Leverage Fun, Systems, and Intentionality for High Octane Results
Put your wallet away.
Yes! It’s that time of year when I like to host a complimentary teleclass for business owners to get clear on their 2012 goals and the practices and actions that will make it all possible.
Are you ready to get your groove on?! Join me!
Every December and January, millions of people sit down with a pen and paper to write out their goals for the year. Many of the goals are exciting because they’re fresh out the creativity pool. Other goals are quite irritating because they’ve been on the goal list before and didn’t come to fruition. They can ignite great judgment from your inner critic.
Do yourself a favor and do something really smart this year. Connect the dots between your BIG inspiring vision, your yearly goals and your daily actions. I know you’re sitting there thinking, “Duh, Jeannaaaaa! Of course, you have to take actions to make your goals happen.”
My response, “I know you know this, but are you doing it? And are you doing it in the most intelligent way possible? And is your life in balance? Are you having fun implementing your ideas, doing your daily success habits and doing something about those brilliant action steps you came up with?”
Quite frankly, most of you aren’t doing all the above. It takes a considerable amount of focus to live like this if you’re not used to it. Several structures need to be in place to make it easy. However, the pay off is huge and there is little pain.
The pain is what happens when you don’t keep connecting the dots between your daily life and the stuff you say you want to happen.
This year one of my BIG goals is to maximize my impact with my clients, customers and followers by leveraging all the bells and whistles in my shopping cart system. I can talk about this goal with my team for hours. But until we created a system with small goals each month to achieve it, nothing would move forward. If I didn’t schedule time on my calendar to do the needed research, writing and strategizing…nothing would happen.
It’s waaayyyy too easy to get caught up in the daily fires and shiny new ideas to generate immediate income without doing the constant dance between the vision and implementation. It’s also easy to back burner some of your most important goals because they seem overwhelmingly huge or complicated.
Here’s the deal: Until you set some time aside to just dig in and start, you will be dragged down by all sorts of seemingly good reasons. My mastermind partner, Todd Tresidder, wrote a brilliant article on his blog about people who refuse to do the smartest thing in their wealth planning…being accountable. He’s right, it’s not sexy. It seems too simple and a bit boring.
Yet, it’s not boring when you can do the happy dance because you increased your revenue in one year by 40% or cut your stress level by 50% or hired your ideal assistant is it? What’s more important, the distraction in front of you or taking consistent steps toward the things you desire most?
I’m really preaching about basics here. I wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t needed. I remind myself daily to focus on what’s most important to increase my peace quotient, increase my profits and build a business that makes a positive difference.
Do whatever it takes to continue connecting the dots between your vision, goals and daily actions. Get in a mastermind, enroll in a teleclass, work with a coach, get an accountability partner (or two or three) or whatever structure works best for you.
It’ll be worth the initial effort when you look back on your year with joy because you made tremendous progress and had a good time doing it.
How can you connect the dots between your vision, goals and daily actions?
Jeanna Gabellini, is a Master Business Coach who assists high achieving entrepreneurs, corporate leaders & their teams to leverage fun, systems and intentionality for high-octane results. An entrepreneur for 20 years she has a treasure trove of kick-butt tools to give you peace & profits. A Gift For You! Get your complimentary Business Building Audio CD “Transforming from Chaotic Entrepreneur to Conscious Leader” for the entrepreneur who wants to be a SUPERpreneur: http://www.masterpeacecoaching.com/freecd/
I never tire of stories of survival of any kind. I like to learn from them the values, beliefs and actions that supported them to come out of a crisis situation where it seemed the “odds” were against them.
A recent afternoon lecture by Phillip Bialowitz proved to be one of those inspiring stories. He was part of the biggest escape from a Nazi death camp in Sobibor, along with 300 others. He told the gruesome details of his family being killed and working at a camp where it is estimated that nearly 250,000 people were killed with gas. While the story is dark, his outcome is filled with light and love.
Lesson #1
You can still take inspired action seconds before a deadline and win.
Philip was standing up with a group of other Jews, preparing for death, as the firing squad began shooting. He fell to the ground as if he were shot. It worked. He waited until the firing squad vacated the premises and escaped to short-lived freedom.
Lesson #2
Focus on the good.
Even though death was a certainty in Sobibor, Philip and his fellow prisoners prayed that the camp would be bombed. Even though they would die in the bombing they would be grateful that the gas chambers would be destroyed and no more killings would happen there. This shows how you can focus on the good in ANY situation.
Lesson #3
Pray for and know that miracles exist
Six hundred slaves/prisoners worked at the camp processing and preparing all the other Jews for their surprise death. He knew he would never leave alive and yet he still focused on a miracle happening. He said what got him through every day was hope. His hope paid off.
Lesson #4
Masterminds give you what you need to complete the goal.
There was one person spearheading a plan of escape with a few other prisoners. They needed military intelligence to complete the plan. Who showed up at the camp soon after that awareness? Prisoners delivered to the camp straight from the military. They formed a mastermind and created a plan for escape. With the combined knowledge and skills of the mastermind, many of the escapees not only lived to tell their stories but also manifested the camp being shut down immediately! Within three days trees were planted. Now that’s VICTORY!
Lesson #5
Commitment to a bigger vision will drive inspired and meaningful actions.
The two mastermind leaders asked that if anyone made it out alive, that they would tell the world about Sobibor. Many made it out alive but their escape was not the end of the tale. With the war still in full force, they had to hide and find ways to survive. Philip went into hiding for over a year.
While over forty people made it out of the war alive after escaping the death camp, including Philip’s older brother, many were not able to speak about what happened. Phillip’s commitment to tell the world about Sobibor fueled his will to survive. He is not a “professional” public speaker, yet he travels the world in his eighties to educate the world about putting a stop to racism.
Lesson #6
You can survive mayhem and THRIVE
Phillip moved forward in life after the war. He found love and a new career. He says he still has nightmares yet he has lived a very fulfilling life. He currently lives in New York with his family and brother. He is a gracious man and fills the room with light. He has not let his tragedy paralyze him. It actually fuels him to live more fully.
You can see a short video of Phillip here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxBaNFFzQBs&feature=related
What lessons have you learned from crisis situations in your life?
Jeanna Gabellini, is a Master Business Coach who assists high achieving entrepreneurs, corporate leaders & their teams to leverage fun, systems and intentionality for high-octane results. An entrepreneur for 20 years she has a treasure trove of kick-butt tools to give you peace & profits. A Gift For You! Get your complimentary Business Building Audio CD “Transforming from Chaotic Entrepreneur to Conscious Leader” for the entrepreneur who wants to be a SUPERpreneur: at: http://www.masterpeacecoaching.com/freecd
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