Insights for Savvy Entrepreneurs

Issue #5

January 3, 2003

Claudette Rowley
MetaVoice Coaching & Consulting

Dear Friends:

A new year traditionally marks a time for shedding the old and donning the new - new ways of being, thinking and acting. As you ponder and plan for the year ahead, it's vital that you focus on the visions you'd like to realize for your business and other areas of your life. Often we get stuck in what hasn't worked. Creating a vision has us examine what we WANT and paint a vivid picture of that desire in our minds or on paper. To that end, the article that follows is an excerpt from my chapter in A Guide to Getting It: A Clear, Compelling Vision. I'm thrilled to share it with you.

I also want to thank you for participating in the successful launch of this newsletter in 2002. In 2003, one of my goals is to triple my subscriber list. I'm always looking for ways to expand or improve the service I'm providing to you. What are your suggestions?

May your new year be bright with bold, beautiful visions!

Claudette

Insight of the Month

You Get to Want What You Want

When you tap into your inner voice and identify your vision, you bring to life your deepest longing. Your vision manifests the essence of you based on your truth, values, creativity, and authenticity. Putting yourself out into the world in this way can feel risky; the thought of that risk can easily block your from seeing your vision.

A vision can be small or large, and have an impact on your daily life or the big picture of your life. For example, a vision of the ideal day care situation for my baby forms in my mind as his birth grows closer. I'm counting on the vision of what I truly desire to assist in attracting the optimal child care situation. In the whole scheme of life, this is a smaller vision, yet no less important. And this "smaller" vision makes a direct impact on my ability to realize my far-reaching vision for my coaching business.

A vision that's compelling for you is often right at your fingertips. We all have an inkling of the vision we'd like to put into the world: the forgotten dream, the "ridiculous" idea, and the "unrealistic" business venture. You are born knowing what you want at your deepest core. After awhile, many of us begin to settle for what we think we're allowed to have. "Just okay" becomes good enough. "It's fine" becomes a way of life. The parameters of our wanting become defined by what the saboteur and family, friends, or a significant other tell us we are allowed to have.

I was recently speaking with a client about this exact topic. Patrick related to me that at some point in his life, he just stopped dreaming. Caught up in the routine of daily life, he stopped thinking about his visions for the present and the future. At the end of our coaching session, I gave Patrick an exercise to take away and ponder. His task was to look at eight areas of his life: health, career, money, friends and family, fun and recreation, physical environment, and personal growth, and create a vision that he'd LOVE to be living for each one. During our next call, he revealed his visions to me. We discovered that he had equated vision with what he was willing to live with. I pushed him to tap into what he would really love to manifest in his life. YOU GET TO WANT WHAT YOU WANT. This is where vision is born.

Believe it or not, there is no "judge of desire" holding court to decide if your vision is legitimate or not. "Well, Bill's been a good boy and his want is modest, so he can pursue the career he's always wanted. The vision committee will allow his dream to come true. But Samantha-the committee doesn't believe that her business idea is a go. Too ambitious. Too risky. Who does she think she is?" Excavating your vision is an act of not only moving past internal barriers, but of claiming the authentic desires that are rightfully yours. In the process, you reclaim yourself.

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Now It’s Your Turn

• What do you long for? What stops you from giving it to yourself?

• Try this exercise: Look at eight areas of your life: health, career, money, friends and family, fun and recreation, physical environment and personal growth. Create a vision you'd love to be living for each one. What would it take to put these visions into action?

MetaVoice News

A Guide to Getting It: A Clear, Compelling Vision has arrived! A Clear, Compelling Vision brings together ten life and business coaches who share their secrets to designing your dream life, business and relationship. It's chock full of superb insights into how to identify and bring to life a vision that is truly compelling for you.

Order right now by clicking http://www.metavoice.org/book and I'll send your free report "Five Strategies for Overcoming Obstacles".

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