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Create your Vision Board this year and generate the results you desire. Take yourself on a retreat. You don’t actually have to go to a resort or a B&B. Just set aside some undisturbed time in a quiet space at home one weekend to think about what you really want for your business. You won’t be writing a 3 year business plan, coming up with a ream of statistics, or charting anything at all on this solo retreat. This is also a great exercise to conduct with your team, employees and family.
Instead, you’ll do these three simple and empowering things:
- Get crystal CLEAR about what your deep dreams for the business are – eliminate pessimistic thoughts & lingering doubts
- Come to BELIEVE that the dreams are worth having and more importantly, can and will occur (instead of thinking they are ridiculous or impossible)
- PICTURE them happening in your mind’s eye – with as much texture and rich detail as possible (and don’t focus on HOW they will occur, that’s an unwelcome constraint in this process!)
Now put on some background music for the active part of the Coach Nick Business Retreat. An accelerated learning technique I like to use in my sales workshops is called a ‘Vision Board’. With it you can put these very potent dreams down on paper and really get into them.
You’ll need:
- White Poster Board (22x28)
- Glue Stick
- Scissors
- Magic Marker
- 10 Magazines
- An open mind & belief that you are creating your future
Cut out pictures, symbols, words, headlines, letters, and quotes from the magazines which best represent the feeling that you got about your business dreams. If you get excited about an image, that’s the one to clip. Cut a slew of them out, maybe by category (work, home, family, sports, etc). Paste the pictures and words to the large poster board in any order and in any place that you feel is ‘right’. You can use the marker to write in any sayings, slogans, or thoughts that come to you while you are putting this board together. Date the Vision Board.
When you are done, you should feel great about having done this 2D declaration. It’s loaded with your enthusiasm and optimism. Share your ‘Vision Board’ with your family, friends, employees, vendors, etc. When you complete your Vision Board, you should declare out loud to the people around you and to yourself on a daily basis preferably in the am,
Why are declarations important? A declaration is an official statement. Since everything is made up of energy all energies travel in frequencies and vibrations. Therefore each declaration you make carries its own vibrational frequency. When you state a declaration out loud its energy travels subconscious your body, your conscious and subconscious mind and into the universe - this energy that you release expands and grows to produce more of your desired results as you declare repeatedly - basically, by feeding your mind, your subconscious and the universe your create empowering energy all around you.
Put your Vision Board up in a prominent place so you can see it daily. It will serve as a constant reminder of your goals, what’s important to you and where you are decidedly heading in 2008. And whenever you’re feeling a bit pessimistic, you can see the truth of your capabilities and the clarity of your vision staring right back at you.
It can be a ‘Coach on a Poster’ for the times you’re not talking to me!
Let the content (the picture and statements) on the ‘Vision Board” dictate your thoughts, feelings and actions in the present.
Basically, allow the future to be your compass so that you remain focused around the things that you want to create moving forward -- rather than worrying about the past. Talk about a paradigm shift!
Yes, let the future dictate your thoughts, feelings and actions rather than having the past do that.
Hey, you might even take the Vision Board to a local quick printer and have it scanned or take a photo of it. That way you can have it right on your computer desktop at work to begin every day on a powerful and very personal note. One that’s awesomely POSITIVE!
Happy Selling & Leading in 2008
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