A final thought for 2015:
Statistics show you are far more likely to achieve your goals when they are written down. The challenge with goals is not that you won’t hit them, but that you don’t dream big enough and thus you hit your goals too easily, and you then become stagnant and bored.
For this reason I suggest the following: Write a letter to yourself, dated one year from now, the week of Dec. 25, 2016. Imagine you have achieved glorious results in your business and in your life (a year from now). So in this letter you’re documenting what you have achieved, giving thanks to everyone involved in your success.
I challenge you to dream big, not only about your goals, but also about having already achieved and enjoyed them. What will it feel like? What will it look and sound like? Who is it positively affecting? If absolutely everything could go as planned, what would the resulting success mean to you—and to everyone involved?
Don’t play small ball with your life—dream big.
You can undertake this as a personal exercise, or as a business exercise. If you do this focused on the business, engage and include your leadership team to write the same letter, and then share your letters with each other. Read each other’s letters, respect each other’s dreams and gain consensus on what’s truly possible and inspiring.
The poet Marianne Williamson said it best:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
I wish you a Happy Holidays with family and friends. Enjoy a glorious New Year!
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