Purpose - The Power Behind Your Goals
By Wes Hopper
"It is easy to go nowhere. It requires no energy and has no risk except
that of being left behind. To go forward and run ahead is a supreme test." -
Alan Newhouse, NASA
Last week I was at a meeting of people in the coaching business. The
speaker asked who in the room had a clear vision for their business. Only 3
people raised their hands! This was pretty sad since most of them encourage
their coaching clients to have a vision. But in my experience this lack of
one is more common than not. Most people have no clear vision at all. The
result is - they go nowhere. The speaker commented that 90% of the people in
the coaching business will never make more than $20K per year. That's going
nowhere.
So how do we create a clear vision for ourselves? Vision is the grand
image of your life and business as you would like to see it when it is fully
developed. It is the biggest, most exciting picture of your life you can
imagine. It is the image of HOW you are going to create your success. But
it's not enough. You need to know WHY. Why are you doing whatever you are
doing? Why?
When you find the WHY you will have found your purpose! Purpose is what
makes your heart sing, it's what keeps you going when work is tough or
boring. Without purpose you'll be tempted to quit. Without purpose you'll
have a tough time writing out your vision and it won't have any real
emotional power. That's why these coaches didn't have a vision - they hadn't
gotten in touch with their purpose and they didn't know WHY they were
coaching.
When Albert Einstein was asked how he could maintain the rigorous
concentration that he did for over 30 years, he simply said, "In the state
of mind which enables a person to do work of this kind the daily activities
come straight from the heart." Purpose always comes from the heart, not the
head. Your purpose will make you come alive and it will tell you what kind
of a difference you want to make in the world.
Don't wait for your purpose to be "revealed" to you, either. You get to
choose it! Look for what makes you enthusiastic and find your purpose in
that. Then creating a vision is pretty easy. If you're a coach, for example,
figure out what there is in coaching that brings you real joy. Get in touch
with that and run with it. If you can't find anything, then maybe you're in
the wrong business.
Whever you discover, put it in writing. You want your purpose and vision
to be so clear, so distinct, that someone can read your description and know
exactly what you mean. A clear vision, backed by a powerful WHY, will get
you everything you want, and make the world better at the same time.
One thing that may get in the way of dicovering a strong purpose is your
belief system. Your inner critic starts to chatter about the impossibliity
of "little ol' you" doing anything so grand. It's important that you find
ways to quiet this chatter, so here are some suggestions that have worked
for me. The first is to keep a Success Journal. Every day write down a list
of successes. They don't have to be big, just something important that you
got done. Seeing your accomplishments gives you confidence that you can do
more.
Then, just concentrate on the next step so that you don't get overwhelmed
by the whole project. You get to your big goals one step at a time. Keep
your vision in your mind, but your eyes on the next step. You can also work
with affirmations to create the new beliefs that you want. State positively
in the present tense what you want and expect. "Most people say YES to me."
"Money flows to me easily from multiple sources." You want to condition your
mind to expect the best.
I like to play games with my mind using quantum physics. One of the
theories in physics is called "many worlds" and proposes that there are an
infinite number of parallel universes. When we make a choice or decision, we
are in effect choosing between alternate futures. So if my mind is giving me
trouble with believing that I can actually achieve my purpose, I simply tell
it, "Hey, look, I'm choosing to move into a parallel universe where this is
true!" It's funny, but it really seems to work.
Transforming our beliefs is important because in life we don't get what
we want, we get what we expect. So we want to be very careful to expect what
we want, to see it as a reality in our life.
So have you figured out your WHY yet? If not, get working on it. With a
clear purpose, life is very, very good!
Wes Hopper is the founder of Create Success Seminars and an author,
trainer and motivational speaker who is dedicated to assisting sales people
and business owners in finding their purpose and living their dreams.
http://www.CreateSuccessSeminars.com
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