Visualizing Your Dreams!

Visualizing what you want allows your imagination to take shape.

The ideas and images you create through your mind allow you to see what’s possible.

Forming ideas into mental pictures can become your map charting out your next steps in reaching your goals.

When you create the images in your mind of what you want to achieve, the next step is using your body through embodying what it would look like, smell like, feel like and what you will hear when you are living out your dreams.

I used visualization techniques throughout my life.

I held the dream of playing Division I soccer in college when I was growing up.

I embodied being a collegiate athlete for years through making choices in playing for premiere teams and going to soccer clinics and spending most of my time with my teammates who also shared a similar vision.

I made this dream a reality and our university team even went to the NCAA tournament (which was another dream of mine).

I used visualization for career goals. My professional goal at the time was to become an advocate for women and children on a national level.

I visualized what I would wear, where I would work and who I would meet.

From this dream, I chose employment opportunities in alignment with these goals. I worked for the Mayor of Milwaukee, I was an AmeriCorps volunteer for the National Advocacy Center in DC and ultimately, I was part of a justice and peace team working on behalf of women and children at the United Nations.

I dreamt what I wanted and made it happen.

Actualizing my dream even had National Advocacy as part of the organization’s title.

How about that for visualization.

I continue to use visualization when training for marathons, for preparing for a trips to even how I plan out my day.

“If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.”-Muhammad Ali.

When you practice visualizing what you want, you can make it happen.

Some visualization techniques you can easily practice:

  1. Create a vision board.
  2. Write a check to yourself in the amount of what you desire every day and see what happens.
  3. Write down your goals every day.
  4. Keep a gratitude journal. You’ll begin seeing more of what you want in your life.
  5. Sit quietly for 5 minutes and move through your 5 senses in what it would feel, smell, hear, touch and see when you are living out your goals. Be specific as possible.

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Set Your 2022 Goals!

Owning your own business is a huge accomplishment.

Creating services or products which your customers love gives you a sense of satisfaction.

Having autonomy over your day and how you work gives you a sense of relief.

You can make room for more life to happen every day because you’re in charge of your schedule.

You can work when you want and take a break to recharge without worrying about PTO and whether your supervisor will approve.

Owning a business can also feel overwhelming at times, especially at the start of a new year.

Gazing out into the horizon on uncharted territory of a new year can leave you feeling some angst.

Thoughts of how what will I do this year? Will I be successful? What challenges will I face and will I be ready for them?

Your future is outside of your control which can leave you feeling anxious.

You do have control over how you frame your thinking and how you plan for the year.

So many ideas floating around in your mind, put them down on paper by creating a vision board.

When you start seeing what ideas and interests you want to bring forward, you can then start mapping out a plan to achieve them.

As you identify your visions, then start setting some achievable goals from 3, 6, 9 and 12 months out.

One vision may be that you want your pet parents to build more empathy with their companion animals.

Within those quarterly goals, build in milestones which you can measure how you are meeting your goal.

A goal can be I want to build an 8 week program and have a launch by x month which teaches pet parents about the importance of meeting their companion animal’s needs.

Now, you can break down the action steps in creating a x week program.

The action steps are the bones of your program which include deliverables.

Some deliverables are setting aside on your work calendar when you work on creating your program.

Choosing the content and structure of your program and setting timelines.

Making choices how you are going to effectively and efficiently reach your clients and putting this into your workflow?

These deliverables are tangible ways of how you can exert control over how you will show up for your business daily, weekly, monthly and for the year.

It also gives you a way of reviewing how your goals are being met and what changes, if any need to happen along the way, so you can be proactive in changing course as necessary.

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Open Mindedness is Necessary for Change

Open Minded.

What does that mean?

Well, let’s take a look at what its not.

One such statement that I’ve heard repeatedly in a previous work environment is “we’ve always done it that way”.

This is a tell tale sign that the organization or business is not open in exploring how things can be done more efficiently, targeted or even how operations can be more organized.

“We’ve always done it that way” is a rebuke to new ideas, innovation and even the mask of resistance showing up from the top down.

For a person or business to be open minded, this takes on an opportunity for growth and expansion by looking at what they are doing and the information they are operating from and they allow for new ideas to surface.

When you take a step away from your own tightly held beliefs and become an active listener when you’re learning a new skill or engaging in changing something in your life, you free yourself from being chained down by ideas that may not serve you anymore.

Your mind expands. You can freely take in new ideas and information.

When new ideas are in direct conflict with your strictly held beliefs, you become conflicted and your inner voice shouts at you “beware!” “Danger!”

New information isn’t scary and don’t let your mind fool you.

Quiet your inner critic and accommodate this new information into your worldview rather than dismissing it because it can’t be easily filed away.

Now, your desire in learning something new or a new way of doing things outweighs your need to be right or hold on to a set of beliefs just because.

Being open minded requires humility in knowing you don’t know all there is to know about a topic even though you believe yourself to be well versed and informed.

You’ll benefit and have more desired personal growth when you can be ready to receive what others may share.

You can reach those you’re serving too on a deeper level when you give space and a listening ear.

You’lll learn something new. A new skill perhaps?

Leaning into learning more about what makes you tick will also give you insights into how you can show up for your clients in a new way.

Empathizing with your client’s point of view can give you understanding of where he or she is coming from and can help you reach your client in a more meaningful way.

Wanting to expand on and explore what you and your business has to offer this world?

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