Perspectives in Brief

“There is no use in trying,” said Alice;
“One can’t believe impossible things.”
“I dare say you haven’t had much practice,”
said the Queen. “When I was your age,
I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast” - Lewis Carroll

It’s All About Attitude  

My colleague Thomas Leonard used to say “Nothing is impossible.  It just hasn’t been invented yet”.  I agree and using that as my guide, there’s no ceiling….just sky. 

The future is not some place we are going to but a place that is created — created first in the mind, then where willpower resides, and next in activity. It’s a path we create and the changes we make determine the destination.   

When working with clients the first thing I ask them is, “If you invent your future (and they do) what will your life look like and what did you do to get there?  Not what will you do, but looking at it as having already happened, what choices did you make to invent your future?”  You don’t fall into what might be.  You create it along the way.  

Can You See It?  

It’s not about talking about what you want and foreseeing one time, one day, it’s seeing it, tasting, reaching out and feeling it.  I rarely work with clients on long term goals.  I want them to want their future as they’ve defined it.  Then we design it as it will only happen if you make the appropriate and relevant choices right now.  Change towards creating the future you love involves immediacy, not something so far in the distance it’s parked indefinitely.

If you wait for the perfect time, life will get in the way.

So What Might You Do?   

Slow down to the speed of conscious thought.  Step one?  Prune your life of toxic relationships and environments that will take over.  You will be so busy fixing life that you won’t be inventing the life you love. 

If you’re so busy making money for your future, how much life are you missing along the way?  You might decide the future you were so set on a while back is no longer relevant.  Revisit, revamp and redesign and often.  That’s not to say change jobs at the drop of a hat…it’s saying pay attention to what works and keep it and get rid of what doesn’t.  It’s all about choice. 

It’s presumptuous to think life stands still and will be exactly where you want it to be when you remember to  pay attention.  Are you designing a fantastic life or lifestyle and is it sustainable? 

Favourite Software 

I can’t remember a day going by where I haven’t used my SnagIt.  It’s partly a screen capture but it’s also an editor where you can add text to images, create great banners and text logos and can morph, change, capture and add to all kinds of graphics, save it in multiple formats and use in presentations, web design and for capturing an error on your screen to send to tech support. This is probably one of the few pieces of technology I couldn’t live without (workwise that is : ) 

Policy to Adopt:   Simple but too often forgotten:  If you call a meeting then make sure there’s a definitive agenda.  And if you’re called to a meeting, ask for an agenda so you come prepared.  No agenda?  No meeting.  Sounds simple but how many times are you calling into a meeting and have no idea why?  How much of a time waster is that?  We’ll get into meetings in detail in our Time in a Bottle program. For now, focus on the agenda so you have focus.  Then hold yourself accountable to it.Contact us for availability for Lightening Round and Laser Coaching Sessions as well as for Shadow Coaching™  (http://www.theshadowcoach.com)  

Last But Not Least:   As always this newsletter will be posted here. Please feel free to share your comments, insights and perhaps a subject or two you’d like to open for discussion and we’ll look at it for future a future newsletter or blog post.  Our blog can be found at http://betterperspective.blogspot.com    To sign up for our Self-Coaching program It’s All About You…and Others, visit here:  http://www.itsallaboutyouandothers.com/intro.htm