Podcast #4: What is Your Vision?

04/11/16 • 7 min

This week’s theme - What’s your vision?

What do you see on “the other side”. In last week’s podcast, I asked you to share what you saw when you got to Happy Land!! In the podcast, I suggested you draw a picture (nothing elaborate) or even write down what you want. What you SEE and how you would FEEL once you get to “Happy Land”.

So – what IS your vision and how the hell do you get there?

About 3 years ago, I had a woman come to me and say “I want to make better choices”. At first it was really all about physical health. The usual – lose weight. Well, I’m not a “health coach”, but I understood she needed help with the “how” and the accountability. I agreed to take her on as a private coaching client. As we would meet and talk thru what she wanted, it wasn’t well “you can’t eat this or that, you have to work out, or you won’t succeed”. It was conversations full of her why. Her VISION. What did she see in her HAPPY LAND?

Stop eating McDonalds every morning for breakfast and starting to walk at lunch is the obvious part. Her vision included financial, emotional AND physical health. WOW – that was a lot more than she mentioned, but that is what happens when you’re COACHING someone. You don’t just focus on the obvious…because usually that’s a result of something bigger – deeper.

WE HAD TO DETERMINE WHAT WAS CAUSING HER TO MAKE UNHEALTHY DECISIONS.

THINK ABOUT: What it is YOU want. AND what you need help with (this can be the hard part – so who can help you determine that?)

So this week – I want you to think about who it is that YOU want to become. What do you want your legacy to be? If you died tomorrow... what would you hope that people are saying? What do I want you to do? Write your TOMBSTONE MESSAGE! HAHA…YES, THAT’S WHAT I SAID!

Make sure you post your message in the comments section!

And, if you need help like this client did – with:

creating your vision,
determining the how, or
keeping you focused and holding you accountable

Click here to email me to get this going!!

SEE you next week!
Cheers!

This week’s theme - What’s your vision?

So – what IS your vision and how the hell do you get there?

WE HAD TO DETERMINE WHAT WAS CAUSING HER TO MAKE UNHEALTHY DECISIONS.

THINK ABOUT: What it is YOU want. AND what you need help with (this can be the hard part – so who can help you determine that?)

Make sure you post your message in the comments section!

And, if you need help like this client did – with:

creating your vision,
determining the how, or
keeping you focused and holding you accountable

Click here to email me to get this going!!

SEE you next week!
Cheers!

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Podcast #3: How Has Fear Sabotaged You?

In last week’s podcast, I ended by asking for people to share with me what they were afraid of. Evidently it was posting their fear as no one did!

Some of the answers I received were: SUCCESS, Settling, offering a specific service this person wasn’t trained in and yet another said Running for City Council. All different.

With success, as mentioned in my previous podcast, I discussed a client who had someone he admired change negatively as he achieved success. With Settling – it could be similar, So I asked her to think about who she felt in her life has settled. Has perhaps given up on their dream. Wasted talent as I like to call it. That’s one of the things I hate the most. Wasted talent! Sometimes it’s unavoidable, like a career-ending sports injury. But most of the time it’s excuses ANNNNNNND….what? Yes, you guessed it! FEAR! My least favorite 4-letter word!

How is your fear affecting your life, your career, your business?

How is it sabotaging your ability to Achieve YOUR SUCCESS?

What can you do to work thru it?

Unfortunately the best way to the other side is straight thru the muck. The “thick of things” or the best way out is THROUGH as we’ve heard. So many sayings and you never know what they mean until you’re living it right? Many times we hate them! Like “Face your fears”, “Just do it”, and yes, “it will be what it will be” and yes “deal with it”.

So, take a moment and imagine what it “ON THE OTHER SIDE” - in the place I like to refer to as "Happy Land"!

Don’t forget to check out my website at www.GrowingForward.biz and if you need help setting, checking-in on your goals or perhaps taking that 1st step due to FEAR – click on the “spring clean” link, use SPRING CLEAN (all one word) for a special half-day Strategy session! OR email me for your FREE - yes FREE 30-min coaching call. No strings attached. Ain't nobody got time for that!

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Podcast #5: Become Your Best YOU!

As I spoke about in the previous podcast – I help people realize their potential. Sometimes you don’t SEE the same things others do. AH YES, PERCEPTION. We’ll get into that in another podcast and be ready – perception is NOT reality! Wasted talent…so what do I mean by that?

We’ve seen the obvious ones – you know, the 7’ kid who we assume he plays basketball yet he doesn’t even like sports. Yes, there are those, but what I am referring to is when people have a special gift – an eye for creativity, perhaps they’re gifted in the food industry, cleaning business, sales – whatever it is, they kind of know they are as they’ve done things for FREE, or for pay, they get excited, they start making progress and then BAM! Eh I don't want to work that hard. It’s more fun doing it for free. They walk away from what “they said” was their dream to become. THAT MY FRIENDS IS WASTED-FRIGGN-TALENT. So close. Such amazing things happening, perhaps a bump in the road and then they just turn and run. *sigh*

(You can Refer to podcast 2 and 3 where I discuss fear killing your goals and dreams.)

in sense just BEING the best YOU you can be. We can’t always be “on” – fun, funny, nice, giving, etc…but when we aren’t, that gives people around you to notice and ask how you are. What’s going on, how they can help. Or, if you aren’t in a good place in life – are you ok living in that “world”? Would you want, “Heart of Gold but always a Bitch” written on your tombstone?!! Mine would say, “100% empathic, authentic. If it was on your mind, I was already saying it. If you were lucky enough to be in my World, you were always considered a friend.

And this “becoming the best YOU” goes way beyond personality. It’s about who you want to be – a well known artist. A highly respected professor. A business person. A chef – perhaps a restaurant owner. Teacher…. Make sense?

So you’ve decided you want to become this amazing person. Now what?

How. Well, I guess you better listen in, eh?! Start defining the WHAT behind the WHO. Because without the “what”, you’ll just be whoever you become.

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