Build Your Business Legacy: The Roadmap That Gets You Where You Want to Be
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Your Roadmap From Where You Are Today
to Where You Want to Be
How do you get from where you are today to where you want to be?
It starts with facing your fears...
Facing fear head on and taking action that matches the size of your dreams.
To face my own fears, I decided to take a SOLO backpacking trip. On the third day I reached the most dense part of the forest...
As I turned the corner, I came face to face with a mamma bear. WOAH! She immediately began charging me.
After my life flashed before my eyes, I took a step forward and charged her back. I couldn’t believe it...
She stopped, looked right at me, then walked away. I DEFEATED A BEAR...ALONE IN THE WOODS... I thought to myself if I can do that... Then I can do anything...
I realize most of you have never faced a bear and I hope you never do. BUT We all have bears in our life. We all have fears that keep us from action and keep us small or stuck.
I believe that in facing our fears we can discover freedom. Because on the other side of fear is freedom.
I used to face life from a stance of inaction, fear, anxiety, and staying small.
Now I take BIG action, face and tackle my fears, know how to cope with my anxieties, and play a BIG game in life and business!
Truth be told, that was a rare outcome. Experts highly recommend you never approach, charge, or tackle a bear.
And if you are alone, never make any attempts to charge or overtake a bear!!!
What I find amazing is in business many try to overtake the bear...Most will fool themselves into thinking they can do this alone.
I call this tackling the bear approach. But here’s the thing, it never works.
Work With a Pro
Don’t go it alone. Working with a coach, a mentor, or a guide is the best technique.
This technique has saved my life. It has saved my business and it can save you.
When you admit to yourself that you can’t overcome this urge to beat the bear, you stop feeding the bear. And in facing the bear you gain real traction and real freedom.
But you have to face the bear using the right techniques, with the right coach, to build that right step by step trail map that works for YOU.
Stop thinking you can beat the bear. You are only feeding the problem and wasting time. This wasted time leads to burnout, overwhelm and can end in midlife crisis.
So today, it starts by asking yourself, "what bear do you need to stand up to today in your business?"
Perhaps your bear is hiring a coach.
Perhaps your bear is mapping out a step by step trail map to double your income and impact.
Or perhaps your bear is to build an amazing leadership team and culture for your business.
Whatever your bear is, I am here to tell you that there is no bear too big for you to CHARGE head on.
Because on the other side of fear is freedom.
And now that you have both the clarity of your why/mission AND you have your north star/compass to guide you, you are unstoppable.
Combine that with the right coach to guide you and cheer you on and anything you thought was impossible is now inevitable.
Trail Maps for Success
And if you don’t believe me, let me tell you how I build trail maps for my clients that take the impossible and make success inevitable.
Let’s take Mary...
We dug into her legacy and long term goal. We broke it down into bite size chunks. Then we narrowed our focus to the next 3 months.
We reverse engineered how many cold calls and how much lead generation she needed to do to hit the number of sales calls necessary to hit her financial and impact goals.
What we ended up with was a daily plan, weekly activities, and monthly KPIs she needed to hit.
I then challenged her to schedule everything she needed to go after to make her success inevitable. What we schedule, we make space for.
What we make space for allows us to take action that matches the size of our dreams.
When you break down your bigger goals into daily actions, it takes something seemingly HUGE and transforms it into something that’s reasonable to accomplish.
And when you also create a success tracker that your coach will be holding you accountable to, it lights that fire of inspiration and motivation.
It gets you into action and past any of your objections or procrastination.
I know because it worked for me with my coach. I use the same method for hitting my goals as I do with my clients because it works.
I call my tracker the Miracle Tracker because I know that when I stick to it, I get crazy miraculous results that often exceed my original goals.
But in order for this to work, we have to narrow in on and choose one overarching mission.
Action Tied to Your Mission
For most of my clients, this mission is to double their income and impact because layered beneath that are tons of side benefits that happen.
As we go after our goals, we become the person and leader we need to be as we take action.
This means that even if we don’t quite hit our goal, we are still growing into a better leader, business owner and person.
We are becoming that future version of who we need to be to embody that new level of success.
If you unwrap this even further, it means that we can never fail.
Our goals and the actions we take when they are aligned with our compass are always helping us grow 1% closer to what we desire.
