The CORE Approach®

What is the CORE Approach^®?

The CORE Approach^® is a four step approach to ensure success as you determine what changes you want to make and then work toward the goals you've set for yourself. The four elements of The CORE Approach ^® are Choice, Opportunity, Responsibility, and Expectation.

Choice. It seems such a simple concept. We make choices all day, every day, in our lives. We choose what to wear, what we'll have for lunch, whether we'll stop at the dry cleaner on the way home. However, many of us never learned to make conscious choices about the big things in our lives. We even "end up" in careers we never thought about in our early years. The first choice is to choose to consciously make choices in our lives, about the things that really matter to us. We need to stop "letting life happen" to us.

Opportunities are all around us. Once you are conscious about the choices you are making for yourself, and set life goals based on those choices, it's unbelievable how many opportunities are presented. It's almost as if the universe has "heard" you state your goal, and is trying to help you achieve it! Do we recognize these opportunities when they come to us? Not only do we need to be paying attention, which comes with focus on our goal, but we need to be proactively seeking opportunities to move closer to our goals. We tend to wait for things to come to us. Rather, we need to be out there making things happen by looking for the opportunities to get just one step closer to the target. Again, being proactive is a choice, is it not?

Responsibility. Hmmm. You're responsible, right? You know what your roles are, and take care of your work, your family, your home. That's not exactly what I'm getting to. Those things are important, no argument there. But we need to think bigger. As you make conscious choices, and begin to seek and recognize opportunities, you have a responsibility to be giving as well. Giving to whom? That's up to you. But I will tell you from experience, that the more you give, the more you get. Especially when you aren't giving JUST to get something in return. Giving humbly, without reservation, is the goal for this step of the approach. Give because it's the right thing to do. Whether it's traditional tithing to your church or synagogue, coaching in a local little league, doing some sort of community service, volunteering on mission trips to help flood- or tornado-ravaged towns, it's your choice. Gee, there's that choice concept coming in again.

What is your expectation of yourself? Have you ever really thought about it? Do you expect yourself to succeed? Or do you give yourself negative messages all the time? Think about it. Learn to expect the best from yourself. Stop telling yourself that the negative messages are the ones you should believe. Then you will set the expectation of others in terms of how they treat you, react to you, and what they believe about you.

These sound like pretty easy concepts, right? They are, in theory. In reality, getting to the point where they are integrated into our personality is a much more difficult challenge. There's a lot to unlearn about the way many of us have lived our lives. This entire approach is about being intentional.

After talking about this approach with many people who had made changes in their lives, and having so many of them tell me they wished they'd had a formula like this during their transition times, I decided it was time to write that book I always wanted to write. So, The CORE Approach^® was born. As it grew, it became a series of seminars, because so many people struggle with why their lives aren't what they thought they would be, and also believe that it's too late to have what they really want. It's NOT TOO LATE!

Trust me, I'm not 25 years old anymore, and I started over again. I'm happier, more peaceful, at ease, and know that my passion for what I now do for a living comes through when I talk about it. I know because people are always pointing out how emphatic I get when I start discussing it! You, too, can figure out what you are passionate about creating in your life, and go after it.