April 21/2018
It has been a while since I have shared with you all. Have
you ever crossed into an abyss of life where your focus is no lighting your
next steps? While in that abyss you seemed to be filled with confusion and lack
of progress on your life goals?
My abyss
happened to me in mid-February, and it was during this time I felt a sense of frustration and a lack of visibility in
my world when that would become a reality. These moments are very difficult for
me to come back from and it is so easy for me to allow a low energy existence
become my normal.
What I
realized was my first step in knowing where my energy
was at, and no one or thing could bring
me out of that abyss except for me and the hard work required of me. At that
time, one thought at a time to one moment at a time I started to build my momentum.
Now I am at a point where I would like to share three personal, professional milestone goals.
The first goal
is a short-term goal, as you might know
living in western Canada in the winter time is very cold and dark. As time has
passed for me, I found myself in a
position where I don’t like winter, to the point
that it makes me depressed and affects my mood. As I thought about this
reality of every winter, I asked myself
what should I do to change this negative experience.
One option was to do nothing and dread each day closer to winter. Or think of a
strategy that aligns up to my
professional goals. As my business is going to my customers, I thought of any areas I already goto that do not have
snow, and that have people that would
value what I can offer. My thoughts lead
me to the specific goal of having my first client in the Phoenix area by November
of this year. I have a mindset of even if I don’t achieve the goal, at least I tried to do something
instead of waiting for the darkness of winter, that I know will come.
My second goal
is a medium range goal, now that I know what makes my business model different than
the 1000’s of other organizational development consultants, is the legacy of the completed work within the
organization. My experience is that when the consultant’s come into work with an organization that once they have left, so does the impact of long-lasting
change. My goal is that the started work remains in place and even expands and
becomes greater than when I was there. You do this by identifying someone already in
place within the organization that is not using their superpowers. If you think
for a moment, I bet you can think of at
least one person, or perhaps you are the person in your organization that can
add more value. Usually, there is not
just one barrier to why this talent is not getting optimized, but a combination
of barriers that have a root cause of culture reality. With this determining factor,
I will need more people to complete the work that is requested to do this
efficiently. I will then bring in my old team and this time frame will be three
to five years from now.
Now my identified
long-term goal, which is ten to fifteen years out. After years of growing and
expanding a servant type leadership
platform, with a combination of several
more books. Then it will be time for me to teach on a large scale what I have
learned and share with others. It will take a form of organic speeches in an environment where the speech becomes specifically
for the people that are there. I could speak all day long about my experience
but how does that relate to you? What value are you taking away from your time
spent there? How are you going to own and integrate the words and my experience?
By one conversation at a time, it is possible to make your difference. With
the consistency of the purpose of your every moment, you can move the needle on making your environment a better place for you.
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