Isn’t that incredible and exciting?!
Don’t Forget to Celebrate!
This also reminds us that we should embrace and enjoy our journey.
After all it’s a roller coaster….why not make it a fun ride? A ride of celebration and a ride of awesome.
This is also why I challenge my clients to keep a jar of awesome.
We all have those days where our mental chatter is off kilter. We all have days where life throws us a massive curveball. You know what I’m talking about.
On those days, we need reminders of how awesome and beautiful our lives really are.
I challenge you to take the next 30 days to write down 3 awesome things that happen every day and add them to your jar of awesome.
Personally, my “jar of awesome” is a mason jar that I set on my kitchen counter. I keep post-its and pens next to it. It acts as my anchor for success, gratitude and for being present for my life.
Get Your Mindset Right
Just like in that movie, It’s a Beautiful Life, we too need reminders of how miracles happen every day.
All we need to do is pause, reflect and document them.
Our minds are tricky things. They can deceive us into thinking that everything is a mess. That we are broken.
In fact, first time meditators often find meditation seemingly impossible.
Because the first time they hit that meditation cushion, they discover that their mind is full of booby traps...
It ambushes them with a crazy rush of random thoughts, ideas and disturbances.
But here’s the thing.
With practice, this too shall pass.
We can quiet the mind. We can harness our ideas.
Schedule Time to Super Think
This is why I take it a step further with my clients...
I challenge them to schedule what I call super thinking time once a week.
In super thinking time, you remove all distractions, technology, and you quiet the mind.
Then you ask yourself, what’s out of balance in my life?
What is something I need to fix or change in my business that will make my clients happier and help me hit my goals faster?
Super thinking time allows you to step back. Be more strategic.
And work “on” your business. Not “in” your business.
A huge mistake many business owners and leaders make is getting caught in the weeds….getting lost in the mundaneness of day to day work.
This is what sinks ships and companies.
If you want to be the captain of your business, you must make time to be the visionary.
To lead the way. And this comes from taking time to think BIG. That is the essence of super thinking.
Super thinking will supercharge the action you take.
And remember, without action nothing changes. And if nothing changes, why do anything?
Super thinking will right your ship. It will keep you inspired to hit your miracle tracker out of the park.
It allows you to tap into your intuition, creativity, and your superhero powers.
When we stop being present in our lives, life feels messy. You might even feel as though you are sleepwalking through the same routine.
But when you are fully awake, fully present and fully responsible for your life and your business, that’s when magic happens.
And this is how I help my clients build their trail map for inevitable success.
The key ingredients to your success are knowing your why, using and following your compass, and working with a coach to build your trail map.
And that trail map is made up of your ONE BIG mission, the strategies, actions, and tactics that will are sure to get you there, and accountability to track your growth along the trail.
Oh and don’t forget if we painted a visual of this trail map there are tangents, setbacks, and loops BUT there are also moments of awesome, miraculous events along the way.
I can’t wait to see who you become along your journey to inevitable success.
Still Stuck?
I understand. We’ve all been there. This is why I work with my business and life coaches. Because they can see my blindspots.
They show me where I need to grow. And how I can get out of my own way...
I have carved out a limited number of time slots to invite you to hop on a Roadmap call with me to see what is working, not working, and what you would love to have working.
You will begin to discover:
- What isn’t working in your business (what are the gaps you can’t see–blindspots)
- What is working and how to maximize more of that (or start to harness strategies that work)
- What you want 30, 60, and 90 days from today
- Get clear on what your superhero powers are
You want to hop on a call with me if you are ready to:
- Attract amazing clients you are crazy about
- Create magic in your life and business - yes I mean it, magic!
- Get out of your own way and create massive goals matched by massive action!
DO NOT sign up if...you are not willing to invest your time, money, energy, and heart and soul into finding your life’s purpose, and creating a business around it that makes a massive amount of money so you can make a difference in the world.
You have a choice in your business. You can attempt to tackle the bear, run like hell, or you can follow the protocol and take right action.
Ask yourself, are you an action taker? Or are you a conditional action taker?
Do you find you are getting’ ready to get ready? Or do you avoid taking action in the event you might fall flat on your face?
Don't wait for the bear to catch you. Step into action today.
