your Attitude Show

Your Best Year Ever Guide: www.debrasearle.com/goals
My Get Fit Blueprint: www.debrasearle.com/fit
Does Monitoring Goal Progress Promote Goal Attainment? A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/bul-bul0000025.pdf
My wonderful cycle coach Holly: http://www.springcyclecoaching.co.uk/home/
My inspirational twin sister’s Channel Swim: https://youtu.be/T2MFAIjqyvY

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The Myth of Motivation: How To Use Small Wins To Chase Your Dreams

Here’s the thing – I have been a motivational speaker for the past 16 years, but I think that motivation is a myth. If not a myth, then it’s a least a massive oversimplification of how people achieve their dreams.

I’ve found that motivation is often the RESULT of action, not the cause of it.

That’s why in this week’s show we discuss the Harvard-researched concept of the progress principle. I cover:

Why we should focus on the ‘small wins’ or ‘tiny victories’ rather than the end goal
How to figure out what meaningful actions we need to take to move closer to our goal
Some practical strategies to use when we start to feel overwhelmed or anxious

That’s it for now – I’m off to pack as my panda-obsessed daughter and I are going to celebrate half term by visiting Edinburgh Zoo, home to the UK’s only giant panda 🐼!

Thanks so much for joining me and don’t forget to choose your attitude – it’s the one thing we have a choice about.

Bestest,

Debra

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Resources from this week’s Choose Your Attitude Show

Your Best Year Ever Guide: www.debrasearle.com/goals
The Power of Small Wins by Teresa Amabile & Steven J. Kramer, Harvard Business Review – https://hbr.org/2011/05/the-power-of-small-wins
The meditation app developed by my amazing university friend Andy: https://www.headspace.com/
My Venetian Dragon Boat Adventure
The Sisterhood’s English Channel Crossing
The LeasePlan Women’s Arctic Challenge

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Heartbreak To Happiness: My journey and what has helped along the way

How could I pass up the opportunity to focus on love and relationships this week, what with it being Valentine’s Day on Thursday? Not a fan of Valentine’s? Don’t worry, apart from my amazing singing and dancing for the first few seconds of the video, I promise this isn’t cheesy, and the things we talk about have been useful in all kinds of relationships, from those I have with my children through to relationships with colleagues and even with my twin sister.

So, this week I’ll share the three ideas that have got me over the pain of divorce and have grown (dare I admit, possibly even saved?!) my second marriage. I’ve never talked about any of this publicly before and was terrified about doing so but really felt that I wanted to share some of the things that I’ve learned (the hard way), as relationships are often what make the highs of our lives higher, as well as the lows lower. If you follow these three ideas I’m hoping there will be significantly fewer lows!

Due to the kids being on Half Term Holidays next week, the show will go live at the earlier time of 12.30pm (07.30am if you on the US East Coast) so please do join me live at lunchtime if you can:

http://www.facebook.com/DebraSearleMBE/ (To be reminded when I go live on Facebook, please ‘Like’ and ‘Follow’ my page, selecting ‘See First’ on the dropdown menu)

http://www.instagram.com/debra_searle_mbe/

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!

Debra x

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Resources from this week’s Choose Your Attitude Show

Your Best Year Ever Guide: www.debrasearle.com/goals

The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman – https://amzn.to/2SrFEne [affiliate link]

Website – https://www.5lovelanguages.com/

The 5 Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman – https://amzn.to/2Btat0E [affiliate link]

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I Know You Don’t Want To Do This… But Here’s Why You Must!

The Myth of Motivation: How To Use Small Wins To Chase Your Dreams

Heartbreak To Happiness: My journey and what has helped along the way

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