- Create a personalized action plan, using SMART goals and realistic gradual time frames
- Harness strengths and applying new found skills for strategic purposes
- Build on your support system to become a support community!
- Implement your communication and/or new leadership skills in the workplace and/or in relationships
- Practice, practice, practice: to build confidence and invest in what you are learning & yourself
- Ask for feedback from people you can trust in your life about what they see you expressing & doing
- Use strategic volunteering and internships as a step stool to gain experience to build on
- Develop stronger self-care habits that support the important work you're already doing and ready to do
- Pace yourself as you work hard and then take breaks to recharge energy and replenish your inner resources
- Continue practicing your cognitive flexibility muscles in new & frustrating situations by observing & allowing what you need to happen to calm down, step over hurdles, and transition successfully
- Trust yourself that you know when you need to stop and move on or persevere and keep going!
- Make requests of yourself and other key people for action and connection and be prepared to hear no, yes, & to negotiate around your wishes balanced by others needs and wishes
- Stay open to what's working with implementing this plan and what needs to be tweaked
- Stay true to your core values in the choices you make and communicating your reasoning as needed