Your Life Compass || Executive Performance Coaching
Success Calibration System ™
“It’s complicated” has become a catch-all buzz phrase. Reality is that it’s a choice. In a world of super-sized complexities, simply dividing what appears overwhelming into smaller, manageable parts, reduces even the most complex.
The simplification process often leads to resolution of anything – thus, the adage, divide and conquer. It’s a skill worth mastering, a choice to embrace – one aspect at a time. Simple arithmetic in the warfare on the complex!
Shining new month on a string of 31 beautiful days, full of options and opportunities!
Imagine the possibilities- to live, play and BE confident about your impending success. To be completely charged and motivated by your BIG compelling goals. To be driven by scoring meaningful WINS each day. To be intrinsically guided by YOUR Success LIFE COMPASS.
Have you set your goals for the month?
Are they tied to your Big Burning Important Goals?
Fast forward to day 31 – can you picture having achieved each of those goals?
How great will that feel, having a great plan unfold and making IT all happen?
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wellness lifestyle is dependent on your fitness level four dimensions – physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual – laying the foundational to a more resilient and purposeful life!
How does this impact your personal and professional success? Fitness helps in developing greater capacity and reserves to draw from to keep performing at your best, especially during turbulent times. It is the essential element for increasing resiliency – the ability to buffer and rebound from life’s daily stress. When stress turns chronic, the gray days inevitably turn into stormy weather, turn to fitness as your best coping mechanism for managing your well-being and success on all fronts.
Weekly accountability in performance lights a fire to progress. Start with a review of the week and assess what worked & what didn’t happen.
Four key steps for measuring your performance to help move you closer to your top goals:
1. What did you commit to doing for each goal?
2. How was your follow-through on each of those commitments?
3. What did you accomplished?
4. What will you do differently next week for improved results?
Every step you can influence with your performance needs to be:
• Specific (Monday I will meet with….to request, review, change…)
• Measurable ( I will make 3 prospect calls each day)
• Targeted with deadline (A finish line in sight to create forward motion)
Freedom is an equal opportunity privilege to pursue dreams – of happiness, lifestyle, and success with options, and choices afforded all. It is truly is a sad day when we realize that the only person, thing or circumstance holding us back is our limited self!
We all reach a point in life where we’ve earned our Stars and Stripes! Time to celebrate not only the national holiday but, to write, sign, and set off some fireworks declaring our personal Declaration of Independence – from ANYTHING limiting who we are, to pursue who we want to be! Happy Fourth of July!
TGIF – are you really thankful for all you’ve accomplished this week – or is it the sigh of relief that you just made it through?
The week is not over yet.
1. Take time out
2. Assess the actions to create a strong finish
3. Respond with a call to action & charge – full court press.
Let’s get IT done – score some real gratitude wins! To your success!
“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.” Henry David Thoreau
Step back to assess the choices that serve you well, and keep doing them. As for the others – whether possessions, behaviors, people or roles that drain, exact a heavy toll. Decide and plan to get rid of them. It is that simple! Choose differently, in way of better choices for yourself! We can’t always rewind, but we can certainly change our choices, delete, dispose & eliminate whatever is no longer serving our well-being.
What will you retain to amp the joy factor, and what needs getting rid of to send those internal clouds packing, making room for more happiness in your life?
I fell in love with this poem over 20 years ago. It remains a long time favorite and a timely reminder with Valentine’s Day around the corner. No matter if you have a special someone in your life or not.
No need to dread the hearts n flowers, sugary sweet holiday, if you use it to launch your own love campaign. NO need to wait for anyone to tell you how abso-freakin-lutely, WONDER-full YOU ARE!
RUN – Don’t walk to have this talk with yourself! Use this poem as a springboard for your own love letter to include whatever you want & need to hear. Use it each morning & night to remind lovely, wonderful you, that’s there’s no one, and never will be anyone,quite like you! xoxoxo
Time Somebody Told Me by Quantedius Hall (10 year old)
Time Somebody Told Me
That I am lovely, good and real
That I am beautiful inside
If they only knew
How that would make me feel.
