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by Kathy Caprino
ELLIA COMMUNICATIONS
(continued
from last month...)
There are so
many people today in dramatic career and
life transition, and also many coaches
and consultants offering help.
I've
discovered, however, that giving people
simple tactics and strategies
does not work unless there
has been a true breakthrough in their
thinking and behavior - a shift that
allows them to become unstuck, and to
embrace new possibilities
where constraints and limitations were
experienced before.
So what do
you need to do to create your own
breakthrough, and make your goals and
visions for life and work a reality?
Here are 6 essential steps to
breakthrough:
1.
Understand what you truly want
2. Research and commit to doing what it
takes
3. Stretch yourself beyond where you are
4. Power up
5. Develop a powerful money mindset
6. Manage to the constraints
(Note: Today's newsletter presents Steps 4-6. Contact Kathy at
kathy@elliacommunications.com for
last month's newsletter.)
4) Power Up and Speak Up
Let's face it - it's a hero's journey to set big life and career
goals and to follow through with them.
It takes guts, commitment, risk,
self-trust, patience, and faith. If you
want a great life, it takes
great risks. So now's the time to power
up. Look at where you feel insecure,
afraid, and vulnerable. These are the
areas that are calling out to you to
address, as soon as possible. The best
first step in powering up is to figure
out what where your boundaries are being
consistently overstepped, and where you
can't speak up for yourself. Where do
you feel drained, defeated, overridden,
and disrespected? Identify what have
you been desperately longing to say to
someone (a family member, colleague,
boss, etc.) and say it, today.
5) Develop a Powerful Money Mindset (and Relationship)
So many entrepreneurs and other professionals fail at attaining
their goals. Why? One key reason is
that they don't understand the role of
money in life and career success. You
can't have a fulfilling life if you're
constantly feeling a victim of money
(either not making enough or feeling
like you've given up your soul for it).
Look at your money situation with very discerning eyes. Do you
have a healthy relationship with money,
an empowered one in which you are in
control, taking the appropriate actions
to preserve, manage, and utilize it
effectively? We've all been rocked by
what's going on in our world;
nonetheless, you can feel victimized, or
you can choose to rally and do what must
be done to keep yourself afloat, and
feel aligned with how you're doing it.
If this is not the case for you, get
help to explore your feelings and
actions around money--how you earn it,
and what you do with it. This might
take therapy, a great financial
consultant, a small business advisor, a
few great self-help books (like
Breakdown, Breakthrough or
The Energy of Money) - whatever form
required so that you can power up
regarding money. Develop new tactics
(like strong business plan, a new budget
for your expenses, a revised investment
strategy, a downscaling where necessary,
etc.) that will help you manage your
money wisely, for your benefit and the
benefit of all around you.
6) Manage to the Constraints
A brilliant colleague of mine, Steve Bennett, Founder of
Authorbytes.com (an outstanding and
affordable website developer for authors
and entrepreneurs), mentioned to me last
week the key concept of "managing to the
constraints," from the book
The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt and
Jeff Cox. Basically, we must manage our
business endeavors and our lives based
NOT on what "should be happening," (i.e.
- I'm a great coach so I should have
lots of clients). Instead, we must look
at what is constraining us from
achieving financial or other success.
What is not working? What is holding us
back from having what we want? It's
critical to challenge your assumptions,
to look at what isn't working, and to
change it, and change ourselves in the
process (with integrity and purpose) to
open new doors and opportunities for
success.
* * * *
All of these strategies require some
outside perspective to help you expand
your vision. If you're stuck, please
reach out to someone for help. As
Einstein so brilliantly observed, "We
cannot solve a problem on the level of
consciousness that created it."
Breakthrough is just a step way - asking
for help is the best start.
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