I collect them. My files and car are full of them.
My Dad taught me to read maps and find my way.
A natural propensity I seemed to have - remembering landmarks and a sense for turns.
I remember driving trips to Florida
When we started getting close my dad would ask me to tell him how to get there! “Yikes”, my young mind would think. “He must not know the way?”
I must have been pre-school because I remember standing on the "hump" on the floor of the back seat to look ahead of us for markers that I remembered from the past. Do you remember standing on the “hump” before seat belts and booster seat laws?
Usually more buildings had been built and billboards had been raised. But, I remembered the turns and “helped” with directions. And I would hear him chuckle with each turn.
And, to this day I love maps. They get us from here to there. They help us find our way.
When I discovered maps the whole world became accessible. This is the same with doing anything you want even creating a business and implementing change.
Decide where you want to go - that dot on the map.
If you haven't been there before or not clear where exactly you want to go but have a general area in mind, claim it.
Such as, 'I want to go to Florida
With a business you may want to enrich, expand, or change your client services. That requires a change in image.
Not just a change in services. But a transformation of who you are and the image clients have when they think of your business.
This is not only an addition or evolution of your service offering, but an internal personal mental change of who you think you are?
Your experience of yourself in this transformed business.
What you radiate to others. The experience you and your clients have in this new way of business and delivering and receiving your services.
As this destination becomes more clear the more easily it is to chart your course to that destination.
Once you know your destination, before you start planning your trip, you must be very clear on where you are now - no denial allowed.
It is a matter of plotting your course on your map. This is your plan.
With a business it is a matter of identifying the signposts along the way to help you find the way. To know you are on the right track once the journey begins.
And with most of my clients our journey together begins when they decided to go to Florida and haven't decided whether it is Orlando to experience Disney World or Daytona to go to the beach.
This is where many times we get stuck. Not being clear enough on our destination.
As an executive coach the work with my clients is about:
1. Getting clear on where you want to go - what to create or change in your business.
2. Getting clear on where you are starting your journey. Or it will be hard to find your way.
3. Plotting your course - Your Plan.
4. Staying on course by tracking progress, removing obstacles and blocks - mental, physical, emotional, transpersonal - and staying focused on the destination.
Why is this important?
As with any change it takes energy.
As with any change it takes implementing new behaviors, new habits new processes and methods - because old ones are no longer working.
As with any habit it takes focused attention and choice to change it.
Eliminating limiting beliefs and introducing thoughts and actions that take you down your desired path. Creating new neurological pathways in the brain.
It takes time. And, it takes effort – on your part and that of your business.
An experienced guide helps make the journey graceful and elegant.
An experienced guide helps make the journey graceful and elegant.
And, executive business coaching helps speed the process and makes it fun.
This is what MiriamGroup does - guides you in gaining clarity, focus and direction while eliminating blocks along your path to the change you want to experience in your business and your life. Then, helps to assure that you stay on course.
Do you know your way?
The Best Always,
Miriam
P.S - Thanks, Dad!! For teaching me how to find my way.
Copyright@2011 MiriamGroup Executive Advisors
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