Friday, September 9, 2011

Do you master failure or success?


In my coaching sessions I often use a very simple, pragmatic approach to show my clients their perception on a goal. I will share it with you based on two basic scenarios. Let’s assume you are working on achieving something that’s planned to be completed on a specific date.

Now, I will place a paper in front of you with that date. While doing this I will ask you to place yourself in that date and run a lessons learned session about your goal, starting by questioning why you didn’t achieve you goal. Why everything went so poorly?
While you provide the reasons, I am writing them down. When completed, we make a pause, withdrawing the paper.
Let’s start again, doing a lessons learned session to understand why everything went so well and you achieved your goal with success! And will do until exhaust all the arguments.

At this point, I will count all the reasons for both positive and negative scenarios. How many do you have from each? Let’s assume you come with more unhappy faces. This means that today you are better positioned to have success or to fail? I would say you master failure and know exactly everything that can go wrong. If it’s so, start working to understand and identify all possible reasons why it could be a success!!

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

The Golden Circle and the Power of Intentions!

The Golden Circle, from Simon Sinek, is a powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?”. This structure boosts effective communication by stating first our emotional state (Why), which is the reason behind our actions or intentions, followed by the “How” (the way to achieve it) and finally the result you want to accomplish.

In my opinion is so powerful that we should use it to lead ourselves, supporting our intentions, actions and achievements.

The Golden Circle can also be interpreted as a Vortex, defined as a specific creation pattern that is tuned in a precise vibration frequency. This means that for each intention you want to manifest in your life you need to find a specific Vortex or emotional state aligned with your intention – that is why you are usually advised to feel and accept as if you already achieved it.

Once you connect to it, you step in and the “How” (your pathway) is activated. So now you are the spiral that will lead you to whatever you want to accomplish and need to complete all the way until the center of the Vortex.

So first you need to clearly declare your intentions and to do that you need to consider the following: you will only succeed if you are intending something you can match to vibrational emotional state (something you can feel as yours and accept it). This means that is a lot easier manifesting what you’re more familiarized with.

Let’s say you want to manifest annually $1.000.000 and you earn currently $10.000 for a same period of time. Would you be honestly able to feel you are earning $1.000.000? And accept it? It is possible but unlikely to happen.
Nevertheless you can do it and will start moving towards it. Your life will slightly begin to change and new resources will appear in your life, asking you to allow them enter in your life. But keep in mind that is not enough to have the resources available if you are not aware of them, if you can’t see them.

From my experience in this process you’ll have also some resources (or opportunities) that you won't relate to your intention and this will lead you to resist. Once you resist, you’ll be tested. These experiences are not bad things to prevent you to have or achieve, but an intermediate step that will provide the skills to use the resources made available to you. Once more, you only will be receptive to learn the lesson if you are really committed to your intention.