Clean Slate
Author: nancy.montier
Do you realize you can declare that you have a clean slate at the beginning of the second half of the year? I just worked on my 3rd quarter plan on Eric Lofholm’s sales protege call. We’re at the beginning of the quarter. It’s time to start fresh with the second half of the year. You may have done everything in your plan, or you may have veered off most of the time. Give yourself permission to start with a clean slate. Complete and let go of what you did or did not do up till now. No amount of thinking, regretting, celebrating or sadness will make the future any better. Just shake it like a tree, get all the apples out of it that you can to take with you into the future. Those apples are the gifts of learning from the past six months.
Complete the past 6 months. Use a ritual, declaration, celebration dinner, or whatever it takes. Then breathe and let yourself become aware of what wants to be created next.
The next step is to assess where you are and picture where you want to be at the end of the time frame. Do you want to be joyfully employed? Making another $10,000 or $100,000? Three sizes smaller? Then work backwards. Who do you have to be to achieve those goals? What will you learn? What results will you produce in July, Aug and September? Each week? What will motivate you? How will you handle breakdowns this time? How will you keep your goals fresh in your mind?
Finally, make a plan. Make it as detailed or general as you need to be successful. For me, great detail just makes me crazy. I like broad brush strokes. For others, details are it. The plan isn’t over until it’s on your calendar.
“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion”. Thomas Hardy
Leave a comment – Did you declare a clean slate? What is your planning process?
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What a great idea….clean slate. I love the reverse engineering. Eric is an amazing teacher. Thanks for passing his wisdom and sharing it with us.
Nancy
I love the idea to start clean from the year’s second half. I see my accomplishments throughout the year and also what I need to finish. I was thinking of redoing my wish board and highliting what it needs to be done. Thanks a lot for reminding me of my promising second half!
Great job!
Patricia Kor
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Here’s a sheet I use at my “Yes, I Can” workshops at the beginning of the year. It asks for your clear intention, why it matters to you, and who you have to become to bring it about. Then each intention is divided into four strategies (broad goals) and each strategy is implemented with several physical actions or tactics. See what you think…Intention to Action Pyramid – (copyright)
http://www.emergingbrilliance.com/?attachment_id=228
I am on the same page with you Nancy.
It is always very supportive to be reminded. Clean Slate – yes. I love the metaphors from nature. I always go back either in my mind or in my physical reality to learn from nature. And when you are saying “Clean Slate” I am thinking of the artist within me, the one who wants to create. Sometimes to be in front of an empty canvas can be pretty overwhelming (have you ever done that?) and then the tendency is to run a way from the clean slate, not to face this infinite potential that is about to be created there. So I say – SIMPLICITY is the way to go. The clean slate that I am “drawing” on is about freedom. I automated process in my work, so I would be able to be in more than one place at the same time. So as I am writing these words (I am actually here) bur when YOU the one who reads it right now will read it, I will be doing something else, but still be here…in one way or another. Thanks for the thoughts and the freedom to express mine. I am proposing a toast for a fabulous quarter.
What really helps is planning on paper every day. Then applying the 80/20 rule to the tasks (Eric Lofholm’s idea – http://www.ericlofholm.com). Which 20% of the tasks will give you 80% of the results that you desire? Here’s where having your intentions, goals and actions makes a difference – you know which 20% are the most effective. This is an area I’m working on now….marrying the big picture with the daily stuff.
Nancy, it was wonderful reading your blog. You wrote so clearly what I have been trying to say for awhile. I love the idea of the clean slate, it really does give me freedom and that is so empowering. I will gather my apples and take my journey to the next level. Thank you for the invitation to read your blog, great job. Love Eric’s class, it is amazing what he gives us to take and help make our lives so much more enriched. Thank you.
I looked for this, nothing there, can you tell me more…
nancy.montier says:
July 7, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Here’s a sheet I use at my “Yes, I Can” workshops at the beginning of the year. It asks for your clear intention, why it matters to you, and who you have to become to bring it about. Then each intention is divided into four strategies (broad goals) and each strategy is implemented with several physical actions or tactics. See what you think…Intention to Action Pyramid – (copyright)
http://www.emergingbrilliance.com/?attachment_id=228
I love it! Nancy, you’re so right! Past 6 months- learning…now we can go kick some serious behind. As of now, clean slate for me!
Awesome strategy, Nancy. Nothing like putting the past behind us and looking forward. It’s so easy to forget to do sometimes, though, when you’re in the thick of things. However, this is a very visual way of accomplishing it. I truly look forward to the next six months!
Thanks for the advice.
Thanks for the comments, Rossy, Jennifer,Patricia, Sabrina, Gayle…. It’s a great idea to start fresh. I just ran numbers for my business for the first half – and it was down from last year. So I shrugged and danced and asked, Well, what do I do now that I know what works and doesn’t work in this economy? What is it to turn this next half around? That’s fun and even easy and flowing? Nice questions… the answer that comes up is back to basics, only be creative.
Nancy, this is great! I am also a member of Eric Lofholm’s community and I conplete these as well and they really help move me forward. Great article!
Cathy
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