Getting Clear on What You Want in Your Business and Life

Copyright@2010 MiriamGroup Executive Advisors 


Clarity
Clarity crystallizes and creates what you want in your business and life.  It is imperative that you become as clear as possible about what you want to create.  The more clear you are the faster you take action, make good choices and live what you want for yourself and your business. Clarity to the detail of specifics is essential. And yet, clarity without holding on to your desired outcome as being the only outcome that is best for your business and life.

All thoughts are creating your world. So, why not direct them to create what you truly want in your life and business? Why not focus them like a lazar to create more rapidly?  Clarity means the debris and clutter and murkiness are released so the pure essence of what you want in your business and life is realized.  Filtering what is not part of the dream is accomplished by focusing and putting energy only into what you want. 

By putting attention, conversation, words, thoughts, energy and action on the vision of what you want in your business and life that which is not part of the dream will fade.  When our muscles are not used, they fade from use.  When we learn a foreign language and do not use it, it fades. When we do not practice a certain activity, it fades.  When we do not fire certain pathways in our thoughts, they fade. But with focused, clear intention on what is desired creation occurs.

How Do We Gain Clarity?

1. Clarity can be gained by imaging or “day dreaming” about how it will be, what your business and life will be like when you are actually living what you want. 
• As and executive or business owner, do this by setting aside some time and a quite, private place and environment for doing your daydreaming.  By having a place for doing this work tells your mind that it is time to put away other concerns and interests of the day and move into the creative mind and let your imagination flow.
• Take a few deep breaths and release the tension of the day. State your intention of this time or ask yourself a question you may have about what you want.
• Free yourself of any judgments or boundaries regarding your dreams and allow your thoughts to expand and become crystal clear about what you want.

You can also daydream while walking in nature, hiking, sitting by a babbling brook, driving in your car on a beautiful, inspiring, less traveled and low stress roadway.  It is not required that you are sitting still in one place to gain clarity.  Some people use the time in the shower, driving to work, or yoga to allow their thought to focus, clear and begin the creation process. 

2. Clarity can be gained by exploring how similar experiences have been or are being lived by others. 
• Research and learn how others have and do live through reading, internet research, talking with those who live, work or have worked in businesses that do the same or similar business or have had similar experiences. 
• Contact people you know or who know someone they can introduce to you. Ask for advice with respect for their time and expertise. Be prepared with questions, but do not let the questions control the flow of the conversation.  These people will share with you more than you are able to formulate a question, because they have been there.  Let the questions be your guide but not theirs. Let the conversation flow where it may.

3. Clarity can be gained by blazing a new trail to living this experience in your business and life by putting together the pieces of life and business that have worked for you in the past in a different way. 

The Challenge

The challenge is in eliminating unsupportive habit patterns and limiting beliefs - those blocks that can disturb our focus and blur our dream.  The trick to eliminating habit patterns and limiting beliefs is to stop thinking about them, stop doing them, stop acting from them. This required awareness of when they are operating and when you are acting from them.  It isn't always necessary that you even know what they are.  But you can identify when they are in operation by when you get into negative thought, talk or feelings about ourselves, others or situations. When you are having feelings that are sad, angry, upset - in general disturbing our peace, you are experiencing unsupportive habit patterns and/or limiting beliefs.

How do you stop these seemingly automatic responses and thoughts?  You stop them by refocusing on what you want and stepping into the experience and feeling of how your business and life will be when you are living what you want. 

Appreciation 

Understand that if you are living what you want in many ways already, give thanks and appreciation for those experiences that are working for you and bask in the feeling that these situations and experiences give to you each moment of each day.  This will assist in creating more in your business and life that supports living in that feeling and in your bliss.

Your Process
Whatever the approach you take to gaining clarity in what you want in your business and life, capture your thoughts and daydreams by writing them down immediately after you do your imagining.  Keeping a journal of your creative process will assist in understanding the best way to create what you want in your business and life.