Shoremates, 

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Action Items. 

1.  Print or write out a simple daily schedule. For example, 5 am to 6 am, 6 am to 7 am, and so on.  Write out everything you do on that schedule, and you’ll see areas that you are wasting time or not using it as efficiently.  When I did this activity, I also noted when my energy levels started to fall and spike, and coordinated energy appropriate activities around those times. 
2. What is it that you want?  Go be by yourself, play some calming music and just breathe.  Have a pen and paper with you, and envision what you want your future to look like.  From here, write the top 3 goals you need to work on right now in order to accomplish that, and what you’ll do to make head way towards those goals.  As a reminder, a road is built brick by brick.  It can take awhile for these goals to come to pass and that is ok as long as you’re intentionally working at it and reevaluating your steps to get there.
3. If you haven’t already created SMART goals from the previous action steps, go ahead and do so. Then write it down and put it into a place you’ll see it often, decide on the metrics you’ll measure yourself against, and go forth.  It’s a journey.  There are some days it’ll feel like you're running against a brick wall. It hurts, and let me just tell you know that this is normal and it is 100% ok.  

Always, Always Remember,

You've got this!

-J.D. Elliott