Working hard is a Myth… Working at what we have a passion for is Not!
I have a client who I began coaching in 2002. His boss hired me to coach him. When I asked him what he wanted to earn that year… it took four or five passes, on a restaurant square cocktail napkin, before he wrote what he really desired. The napkin looked like a doodle pad by the time we completed the exercise.
He finally wrote down what he really wanted to earn and it was $100,000. “Ok, Good”, I declared. “Don’t be afraid to declare what you really want.” How is not our job in a Universe… living in a Miracle means we live authentically by declaring, without embarrassment, what we truly desire.
He went on to be a very successful Project Manager for the company that hired me and subsequently made over $250,000 one year.
Fast forward to 2005, while coaching him at a Starbucks in Peabody Mass, I had a feeling that he was withholding something from me. I got up from my chair and said: “I am all done coaching you… you are lying to yourself and to me and if you don’t declare to me what you really desire for your future within two weeks, I will cancel our next appointment.”
He was stunned. Good thing he didn’t have a mouth full of coffee because it would have been all over me and the people at the table next to us. He sat silent for a moment and said “Sit down, I know what it is… I want to be CEO of XXXX Company…” We didn’t have to pass the napkin back and forth five times on this one. He was afraid to declare what he really wanted and when I called him on it… he allowed it for himself right way. My feelings were confirmed. Again, he was afraid to DECLARE, out loud, what he really desired. He wanted to be a CEO…
I helped him expand that vision to “CEO of this company or something better… This or something better…” because the company he worked for had a CEO. A declaration of a desire cannot involve a change in anyone else’s life. The existing CEO was also the owner of the company he worked for and while he might have promoted my client to run the company, it was something my client had no control over.
I coached him to make this declaration to his wife and no one else and then to “shut up about it.”
His job wasn’t how it was to happen, but to continue to visualize himself as a CEO and begin to act like a CEO would act. Act as if, is a Universal principle. What ever it is you desire to achieve for yourself or your company, the first principle is making the bold declaration, second, visualize yourself there and finally ACT AS IF. Put it out there and forget how it will happen.
Most people believe the negative self-talk that says’s things like “CEO, Who you? not you… you are not capable.” “You’re nuts… forget that”
Persist beyond those voices of doubt and surround yourself with CEO’s and other successful types and live as if you are already in the future you are declaring for yourself. Whether individual desires or for your team or your company, the Principles are the same. 1. Declare. 2. Visualize the desire. 3. Act as if.
So you’re asking what happened to this guy?
in 2012, he got a phone call from someone he had worked with who said “Jeff… we need you here to run this company, would you come meet with the partners about becoming our CEO?”
He is CEO of a growing service company in New Hampshire and I coach the whole company on selling and the principles at work in a Universe.
If life or work is hard for you… remember you are the one making it that way.
Declare your desires, your passion, visualize it and act as if.
We serve the growth of the good in the Universe when we live full out, going for what we desire.
Desire translated in Latin means “of the Father or the Creator”… I like “of the Universe”.
You have that desire for a reason, declare it and go for it.
Why not, what do you have to lose?
Imagine the end of your life thinking … “I wonder if I could have…?
We live in a Universe, a Miracle… or not, your choice.
Gratefully yours, Steve
