5 Areas of Transformation that Will Bring You Greater Fulfillment

We have quickly reached the time of the year when most New Year Resolutions fail. It’s been a whole 2 1/2 weeks of 2024.

Are you on track with the intentions you created for yourself?

I believe we each have a better version of ourself yet undiscovered, and that growth exists as our universal source of purpose.

As so eloquently stated in Shawshank Redemption, get busy living or get busy dying.

The idea of transformation has always intrigued me. Something internal, deep down inside, has always known there is a better version of myself than what I am demonstrating to the world today. It’s been a driving force behind of my be-ing.

Transformation means growth. It means improvement. It represents the endless journey. It’s the boom, boom, boom of the drum that sets the rhythm and pace of life.

It doesn’t mean that anything is particularly wrong with us today, but only that something even better is yet to be discovered.

And ignoring that something creates internal dissatisfaction.

That’s all well and good, but how do you actually tackle it?

Before identifying those, it’s worth noting the importance of integrity. Ultimately, this idea of transformation requires that you first identify within yourself the desire to be show up in a way that’s slightly better than the version of you that went to bed last night.

You have to have the want, but then you also have to have some integrity. You have to be committed. Not to your wife, your co-workers, your kids, or you community.

You have to have some integrity with yourself.

I believe that a life of integrity is the fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mindset, of attitude — that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way. — Stephen Covey

With that in mind, I’d like to bring John Madsen into the conversation.

John used to be an NFL player and now owns a health and wellbeing coaching program called SupraHuman. During one of his recent podcast episodes (The Show by John Madsen), John identified the five transformations necessary to create your best self. I thought it was a worthy list, so have decided to capture it and share it here, adding my own little spin on his ideas.