Hey savvy, high-achieving leaders! Thank you for tuning in to episode 101 of Crazy Big Dreams Podcast!
Today’s episode is short and sweet. This is a super simple strategy for you to get the results you’re after. The big thing you want. The crazy big dream but a specific, right now part of it that you can zone in on.
Some might call this a vision board, goal poster, future board whatever you want to call it.
However you feel about these vision boards I want you to set it all aside. That’s not this.
Whether you’ve done them in the past or not. Whether you feel they’ve worked or not. If you feel you just don’t have time for it. Maybe you like the idea but when will you have the time and space to sit down and do anything about it?
I know.
So here, today, I want you to let go of all of that for this one simple strategy. Let me tell you why.
Because you have to have one main focus. You have to have it front and center. Focus is important.
If you think back through the last year, the times when you lost your drive, things dipped back a bit, and you felt a bit down about where you’re at and what you’re doing day-to-day. The times when things felt heavy. The times when you justified the break, the stepping back, but deep down, you knew there was more to it all.
All of this is quite normal and common. These are two different things you know! Normal and common.
It happens. To all of us. AND, AND we can also have one main focus as a strategy to help guide us OR help us get re-focused. And this is where my super simple strategy for your vision comes in.
You have to have a focus, right? So you need to be able to name your “why” in fairly simple terms. Others on the outside looking in at your success are surprised by the fact that many high-achieving leaders have kind of kept going without truly putting their finger on their why.
It’s changed over time. Right? It may feel as though there are many “whys” at this point in your success.
That’s ok. It is so common.
For this strategy, I want you to sum up in one overarching or specific way what you want.
Here are some ideas:
Create experiences for your family
No college debt for your kids
Private school paid in full through senior year
A second, third, fourth home
Create experiences for you
Grow your team to ‘x’ level
Hit the super stretch wealth goal you have.
You get the idea.
You may have more than one, great! I want you to choose your top pick. The one that is most important right now. Keep the rest. But choose one that is your top pick for now.
Once you’ve settled on your top pick, I want you to choose one picture that represents this. Not a word or a quote or scripture. A picture.
This is so important. A picture can represent so much. Especially because it can create a feeling when you look at it. So many more of your senses are brought into this when you look at a picture.
So if your top pick is to create experiences for your family you might choose a picture of one of your favorite memorable experiences where you’re all together. Maybe all of you are together on a trip.
Maybe you have a tradition or that one off year where you went to get a real live Christmas tree. And this picture represents so much for you regarding the experiences you want to create in the future.
Maybe your top pick is to grow your team to a certain level. You might choose a picture of some of your current top leaders when you all had so much fun together. Maybe you create one picture by cutting out photos of the next 5 to 10 women you want to be emerging leaders on your team. Women you know already. Or women you want to know and work with.
Are you getting the idea? In this one picture, you want to elicit positive, encouraging, “YES!-I -want-that” feelings.
Once you have this one picture you’re going to put it somewhere you will see it every day. Every single day. Do you see how this will guide you, zero in your focus, and help you re-focus if and when you need it?
This is powerful.
Let go of the idea you need to take a class, sign up for a workshop, or do an event to make a collage of a vision board. Don’t get me wrong. These are great! And powerful! And they work! I facilitate these myself.
You can do something like this, a workshop or event, in addition to the strategy I’m giving you today. But this strategy, this one-picture strategy is super simple. It’s personal. It connects you directly with what you are going for.
If you need to go a bit deeper to determine your main focus, the reason, the outcome that guides you when things get tough when you want to justify relaxing your drive and work you’re doing I recommend listening to episode two One Single Powerful Guide For Your Direct Sales Biz. You can find it at crazybigdreams.biz/2.
This will help take this all a little deeper. And if you need to come back here and listen to this episode again, after listening to episode 2, so be it. I believe it’s minimal time for the results you’re after.
So, what are you thinking? Is this easy and clear for you? Do you already know by just listening today what your focus is and the picture that represents this for you? Or do you need a bit more time to sort this out?
Click over to Instagram @yourcrazybigdreams and share with us.
The best is yet to come, friend. Always.
