Reaching your year-end goal (Step 2).

Last week, I invited you to do a 5-minute, cinema-inspired check-in on your business goals for the year. Check it out, here. 

If you’ve been part of this community for any length of time, you know I prize simple + high impact.

So, I love when clients tell me how freeing and clarifying this exercise is: haze and confusion dissipate and a sense of deep-knowing drops in as you visualize what you want before your eyes.

I think this sky-clearing feeling happens because high-concept vision, goals, or pursuits are grounded in specific details: what you see, what you hear, your business buzz + day-to-day, and your big win that unfold in color on the “screen” before your eyes.

Why does this connecting of goal to detail matter?

Because this is how big goals or outcomes get transformed into meaningful ones.

This sense of going after something meaningful is what allows you each and every day, week, or month to make the decisions, do the work, and navigate the obstacles and opportunities that comprise your life as a business owner.

Now, grant yourself 3-5 more minutes to dig deeper. Make those details even more vivid.

Start, as we did, by asking what good things happen for you when you’re business-as-movie becomes your reality?

More time with family, because you were able to reduce hours, or raise your rates? More travel, or time for creative projects? New friendships? Newfound confidence?

Laser in on the benefit. But don’t stop there. Ask “Why?”  

Why do you want more time with family? What does it allow you? perhaps closer relationships, a sense of connection...

Or, why more trips? what does more travel afford? new inspiration, fresh perspectives, freedom

Or, What would new friendships mean for you and your life today?

Only you can answer these “whys" for yourself. Not why you should value travel, but why you actually do.

You can even ask “why?" more than once, peeling back layer by layer. 

Why more travel? inspiration? Why more inspiration?…..

Say it aloud, or share with me here. No quicker way to make something more vivid or real, than sharing it.

Measuring the value of something for yourself by uncovering why and then why again is key. So don’t skip past it. It’s how you connect yourself—root yourself—to your vision. And this connectedness is what will give you the motivation and focus to head toward your goal, and not stop or let yourself be derailed along the way.

I’ll be back next week to introduce an idea/tool to keep your vision and goals vivid, and streamline your path to them. So you can go further faster with less angst. And it all has to do with: Your idea that heals.