I want RESULTS, How do I get them?

Welcome back to our discussion on how to achieve results. Every person is here on their own journey; so results are as unique as fingerprints, snowflakes and yes… even you. However, Madison Avenue and Hollywood constantly bombard us with what it means to be successful or have ‘positive’ results in our lives.

Results are up to each individual to define for themselves. In my last installment I asked the questions: “Why are you here? What do you stand for? What is important to you? In your last breath what will you look back upon with pride?” in answering these questions we will find the foundation of our VISION.

Vision is the starting point, and arguably the most important step in achieving results. There are 4 distinct steps to results:
- Vision
- Clear Intention
- Committed Action
- Results
You can truly have anything in the world if you will follow these four simple steps. Notice I did not say easy. We are all human and can be distracted by the world around us, or more often by the conversations, and limitations we place upon ourselves.

Over the next few weeks we will explore each of these steps. Depending upon your feedback we may go deeper into a topic for a deeper cut. But now, let’s begin with Vision.

Your vision statement is your self-defined roadmap, along your self-defined journey through life. If you don’t define your vision, your path, the world, your friends, family, and even pets will do it for you.

There are different ways to discover your vision; journaling, talking to a spouse or family member, praying, mediation, brainstorming, the list is endless. But remember to craft your vision for yourself and not to please someone else. In the end a vision should be:
- Concise
- Empowering
- Convey what’s important to you

For example my vision is: “I am a stand for unity and growth, by celebrating love, humility and accountability.” You may be thinking WOW, or Great, while others may be thinking what does that mean.
Following the above guidelines; it is concise, short enough I can memorize it and not stumble over it should someone ask me… “hey Gabe, what’s your Vision?” It is empowering. This motivates me to create the world of my dreams. A world that is united and people are challenged to rise above their circumstances by my love, my humility, and my responsibility to hold everyone accountable for the current situation in life.

A vision is the core foundation from which life, results and happiness can spring. It is the blueprint for your dreams.

How do you use your vision? Just as an architect uses a blueprint, you get to look at the actions you take in a day and determine if they are supporting your vision. Only you can define your vision and choose to implement it in your daily life.

I ask you. Do you want results in you life? Yes? Then work on your vision, take time, dig-in and find out what really matters to you. If you need any help send me an email at beqivana at gmail dot com. Next time we will take your vision and learn how to have clear intention towards achieving results.

Thanks for Reading!
Gabe

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Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Friends this is a powerful poem that I first heard during a leadership work shop I was facilitating. One of my fellow coaches—a powerful woman and dear friend—shared this with our team before we began working with our students. If you will pause and connect with yourself before you begin reading you will find it speak straight to your soul. Take a moment, block out the world, and enjoy this powerful, touching poem.

Thanks for Reading!
Gabe

The Invitation

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals, or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving, to hide it, or fade it, or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness, and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure yours, and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments. – Oriah

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Esse Quam Videri

To be rater than seem to be.

As I watch the world pass outside, it seems to me that many people are stressed and worried about things they cannot control... the markets, what others think, or what’s going to happen tomorrow. I told a friend of mine yesterday that the past is gone, the future is uncertain and all we ever have is now.

Eckhart Tolle, in the Power of Now, explains that all things happen in the present. Life becomes perfect and simple when lived in the present.

What can you do, today to simplify your life? Become more grounded… present? Shift, change, and choose to take control. This is your life and your only chance to live it. I invite you to find a way to shift and find peace in hear and now. Thanks for reading and Happy Easter.

Gabe