When I work with people to define goals I ask this question:

‘What do you want and how will you know you have achieved this?’

In the response to the question, I consider two aspects - who are you ‘being’ when you achieve these results - how are you showing up and what personal characteristics are you demonstrating. This ‘being’ can often involve some sort of clarity or personal transformation that needs to occur. Alongside that is what are you ‘doing’ as a part of reaching these results. The latter is the easy part for most.

Over the holidays I ran across some photos from a presentation I did shortly after I was amputated in 2005.

I went from being a normally active person that ran and cycled to an above knee amputee cancer survivor.

I remember this was an ‘in-between’ time. for me You can’t go back and forward was dark and unknown.

Laying in my hospital bed I really didn’t know what to do and thought ‘Well, this isn’t going to grow back, so I better get used to this and go forward’.