Cheryl Richardson in her book Life Makeovers: 52 Practical and Inspiring Ways to Improve Your Life One Week at a Time challenges you to take action to discover how you might need to develop yourself in order to achieve your goal, by trying the following four step process:

1. Identify someone who is very successfully doing what you’d like to do & write it in your Journal ” One person I admire is ………..”
2. List three qualities that contribute to this persons success by writing in your Journal “The three qualities I admire most are ……..”
3. Pick the one quality the one quality you know you need to develop most of all, its the one that causes you to feel excited & scared at the same time. Commit to this by writing in your Journal “The one quality I need to develop is….”
4. Look for practical ways to develop this quality everyday and write in your Journal “To develop this quality, I will take the following three actions …..”