What hopefully many of you will be doing today is a perfect example of a process that works if all the steps are executed and the intentions are authentic. What does that mean? Becoming aware of something that you want to change and what it would mean to you is the first step in the process to achieving it. In this case, you may want to think about what turning off the lights for one hour will do for you, your family, your community, your neighborhood, your city, your province or state and so on.
Once you realize that it would feel right to participate in this hour of awareness and action, as well as recognize all the reasons why you feel this way, you will perhaps then be in a position to decide that you will join the masses in Earth Hour. Your decision to act is the next step in the process of achieving what you set out to do. What do you think comes next? You’ve identified something you want, you’ve decided when and how long you will partake, now what?
What makes you actually do it? What helps you solidify that intention? At this stage, you know what it means to you to turn off the power for one hour (oh, that could be a good slogan!). You know you want to act today but what will make you commit to doing it at 8:30 tonight? Your answer to this question is what will make you accountable to yourself to follow through at that time. Perhaps one reason why you will feel committed to doing what you say you want to do is because everyone in this case will be acting at 8:30 and you want to be part of that. Your commitment to execute your intention is the final step to reaching it. At 9:30 tonight you will have accomplished the final stage of the “process” and you will have conquered your goal.
You may well agree that while the ‘process’ of executing any intention generally seems straight forward, the steps are seldom so.
What do you think make the ‘steps’ in the process on this Earth Hour day, a little less challenging than when you attempt to reach other goals?
~Lesia S.
