“When you’re working on a truly worthwhile dream, the dream is also working on you.” I just read this and thought I’d post it on here to get a bit of a conversation going around vision and goals

‘We’re not retreating, we’re just advancing in another direction.’ GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON

Happy Friday everyone, I’ve had a fascinating week full of “Aha” moments and creative opportunities that have in reality been there all the time but what’s happened is my daily early morning “inductive” thinking sessions are compounding and I’m starting to tap into a far more aware and creative place and it feels energising, empowering and powerful, I can highly recommend it. I’m looking forward to continuing to build this muscle and see where it takes me. I’m keen to know how you guys are doing, don’t worry if it’s not appearing to produce these kind of results yet, it didn’t for me, I’ve started and stopped more times than you would realise BUT I never stopped “trying” to figure out how to commit to this daily process of thinking about my thinking and getting deep into what’s been previously holding me back and that my Friends is the secret sauce, share you’re experience good, bad or indifferent because it will either help you or help someone else, have a GREAT weekend X

So this week has been full of frustration and failure, well so I thought! Today I did my usual session of reviewing the week against my goals and targets across a whole raft of business and personal KPIs most had been missed and I was sat thinking into why this is happening (again!) and how can I change this, and then it hit me. The goal is not to achieve more. The goal is to become more……! so that extraordinary results become normal. I’d been focused on the wrong end of the equation all this time! This is now going to enable me to have a completely different perspective on life and where I’m at and how I view my life and success generally. In reality I have made some significant strides forward, we have a business that’s making profit consistently every month, I’ve created a world beating maintenance plan that will increase our repeat income and the biggest win is I am going to take every Weds off to spend more time with Theo our 18 month old Grandson, this is possibly the biggest win of them all, because He won’t wait around for me and now is the time I should be focused on bonding and supporting X I’d be interested to know how all of you have found the week and what insights and challenges you have to share.

Today I dug in deep to a challenge that I have carried with me for as long as I can remember, it has manifested itself on numerous occasions both in my health (weight in particular) and my finances, and that is how “consistency” shows up, I have always been really good at starting stuff full of enthusiasm, focus and throw myself into whatever it is at full speed, only to make my targets more and more extreme until they become almost impossible to achieve and then inevitably I “crash and burn” exhausted and frustrated. I have for instance tracked my weight and other health metrics using Fitbit for the last 10 years and the graph tells its own story 213lbs to 170lbs on numerous occasions, the same with my finances, none this is due to external circumstance ALL of it is of my own making when I dig in deep and think into the actions I took at the time. Today I wanted to work on why this has been happening, and came to the realisation it HAS at its core how I see myself against my vision and goals, in other words my “identity” unless this identity is aligned and congruent with my goals and vision I will NEVER achieve my full potential, because like an elastic band when you stretch it and put it under pressure it will expand (or break!) however when you let go it simply revert back to where it started. So unless I start to “become” the person through daily inductive thinking and awareness then my results will always be as they are. Now don’t get me wrong I have an amazing life, a beautiful wife, 5 daughters, 4 beautiful and fun grandchildren and incredible home, a business that’s challenging and making money, great friends, money and from the outside I look successful, however internally I feel stuck. frustrated and not fulfilling my potential, well that was until today when I started to properly think into all of this and re writing another version of my SIG (I have run through the SIG process a number of times!) it was a truly empowering process to have done because I realised that I finally had some answers that made sense to me.