What do you really want?

Beyond the pause what do you want?

Last week I talked about giving yourself permission. To pause and assess and allow yourself to do that. In doing so, I discovered that I’m a conceptual visualiser. I think pretty big….. haha no surprises there, and I was challenged the other day when I was asked to be specific about what I really want in my business, and I was requested to be more detailed about what that meant, looked and sounded like.

If we want to be successful in our business or ventures which I think I can speak for most of us in saying yes that’s right, then I believe that we need to explore the power in specificity. Herein though lies my problem that circles back to me being a conceptual visualiser. I find it tough to be specific! Aagggh…

So ahead of our Make it Happen workshop on December 1st, I thought I would make today’s mindset be about the details of what is you want, and this will also help me as I’m going through this process right now too.
Let me add here that this is different from knowing your ‘why’ I think most of us women can connect with our why with relative ease, its the detail that is more tricky.

Let’s start with small business, but you can apply this to anything you are working on in your life right now.
1. What do I want to earn each week, month or year in my business?
2. How often do I want to work? (based on the answer to question one, this will immediately help you check your pricing)
3. What does success mean to me? In other words, when my business is considered successful, what will that look or feel like?
4. What do I want in my personal life? Does this align with want I want in my business or career?

If you’re like me, these are relatively easy things to think about. What I find much harder is being clear about the detail. I often just make it up to satisfy this process, but when I do that, I get a disconnect. For me, the answers to these questions are not straightforward and are fluid and changing. That’s okay, nobody is saying that we need to be locked in. However I am saying that by doing this process regularly, eventually you will get clarity for the specifics and then you can be putting a clear intention out into the universe. By the way, these, of course, are not the only questions; they are a good place to start.

I think I have been working hard and growing and ‘bumping into things accidental like’ (sorry couldn’t help myself, Forrest Gump was on the tele on Saturday night and I love that saying) and I think we need both clear intention and leaps of faith to create what we want, the two are not opposite but go hand in hand. The universe responds to action not thought, so we need to think about what our intention is and then keep making the efforts toward it. The clearer we can be, the easier it is to create it.

I encourage you to work on your plan of what you want at our Make It Happen workshop on December 1st, for more details click here

Andy xxx