Many leadership and motivational speakers have made careers helping others to find their vision. We raise our desires and expectations but within the year we have returned to our old habits and dreams have died.
Why? Because habits die hard. Change takes courage and perseverance. We need help. Richard Boyatzis' Self-Directed Learning gives us direction through the process of change:
1. Develop as fully as possible a vision of the change you would like to see
2. Examine your own strengths and weaknesses
3. Form a plan to make the necessary changes in process, goals, and relationships so that you can begin to more toward your goal
4. Implement the plan. Begin to practice the new steps to change.
So far so good. But what will hold us on the path to change when trouble comes? Boyatzis advocates a fifth step that informs all the others: Resources. Find people who know you and can encourage you and hold you accountable to the best that you can be. People, teachers, writers, mentors, trainers, pastors, spiritual directors and encouragers are all resources that can mean the difference for us between success and failure.
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