Time Somebody Told Me
That my mind is quick, sharp
and full of wit
That I should keep on trying
and never quit.
Time Somebody Told Me
How they loved and needed me
How my smile is filled with hope
and my spirit sets them free
How my eyes shine, full of light
How good they feel when they hug me tight.
Time Somebody Told Me
So, I had a talk with myself
Just me, nobody else
’cause it was time
Somebody Told Me.
As you start the week, take 5 min to ID & write down all the diversions that typically hijack your attention from what really matters, i.e. what will actually make a difference by the end of the day & week.
Now empower yourself with the bigger YES to choose differently – making it easier to say NO to those diversions. Visualize the bull’s-eye for target practice as each one pops up. BOOM – now you can focus on your priorities for the day! With awareness & consistency you’ll hit the mark for focusing on what matters most!
Make today positively memorable, creating it in awareness, realizing that it will be in the past files by tomorrow. Will today’s creation be filled with the joy of achievement, haunted by regrets, or fade into the void of nothingness? Each day is a representation of who you are, an addition for the compilation of your lifetime. Each day, can be the start of a new chapter or the continuation of an old one. Each day, you are lucky enough to have is an opportunity to consciously decide how you will spend it. Having a success vision of what you want to create within that lifetime helps you not only align how you spend your time, but gives you the drive to target your energy and take action on what’s important to you – each day!
What will you focus on creating today?
Endings & beginnings create pause for reflection. As this year concludes & the new one beckons, let’s focus & declare our gratitude for all elements that have positively influenced us in some way; while charting a course to change the less stellar components in our life that require it!
As we wind-down with the last week of this year – ready to embark on the hope & dreams of a new one, keep in mind: “Nobody succeeds beyond his/her wildest expectations unless he/she begins with some wild expectations?” Ralph Charell ~
When creating your blueprint for 2011, are your providing your life with enough space for some wild hopes & dreams? Start by giving then voice and share – What are YOUR WILDEST dreams and expectations? By declaring them out loud, you begin the process of giving them wings.
What a perfect, strategic time to do so! With focus, support and dedicated
action, to make this New Year, the year of realizing your goals for success! As your wildest dreams become tangible, achievable goals, we’ll be here coaching, cheering and supporting your progress with each step towards your wildest and biggest goals for success!
Action Challenge: Get wild & declare them right here, right now!
Recent lament from a coaching client about the long to do list this time of year is certainly echoed by many as a byproduct of the season. So a timely reminder to let only what you love & enjoy best about the holidays be on your list. Overwhelm leaves little energy for anything else!
Modify to simplify or eliminate as much as possible to allow more time for the Joy & Fun elements of the season! Self-care rule #1: Tending to your own enjoyment results in a more joyful YOU which in turn generates more joy in others as well.
Action point: Pull out that list and start crossing off a few or several perhaps traditional, but non-essential items. There! Was that a sigh of relief?
Yes, you can change what you don’t like and do more of what brings you joy!
All it takes is a spark for igniting the creative imagination and passion of a fertile mind. Inspirational sparks can come from anywhere, at anytime. My spark was delivered this morning in a post from life coach colleague and friend, sending me riding the pensive
lyrical waves from a favorite Styx song, Come Sail Away. A gift in song with a life coaching approach for inspiring motivation, freedom, self-management and resilience.
‘I’m sailing away, set an open course for the Virgin Sea, ‘Cause I’ve got to be free, Free to face the life that’s ahead of me.
On board, I’m the captain, so climb aboard
We’ll search for tomorrow on every shore.
And I’ll try, oh Lord, I’ll try to carry on
I look to the sea, reflections in the waves spark my memory
Some happy, some sad, I think of childhood friends & the dreams we had
We live happily forever, so the story goes.
But somehow we missed out on that pot of gold.
But we’ll try best that we can to carry on!
A gathering of Angels appeared above my head
They sang to me this song of hope and this is what they said,
“Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me ’
Wishing for you winds of change to help you ‘carry on’ as you sail through the season. Blessings of love, grace and hope as your companions launching the New Year with renewed spirit to captain your life using your unwavering True North as your guide. Sail on!