Creating a Winning Weekly Environment

This Sunday as always I am doing my usual routine of review the past week and setting intentions and goals for wonderful clean slate of the next seven days that lay ahead ready for me to play in. You can download the sheets I use and follow along at home at http://motivatemyself.com/Success_Circles.html I then realized that there is another part extremely important part of my weekly routine that I want to share with you.


Each Sunday I spend 30 - 60 minutes review and setting goals for the week ahead. After I complete my strategies and planning it's time to lay a foundation for my success. When we think of success we can sometimes lose site of the little things that helped us get there. The foot holes, that empowered us to hoist ourselves up the huge mountains of life that we traverse. When I speak of creating a winning environment it is these success foot holes that I am talking about. So how do we intentionally carve out these foothills?

Abraham Maslow introduced a hierachy of needs in his1943  paper "A Theory of Human Motivation".  His theory is that we must attain or fulfill certain needs before we can move forward to higher levels of success. 

• On the bottom of the pyramid he created are basic psychological needs; food, water, air, shelter, sleep and sex. 
• Once these needs are satiated his theory shares that we are open to success in the next tier of needs, safety and security. 
• The higher levels in order are love and belonging and self-esteem. 
• The last tier of the pyramid is "Self Actualization".  This top tier includes morality, creativity, spontaneity, problem solving, lack of prejudice and acceptance of facts.  Unlike the needs on the other tiers the top tier is about being.  When we tap into the top tier we are energized.  They are a direct gas line tapping into our motivation but until we have satiated the other tiers we cannot tap into this gas supply of motivation. 

According to Wikipedia  "Maslow was a professor of Dr. Wayne Dyer. Dyer suggests that Maslow taught him two ways of understanding self-actualization: 1) to be free of the good opinion of others; 2) to do things not simply for the outcome but because it's the reason you are here on earth".  I often refer clients to the books of Wayne Dyer because of his simple way of describing self esteem needs and how to overcome and satiate them."

As fascinating as this is, how does this tie into weekly planning?  I realized that on my most successful weeks I have proactively taken care of my basic needs.  After my weekly planning I have taken time to meal plan and shop, do laundry so I have clothes that I feel good in, cleared my desk and prepared my environment to fuel me.  These simple steps so commonly overlooked because they lack the glamor of some of our more complex  needs are essential for us to move forward.  So often my clients feel overwhelmed, stuck or frustrated and simply taking care of these basic needs propels them forward and gets them unstuck.  On the weeks I do not set myself up for success in this way I am treading water, playing catch up and trying to avoid boob traps rather than concentrating on connection and creation.  This week take a few moments, scan your environment for basic needs and set yourself up for success.  If you are looking for guidance, accountability and support on your journey to success don't hesitate to contact me, my door is WIDE open.  I specialize in empowering YOU to attain the success you so desire.